1872 School House Produces an 1866 IH, Copper Ring, 1909 Wheat and Buckle

[crazyjarhead]

Good evening Everyone. Invited TEverly down today for another hunt on a beautiful, sunny day. Nice weather for late November but I know winter is waiting up North and will be invading pretty soon. However, a very mild fall so far. We headed over to the site where the Central Ohio Fairgrounds were from the mid-1850's to the 1890's. This is a large park now and would be impossible to hunt it all. It has also been pounded for years. Found an old suspender buckle and a few wheat's from the 40's. No really old stuff because of all of the pull tabs and clad coins lurking beneath.

We then headed over to get permission to hunt what we thought was an old church. After looking at the brick structure and looking just below the cross I found the head stone which was put in the same place on most old one room school houses. It read, Sub-district 1 Goshen Township 1872. I knew right then it had been an old school house. We caught the priest just as he was leaving. After a little chatting we were granted permission. He said it had been hunted before too. But they missed some items Here, after almost calling it quits I dug an 1866 Ih at 6 inches. It was to the right/front of the front door. I thought it was going to clean up nicely but it did not. The front has some crusty crap on it like the coin had been in some water or very wet place. My worst IH ever. There has been some ground leveling and a few new buildings add on so I'm sure this buried any hopes of finding a bunch of anything Also, check out that cedar tree. That has to be as old as the school grounds.

After that we headed over to another place which I was going to hunt before they (the fire department) had a staged fire last week and burnt the old place down. I found a 1909 wheat but not the S or VDB. Here I also found a Midgetoy from the 50's which is in pretty good shape. I have added a link so you can read the history on this Rockford, Illinois company. I also found an old spoon which I broke while trying to straightening it By this time the rain moved in and we had to call it quites. There still is more to be hunted around here. I didn't take any pictures of this area but will do later on. Thanks for looking, Ron



http://www.mrrc.info/MIDGETOY/index.html

 

[Ricky1601 aka pull tab king]

congrats on the nice finds as well on getting permission and having another great place to detect. best of luck on it and looking forward to more of your posts from this area. thanks for sharing and hh.

 

[Bum Luck]

Nice finds...really cool car.

It's a Bonneville type car produced in the 40's/50's. Never even heard of the maker until I researched it tonight

I remember these. Yipes!

 

[Brian(upstateNY-Central Fla.)]

I like those finds

 

[leslie(nova scotia)]

yo CJH

From the land of the Bluenose.....awesome post and finds. Love the old style dinkie me bouy. Congrats on a super post and hunt!

 

[allen]

how do you get permission to detect
all of these great looking sites?
I need to detect with you sometime !

 

[Bell-Two]

Great stuff again Ron that car is so cool and crusty or not Indians and wheaties are always good to find. Keep it up till the winter locks in.