Back to the old sawmill today....I just knew I would be bringing home more silver, but it just wasn't meant to be I guess. So far this year this site has produced a 1853 Seated Half-Dime in very good condition, 1909 Barber Half in great condition, 1897 Barber Dime that's pretty worn, 10 to 12 wheats (none older than 1921), 1898 Indian, Un-dated V nickel, several tokens and lumber tags, a masonic auto emblem and 2 silver spoons. All sorts of other items, but those are the ones of interest.... So you can see why I was expecting more silver! It's been hunted very, very little, but is a huge site.
The mill had up to 450 employees at its peak with the town having a population of over 1000. Most buildings were tightly packed with only a few homes "outside" of town. There's nothing left today except for a few concrete blocks where the actual mill used to be. The entire town is now in the midst of a pine tree farm for a modern-day lumber company. Very open and easy to hunt.
Anyway...enough with the history lesson. Didn't stay too long today and ended up with 2 buffalos with no dates, 3 wheats (1910, 1916, 1916-D), a makeup compact with mirror intact, old hairpin, another spoon (non silver) and the piece of a lead linotype set. The inscription reads:
hundreds...
Fall designs...
making them...
..d more girls...
the most...
..le co....
Around one of the old buildings the ground is litered with melted lead...I've always wondered why there was so much and now my guess is it contained an old linotype printing press with a lead foundry type.
I wish some of you lived close by -- I would love to have help hunting this place. It's literally hundreds and hundreds of acres.
The mill had up to 450 employees at its peak with the town having a population of over 1000. Most buildings were tightly packed with only a few homes "outside" of town. There's nothing left today except for a few concrete blocks where the actual mill used to be. The entire town is now in the midst of a pine tree farm for a modern-day lumber company. Very open and easy to hunt.
Anyway...enough with the history lesson. Didn't stay too long today and ended up with 2 buffalos with no dates, 3 wheats (1910, 1916, 1916-D), a makeup compact with mirror intact, old hairpin, another spoon (non silver) and the piece of a lead linotype set. The inscription reads:
hundreds...
Fall designs...
making them...
..d more girls...
the most...
..le co....
Around one of the old buildings the ground is litered with melted lead...I've always wondered why there was so much and now my guess is it contained an old linotype printing press with a lead foundry type.
I wish some of you lived close by -- I would love to have help hunting this place. It's literally hundreds and hundreds of acres.
