Unusual homestead discoveries?

While I never found anything way cool I did take the time to leave a $1 and a newspaper nailed to the sheathing of an addition I built on my old house, prior to bricking it up. Maybe somebody will have fun finding it someday.

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A few weeks after my grandfather died and we were cleaning out his room, my uncle looked down a crack in the floor where the old air registers were. He found an old clothesbox that was covered in dirt, inside of that was a smaller box. Inside of that box was an enema from the 1920's.

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I found some old newspapers that was put under some linoleum in my "now" laundry room. There was an article about people taking vacations to the moon by the year 2000! Other than that; just lots of old bottle found in what must have been their trash pile.

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I have a pile of WWII vintage farm magazines that came out from under some floor boards. Also when I was a kid in the 1970's my parents remodeled a house and found a childs pewter tea set and a bunch of early 1900's baby shoes.

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I lived in LaCrosse WI for a few short years. While I was living there, an event made the news circa 1984. This was 20+ years ago, so I may have some of the facts wrong.
A house was being torn down within the city....in a commercial area. 2 guys in their young 20's found a sizeable cache of gold coins. Can't remember exactly if they were in one of the walls or what. They turned them in to the cops. Then the fireworks started. The contractor insisted the coins (valued in excess of $40000) belonged to him. Not so fast said the property owners.....the coins belong to them.
I never did hear how it got resolved, but I know for a fact that lawyers ate up most of the proceeds.

My first thought was this: why did they turn the booty in? The 2 guys could have set themselves up quite well if they simply agreed to divide it up between themselves, under the radar.

The innocence of youth.

i found a rusty old iron without a handle under my 100 yr old house - still looking

Rumor has it that when the kids of the late owner of my house were cleaning it and getting it ready to sell, they found over $30,000 in the house. I've only found a glass telephone insulator - but I've gotten lots of offers to help if I ever remodel!!

found an old tin soilder in the garden and some gold jewelry in the house.
lots of old bottles and stuff in the floors.

In our area a man bought a home and in the attic he found a box of baseball cards. One of the cards was worth 200,00 or there abouts. Paid for his house and then some..........must be nice!

dang! they actually had stuff like that back then ???????
the most I've ever found was some old blue mason jars with zinc lids

This house was built in the 1970's so not much chance of finding good stuff, but one Mother's Day one of our rabbits was in the house and got to digging at the kitchen vinyl sheet flooring. Out flew a very delicate but intact 24 ct gold chain.

On Grandpa's farm I found a partial plate, complete with 2 false teeth, set in gold! Also found lots of arrowheads, spear points, an axe blank, and lots of junk there. Grandpa found an old stone grinding wheel and several stones that were possibly used as grinders (the big grinding stone was for hand grinding, complete with central depression and sloped edge for kneeling on). There is also an Indian burial mound on the property, undisturbed as far as we know.

In our old house before it burned I found tickets and tokens from the St Louis worlds fair along with steam boat tickets in the attic.
on our farm I found the only civil war skirmish site in the county along with the remains of a union rifle , original survey spikes in a tree . we also have a couple horse pits where the army used to dig coal for Fort Scott and the old military road runs right down our drive

In our backyard in England I dug up a horseshoe and several iron age slingshot bullets- very round 'stones' made of chalk and clay rolled up and then fired in a fire to harden. Similar weaving weights would have holes for hanging on the loom threads. The iron age museum in town agreed to their authenticity.

Now thats history, the folks back then hated them as bad or worse than we do today. I found some old tools, a rotory hoe, some old plows and a few arrow heads but the most valuable thing is the peace and tranquility of Homesteading. Eddie

When my folks moved into a house in 1959 we found an 8 gauge over/under shotgun. It was huge! My dad sold it to the local gunshop for $200, which was a good chunk of change back then. We moved into a place where the previous renters had left an old mirror on the wall. The silver was pretty bad shape, but the glass was heavy and beveled. We resilvered it and it is gorgeous. Its made every move with us since then.
When I was a kid in the early 60's we lived near a house that had been abandoned in the 30's. Everything was still in it. We played with all that 'junk'. I remember we used the dishes for targets. Almost makes me cry now to think of all the wonderful things we destroyed, but everyone just thought it was junk.

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This, two weeks ago today.

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Over several years I would find old metal items in the yard. Thought it was from previous owners. A couple of years ago a neighbor told me there was at one time a blacksmith shop very near where my mobile is now. Maybe 80 years later there is once again a blacksmith shop on the property.

I once bought a small apartment property near Dayton, OH. Story was when the previous owner decided to leave his wife he took $55,000 out of the bank, he died a couple of days later and it was never found. He had a woodworking shop in one building. I got to looking around and found a bag in an inner wall area. Nothing but some old sparkplug boxes. I suspect he hid the money in one of his woodworking tools and it went with it during an equipment auction after his death.

I never found anything very valuable in my house, just a few old coins from the teens through the 50's. When I redid my livingroom I tore off the old drywall and found an old newspaper next to the chimney from about when the house was built in the mid 20's. It wasn't salvageable though. Before I sealed up the wall again I put a Sunday newspaper placed inside a plastic bag in the wall with a note giving the date I remodeled the room, my name and a little history of the house because it's been in the family since 1965. I also added a dollar bill, quarter, dime, nickel and penny from the year I remodeled. I remember in the 1950's my grandfather knocked a hole in the wall to fix a leaking water pipe and found two or three old rubber toy cars and fire engines. I discovered a few years ago that they would be worth several hundred dollars each today, unfortunetly my grandmother gave them away.

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I found an old hand-carved walking stick on my property. It's for a short person. It's not fancy at all.

Our house is circa 1800, unfortunately the son of the old man we bought it from loaded up two dumpsters and sent all the stuff to the dump
We have found however, a gold wedding ring in the barn, dh thought it was junk as it was black, it didn't belong to the previous owner either, we asked and they bought the place in '63. We also found a Dr.s bag in the upper barn filled with wooden pegs for repairing the post and beam I guess. I call it the Van Helsing bag We also found a very old painted duck decoy, some bricks marked 1901 and we have the old fire exstinquisher still on the wall in the barn... it is frosted glass and quite ornate, it say in case of fire, throw at fire on it in small print. I love that thing. We found an old stone wheel under some bushes - for grinding I guess...
We bought ds a metal detector last Christmas, he never even used it, I told dh I will be using it to scout around when the ground thaws.

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I found a Captain Midnight pendant in the glass pile on the side of the hill. It was something you got if you wrote into a radio show in the 40's. Made of cheap brass, I thought it was valuble but turned out it wasn't. Also found alot of old metal things, corn sheller, husk thing for your hand, few bottles, nothing real great yet. Can't wait to buy a metal detector. The people that built the house had oodles of mullah. Who knows they may have buried a can of coins somewhere.