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Christmas Day

laplander

laplander

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Got out for a bit on the 25th, the conditions were spectacular 41 degrees and sunny with no frost in the ground. I was playing around with the new 6 inch coil on the 800. The area I targeted was an old cabin site I found on a 1870's plat map labeled "Owens". He must have been a civil war veteran as this little general service cuff button makes # 7 in the Eagle department. The iron was intense and I only hunted a 25 foot square area where the building stood and I was pleased with the number of targets recovered.

Jeff
 
Those are great finds. I've never had any luck hunting around old home sites. It seems they just threw whatever junk they had right out the front door, back door and the windows.
 
The house sites I look for are on the 1870's map and not on the next newer map or two. With the 1870 being the first one in my area, these "homesteaders" didn't stay long, I'm guessing long enough to satisfy the requirements of ownership and then sold out. From the small amount of stuff I find it wasn't the good old days. The really bright spot is I find a lot of these settlers were civil war veterans
{Union} and they discarded a surprising amount of Military buttons, plates, GAR etc..

It takes a little extra research over laying maps but from the amount of civil war artifacts in my display case's it's well worth it.
Jeff
 
laplander said:
The house sites I look for are on the 1870's map and not on the next newer map or two. With the 1870 being the first one in my area, these "homesteaders" didn't stay long, I'm guessing long enough to satisfy the requirements of ownership and then sold out. From the small amount of stuff I find it wasn't the good old days. The really bright spot is I find a lot of these settlers were civil war veterans
{Union} and they discarded a surprising amount of Military buttons, plates, GAR etc..

It takes a little extra research over laying maps but from the amount of civil war artifacts in my display case's it's well worth it.
Jeff
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Makes since. The yanks had all of the money and could come to Missouri and by up a lot of land. Of course a lot of them were stationed here and stayed. Over on the west side of the state after Order#11 there were newspaper ads in the east selling the confiscated/stolen southerner's land.
 
Congrats on the Christmas keepers. That Nox did a good job sniffing them out.
 
Looks like a nice sash buckle ? Great hunt. CCH
 
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