Digging a colonial well??

X-Splenda · Sep 19, 2009

i was walking around a old homesite i found buckles and stuff like that!!! i saw like 5 road sign's... i was like what's that?? i moved them off... and a big/huggest well i ever saw!!! it was like 30 ft down!!!! Later i found out it was a colonial community well

The town had planned to digg it out. like 50 years ago... but they ran out of money..... and theres a huge rock wedged in the middle of the well....... and it had 2 iron bars on top of the well...... it is actually very stable...... and the rock is weged good in. and it is very passable..... it was trying to be dug out because it was a wishing welll..... and might be a chache..... it's on town property and a hisorical site... but it's in the middle of the woods. and i will bring 3 people with me... is it worth it

and any ideas how to exvacate it??

truckinbutch · Sep 19, 2009

X-Splenda said:
i was walking around a old homesite i found buckles and stuff like that!!! i saw like 5 road sign's... i was like what's that?? i moved them off... and a big/huggest well i ever saw!!! it was like 30 ft down!!!! Later i found out it was a colonial community well The town had planned to digg it out. like 50 years ago... but they ran out of money..... and theres a huge rock wedged in the middle of the well....... and it had 2 iron bars on top of the well...... it is actually very stable...... and the rock is weged good in. and it is very passable..... it was trying to be dug out because it was a wishing welll..... and might be a chache..... it's on town property and a hisorical site... but it's in the middle of the woods. and i will bring 3 people with me... is it worth it and any ideas how to exvacate it??

Permission to dig must come before advice on how to dig .

lastleg · Sep 19, 2009

The town's lawyer wil probably say no for liabilitiy issues. Besides, why
would you want to go to all that work when you could make yourself a
grappling device to pull up sediment from the bottom? Could be some
enviro safety concerns with gettin down in that well too.

lastleg

X-Splenda · Sep 19, 2009

Updated post is on todays find's....

truckinbutch · Sep 19, 2009

X-Splenda said:
Updated post is on todays find's....

More response there too .

johnnyi · Oct 22, 2009

x-splenda, I haven't been keeping up on your well hunt, but I hope it is a sucess.

I will tell you a well story that will make you weep regarding the old Logan Inn in New Hope Pennsylvania.
Before the battle of Trenton, New Hope was for a long while an encampment for the Continental troops, while directly on the other side of the river in lambertville the British were camped in the hundreds also. Logan Inn was where our soldiers and officers often met.

When the Inn changed owners I received permission to hunt the grounds as they were being torn up. The soil surrounding the in was littered with colonial artifacts, Georges, reales, buckles, breastplates, watch keys; it was a dream come true to detect. Huge undrground electric cables made some areas very difficult at the time, as did limited depth of the old detectors, dependence on discrimation for a quick hunt, etc., and I know there was far more I missed in that two days.

Two days, that was all, for right at the moment the original well was discovered directly in the front lawn, a well which was sealed probably in the 50's, a well eight feet wide and twenty feet deep!!!, the detecting was shut down! A good hearted soul heard of my finds and decided to try to stall development by posting an article in the paper about them. The owner, not wishing to stall work, had the well covered at once, as was covered all the ground surrounding the inn; ground which is sealed in concrete to this day. It is beyond imagination what must have existed in that well, considering its location, particularly with the constant threat from a mile away, and the propensity for every kind of coin and relic and bottle to have been dropped so near around it.

Anyway, that is one well that has never been searched. Maybe our grandchildren will get a crack at it when someone like us decides to spend a little bread and unseal it for the sake of history. Just thought you'd like to hear about it. Good luck with your's and keep us posted!

Zephyr · Oct 22, 2009

X-Splenda said:
Updated post is on todays find's....

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,273188.0.html

Curtis · Oct 25, 2009

I saw a posting on this site a year or so ago where a guy used a certain kind of pump to suck everything up and into a kids swimming pool...that way he got the sediment and everything in it! He found some really good stuff too. Good luck!.....wish I could remember which type of pump it was...do remember that it didn't pass the sediment(and coins) thru the impellers somehow.