(this is long, but fascinating from yesterday...)
I posted a silver 1/2 reale and Coronet Cent about a month ago found close to each other at this old foundation site not far from my house. It's right around an old cemetary and the lady who owns the property gave me a detailed written history yesterday from a woman since passed away, whose grandfather moved to the area from England in the mid-1800s. She grew up and lived her life in the area around the late 1800s/early 1900s. It's amazing to stand at a site that hasn't changed in terms of the geography and read something like this as follows + what happened next with the human bone I found. (the house described in the history following is the one still there where the lady who gave me permission lives) "A four story brick house which was formerly used as a halfwalf place for those traveling the main road to New York. Horses were changed here and those wanting to remain overnight were accommodated. No use had been made for it for years before my time, but the watering trough was still in the corner-triangle andthe foundation and deep well of the frame house were still there. A steep curving, terraced hill went directly north. On the second terrace stood the two-story brick school and by it's side the cemetary apparently filled and the tombstones giving evidence of it's having been used by the first settlers. There was so little play space that the smaller children went into the cemetary where fallen tombstones were used for tables, foot stones for chairs and standing stones for blackboards, clothesracks, etc. The boys played ball where to retrieve the the ball, the cemetary bank was loosened and it was not uncommon to see them brandishing bones as they returned from ball hunting." (Note from me: This is the location where yesterday I found a large and obviously old, weathered human bone on the ground. Would be interested in thoughts about what to do. I left it there, with the thought that I should return and rebury it on the cemetary level above.) Finally, here's the part of the history that talks about the foundation higher up the hill where I found the Coronet Cent and silver half reale. "Continuing up the hill far beyond the third terrace, the Catholic Nunnery stood--a large stone building." (note from me: large wall of this building is still in place against one end of the cemetary bank). Thoughts appreciated.
I posted a silver 1/2 reale and Coronet Cent about a month ago found close to each other at this old foundation site not far from my house. It's right around an old cemetary and the lady who owns the property gave me a detailed written history yesterday from a woman since passed away, whose grandfather moved to the area from England in the mid-1800s. She grew up and lived her life in the area around the late 1800s/early 1900s. It's amazing to stand at a site that hasn't changed in terms of the geography and read something like this as follows + what happened next with the human bone I found. (the house described in the history following is the one still there where the lady who gave me permission lives) "A four story brick house which was formerly used as a halfwalf place for those traveling the main road to New York. Horses were changed here and those wanting to remain overnight were accommodated. No use had been made for it for years before my time, but the watering trough was still in the corner-triangle andthe foundation and deep well of the frame house were still there. A steep curving, terraced hill went directly north. On the second terrace stood the two-story brick school and by it's side the cemetary apparently filled and the tombstones giving evidence of it's having been used by the first settlers. There was so little play space that the smaller children went into the cemetary where fallen tombstones were used for tables, foot stones for chairs and standing stones for blackboards, clothesracks, etc. The boys played ball where to retrieve the the ball, the cemetary bank was loosened and it was not uncommon to see them brandishing bones as they returned from ball hunting." (Note from me: This is the location where yesterday I found a large and obviously old, weathered human bone on the ground. Would be interested in thoughts about what to do. I left it there, with the thought that I should return and rebury it on the cemetary level above.) Finally, here's the part of the history that talks about the foundation higher up the hill where I found the Coronet Cent and silver half reale. "Continuing up the hill far beyond the third terrace, the Catholic Nunnery stood--a large stone building." (note from me: large wall of this building is still in place against one end of the cemetary bank). Thoughts appreciated.
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