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Over the winter I did a lot of research of my area using USGS maps. I noticed that a 1902 map showed a building in a wooded area within a mile of my house but that later maps in the 1940's did not show it. Using old landmarks, a ruler, and Google Earth I was able to pinpoint it's location. I figured that it was on state land about 50 yards off of a busy stretch of road. With Google Earth street view I was able to pinpoint a spot where I could enter the woods.
I got busy with other things and put it on the back burner until yesterday.

I took a bike ride yesterday with the intent to scout out 4 potential sites, the old building being one of them. I waited on the shoulder of the highway until there was a lull in traffic and entered the woods. The woods had a lot of undergrowth of nettle and what have you but was void of trails. I pushed on through, shorts and all, expecting to find signs of human activity from teenagers partying or the homeless camping out but was delighted to find no sign of recent human activity.
Just where the map said it was stood the foundation of an old building. The amazing thing is that there was absolutely no garbage, no beer and soda cans, no plastic grocery bags, no signs of the stupid MDer who had left unfilled holes at another foundation I had found nearby. I THINK I FOUND MYSELF A VIRGIN SITE BOYS AND I AM PSYCHED!

Wish me luck, I'll keep you posted but this may take all summer.
 
good luck.. that sounds like the kind of place i hunt in late winter early spring as the vegetation is at its smallest,no ticks or mosquitoes to worry about etc etc.....
 
Thanks guys, ticks are definitely on my mind, and poison ivy, got it for the first time in my life last year and I don't want it again.
 
When you get home, throw all your clothes in the washer, clean all your equipment with soapy water, and take a good shower. Soap cuts the poison ivy oil and removes it efficiently decreasing your odds of getting the rash. Sooner is better, but late is better than never. And always do a tick check of course.

I get the rash occasionally at about the average incidence of most americans, but my father gets it if he walks near it (so it seems). He uses a relatively new product called Tricalm and swears by it for relief. The active ingredient is Aluminum Acetate which has been known for 50+years to be effective in this kind of thing.
 
Idecond that remove all cloths and warsh and dry them , the one weakness of ticks is dry the dont like dry . it kills them you could also spread diutomacous earth all over your cloths , it is composed of tiny algee skellitons made of sharp silica and it cuts open the exo skelliton of ticks and buggs and kills them but is harmless to humans unless you go breathing larg amounts of it
 
Sounds like a great place. Sometimes a location like that turns out to be disappointing, but it's always fun to give it a go because you just never know.
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Some tics seem to have a game plan. Have someone check your back. My wife happened to pull one from there the other day. I think the little bas7@rd$ know we don't have eyes in the back of our heads.

When I forget to spray my clothes with Deep Woods Off, I end up with them dropping on for a taste.

If you are allergic to poison ivy, be careful. The tips from the guys above are worth alot.

TOG, keep us posted on that virgin site, a find of a lifetime may be there for you...very exiting!
 
Maybe not so awesome and maybe not so virgin (once around the block). I had a chance to go back to the site of the old building I found and to do some scouting around. I found about 2 acres of building debris (picture a brick building and a couple of pounds of TNT), including about an acre of broken bottles (some whole but with no markings), a looted dump, and tons of large metal in the ground. Turns out it is the remains of an old spring water bottling factory. I did dig a couple of targets but found nothing but clinkers (bunches of combustion products fused together). The only evidence of recent activity at the site was a glass 16 oz. Pepsi bottle with a screw top. I can't remember when Pepsi went to plastic from glass. The interesting part is that because of its location next to a busy road, I didn't find any evidence of hunters being at the site, no shell casings or slugs although there was one game trail through the site.

There were several old growth trees on the site and I searched carefully around them but came up empty. I tried to imagine where the workers at this place would go for their break and carefully searched those areas. Again, nothing. I'm not sure if I'll go back. The only things I came away with were two galvanized steel stencils which I found by eye in the bottle dump. What would you do with a site like this?
 
Try to find old maps that might show the orientation of the buildings so you can better determine worker flow. Old pics in local history books too of course. Maybe an old timer that might remember the place?
 
I can't remember when Pepsi went to plastic from glass

early to mid ninetys, transformation from glass to plastic.
 
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