Unusual homestead discoveries?

Would love to barter for a photocopy of that book.
DH is always reminding me how good wives treated there husbands in the good old days.

Serious, could be a whole theme evening complete with granny bloomers

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I always come across marbles, old glass medicine bottles and coins when digging in my yard. I have filled a pint jar with all the old marbles I've found in the yard. I found an old valentine from the 20's - 30's (art deco?) in the closet that my grandfather gave my grandmother. This use to be their house.

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When digging I once found a pair of Craftsman vise grips that were all rusted. Took them to Sears and got a new pair. Not very interesting but they are useful.

On this property I may have found a car. We were digging and found what looks like the roof of a car about 2 feet down. My wife hopes it has cash in the trunk. We haven't had the desire to dig the rest out yet. Probably has a body in the trunk instead of cash that would be more my luck.

A friend found a coffin in his back yard. LOL He had owned the house about 6 months and during the summer was clearing out some blackberry bushs. Know there was no one in it, But the neighbors were not amused. Ended up in the newpaper. Still don't know why it was there, but I still LOL.

Did they run on kerosene or carbide?

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"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands..." tick-tick-tick

While digging a septic system, we found a Mayan pottery. Very cool, probably more than 400 years old.

If you wonder how it got there - look where I live.

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Geek13, maybe it's Jimmy Hoffa!

We have found hundreds of tree fern fossils

similar to the 3 pictured here in the top left


my dh has been collecting them since he was young

we hope to incorporate them somehow in a rock wall

I rewired an old house in Eureka Springs in the 80's. Under the floor I found an 1882 newspaper, many opium bottles, a medicine bottle for a VD potion, Knoxit for Gonorrhea, Leukorrhea,the Gleet, the Whites and a couple of other diseases, and a speculum. I made the mistake of showing the find to the owner, who immediately siezed the items from me...never again. I think that if I found $ 40,000 in gold coins in the wall, NO ONE would ever hear about it. I would sell them one at a time, there are rare coin dealers in every city.

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The farmer that I work for, bought land with an old dilapidated barn and in the hay loft under old straw were rough cut cherry boards(in great shape), enough to do all wood work and cabinents in his sons new home!!!

Ok, not to go all nuclear on this thead, but what makes you think, when you are a hired hand that you have a right to your find?

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If that car is from the 30's or 40's break open it's gas tank if it's still there. I read somewhere that back then people would drop thier change in after filling up. When the car was worn out, they removed the gas tank and had a down payment for a new one.

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Supposedly, there's never been a house on our 96 acres until we built one four years ago. However, I found part of the lid to an old churn in the front yard and in back of the woods I found a lot of old handmade bricks. I'm pretty sure there was a house there because there are daffodils that come up down there every Spring. I'm anxious for my mom to bring her metal detector so we can go down there and explore some more.

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and we lent the latex (or similar) sex toy out to a ceramic shop to make a mold (don't ask) and they "lost" it. One side was a bride holding a bouquet of flowers. The other side was *ahem* more recognizeable for us adult folks.

I'm not sure I still have the books. Although it's kind of difficult to donate them to Goodwill or the local library, if you know what I mean...

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Seedspreader, it's called stealing!
At my parents rural home, I found loads of remains from the button mill that used to be on the property. The sluce ways were filled in, but the stone walls still remain. Shell pieces, some buttons. I made a necklace out of some of them, by drilling my own holes in them.
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when i was 6 we bought my great grandpas old farm. he had moved and left it sitting here with whatever he didnt want/need at the new place.

seems his new wife didnt like his deceased wifes things around to remind him of her and he couldnt get rid of them.

We had thought we got alot being as it had furniture etc. Then one day several years after pops had died my step grtgranma told us to look in the room under the garage as she had stored alot there.

We went down and pried the door open to find a mess of junk all over the place. So we promptly forgot it for another 8 years. We were selling the place to move to Texas and we went over to open it up and clean it out. Under all the junk like old xmas trees old canning jars , magazines etc we found two large trunks full of like new homemade quilts my grtgranma made by hand before she died. Then we found three boxs of wonderful china dinnerware, some old bing crosby etc albums from when they used to put one song on each side and it folded out and had several lps I think they are 78's. Then we found five small handwritten diaries from when my grtgranma was dying with TB. It was all about her love for her kids and pops etc. I remember sitting there with mom reading them one at a time and crying.

Then on a shelf next to a row of old canning jars with uneatable food we found a small box about the size of a shoebox. Think it was a hat box. Anyway it had pictures of their wedding, her wedding ring, assorted jewelry and a pocket watch which when the back was popped off had a manufacture date of april 19, 1852. It was inscribed to my grtgrtgrandpa. It worked and I still have it.

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The Owners were short term transplants (paranoids who left the crime in New Orleans for a peaceful small town)who bought several properties and when they found out that they weren't cut out out for small town life, they sold out and moved on. There were other transactions that revealed to me that the dude was an exploiter, not a nurturer (actually, a jerk), and they didn't care a flip about the history of the town. On the other hand, I am a native, my family has been here since 1888 and the items were of great value to me, and would have been donated to the historical museum eventually. Call it whatever you like, but I am willing to deal with the Karma. Finders Keepers. Sorry if you don't agree, get over it.

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Oh, heck... I thought it was just something like thievery. I didn't know you had a right to it since your family was there since 1888.

If someone else's family was there since 1887, do they get to steal from you?

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This subject is the plot for many books and movies. A person finds a large sum of money and disaster unfolds. I dream this dream all the time. What would I do, would I turn the money over to "The Man", would I keep it for myself, would I give it to the poor? I like to think I would spread the wealth, but the new Ducati in BIKE magazine....would kill me in less than thirty seconds. I'm glad, for my own piece of mind, I will never be put to the test.

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Do it! My family thinks I'm nuts when I wander around the yard/grounds with a little hoe or other implement staring at the ground after a good rain. The tidbits that have been buried around here show up so much better after a good rain. I've found tons of bits and pieces of china and old crocks, and either the previous owners used ONLY white china or I'm just not seeing the colored bits. I love finding the pieces of really nice crocks (of course I'd much rather find whole items).

I also love visiting the older dump sites on the farm that the original owners 100 years ago used --- once found a china dolls head in the dump.

Also one time a delivery truck got stuck in our yard and tore some pretty good sized ruts in the grass. I had a heyday then --- actually found some old ice skates that someone had trashed. Makes you wonder why things end up where they do --- was it a burn pile, a trash heap, or did they just take it out and bury the junk?

Does anyone here do the old outhouse digging?

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