humm ripping out a section of the the road on main st in jacksonville , fla

[ivan salis]

seems the city is ripping out a section of the main st road in the downtown jacksoville area -- this area was once the high dollar homes area ------ this road was the "main drag" hince the name --- main street --- this was where the bussiness section of the town was after it was rebuilt following the great jacksonville fire of 1901 it was the worse "city type" fire ever in the history of florida (similar to the very famous great chicago fire )--- they are cutting below modern asphalt and thru the old paving brick road there and even bringing up what looks like telephone pole sized wooden log road planking with iron spikes in them to hold them together -- these bricks are plain unmarked ones --- unlike the earlier ones I found over on lenox ave which were marked GRAVES B 'HAM ALA from one of the first paved roads built in jacksonville back in the 1912 era -- I was able to snag a brick and a iron spike --looks kinda like a small guage railroad type spike from the mid 1800 ish days --- might be some very nice stuff there -- kind rough area to be at during the night these days but on the weekend in daylight hours when theirs no one working there to be in their way -- I think it might hold some promise -- land that has most likely never been metal detected ever and everything has been covered over for the last 100 years or so at least --- Ivan

 

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[JvilleHunter]

Thansk for the tip Ivan. I just bought an Excal 1000. This might be a great palce to try it out on. Might have to get down there Saturday morning or so.

JvillHunter

 

[ivan salis]

my thoughts too -- most likely not working the crews on the weekends --- too costly in ot --- main at 14 th st--- looks like its going to run thru the two center lanes in the middle of the street for several blocks -- they just started cracking up the pavement today --

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Great tip.
Logs laid down for a road is called a Corduroy Road. Very old. Built thru swampy areas. May also be road base.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corduroy_road

 

[tymcmurray]

Good luck.
Keep us posted, please.

 

[MangoKnees]

Wear a hardhat and work boots. Look the part and let us know how you made out.

Good Luck
Mango

 

[ridge_runner]

seems the city is ripping out a section of the main st road in the downtown jacksoville area -- this area was once the high dollar homes area ------ this road was the "main drag" hince the name --- main street --- this was where the bussiness section of the town was after it was rebuilt following the great jacksonville fire of 1901 it was the worse "city type" fire ever in the history of florida (similar to the very famous great chicago fire )--- they are cutting below modern asphalt and thru the old paving brick road there and even bringing up what looks like telephone pole sized wooden log road planking with iron spikes in them to hold them together -- these bricks are plain unmarked ones --- unlike the earlier ones I found over on lenox ave which were marked GRAVES B 'HAM ALA from one of the first paved roads built in jacksonville back in the 1912 era -- I was able to snag a brick and a iron spike --looks kinda like a small guage railroad type spike from the mid 1800 ish days --- might be some very nice stuff there -- kind rough area to be at during the night these days but on the weekend in daylight hours when theirs no one working there to be in their way -- I think it might hold some promise -- land that has most likely never been metal detected ever and everything has been covered over for the last 100 years or so at least --- Ivan

I'd be hitting that with childish ferver!!!!!! With permission that is... Good luck and please let us know what comes out of there....

HH,

RR

 

[ivan salis]

me and my freind david got there about 1 ish there was another detectorist there but he bugged out as we arrived rather then "talking" at all with us -- ? oh well some folks are like that -- we didn't find nuch there (they had only opened a small patch of road --- so we left there and tried a differant area --- where I got a nice hit ---after I found it ( I knew it was a gold signal) I let my freind david find his first "gold" with my new ace 250 -- it was the 250's first gold too -- a 625 kiddie ring ---tiny but real gold --- Ivan

 

[Thomas007]

Ivan

Good luck with the virgin area.

there was a post on here a few months ago about what all was found under the corduroy road logs. Picture of a pair of shoes and other things. http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,68061.0.html

looking forward to your finds

HH

Sanat

 

[ivan salis]

well unsure if it was just a base laid in the early 1900's for the brick road built after the 1901 fire (early 1900's) or wiether its an older civil war type road -- there were union troops in jacksonville during the civil war era and that type of road was commanly used by them ---- the rail spike -- I got out of a hunk of wood there seems to be the smaller civil war era narrow gauge train type --- humm