Knottyoak
Full Member
I decided to change things up a little, get out of the woods and pastures until we get some cooler weather, and detect somewhere a little easier on my decrepit carcass.
A nice fellow gave me permission to hunt four adjacent empty lots he owns on one of the main streets in the run-down part of town. That area was once the hub of activity, when the railroad was operating, and it's very near the site of the first settlement here, a village called "St. Michaels", founded by French lead miners in the 18th century.
The earliest map I've found shows buildings on those lots in 1939, and I can remember when there were houses there. Now it's all regularly mowed grass with a few trees, and bits of sidewalk and retaining walls here and there.
I think the site has good potential, and it began to produce this morning.
I was lucky enough to find my first silver coin, an elusive 1919 merc, hiding under a root, along with a 1946 wheatie, and a couple other pennys.
The place is pretty trashy along the street, hoping it'll get better deeper in.
A nice fellow gave me permission to hunt four adjacent empty lots he owns on one of the main streets in the run-down part of town. That area was once the hub of activity, when the railroad was operating, and it's very near the site of the first settlement here, a village called "St. Michaels", founded by French lead miners in the 18th century.
The earliest map I've found shows buildings on those lots in 1939, and I can remember when there were houses there. Now it's all regularly mowed grass with a few trees, and bits of sidewalk and retaining walls here and there.
I think the site has good potential, and it began to produce this morning.
I was lucky enough to find my first silver coin, an elusive 1919 merc, hiding under a root, along with a 1946 wheatie, and a couple other pennys.
The place is pretty trashy along the street, hoping it'll get better deeper in.
Nice job on the '46 wheatie, too.
