Two Indians from 1800s One Room Schoolhouse Site

[Ohio Jerry]

Two Indians from 1800's One Room Schoolhouse Site

A friend tells me that theres an old falling down, one room schoolhouse sitting on the edge of her property and she gets my undivided attention. LOL I then learn that it was MOVED there sometime back in the 50's and used by the farmer who owned the land as a storage shed and that it originally sat about a half a mile away. Well, my 1856 surveyors map shows the location and a trip to the courthouse and an aerial view/property owners plat map shows the original site to be owned by our local township. Love the research BB.. After getting permission from the township trustee to detect the woods in the area where the schoolhouse originally sat i was excited to start swinging. The briars are four feet high and it is tough detecting but a couple of hours in the woods turned up two nice keepers. I've added a picture of the schoolhouse as it looks today and a step by step cleaning of the '82 Indian head using ammonia and olive oil(thanks Bob). At the original schoolhouse site sits a township storage garage(not picture worthy).It will be several days before i get the chance to go back but will post any future finds. Thanks for havin a look!!
Jerry

 

[Merf]

Re: Two Indians from 1800's One Room Schoolhouse Site

Great finds Jerry ---Your research payed off well.
Those IHs sure cleaned up nice.

 

[silverfreak]

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NICE research and NICE digs.

 

[BuckleBoy]

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Still going Strong with the research, I see.  Bravo on finding the site!  Now bash through all that trash and dig the goodies.  All I can say is Well Done. Nothing like that first old find to prove that you're on the right spot. You've already won the battle when that first one is unearthed. Then all that's left is making the Finds. And by the way...this post might help a bit with ideas on how to combat the heat:

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,162345.msg1181111.html#msg1181111

 


Regards,


Buckles

 

[Slipperyjack47]

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Gonna have to change your name to Jerry the indian killer! You just keep pullin those beauties up one after the other. That was a fantastic job on the research, I spend more time on research than hunting and its paid off big time for me and i see that its doin great by you too. Nice finds are no accident! Have you ever thought of trying to find the privy holes on these sites? I have found many and have pulled alot of great stuff from those also, coins,bottles,buttons and the like. Might be worth your time locating them and then going back this fall and pull even more treasure from those areas. Just a little food for thought.


HH
Slipperyjack

 

[TimC (North Alabama)]

Re: Two Indians from 1800's One Room Schoolhouse Site

A really nice place to hunt with some really nice finds

 

[jgas]

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Nice finds. That Ipana toothpaste tube is made of lead. Can you believe that? 1920's to 1940's version. jgas

 

[crazyjarhead]

Re: Two Indians from 1800's One Room Schoolhouse Site

Nice research and effort Jerry. I need to start doing the same thing

 

[Ohio Jerry]

Re: Two Indians from 1800's One Room Schoolhouse Site

Nice finds. That Ipana toothpaste tube is made of lead. Can you believe that? 1920's to 1940's version. jgas

thanks for the id on that toothpaste,I had never heard of it but looked it up on the net to see what i had..Never know what your gonna dig eh?

 

[WeaponsUSMC]

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wow, can you give a walk through on your cleaning process on your indians? they look amazing and would love to use that trick.

 

[Ohio Jerry]

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wow, can you give a walk through on your cleaning process on your indians? they look amazing and would love to use that trick.

This cleaning method comes from Hero Member Mirage and it works great!! following is the recipe;
Try cleaning a wheat penny (prior to 1941) with this method:

pour a tablespoon or two of ammonia in a container. Take a Q-tip and soak the Q-tip. Then take the Qtip, dab the coin so the surface of the coin is wet and start cleaning the penny. Keep rotating the qtip to check if the tip is getting dirty. Once it gets dirty you have to get a new one and repeat.
You want to start "scrubbing" very gently at first and see how the coin responds. Sometimes you have to just gently go over the coin and other times it requires several qtip vigourous scrubs. Then rinse and soak a day with olive oil.

Once you have done this with a wheat penny or two you will feel a bit more confident with the method. Some IH's don't take to this method but those are usually the ones that are crappy anyway.Bob... I would like to add that the nice green patina will come off on the q-tip if you rub too aggressively so just go easy and use LOTS of q-tips. Have fun,Jerry

 

[Ohio Jerry]

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Nice Set of Injuns Jerry ...

Congratulations my man ...

Rock On...

Nick

Thanks Nick, hey bro,you sure clean up nice..miss the grunge look tho

 

[WeaponsUSMC]

Re: Two Indians from 1800's One Room Schoolhouse Site

Thanks much for the info, do you know if this method works with other coins also like LC's?

 

[Ohio Jerry]

Re: Two Indians from 1800's One Room Schoolhouse Site

Thanks much for the info, do you know if this method works with other coins also like LC's?

your welcome,havent had the chance to try it on an lc yet but i'll let you know after this weekend I'll ask Mirage if he's ever tryed it on LC's,i don't see why it wouldn't work good on those also

 

[Mirage]

Re: Two Indians from 1800's One Room Schoolhouse Site

Jerry,
It's very sweet when you can clean IH's and make them look as good as yours. I'm glad my cleaning tip helped you. Nate and I haven't really found enough LC's to test the method out with them. Nate did use amonia on his one and only LC and it did a good job. I tried the peroxide method on the first LC I found and it made it worse...

Anyway, keep fining those IH's.

Bob

 

[WeaponsUSMC]

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Dang a whole herd of us Ohio'ians, and we seem to be tearing up the Indian head pennies, got 6 myself in my last three hunts, and one LC.

 

[Ohio Jerry]

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Nice research and effort Jerry. I need to start doing the same thing

Here's an excellent source for old maps,feel free to pm me with any questions and i'll help out any way i can. What part of Ohio are you from? http://www.historicmapworks.com/

 

[Roadquest]

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Those old school house site are some of the best places to search