Abandoned 'farm' or bare land?

Oz:

A suggestion. Next time you go to visit this property put a notice in advance on the forum asking for other forum participants in the area to met you somewhere at a specified time for a group tour of the property. Spring for dinner as a reward for their time and effort. Jaded eyes may see things you have been overlooking.

Remember, other people's trash can be someone else's treasure. If you get the property before you throw anything away check for its saleability on eBay. Never throw out a box, can or tin without thoroughly going throw it. Might just be a Homer Thornbe (or whoever - the 'rare' one) baseball card in it. Someone recently tried to pass off a counterfeit by stashing it in a Prince Albert tobacco tin and conveniently finding it in an old shed with witnesses. When I was a kid we actually did use Prince Albert tins for that purpose. It was also a fairly common practice to put beer and soda cans and bottles in walls as a house was being built.

Ken S. in WC TN

While tearing down the home I grew up in we found a jar of pennies in the studs above the front door. No 1909 VDBs but all were mid 40's and earlier. Several steel pennies. I understand this was a good luck tradition. So yes you can find valuable things burried in the walls.