The place I'm detecting now, had a house on an 1854 map... The house is long gone and newer buildings from the 40's are still being used.
Cleaning out the newer stuff, with the hope of older stuff to come..
Teddy Roosevelt thought US coins of the day were not "refined" either. He fired Barber, the head of the mint, and brought in two sculptors. Augustus St. Gaudens and A.A. Weinman. We got the $10 and $20 gold St. Gaudens and the mercury dime and walking liberty half out of the deal from those two. Add the buffalo nickel and the SLQ of the same era and we suddenly had some classy coins. Not bad. Gary