Barefootjunkers
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Now that I got the mapping stuff figured back out I did a bit of research and have a spot I’m going to hit. The area I live in has miles of land taken over by the city of Akron for there water supply on the upper Cuyahoga river. So many of the original settlement farms were torn down and there is nothing but cellar holes and forest left. Years ago I did approach a ranger for the land to get his thoughts on metal detecting on the property and his thoughts were this. “ It’s basically hunting, so have at it.” So I will operate as such till I’m told otherwise.
The top pic is from the 1943 topo available on historic aerials, the second a 2017 aerial. The 3 is a shot of the cellar hole found in less the 30 seconds after checking the maps. Structure was there also on the 1857 plat maps of area.
There is currently a logging crew there taking veneer logs out, and they put a huge stump in the hole. There has been some dirt moved around on the area where the original drive was. But overall a lot of what I think is pretty much untouched ground. Another aspect of this piece is it was river access in the past, a few today walk down that know about the old road going down. Which aren’t many.
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The top pic is from the 1943 topo available on historic aerials, the second a 2017 aerial. The 3 is a shot of the cellar hole found in less the 30 seconds after checking the maps. Structure was there also on the 1857 plat maps of area.
There is currently a logging crew there taking veneer logs out, and they put a huge stump in the hole. There has been some dirt moved around on the area where the original drive was. But overall a lot of what I think is pretty much untouched ground. Another aspect of this piece is it was river access in the past, a few today walk down that know about the old road going down. Which aren’t many.
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