Longwalker
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This story starts in 1956 the year I started school in kindergarten.We lived out in the sticks, way out in the sticks. This was the first of meeting other kids my age. My best friend became a kid who lived about a mile away. We would ride our bicycles back and forth to each others house to play. Down the street from his house was an abandon one room school house. It was party collapsed and rotting floors in some parts. We would sneak in and investigate / search / play in it on a regular basis. Next the the school was a house, the owner of the owned the property the school was on and frequently ran us off. When I was in the 5th grade we moved to the big city, or so I thought, population 1500. At 15 I got my drivers license. I also had my third home made metal detector. I took it to the with me and to visit the owner of the school property. I told him who I was, and that I was kid most frequently run off the property, and that I wanted to metal detect around the school. Well that day we talked a lot about things and the sun set with no detecting being done. i did leave with to things though, an old man who became a friend, and permission to hunt the school site anytime I wanted. I came back the next day to detect the site. The school at this time had been knock down and was a pile of rotting lumber about a 50 feet from where it once stood. The rock foundation was mostly in place and served as a good marker. During the hunt I kept finding broken parts to a large wood burning cast iron kitchen cook stove and lots of iron, no coins, just lots of iron. My home built detector had two modes, all metal, and off. This was after all 1967. Over the next thirty years I made many trips to the old school with every detector that I owned. I just new their had to be coins somewhere, and I was going to find them. Every new detector went there first.
Thirty years went by with no coins, but I think I found all the parts to the stove. It had been taken outside and busted up with a sledge hammer and was scattered everywhere. During those years a lot of detectors were used from most of the big name manufacturers.
And I was finding coins, but not at the school.
When talking to my Grand mother she told at the time the school was in use people in the area really didn't have any money to speak of so and lost coins would be a rare thing. This was about ten years into this hunt and I wasn't going to give up. Years later and many detectors I purchased a Garrett Scorpion Gold Stinger. I found one penny that day an 1889 liberty.
Before I made my next trip to the school the old man died,relatives swooped in and no more detecting. Just go away and don't come back. Well the property got sold to the local school district and that puts it off limits in this state. I just got the Whites prizm 6T and it will never go to the old site. Sometimes we lose old friends and places to hunt.
I enjoyed them both, and that's the coin in the picture. Of all coins and jewelery found over the years this is my favorite find.
Good hunting to all, Longwalker
Thirty years went by with no coins, but I think I found all the parts to the stove. It had been taken outside and busted up with a sledge hammer and was scattered everywhere. During those years a lot of detectors were used from most of the big name manufacturers.
And I was finding coins, but not at the school.
When talking to my Grand mother she told at the time the school was in use people in the area really didn't have any money to speak of so and lost coins would be a rare thing. This was about ten years into this hunt and I wasn't going to give up. Years later and many detectors I purchased a Garrett Scorpion Gold Stinger. I found one penny that day an 1889 liberty.
Before I made my next trip to the school the old man died,relatives swooped in and no more detecting. Just go away and don't come back. Well the property got sold to the local school district and that puts it off limits in this state. I just got the Whites prizm 6T and it will never go to the old site. Sometimes we lose old friends and places to hunt.
I enjoyed them both, and that's the coin in the picture. Of all coins and jewelery found over the years this is my favorite find.
Good hunting to all, Longwalker
