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Apr 06, 2021, 06:30 PM
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Old Railroad Depot Searches
I've been searching the site of where an old railroad depot used to be in a small village in rural central Illinois. The depot dates back to the early 1880s and is marked in a layout of the village in a plat map atlas from 1896, but was gone by the time aerial imagery for the area was available (1939). I've been hoping to find a little bit of coinage as the history of the site suggests this area used to be a hub of activity for the community coming to see the trains go by when the railroad station was new. Plus, being a small hub for transportation, there is always the possibility of coinage being about the area.
I haven't scanned too much of the site thus far, but have found a very shallow clad quarter from 1966 that looks like it's been clipped by a lawn mower and a memorial cent that is indiscernible and needs to be worked on to find out the date. Everything deeper on the site thus far has been trash. Today, however, I found an old cap gun toy buried around 8" down under some rocky soil.
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Apr 06, 2021, 07:22 PM
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 Bill B
Nice cap gun,,seems like we all had one years ago
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Apr 07, 2021, 11:39 AM
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Your research of that site is bound to pay off, keep at it and good luck
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Apr 12, 2021, 02:06 PM
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 Sales
Yeah we wondered also, they throw off mail bags, unfortunately ours so very old and unrecognizable, to dam many ticks and jaggers, good topic
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Apr 12, 2021, 05:02 PM
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 An unidentified coin is a piece of metal. An identified coin is a piece of history.
Welcome to treasurenet,
Don't forget to hunt the perimeter of what was the parking lot.
Don.. from SoCal
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