COUNTRY GIRL
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This mill was in operation in the late 1800's into the early 1900's, they made wooden buckets, up until it burned down. We had hit the spot before, got skunked, we were on the wrong side of the brook and falls. So Dan and I decided to stop there befre we hit the corn fields, which we never made, got carried away at the mill. The only coin was a 1935 wheatie, but allot of interesting relics. A couple of whole bottles, allot of pottery shards, neat little ceramic button, a few what is it's.
The small tin looks like it opened at one time, I don't think there was anything in it. The copper? pipe has a wooden insert with a hole drilled through it hmmmm, no clue what it is (was). An old oil lamp that is in pretty good shape, a wood splitter, a stove door?, old lead pipe.
The 1940 license plate made my day until a friend showed up with a set for our 33 ford pick up. Kind of made mind look sad. He actually bought a whole set all the same license # from 1927 through 1940, there are a couple of years missing, but a great set. He gave us the 33 for our truck. SWEET!
Dan got a little excited about the penny (his oldest find yet) and ran to the brook to rinse it off so he coluld see the date.
We found an old well we detected around, allot of iron signals, we did not dig them all due to limited time and trying to get to the fields. We stopped for a bit and hit the old rock walls, I found me an old shovel I forgot to grab on the way out.
All in all it was a beautiful day and we got out!
The small tin looks like it opened at one time, I don't think there was anything in it. The copper? pipe has a wooden insert with a hole drilled through it hmmmm, no clue what it is (was). An old oil lamp that is in pretty good shape, a wood splitter, a stove door?, old lead pipe.
The 1940 license plate made my day until a friend showed up with a set for our 33 ford pick up. Kind of made mind look sad. He actually bought a whole set all the same license # from 1927 through 1940, there are a couple of years missing, but a great set. He gave us the 33 for our truck. SWEET!
Dan got a little excited about the penny (his oldest find yet) and ran to the brook to rinse it off so he coluld see the date.
We found an old well we detected around, allot of iron signals, we did not dig them all due to limited time and trying to get to the fields. We stopped for a bit and hit the old rock walls, I found me an old shovel I forgot to grab on the way out.
All in all it was a beautiful day and we got out!
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