OFF on another adventure!!

[judy49]

What beautiful mountains you are seeing. I envy you. Wisconsin will sure be a terrain shock after Arizona and Utah. Have a great and safe trip. I will be following your adventure. judy

 

[TerryC]

Crossing the Ohio River into KY.

US 60 in KY. The SAME US 60 in Quartzsite, AZ.

I will be following US 60 from sea to shining sea when it cools off a little bit in the fall. Watch for that adventure!

Hartford, KY.

The covered bridge here has been replaced several times.

I'll be staying in Morgantown, KY tonight.

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[pepperj]

A person can't beat the rural roads of America.
Probably if you had a flat, a good samaritan would stop and help you change it.

 

[rginn]

Wow. Just wow Terry C.!

 

[TerryC]

Wow. Just wow Terry C.!

Thank you, sir!

 

[TerryC]

OK, I'm in Birchwood, TN, by my cousin Steve. I'll hang out here for a few days. Never had enough rain in AZ to notice any leaks in my "roadhouse" until now. Time to redo the roof! Birchwood is big enough to be a two horse town if the residents take turns being in town. A Navy dude and another Vietnam Marine talked with me at a restaurant in Monteagle yesterday. The Marine gave me two "military pins" but for some reason the Treasurenet website will not recognize the jpeg. Same camera I've been using the last three weeks. We'll get that straightened out. I'll be down for a few days. I'll then be looking for DEEPSEEKER ADS and Terry Soloman when back on the road. Stay tuned! ╦╦C

(Got it!)

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[TerryC]

Steve and Sue have a small hobby farm. Steve and Sue raise goats. And pigs and chickens.

Don't mess with her goats while Delila is around. She will eat you ALIVE!

Video tomorrow if my internet connection cooperates. ╦╦C

(How did the horses get in there?)

 

[TerryC]

A person can't beat the rural roads of America.
Probably if you had a flat, a good samaritan would stop and help you change it.

I would not let someone change my tire on a real skinny road. Too dangerous. I have a blaze-orange flag he could wave up the road while I changed the tire. ╦╦C

 

[TerryC]

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[TerryC]

I'm back on the road (25th). In VA.

Damascus, VA

On US 58

Got to Rodger's, DEEPSEEKER ADS in Stuart, VA.

His family is one of the original Patrick County founders in 1791.

This house was erected back then.

Only the chimney still stands. The house was torn down in 1960.

Another house and general store stood nearby.
I detected the area where the store once stood.
I found this barber dime and a token.

I cleaned them up.

The token is a twenty five cent piece I believe was put into a mechanical horse for a child's ride. The figure in the middle of the token is a horse's head on top of another horse head.

I also found a 1917 wheatie in very bad condition.

More fascinating pics of the property a little later! ╦╦C

 

[Terry Soloman]

Just spoke with Terry C. on the phone, and was super bummed to tell him our visit here in New York will have to be postponed, as I have been diagnosed with a breakthrough Covid-19 infection, and I have to quarantine for at least the next 15-days. I am SUPER bummed. I got the Johnson & Johnson shot two-months ago, so I'm hoping the infection will be mild. When we got together in Arizona a few years ago we really hit it off and I was looking forward to seeing him again.

Congrats Terry, on your finds, and I have really enjoyed following along on your trip through your photos and posts. If I can, I'll see you in Yarnell this fall. Safe travels my friend!

 

[releventchair]

Say hi to Roger for me!
A person and an area well connected and well worth visiting...Which I have not. But did get to visit with him elsewhere.

Terry S. get well , dang it.

 

[TerryC]

Hey, people. Gotta type this with my phone. Laptop is not booting up. Found another wheat cent. 1937. Going to a house built in the late 1700s. Chimney still up......laptop is responding! You may get pics tomorrow after all. Woohoo! TTC

 

[TerryC]

D
Hopefully a ring shows up. Taking with phone.
Ring found at a house built in the late 1790s. Also found broken axe head and several canning lids. The old ones with the ceramic centers. Some portions of the house were added in the 1800s. I have pics but left the camera back at Rogers. BTTC

 

[DeepseekerADS]

I bought my first detector in about 1983, and bought the property from my grandmother in 1979.

I had searched this property many times, even recent times.

Then Terry shows up and finds that Barber dime right in front of my front steps. Good Lord!!! And then he found that token....

I was absolutely delighted with his finds! I hope this trip up here will live in his memories for many years!

I very seldom have company / visitors. This was a wonderful couple of days, and he's an old friend on TNet!

I may even start swinging on my yard again! Clearly I didn't hunt it out

 

[DeepseekerADS]

Here's a pic of the farm before my house was built.....

That rock & mud chimney you saw was on that squared log house.

 

[TerryC]

Let's catch up.....

Here's a better pic of Roger.

WILLIE NELSON!!

Here is a beech tree near Roger's house. The county told him it is around 600 years old. Oldest in the county.

Near that tree is an Indian "love seat" used for courting a couple hundred years ago.

On Tuesday morning, Nick was to take me to a house built in the 1790s.
While waiting for Nick to arrive, a bear came down from the hill in front of my Jeep.
See him? He did not stick around when I got out of the Jeep to take the pic.

Here is Nick at the house we will detect. I found the ring here. It has a design
inside the band but I fear I will destroy the delicate inscription if I try to polish away the corrosion.
The house dates to the 1790s with an addition in the 1800s.

Near the house is the county road dating to the period.

I found a horse shoe nail there.

Now, this adventure will soon end. One more stop in NC.
I will then scoot back to AZ on the big road.

Before I end, Nick and I went to a local restaurant in Stuart, VA

You must get off the big road and get down into the local places to EXPERIENCE this....

THIS IS THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE TRIP! I LOVE IT. Breakfast music.
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Thank you, pepperj! ╦╦C


(edit) The guy in the blue shirt is playing the mandolin. Behind me somewhere a fellow is playing the "spoons" you hear.

 

[Oregon Viking]

Oh hell yeh!!!!!

 

[Ryano]

Deepseeker is sitting on a property gem, for sure! I lived in Chattanooga-Collegedale-Cleveland area for many years. The eastern side of the state is definitely the best-looking (No offense to my Memphis friends!). So many historic towns and early communities yearning to be explored are tucked away in Tennessee?s rolling hills, and among it?s many lakes and rivers. I?ve been torn between moving back there (currently living in Charlotte NC) or moving to closer to the sea. Given the outrageous cost of real estate on the coast it?s supposed to be an easy decision !

Awesome thread !! Looking forward to more stories and photos ! Carry on, sir !

 

[TerryC]

Here are some odds-n-ends that did not make the posts...

Reverse of the Barber dime.

Shaving cream tube also found at the general store near the dime.

Roger looked it up on the internet. 1948.

Roger's older brother Jim.

A flowing spring next to the beech tree. Piped into the house. DELICIOUS water!

A cemetery is on the property. Roger's maternal side are the Robertsons.

This little guy did not see day two.

Infant mortality rate was high back then. Many of the children only got a rock for a head stone.

The owner of this Stuart station pumps it for you!

Stuart was named after J.E.B. Stuart, a Confederate general. He was born nearby in Ararat, VA.

While driving to Mount Airy, NC (Mayberry) a deer took offense to my crawling down the mountain on Squirrel Spur Road and "chest butted" my driver's door, folding the outside mirror. I was only going 20 mph so no damage to deer or truck.

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