Trip to Plantation Slave House

Baldingboy · Oct 31, 2007

Well, Saturday myself, Mastereagle22 and camb1 all got together and went to check out a slave house (still standing) that is on some private property ME22's relatives own.

Here is a picture of the house:

Looks Good Eh? There were lots of vines and limbs which made it hard to detect, but we did manage to find a couple things. I myself found a few modern bullets, lots of shell casings and a very crude button. I also found a What's It kind of tag that would have been attached to something. (I have this posted on the Whatz-It forum.) Here is a picture of the button I found fairly close to the old slave house:

Here is the thing I have posted on the Whatz-It forum. If you know...shout out to me.

In closing I would like to touch on a DANGER that some of you might encounter while hunting locations like this near a road. If you see this, Stay Clear!. These things run wild and if you let your attention waver...you could be putting yourself in peril. Luckily, this one was wrapped in red....so I saw it coming.

Mastereagle22 is on the loose!!!

Yarrum · Oct 31, 2007

Sounds like a great day. Cool old slave house too.

EDDE · Oct 31, 2007

Baldingboy said:
In closing I would like to touch on a DANGER that some of you might encounter while hunting locations like this near a road. If you see this, Stay Clear!. These things run wild and if you let your attention waver...you could be putting yourself in peril. Luckily, this one was wrapped in red....so I saw it coming.
Mastereagle22 is on the loose!!!

LMAO

ModernMiner · Oct 31, 2007

BB,
What a cool looking site to hunt. Good luck on that tag ID. Old for sure.
As far as that last picture, VERY SCARY!!!

Just in time for Halloween though.

Sounds like you guys make a great team.
Congrats,
MM

Leon · Oct 31, 2007

Neat looking site... Maybe it will be a bit more open later in the year...
Sorry, not a clue on the item in question..
Good luck on the ID, & Happy hunting~

mastereagle22 · Oct 31, 2007

I tried to take a picture of BB but everytime I did my camera shut off!

To be totally honest with you I took BB to this place as pay back for the last "BIG" hunt we went on to his site that was going to be "awesome".!!!

And not to put to fine a point on things (and I hate to correct BB) the house that is standing was built in 1920 and was lived in until the early 1960s. The foundation area you see just in front of the standing (sort-of) house was where the slave shack was from 1832 until just after 1900. The slaves, once emancipated, stayed and continued to work the Planatation. An intersting side note to the story is that the house that is still standing was built on stones taken from the original plantation homes foundation! Another interesting story I have been told involves gold and some spinsters but that is for another post.

I did take a group of kids from the Children of the American Revolution to the site the following day and talked to them about our hobby and how it can be used to help recover lost history. I then let each of them run my Deleon. Two of them found parts to a pocket watch and two more found some square nails, all the others found scrap iron and barbed wire. BB and I are DEFINETELY going back to this place!!!

artemis moon · Oct 31, 2007

That's an awesome spot to hunt-you can almost feel the history oozing out at you there. It looks as if there's something written on the bottom of the tag. Can you make out what it says?

watercolor · Oct 31, 2007

BB. . . that looks like a really cool place! There's gotta be some nice stuff there.

Now, on you're "whatz-it". . .
That definitely looks like a vintage prototype for the FIRST monogramed zipper-pull

(Don't let ME22 see that!)

Mirage · Oct 31, 2007

These places look promising but are hard to hunt and sometimes produce little. Not to discourage you - you never know. Sometimes it takes a few visits to really get a "feel" for the site and weather or not it's worth hunting. Good luck.

Bob

birdman · Oct 31, 2007

Good stuff,you two keep us laughing.

bootybay · Oct 31, 2007

omg that house is so cool looking. I see ya posted its owned by me's relatives....did ya get to go inside it? or is it in that bad of shape?? it would neat as heck to redo that house and actually have it as a living space or a historical place to visit...either way I love it...I would love to see more pictures of that house... neat neat neat ....to me it just looks beautiful...I know, am nuts....

any chance ya can get more pictures of it..I dearly would love to see em

rae

mastereagle22 · Oct 31, 2007

bootybay said:
omg that house is so cool looking. I see ya posted its owned by me's relatives....did ya get to go inside it? or is it in that bad of shape?? it would neat as heck to redo that house and actually have it as a living space or a historical place to visit...either way I love it...I would love to see more pictures of that house... neat neat neat ....to me it just looks beautiful...I know, am nuts....

any chance ya can get more pictures of it..I dearly would love to see em

rae

I will take some pictures the next time we are out there. There really isn't much inside and my father-in-law is planning on having the thing bulldozed! The first time I went out to the site the chimney for the slave house was still standing but they have pushed it down since my first visit!

Gypsy Heart · Oct 31, 2007

Looks like a really cool place. I have looked and looked for your WHATZIT ....but have no clue

Evolution · Oct 31, 2007

I've seen a few of those "danger" things while hunting. What you have to remember is whatever you do, don't feed them! And for the love of all that is holy, do not give them any zipper pulls. You'll never get them to leave if you do that.

mastereagle22 · Oct 31, 2007

roswellborn · Oct 31, 2007

watercolor said:
BB. . . that looks like a really cool place! There's gotta be some nice stuff there.

Now, on you're "whatz-it". . .
That definitely looks like a vintage prototype for the FIRST monogramed zipper-pull (Don't let ME22 see that!)

LMAO!

good one, watercolor!

HH
Nan

p.s.
BB - can you tell what the letters are on the bottom of the uh - the whatzit?