Homework pays off!!:wiggle:

[MR.SCOTT]

I got some maps from the county surveyor office for my part of the county that dated back to 1874,1889 and 1907.
I started looking within a 2 mile circle of the my house. I came across a church that was on the earlier two maps
but was gone in 1907. A smile hit my face. I talked to a friend that farms next to this place. He said that he
believed they moved the Church to the next farm and used it for a barn. So I went to that farmer and asked if I could hunt the spot
before he planted beans this week, he said, "yes but you won't find any thing that stuff has been plowed under years ago". He also told me the church was started by a family member in the late 1800's and they stopped using it as a church in 1904, and it was moved in 1907. That made my mind race it was already a quarter to 8:00 p.m. so I raced to the field and got out my GTI 2500 and started swinging short tedious swings because of the corn stalks. It wasn't until almost 9:00 when I hit a couple of round balls from muzzle loading pistols 32 caliber and 38 caliber. Then I hit my first Indian Head an 1895. Then the farmer pulled up in his truck and hopped out to show me a photo his grandmother had taken of the church, this was really cool! Before dark I found two more Indian Heads one was laying on top of the ground and was so badly worn that I can't even tell the date. The following day i was back at it for three more hours and picked up two more Indian Head pennies, 4 shotgun hulls (one of which is a 10 gauge) and some other neat copper items. All in all this has been the best hunt I ever had from a history standpoint, and all right in my neighborhood. I wish they still plowed the fields in the spring!
Thanks for looking!

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

Congrats on the location and the good finds.
Should be silver in that location eventually for you to find.

 

[RickIowa2009]

I bet that was fun! Great find

 

[gordygroover]

The real treasure may not be in the ground in this case. It just may be in that farmers memory banks.
August is the slow time of year for farmers. That is why the fairs are in swing at that time of year. Grab a sixer of barley pops and see if you can get him to sit a-spell and watch the sun sink some evening. I bet if you get him walking down memory lane you will find he know of a number of old homestead sites, swimming holes and picnic areas that wont be on a map.
Good luck to you.

 

[John-Edmonton]

It's nice when the research pays off.........Great hunt!

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah the greatest treasure leads are buried in the minds of the older folks. They remember "when." I was hunting a park next to a golf course many years back when I bumped into this old feller in his eighties. We hit it off right away and I began to pick his brain and he told me where the golf course is now used to be a big horse race track in the twenties and thirties, and where the steep bank ran up from the golf course to the next street was where the grandstand was. Boy did I make out like a bandit.

Bill

 

[metalhead]

Awesome!Congrats on the old finds!

 

[marcomo]

Your pride is well-founded, great job!

 

[garthbfan]

WTG Mr Scott I would hit that place in the fall for sure!!