Bought a Metal Detector so where do I hunt?

[FLauthor]

Look under my posts in the Relic Hunting section of the Forum. No matter where you live if there is a large town then there is usually a Historical Society with a small museum run by little old ladies. Go join that group and then offer you services to act as a Field Rep to explore and metal detect areas for them and share your finds with them for their museum listing you as the finder. They love old cork bottles, Americana stuff, old mule shoes, just name it. They may know someone who lives in an old Schoolhouse that has never seen a metal detector.
OK, I live in a small community that has no Historical Society. OK, got a computer and a car? I don't care in you live in Washington State, Maine, Florida or California even Alaska have lots of ghost towns.
Let me give you an example: Type in " Ghost towns of Alabama " in Google Search. Scroll down to: List of ghost towns in Alabama - Wikipedia. Click on that site and a page comes up with 47 Ghost Towns listed. I clicked on Beaver Mills, Alabama because it mentioned a Uniform Factory which means CSA buttons, right? Look for coordinates and type them like: 30°58'N 88°14'05"W then place them on Google or Bing Maps to pull up the site. The site revealed the following information: Beaver Mills, also known as Beaver Meadow, is a ghost town in Mobile County, Alabama, United States, near U.S. Route 45, south of Citronelle. It was the site of a paper mill that was also used as a (probably CSA) uniform depot during the American Civil War.
Ghost towns will reveal old pioneer towns, homes, cellar holes, outhouse pits, school sites which will yield old coins, bottles and relics. When the weather is lousy that is the time to do the research and when it nice out then go explore those sites. To determine current owners for permission, give coordinates to County Tax Office so they can look up owners on tax records. Most Iphone and Android phones have the ability to get coordinates for you.
I've just given all of you TH'ers a gift and now get busy and make use of it.

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FLauthor,
Thanks for the great ideas. Being new to this hobby all tricks are welcomed.

Mike

 

[TerryC]

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Look under my posts in the Relic Hunting section of the Forum. No matter where you live if there is a large town then there is usually a Historical Society with a small museum run by little old ladies. Go join that group and then offer you services to act as a Field Rep to explore and metal detect areas for them and share your finds with them for their museum listing you as the finder. They love old cork bottles, Americana stuff, old mule shoes, just name it. They may know someone who lives in an old Schoolhouse that has never seen a metal detector.
OK, I live in a small community that has no Historical Society. OK, got a computer and a car? I don't care in you live in Washington State, Maine, Florida or California even Alaska have lots of ghost towns.
Let me give you an example: Type in " Ghost towns of Alabama " in Google Search. Scroll down to: List of ghost towns in Alabama - Wikipedia. Click on that site and a page comes up with 47 Ghost Towns listed. I clicked on Beaver Mills, Alabama because it mentioned a Uniform Factory which means CSA buttons, right? Look for coordinates and type them like: 30°58'N 88°14'05"W then place them on Google or Bing Maps to pull up the site. The site revealed the following information: Beaver Mills, also known as Beaver Meadow, is a ghost town in Mobile County, Alabama, United States, near U.S. Route 45, south of Citronelle. It was the site of a paper mill that was also used as a (probably CSA) uniform depot during the American Civil War.
Ghost towns will reveal old pioneer towns, homes, cellar holes, outhouse pits, school sites which will yield old coins, bottles and relics. When the weather is lousy that is the time to do the research and when it nice out then go explore those sites. To determine current owners for permission, give coordinates to County Tax Office so they can look up owners on tax records. Most Iphone and Android phones have the ability to get coordinates for you.
I've just given all of you TH'ers a gift and now get busy and make use of it.

Good info, FLauthor. Also, remember that Google Earth uses WGS84 (NAD83). Those using a GPS to home into a GE location need to "sync" the GPS unit to WGS84 instead of NAD27. Most topo maps still use NAD27. TTC