ron@stlouis
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Go figure that combination. Our first planned hunt of the year would have your head spinning if you didn't see see the set up and the final results. Good weather and moist ground. First house was a massive brick & stone house probably 100-110 years old. The brick building behind it was inscribed 1842 with a star and another two digit number. I need to photograph it and do some research on the history. The downside was the yard was being used for cattle grazing. There was no grass, just churned up mud and manure fresh and thick from years of use. Figures didn't have on boots. Bottom line, three coins, oldest was 1955 wheat and a trade token in bad shape. You could see the house from the road so someone else got there first.
We next hit a modern home site on which a church from the 1890's. had been located. We found only modern coins so disappointment number two. Next stop had the stone foundation of slave quarters and a live spring built housed in stone from the nearby hills. Very pretty, very humbling to be in an area like that. Found nothing. A hundred yards away was the remains of a log cabin which had been added onto over the years. Broken down limbs every where, crumbling bricks all over the ground and abandoned farm equipment (as least no cow pies). Nothing. We hunted hard figuring any coin at any of the three places could be the find of a lifetime but no good finds. We didn't have time to hit a family cemetery on the landowner's property but got an invitation back which we will follow up on.
It was nice to get out. Can you get mad cow disease from manure
We next hit a modern home site on which a church from the 1890's. had been located. We found only modern coins so disappointment number two. Next stop had the stone foundation of slave quarters and a live spring built housed in stone from the nearby hills. Very pretty, very humbling to be in an area like that. Found nothing. A hundred yards away was the remains of a log cabin which had been added onto over the years. Broken down limbs every where, crumbling bricks all over the ground and abandoned farm equipment (as least no cow pies). Nothing. We hunted hard figuring any coin at any of the three places could be the find of a lifetime but no good finds. We didn't have time to hit a family cemetery on the landowner's property but got an invitation back which we will follow up on.
It was nice to get out. Can you get mad cow disease from manure