Winter Re-con Successful

[bigealive]

Been on a Winter Re-con for old lots/houses and places to detect once frost/5 ft. snow is gone... I completely stumbled across a jackpot waiting to be discovered. My brother's father-in-law mentioned a place where he hunts small game/deer that use to be a townsite. It's n the middle of the woods and on land he has permission to do whatever. The best part is that the same family has own the land since the 1920's.(no one has been in there,,,, yet!!!) Yesterday, we jumped on snowmobiles and headed out to take a look and show me where it was.(18 miles away) The place is a complete dream... I took pictures and was going to post them but camera/phone is on a trail somewhere between home and there. There are 14 different stone foundations still there that I could make out and he told me that most of the place was invisible to our eyes with all the snow. I guess the story goes that in 1870's the railroad came through and was not going to have a stop there so the whole town pretty much packed up and moved four miles to the next town on the hill where the RR was setting up a depot. Which is still there. The population was 450 people in 1873(18 different stores/shops and was incorporated as a town in 1854. I just hope that the spring thaw happens fast and the forest growth doesn't come real quick. Small window to hunt without weed whippers.

 

[spartacus53]

That sounds like a dream come true! I wish you luck at that little ghost town. I look forward to your future posts and findings.

 

[Knightwalker]

Sounds like paradise came your way. Wish you some good hunting when spring gets here. Now it looks like you have a hunt to do, going out and finding your phone.
HH in 2010

 

[KOOTNEY KID]

That sounds awsome you have to keep us posted, I can only imagine the haul your going to make ...K.KID...P.S I AM JEALOUS.

 

[hikeinmts]

OK OK, You've got us all nice and worked up......jealous to the max!!! Now, GET AT IT and post the stuff that you are finding.
(Better be quick. Our anger will only grow!!!)
Sincerely, have some great hunts......don't share anything that will give any hints as to the townsite location.......but share with us plenty of pics of the townsite and the finds you are bound to make. GREAT RESEARCH PAYS OFF IN GREAT FINDS!!!

 

[bigealive]

The day has come!!!

Finally, the weather is shaping up or has shaped up, whatever. Anyways, got everything ready this weekend and thinking it will be Thursday or Friday when I the ground is dry enough to get in the field for the maiden voyage to the ghost town. Wish me luck!!! Todd

 

[JoeinMemphis]

Good luck and can't wait to hear how it pans out!!

 

[hikeinmts]

OK. We've been patient. Now, GET OUT THERE AND KNOCK 'EM DEAD!!!
Really, I do hope that you find better than what you are hoping for........I hope you find a cache of coins someone socked
away for a rainy day. I know you will hunt it slow and steady. Look for the big, big trees/tree trunks. Don't forget
sites near streams, where they might have went to do their laundry. Boy oh boy!!! You've got me excited, and I live
a world away. Best of the best luck......keep us who are slobbering and drooling, posted.