finds from abandoned school

[RKinOI]

Hunted a place called Lincoln Academy today. It was built in 1888 by Emily Pruden as a school for blacks. There are ten or twelve foundations but I only hunted around one. this school had dorms and everything. The woods surrounding are open and looks good for the hunting. also rock walls and walkways all through the woods.In thirty min. of hunting I found a very old ring a cross and my first buffalo, 1927. also a token or washer of some kind and a watzit

 

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[Ricky1601 aka pull tab king]

very cool..........nice finds, i like buffaloes alot, also is either the cross or the ring silver, or gold?..........sounds like an awesome site to hunt........keep us posted and happy hunting

 

[lasttoknow (Tim)]

Very cool finds. I'll be out this weekend sometime. Probably Sunday for the whole day...

 

[Leon]

Nice digs, WTG!!!
The washer looking thingy with the little bar across the center is what, I believe, they call a dress weight, or hem weight. They were sown into the hems of ladies dresses to keep them from blow up in the wind...
Good luck, & Hapy hunting~

 

[Burdie]

What a great area. I don't believe I would leave that place. I would set up camp for a Month. Congrats on your finds. HH Burdie

 

[Nana40]

All that in a half an hour! WoW!

That's gonna be a GREAT site for you!!

Congrats on your finds!

 

[Bavaria Mike]

That's going to be a great site with those finds in such a short time! Leon got it, it's a hem weight. The flat piece looks like it could have been for a horse bridal decoration mount. HH, Mike

 

[jgpreston]

RK, Interesting site, you'll have hours of great detecting. In what state is it located if I may ask? Ohio? Great finds & HH. John

 

[RKinOI]

The place is in N.C., It's real creepy out there. Since I was a little kid there has been stories about devil worshiping and stuff like that. In 1975 a 16 year old girl (Kathlene Smiley) was kidnaped from Atlanta and taken to this old school, raped and murdered.That kinda makes it more creepy. I'm going back today (weather permiting) with Torrero from Charlotte and hitting it again. The 55 acres ths school is on borders the prop. of the All healing health spa and resort which operated in the 1800's. I would love to hunt it also but its on state park prop.

 

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

RK,

nice artifacts.

Sounds like an interesting site.

Shame that you cannot hunt on the state property next to it, out there in the woods:

have a good un............

 

[southbound]

Go slow and get the older deeper targets too. Never know what is down there. Vern

 

[Southcacalaky]

Great artifacts, HH Art...

 

[jon43]

Nice digs, WTG!!!
The washer looking thingy with the little bar across the center is what, I believe, they call a dress weight, or hem weight. They were sown into the hems of ladies dresses to keep them from blow up in the wind...
Good luck, & Hapy hunting~

now i know what them washer looking thingys are , having dug afew thanks

 

[The Seeker]

Nice finds..!!!! Looking forward to the Next Post...The site should to prove very productive....Seeker

 

[Gypsy Heart]

Nice finds...looks like it will be some rich hunting grounds...thats the best part of hunting in creepy or supposedly haunted areas....everyone else has left the place alone. Hey I need one of trhose 'Hem weight' thingys!!!

 

[RKinOI]

Uhhhhh!!! You can have mine.