hotrod53
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I'm on my way home from a road job with my detector in the trunk, I typically do that in hopes of finding a place to stop. I see a sign for a State Park that I have never heard of, I'm from PA and I'm traveling thru Maryland. I immediately see a fishing lake with a beach, a volleyball court, and some picnic groves and there is NO ONE around. I find a campground bathroom and change out of my business clothes and shinny shoes to prepare for the hunt! I head for the volleyball court and find a few coins. I head for the beach and I'm getting all kinds of hits but nothing good. By this time I have enough clad to pay for new batteries, that doesn't happen too often! I then see an old man pull up in a Jeep, he looks like Boxcar Willie, the ol' guy walks up to me and asks "ya findin' any gold are ya"? I just laughed and said that I had a pocket full of change but nothing good. He said "I have one of them there detectors, had it for years, paid $40 for it a long time ago but I never found anything with it, I'm going to have to get it out again". He looks at my 705 and says "wow, mine doesn't look anything like that" ...LOL. He asked if I ever found anything good, he was taken back when I told about him of some of my finds.
The old timer then tells me "ya shouldn't be lookin' over here, why over there up that path was where the old town used to be, there's even old foundations up there if ya look close enough. Back there where the volleyball court is where the old mill was, ya might find stuff there too". We talked for a few minutes and I thanked him, I told him I was going to give the foundations a try. I walked over there and within 5 minutes I had my first Indian of the day! A little while later I had another Indian and a wheetie. By the time I was done I had a 1904 and a 1907 Indian and a 1941 wheetie, not to mention about 30 coins. There is more detecting to do there, I only scratched the surface, when the weeds are down I may have to give it another look. Time to do some research before the next trip.
SO ... be nice to old timers, they know all the spots!
The old timer then tells me "ya shouldn't be lookin' over here, why over there up that path was where the old town used to be, there's even old foundations up there if ya look close enough. Back there where the volleyball court is where the old mill was, ya might find stuff there too". We talked for a few minutes and I thanked him, I told him I was going to give the foundations a try. I walked over there and within 5 minutes I had my first Indian of the day! A little while later I had another Indian and a wheetie. By the time I was done I had a 1904 and a 1907 Indian and a 1941 wheetie, not to mention about 30 coins. There is more detecting to do there, I only scratched the surface, when the weeds are down I may have to give it another look. Time to do some research before the next trip.
SO ... be nice to old timers, they know all the spots!