1800s Ferry Landing Nutten Hook, NY

Skrimpy · Jul 17, 2010

Shootncoin and I did a bit of research after reading a newspaper article in the Times Union about a Ferry Landing in Stuyvesant, NY called, "Nutten Hook". It's about 1/2 hour to 45 minutes south of Troy/Albany on Rte 9J in Columbia County (just south of Rensselaer County). As we are doing the research it's looking better and better. It appears to be secluded, unknown, public and not on one single historical map (at least that's what we thought anyway). Man, I couldn't wait to get to this place. So we get there only to find historical markers all over and a kiosk in the drive. After reading the kiosk we find the words "removing...historical, prehistorical artifacts...are not permitted" at the bottom. Damn. So, dejected (not just because the Blueshirts didn't make the playoffs this past season), we leave the detectors in the car and decide to have a look around the ferry landing only to find...

DIGHOLES!!! Lot's of them all over the place, and NOT A SINGLE ONE of them filled in. Plus, it was over a pretty large area. This guy must have been raping this place for days. Now, you guys tell me why there are rules against taking artifacts at Nutten Hook? Could it be that someone is not being that courteous when they go detecting? It's guys like them that ruin those honey holes that Nutten Hook Ferry Landing could be for the rest of us. Start filling in your holes before townships start banning detecting altogether, bud. You're making us look bad.

Now, not that "Today's Finds" is the place for a rant, but it sort of is a find, right? An unscrupulous digger(s)? I know there a few diggers local to Albany on the forum, several of which dig in Renssealer and Columbia County. I'm wondering if this guy(s)/gal(s) are here on T-Net...and I was thinking that "Todays Finds" would get the most traffic at least until the Mods move it. I apologize now for putting it in this forum and ask that it stay at least a while to make the locals aware in case they see this guy(s)/gal(s) so they can try to get him to fill in his holes and quit digging in places where the rules don't allow it.

dwayne sueno · Jul 17, 2010

yikes! that's just about my neck of the woods.
most of us in this area are house-trained, but it just takes one to pee on the rug.
keep up the research! something will pan out for you. it's a great area.

dwayne

Skrimpy · Jul 17, 2010

dwayne sueno said:
yikes! that's just about my neck of the woods.
most of us in this area are house-trained, but it just takes one to pee on the rug.
keep up the research! something will pan out for you. it's a great area.

dwayne

You see this guy, whack him with the shovel and knock some sense into him dwayne. Don't hurt him. Just wake him up.

This thing could be a real honey hole, man.

Shootncoin · Jul 17, 2010

The pictures don't begin to tell the story of what we saw - numbnuts left the place looking like the surface of the moon - unfilled holes everywhere. It was bad enough to detect in an area off limits to removing relics, but to not even fill your holes? At least if he filled his holes, the place wouldn't have looked so raped.

It's guys like that that give the rest of us a bad rap, and gives the archies more fuel for their fire. Reminds me of the guy up in Vancouver who's been digging around burial caves.

Keep it up buddy - why don't you try detecting the Saratoga Battlefield next?

Skrimpy · Jul 18, 2010

Shootncoin said:
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Keep it up buddy - why don't you try detecting the Saratoga Battlefield next?

Now that place might be worth the shame of the arrest.

Ray S ECenFL · Jul 18, 2010

Just wondering. Are you sure the holes are man made? Animals such as squirrels and armadillos have been known to dig up areas like that.

If junk targets were left behind at each hole, then it is a good sign it was man made.

Skrimpy · Jul 19, 2010

Ray S ECenFL said:
Just wondering. Are you sure the holes are man made? Animals such as squirrels and armadillos have been known to dig up areas like that.

If junk targets were left behind at each hole, then it is a good sign it was man made.

If we had the detectors with us, we would have been able to check the holes, but we didn't. Maybe we should go back and check shoot!

. No, we're pretty sure they were digholes. I shouldn't have said none of them were filled back in. I remember one that actually was but it was a very poor fill job. Most of them were not however.

catskillcomics · Jul 19, 2010

That's in my neck of the woods too, just the other side of the river.. I know a few guys that seem to think that if they are in the woods they don't need to fill the holes... which I've corrected them about how a person could break their leg in a hole hidden by fallen leaves.. its a shame that some people don't have the common sense and courtesy to do the right thing.. those are the same people that are out for themselves and cry the most when things don't their way..
OK, ranting done.. BTW.. nice to meet you neighbor

Skelly607 · Jul 19, 2010

Thats just lazy.

Shootncoin · Jul 19, 2010

They were definitely dig holes - I've dug hundreds, if not thousands, of holes while detecting. I know what a plug cut out of the ground looks like. Like I said in my previous post, it was bad enough someone was detecting where they shouldn't have been - but to leave the place looking like they did ... No wonder more and more places are becoming off limits to us.

I don't know, call me nuts (go ahead), but I even kick the sand back in the hole at the beach - It just looks better when you leave.

Skrimpy · Jul 20, 2010

catskillcomics said:
That's in my neck of the woods too, just the other side of the river.. I know a few guys that seem to think that if they are in the woods they don't need to fill the holes... which I've corrected them about how a person could break their leg in a hole hidden by fallen leaves.. its a shame that some people don't have the common sense and courtesy to do the right thing.. those are the same people that are out for themselves and cry the most when things don't their way..
OK, ranting done.. BTW.. nice to meet you neighbor

Nice to meet you too, neighbor. I grew up in Broome County and when I moved here, I was on your side of the river in Ravena for a few years. Then moved to EG close to 3 years ago. Where do most people detect around here? I've always been under the impression that most people are looking for Rev. War camps near Saratoga...not Ferry Landings in Columbia County.