'54 Frankie from group hunt- Updated new pics added
Well, the only decent coin found on our hunt was by my pops that joined us on our hunt. He also found an old lamp wicker feed with a late 1700's patent date on it, which I have to find and will then update this post with it.
All in all it was a fun time and a great old site. Thanks Lowbatts!
The second pic is of our crew, minus my pops(who took the pic).
Myself (Lookin4seated), d-dub, trashncash, and Lowbatts
Thanks for posting the pic. Your dad found that half not 5 minutes into the hunt! I want to back to that site and check out the area you were at just before you left.
Re: '54 Frankie from group hunt- Updated new pics added
Originally Posted by Lowbatts
Hey Dan, Sunday's good for me. Same 'Batt's time, same 'Batt's place. There's still the ridge line and the other half dozen home sites to go after....
Sunday works for me. Did you say that you haven't looked for the homestead just north of the Price property? I think its Hendersen? We could check out that or even that small 10 acre plot you mentioned thats right next to it. Either way, I'd like to go back. Need to beat that location into submission and have it give some goodies up!!
Re: '54 Frankie from group hunt- Updated new pics added
Yeah, haven't located the home for the two properties directly north of there. Undergrowth may be a factor, though not so much this weekend. Have located isolated coinage and personal effects in fields north of there but they were too disparate to fix a spot.
Sure, let's get it, these sites are as old as gold and then some.
Re: '54 Frankie from group hunt- Updated new pics added
I've been looking at the plat map you posted last week and an arial from 1938. The site we hunted last weekend is actually Giddings and not Price. So that means that it was built sometime after 1861 but before 1938 since the 1861 plat map doesn't show a homestead there. Maybe we should head over the next lot west and check that out.
Re: '54 Frankie from group hunt- Updated new pics added
i can be there early in the morning until about 1pm like last time because of other commitments. that looks like a promising spot. My dad said there was another place where he went with one of his buddies not too far away from there where they were diggin up IH's. I'll try to find out where exactly that was. I think it was NE of where we were last time.
Re: '54 Frankie from group hunt- Updated new pics added
Good work Dan! Always getting the particulars of the names mixed up on those old sites. It's a good walk in rough terrain to get back to the other sites but we can take a shot at it.
Hey Jon, ask your pops if he was thinking about Penny Road Pond and the old roadbed just west of it.
Re: '54 Frankie from group hunt- Updated new pics added
It'd be more awesome if you were there Fiend! Ditto's Joe et al!
Was confused by the wick feed on the lamp component Jon's dad found because it had a patent date of 1797! Wow! Didn't know the partent office was that old, but then in it's website it's a component of commerce and has a defined mission in Article 1, section 8 of the Constitution so there you go! It's awesome cool to know you found a piece of Americana as old as America in the middle of "nowhere" that was probably carried there on a pack animal or ox cart in the first days of this part of the country.
Consider the work it took just to fuel the fire on the wicks being fed through it in it's useful life hereabouts. Imagine them aboriginal inhabitants peering through the windows at the flame wondering what kind of magic that was and how it affected their perceptions of these new folks.
Re: '54 Frankie from group hunt- Updated new pics added
Originally Posted by Lowbatts
It'd be more awesome if you were there Fiend! Ditto's Joe et al!
Was confused by the wick feed on the lamp component Jon's dad found because it had a patent date of 1797! Wow! Didn't know the partent office was that old, but then in it's website it's a component of commerce and has a defined mission in Article 1, section 8 of the Constitution so there you go! It's awesome cool to know you found a piece of Americana as old as America in the middle of "nowhere" that was probably carried there on a pack animal or ox cart in the first days of this part of the country.
Consider the work it took just to fuel the fire on the wicks being fed through it in it's useful life hereabouts. Imagine them aboriginal inhabitants peering through the windows at the flame wondering what kind of magic that was and how it affected their perceptions of these new folks.
Way cool!
My dad and I were thinkin the same thing about them old inhabitants thinking its some kind of magic fire. See ya guys there in the am. Same Batt time, right?
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