looking into this site for after winter

[trevor225]

looking into this site for after winter since its most likely impossible to hike the 3 miles to it atm with all the leaves etc. and id probably want to buy waders. there is the old dirt road that i can walk to get there. goes along a stream.




does this look like a mini like town or something what would you call this since all the homes were close together. its about 1.5 miles from the main road deep in the woods.


where do yall think a dump would be there. i want to detect and look for bottles. do you think it was a single dump with all these houses or multiple? these show up on a map from the 1850s. and where do you think the outhouses were?

 

[dts52]

Hi, Trevor. Those maps are very helpful. Tough finding the privy holes because most weren’t all that deep and Mother Nature has filled them in. In my experience, they were usually downhill and downwind from the house location, far enough away so that the odor (and probably flies) could be avoided. The dumps tended to be anywhere convenient like a small hollow or hillside not far from the house. As you know, they didn’t have the garbage to contend with like we do, so their dumps will have mostly glass and pottery. Tough finding places around here that haven’t been pounded already, but good luck anyway.
dts

 

[trevor225]

i looked threw goshen on some aerials tons of homesites out in the woods. there has got to be tons of dumps out there

 

[Mackaydon]

Trevor,
Why not hike in from route 272; it's only a mile from your area.
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