Eastern TN (Help)

[Silver_Sn1per]

Knoxville has completely buried all the good sites, too much concrete lol.

 

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[roaddust66]

Urban Sprawl and Flooded Lakes have greatly reduced your chances of finding many civil war relics around Knoxville. I would divide my focus about 70% coins and 30% relic hunting. There are so many awesome old schools and church yards not so far from town that i would dare say has never had a good detector on the grounds. I would try to locate what TVA and USGS used to call 1935 Blueline 7.5 maps of the area. what makes these maps so special is that although the don't show topography , they show old schools and churches with most of them being produced around 1935 pre flooded tva lakes.

 

[NHBandit]

Good luck to ya from up here in Greene County. Only been here a couple years myself and with moving, building a garage, playing with hotrods, etc. I haven't been out playing in the dirt much

 

[Silver_Sn1per]

I have been coin shooting for years, I really want to focus on CW relics. I'm also a Combat Vet, so anything I find that is Infantry related I will cherish forever.

 

[Tnmountains]

Tesoro has always done well in Tennessee. Welcome to the Volunteer State.

 

[Silver_Sn1per]

Thanks brother.

 

[roaddust66]

I have lived in Knoxville , Lenoir City , Oak Ridge and Kingston. I am as knowledgeable as anyone on troop movements around knoxville. Contact me anytime. Also your first baby step is to order a book called Divided Loyalties , Knoxville and East Tennessee during the civil war by Digby Semour . you can find it on ebay

 

[Silver_Sn1per]

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[roaddust66]

If you have a boat and a motorcycle , you may forget about detecting

 

[Silver_Sn1per]

My Buell Ulysses is going to love the tail of the dragon. But I'm still going to be digging more than riding, lol.