Unusual homestead discoveries?

Did you plant the seeds? Would they still be able to germinate after all these years? Might have been a long-lost heirloom variety!

while placing a ceiling fan in our farmhouse on a 100deg day, I had pulled the floor of the second floor bedroom up to run wires and place the fan mount to the joists. I'd been working for well over an hour getting the wires ran etc and just started to put the boards back on the floor. It occurred to me that I may have left some tools sitting between the joists. When I shone a light down the joist there was a wooden box (shoe box size) about 2 feet away with leather hinges. I pulled that box out, took a cold drink from the fridge and sat down to contemplate the contents, (I really did). It could be old money, bank notes, stock, ??? I was pretty excited. No gold bars fell out, but the box was filled with letters. There is a mans side of the box, letters sent to him from the time he was young until he got married. There is a womens side of the box, from when she was young until married. There is a married section of the box, (though only with 20 or so letters), that were saved after they were married. All the letters are from about 1890 to 1915 or so. There are some news clippings, love letters from the spouses and others. One of the few letters I read was typed and the guy was scolding the girl for not stopping by to try his cutting edge typewriter, only one in town. Ive only read maybe 10-15 of the 100 or so. May try to locate the family if still around some day, the teenage letters are not much different than what a teenager would be doing today, sans chemicals. Sneaking out, acts alluded too while at the fair, drinking, gossip, gossip and more gossip... may pull these back out now that this thread reminds me. Merry Christmas

We have only been here since June so not too much time to dig too deeply..but so far:
One previous owner was a Dr. In the barn boxes of 1950's Journal of American Medicine type things, prescription pads, literature on Valium type drugs and some sample packs!!! (hey mom, what's wrong with that chicken?)(not really, but would be funny)
Hundreds of old pop/soda/whatever you call it bottles..I keep tripping over them as they rise to the top of the piles of hay etc.
A miniature fireplace complete with a clock on the little mantle. Also a little candle..very old.
A thing. I keep meaning to post a pic to see if anyone knows what it is.. a farm implement of some sort.
Loads of old canning jars including some wide mouth pint jars..very short and squat..lovely.
Loads of old chicken catchers..used to be a chicken farm. I do mean loads! Tons of old feeders, nest boxes, bee hives that I turned into nest boxes, wire that we have used for tons of stuff.
An old two way cb type radio with the stand alone mic.
And a ton.. and I truly think it would weigh out at a ton of canvas!!!! I have roll after roll of cloth that is about 150' by 4'. I use it in the garden. I have walled the open sided barn with it etc.. and haven't even touched the stack!!
We have a store here too and in it are more rolls of cloth, stacks of rag rugs, oodles of cider jars, the big ones, and all the acruetrements of an old store.
We have 7 or 8 old outbuildings here and we keep finding cool stuff in those..large wooden crates/boxes. I have one in the living room now as a wood box. We recently discovered a very nice hog barn and the troughs in there are lovely and I will bring one in for a side table also had another wooden crate/box.
I too want a metal detector so badly I can taste it!!! Not just for around here and our old store, but there's gold in them there hills 'round here!
If I find any more neat stuff, I will tell ya.