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[Bamasteve]

Mornin y’all

 

[Chilli]

 

[ARC]

G morn T Crew.

 

[fishstick]

Good morning y'all

 

[ToddsPoint]

Good morning!☕️

 

[beepbleep]

Went looking for arrowheads at Cathedral Falls yesterday, about a mile away. The two ladies at the bottom of the falls were getting wet. brrrr

 

[newnan man]

Good morning folks.

 

[CreekSide]

Redfin were on the bite yesterday. Got 3 this size, nice eating size. Lost a good lure though amongst the snags but that's where the fish are.
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Nice, is it like a bass or perch?

 

[CreekSide]

Morning everyone
Going to be a good day to go play. Highs of 60s

 

[robertk]

Good morning everyone. Had a long weekend so today is like Monday, even though it's Tuesday. Which is kinda like having two Mondays, which is no fun at all.

 

[fishstick]

Went looking for arrowheads at Cathedral Falls yesterday, about a mile away. The two ladies at the bottom of the falls were getting wet. brrrr
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WOW that's beautiful!!!!

 

[fishstick]

Does or has any of y'all done much hunting around old stone railroad crossings? Was out riding the other day and found one out in the sticks and got me thinking where did the workers stay while building these? Def not built in a few days or where would one find info in the constructing of them?

 

[releventchair]

Today's meh finds detecting. One park and the school I always detect. Not much luck today and got kicked out of the school today by a vice principal mind I was there after hours and cover my holes carefully also pick up trash. The custodian basically told me she's a Karen and just come back when she isn't there.

Awesome! Congrats.

Kicked out of school!
Now you can pretend your going to school during the week but really be detecting.
Aren't I helpful?

 

[releventchair]

Mornin all.

 

[fishstick]

 

[fishstick]

The top photo is the one we found. If you look at the 2nd pic you can see they lined the the creek as well. Our earliest map said there was a (watering stop ) somewhere near here. We're thinking this might have been it, it's only done on the one side of it. Last pic is is over a bigger creek and massive. only about a 1/4 mile or so from the other one. Smaller of the two is 18'-20' above the stream with hella big stones. Gonna try to find as much as possible where the stone came from. There's a strange section where the (blueish) stones stop perfect on both sides like that particular section of stone was quarried somewhere else

Any thgt's y'all

 

[oldmxrat]

Good morning

 

[releventchair]

The top photo is the one we found. If you look at the 2nd pic you can see they lined the the creek as well. Our earliest map said there was a (watering stop ) somewhere near here. We're thinking this might have been it, it's only done on the one side of it. Last pic is is over a bigger creek and massive. only about a 1/4 mile or so from the other one. Smaller of the two is 18'-20' above the stream with hella big stones. Gonna try to find as much as possible where the stone came from. There's a strange section where the (blueish) stones stop perfect on both sides like that particular section of stone was quarried somewhere else

Any thgt's y'all

To drive through near the area you'd not suspect anything in the slightly rolling terrain . But it is higher ground.

That the site where dam builders "lived" near me. Slept was about it really.
Historian and detectorist I knew hunted the site.
Didn't turn much up.

Only thing I see as to why there was the higher ground. Maybe the site was behind a rise or something but back then there wasn't much traffic anyways.

I found chauffer's badge (type of drivers license back when more than a genuine chauffer type deal) across the road from the site area.
It was developed into a crude park and probably bulldozed to start.

 

[pepperj]

The top photo is the one we found. If you look at the 2nd pic you can see they lined the the creek as well. Our earliest map said there was a (watering stop ) somewhere near here. We're thinking this might have been it, it's only done on the one side of it. Last pic is is over a bigger creek and massive. only about a 1/4 mile or so from the other one. Smaller of the two is 18'-20' above the stream with hella big stones. Gonna try to find as much as possible where the stone came from. There's a strange section where the (blueish) stones stop perfect on both sides like that particular section of stone was quarried somewhere else

Any thgt's y'all

It depends on when this was constructed.
It also depends on how close a settlement was to the bridge work.
If the town was close then most of the crews lived in the town vs a construction camp.
If there wasn't anything close then the first flat area beside the track (road) would be the camp.
I'm only going on the multiple construction camps we detected/dug at along the railroad.

 

[fishstick]

It depends on when this was constructed.
It also depends on how close a settlement was to the bridge work.
If the town was close then most of the crews lived in the town vs a construction camp.
If there wasn't anything close then the first flat area beside the track (road) would be the camp.
I'm only going on the multiple construction camps we detected/dug at along the railroad.

That's my thgt's as well. Nearest town is almost 4 miles as the crow flies, doubt they would travel that far. These were both mid to late 1870's, the bigger one was damaged in the 1908 flood and you can see where they fixed it.