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Club Hunt!!!

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Hawkeye Jim

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Had a club hunt last Saturday at Lenox College complex located in Hopkinton, Iowa. The college started in 1859 and operated until the 1940's - now it's utilized as a County Historical Museum Complex and our club gained permission to hunt. Several members found old Indian Head pennies and a couple of V-nickels, and some jewelry. Only one silver dime was found during the hunt - I believe the grounds have been hunted hard in the past and the silver cherry-picked.

I found a couple of wheaties, a necklace medallion, coca-cola pin, some old buttons, and a civil war token. The civil war token obverse reads: THE FLAG OF OUR NATION - 1863; and the reverse reads: IF ANYBODY ATTEMPTS TO TEAR IT DOWN - SHOOT HIM ON THE SPOT. It also has "DIX" in the center, I know these could be roman numerals, but does anyone know what the "DIX" stands for???

Thanks and HH - Hawkeye Jim.
 
Here's just a liitle info. Also, Ft. Dix in New Jersey is named after him.

Gen Dix was Secretary of the Treasury.
It was during his fifty-two days as Secretary of the Treasury that Dix made the remark which graces his State House portrait frame, and which ensured his fame. Trying to cope with rising hostility against the national government in New Orleans, Louisiana, Dix telegraphed the New Orleans Treasury office on January 29, 1861 that any effort to take over a Federal revenue cutter by southern sympathizers should be resisted. His message concluded, "If anyone attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot." These words grace the frame of the gigantic (9'9" H x 6'10" W.) State House portrait of General Dix. [Note: The Dix portrait was hung in 1887. At the outset it hung opposite the State House portrait of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, who imposed martial law on New Orleans. Butler was called "Beast" Butler in New Orleans; he is memorialized elsewhere in this history.]


Nice find HH, Big Al (NJ)
 
Thanks alot Big Al - very, very helpful and interesting information - HH - Hawkeye Jim.
 
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