Guyandotte, WV Relic Hunting

[JmCraz8]

Hi I live near Huntington and Guyandotte and was wondering if anyone metal detected anywhere in Guyandotte? Also is it public property along the floodwalls and can you metal detect these areas?

 

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[charlie8137]

I've done some detecting in Guyandotte and believe its OK to detect along the floodwall. Never had an issue with that. I've been down by the boat docks and park under the bridge. Its very trashy, alot of flip tops and bottle caps. My detector couldn't do the job down there. Anyway, good luck hunting in Guyandotte area.

 

[JmCraz8]

By the boat docks it floods all the time lol but by the madie carrol house, on the other side of the floodwall under the bridge I was hoping for some civil war relics hopefully. Do you know where the old suspension bridge use to be?

 

[charlie8137]

I don't know what bridge your talking about or where it was.

 

[JmCraz8]

Hve you found any civil war relics in cabell county?

 

[charlie8137]

no, mostly hunt for coins

 

[JmCraz8]

I'll have to try by the boat docks and under the bridge in that area, when Jenkins raided Guyandotte they came in over the what is now to get into Guyandotte from Huntington bridge.

 

[charlie8137]

I've was there last year, very trashy......Good Luck

 

[JmCraz8]

Who do you need to talk to for permission or is it public property over there?

 

[charlie8137]

The park is city property, I didn't go to the boat docks.

 

[JmCraz8]

Whats the name of the park? I'm on google maps and don't see a park in the area of the fighting, probably not looking in the right area lol Have you found and civil war relics there when you were there detecting?

 

[charlie8137]

At the end of Guyan St under the 3rd Ave bridge. Guyandotte.

 

[JmCraz8]

Oh ok, I was looking somewhere else lol would you like to hunt there sometime?

 

[charlie8137]

I plan on going back there this spring with a new AT Pro, gave away my GTI 1500 to my brother in law. Anyway, that place has been hunted pretty heavily but it would be an ideal place for an AT Pro

 

[JmCraz8]

I'd just like to give it a shot, a lot of history and civil war history, in that area is where Jenkins and his men raided guyandotte, they traded shots across that bridge, then charged into guyandotte. I might give it a try this Sunday its supposed to be close to 60 degrees. Another good Place to checkout would the battle of barboursville right there from the mud river to the hillside headinging into barboursville.

 

[charlie8137]

I would like to to hunt the hillside especially from rt 60 to the Veterans Home. My thinking is that they might have set up defensive positions on that hill looking down on RT 60. That would be my guess. If I was a little younger, thats where I would go.

 

[JmCraz8]

Yea your right they setup on the hill facing the bridge/mud river. Just got to get permission from the Veterans Home lol

 

[sonofadigger]

i use to live in guyandotte and have always wanted to metal detect it i found a machete under the sand by the river that was aged bout 150 years old did you ever find anything and did you ever think about going to indian rock and trying

 

[JmCraz8]

Indian rock? Haven't really found much in Guyandotte but there's stuff there just haven't found it yet lol

 

[sonofadigger]

Indian rock? Haven't really found much in Guyandotte but there's stuff there just haven't found it yet lol

indian rock is behind the boys club up on the hill \alot of people use to go there when i was younger big hangout spot and a old spot who knows what is there if you find out let me know also you should check around the old train trussel maybe around the old madie carol house if you can get permission