found my ghost town

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ok so i grew up hereing stories about a town in the woods that went under in the early 1900s...talked to usgs and other local and state aginces and get this they said and i quote " there never was a town in that area " well now that is a load of bull....on google earth it showed an ald historic school, graveyard and hundreds of roads leeding no where (miles into the woods from the nerist blacktop)...hummm so i started exploring these roads and been doin it off and on for about a month and yesterday guess what there it was theres more foundations than room on my dig camera but heres the ones u can see...
 

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this ones alittle newer than the other foundations
 

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Re: found my goast town

heres somthing cool
 

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some more
 

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and more
 

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Re: found my goast town

last ones that came out clear the sun was goin down and i had to hurry up and find my truck so a snaped the other not so clear pics on the go
 

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Thanks for posting ! Those are great ....and thanks for telling Lisa and I the location of the site in chat! Hahahaha.....I would be all over thaty . You are lucky we dont live closer! Great find and cant wait to see the finds you bring out of there!
 

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gypsyheart said:
Thanks for posting ! Those are great ....and thanks for telling Lisa and I the location of the site in chat! Hahahaha.....I would be all over thaty . You are lucky we dont live closer! Great find and cant wait to see the finds you bring out of there!
hahaha ;Dwhile u might think i told u the location theres over 100,000 acers of woods to search lol im from this area and took ma a month of physical and about 3 months reaserch to find it
 

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bcs123 said:
gypsyheart said:
Thanks for posting ! Those are great ....and thanks for telling Lisa and I the location of the site in chat! Hahahaha.....I would be all over thaty . You are lucky we dont live closer! Great find and cant wait to see the finds you bring out of there!
hahaha ;Dwhile u might think i told u the location theres over 100,000 acers of woods to search lol im from this area and took ma a month of physical and about 3 months reaserch to find it
So with me and Lisa looking ,it ought to take us about four and a half minutes!
 

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gypsyheart said:
bcs123 said:
gypsyheart said:
Thanks for posting ! Those are great ....and thanks for telling Lisa and I the location of the site in chat! Hahahaha.....I would be all over thaty . You are lucky we dont live closer! Great find and cant wait to see the finds you bring out of there!
hahaha ;Dwhile u might think i told u the location theres over 100,000 acers of woods to search lol im from this area and took ma a month of physical and about 3 months reaserch to find it
So with me and Lisa looking ,it ought to take us about four and a half minutes!
come on over if u wanna try to find it..lol
 

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I'm a comin', Gypsy!! It should take me about 14 hours to get there!! Four and a half minutes to find the cellarholes. ;)

They don't call me "The Queen of Cellarholes" for nothin'!! ;) :D ;D
 

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Mona Lisa said:
I'm a comin', Gypsy!! It should take me about 14 hours to get there!! Four and a half minutes to find the cellarholes. ;)

They don't call me "The Queen of Cellarholes" for nothin'!! ;) :D ;D
...lol just let me know what side ur gonna be on so we can spread out and do a better search
 

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well the info i gave was a little off...after doing some research thats not my town :'(...its an old river resort...but the good news is since i found it the info i got tells me my town is within a mile or two so im geting close to my goal.... ;D
 

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Good luck, BCS. Talk to some hunters that live in the area. I bet one of them could lead you right to it. :)
 

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