Ohio Jerry
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1800's Schoolhouse Relics plus first silver!
Following Buckleboy's advise to research old maps, I found the site of an 1800's one room schoolhouse just 100 yards from the house i grew up in. It's just a wooded, level area in the woods now,no sign there was once any kind of building there and if not for an 1871 surveyors map I would never had known it existed. Thanks Buckleboy!. I found some interesting relics all in the same general area where i now believe the schoolhouse stood. A piece of coal,a buckle,a round buckle with a stamped date of MAR 14,82. A little cast iron decorative piece that i believe could have come from the metal framework of an old desk,and an interesting all metal piece that looks like a harmonica reed. The sweet little 43 merc came from the base of a tree stump nearby.There were loggers in the area in the 50's and for sure I'll be hunting around all the stumps. It sure seemed funny to dig up a silver coin out in the middle of the woods!! Now i need to find where those school kids lost their large cents during recess
Thanks for having a look,Jerry
Following Buckleboy's advise to research old maps, I found the site of an 1800's one room schoolhouse just 100 yards from the house i grew up in. It's just a wooded, level area in the woods now,no sign there was once any kind of building there and if not for an 1871 surveyors map I would never had known it existed. Thanks Buckleboy!. I found some interesting relics all in the same general area where i now believe the schoolhouse stood. A piece of coal,a buckle,a round buckle with a stamped date of MAR 14,82. A little cast iron decorative piece that i believe could have come from the metal framework of an old desk,and an interesting all metal piece that looks like a harmonica reed. The sweet little 43 merc came from the base of a tree stump nearby.There were loggers in the area in the 50's and for sure I'll be hunting around all the stumps. It sure seemed funny to dig up a silver coin out in the middle of the woods!! Now i need to find where those school kids lost their large cents during recess
Thanks for having a look,Jerry
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