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Research Tips anyone?
- Thread starter suxbux
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Ed in SoDak
Member
Ted (KCK) had an excellent post, now a few pages back, where he must've listed a hundred potential spots that most any town will have many of nearby.
Does your town have a newspaper that keeps old copies for reading? Local library? Any town our county histories written? You're looking for annual events, revivals, outdoor sports area, swimming holes,sledding and skating spots. Retirement homes, go play a game of chess and ask what they used to do for fun and where those places were. Don't pry, just make conversation and you'll get a greater reward just from hearing those great stories and making a friend than any old coin might provide by itself. maybe they still keep the old family property and could give permission to hunt there.
Drive-in movies, burger joints, old parking lots. Vacant files maybe once held homes or stores, churches or schoolhouses.
Once you start in this vein, you'll never go dry for a new place to hunt.
I have photos of an old ski jump that nobody knows ever existed. It was popular in the 1930's. I knew the photographer, by then in his 90's, and he couldn't recall where it was. I think I know about where it is. Imagine the finds!
-Ed
Does your town have a newspaper that keeps old copies for reading? Local library? Any town our county histories written? You're looking for annual events, revivals, outdoor sports area, swimming holes,sledding and skating spots. Retirement homes, go play a game of chess and ask what they used to do for fun and where those places were. Don't pry, just make conversation and you'll get a greater reward just from hearing those great stories and making a friend than any old coin might provide by itself. maybe they still keep the old family property and could give permission to hunt there.
Drive-in movies, burger joints, old parking lots. Vacant files maybe once held homes or stores, churches or schoolhouses.
Once you start in this vein, you'll never go dry for a new place to hunt.
I have photos of an old ski jump that nobody knows ever existed. It was popular in the 1930's. I knew the photographer, by then in his 90's, and he couldn't recall where it was. I think I know about where it is. Imagine the finds!
-Ed
Ed in SoDak
Member
It's on page 5 at the moment, titled "The first place I'm gonna hunt..." or something similar:
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?58,297399
-Ed
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?58,297399
-Ed
We'll we all like to hunt but if you go to these places cover your holes and always ask permission first!
Amusement Parks
Athletic Fields
Around Clothes Lines
Around Water Areas
Band Shells
Bar & Night Club Parking Lots
Barns & Other Out Buildings
Battle Sites
Boat Docking Areas
Boulevards
Bus Stops
Campgrounds
Canal Towpaths
Carnival Sites
Caves
Church Supper Groves
Circus Grounds
College Campuses
Construction Sites
County Homes (Poor House)
Court Houses
Covered Bridges
Drive in Theatres
Drainage Ditches
Fairgrounds
Farm Stands
Fence Rows
Fishing Holes
Flea Markets
Fort Sites
Front Yards/Back Yards
General Stores
Ghost Towns
Highway Cafes
Hiking Trails
Historical Markers
Home Sites
Indian Sites
Land Marks
Large Shade Trees
Lookout Sites
Lovers Lanes
Military Installations
Motels
Muster fields
Old Cellar Holes
Old Ferry Crossings
Old Gas Stations
Old Hospitals
Old Inns & Taverns
Old Military Roads
Old Orchards
Old River Mills
Old Vacant Factory Sites
Outhouse Areas
Parking Meters
Parks
Picnic Groves
Pedestrian Toll Bridges
Play Grounds
Post Offices,Racetracks,Railroad Stations,Relatives Homes,Resorts,Reunion Areas,Religious Meeting Sites,River Banks,Roadside Rest Stops,Roadside Stands,Rock or Stone Parking Areas,Rodeos,Rural Dance Areas, Rural Mail Boxes,Scenic Overlooks,Schools,Scout Camps,Sidewalk Grassy Strips,Ski Slopes,Stage Coach Stops,Stone Bike Parking Areas,Stone Walls,Swimming Areas,Telephone Booths,Town Common,Town Square,Trailer Parks,Under Seaside Boardwalks,Under Bleachers,Under Trees,Vacant Lots,Vineyards,Winter Sledding Areas
Now get out there and go Hunting...But since the idea came from me ..send your first finds to
KCK
3343 Beachworth DRive
Columbus, Ohio 43232
They may be included in my new book
"Let's go Detecting today!"
Amusement Parks
Athletic Fields
Around Clothes Lines
Around Water Areas
Band Shells
Bar & Night Club Parking Lots
Barns & Other Out Buildings
Battle Sites
Boat Docking Areas
Boulevards
Bus Stops
Campgrounds
Canal Towpaths
Carnival Sites
Caves
Church Supper Groves
Circus Grounds
College Campuses
Construction Sites
County Homes (Poor House)
Court Houses
Covered Bridges
Drive in Theatres
Drainage Ditches
Fairgrounds
Farm Stands
Fence Rows
Fishing Holes
Flea Markets
Fort Sites
Front Yards/Back Yards
General Stores
Ghost Towns
Highway Cafes
Hiking Trails
Historical Markers
Home Sites
Indian Sites
Land Marks
Large Shade Trees
Lookout Sites
Lovers Lanes
Military Installations
Motels
Muster fields
Old Cellar Holes
Old Ferry Crossings
Old Gas Stations
Old Hospitals
Old Inns & Taverns
Old Military Roads
Old Orchards
Old River Mills
Old Vacant Factory Sites
Outhouse Areas
Parking Meters
Parks
Picnic Groves
Pedestrian Toll Bridges
Play Grounds
Post Offices,Racetracks,Railroad Stations,Relatives Homes,Resorts,Reunion Areas,Religious Meeting Sites,River Banks,Roadside Rest Stops,Roadside Stands,Rock or Stone Parking Areas,Rodeos,Rural Dance Areas, Rural Mail Boxes,Scenic Overlooks,Schools,Scout Camps,Sidewalk Grassy Strips,Ski Slopes,Stage Coach Stops,Stone Bike Parking Areas,Stone Walls,Swimming Areas,Telephone Booths,Town Common,Town Square,Trailer Parks,Under Seaside Boardwalks,Under Bleachers,Under Trees,Vacant Lots,Vineyards,Winter Sledding Areas
Now get out there and go Hunting...But since the idea came from me ..send your first finds to
KCK
3343 Beachworth DRive
Columbus, Ohio 43232
They may be included in my new book
"Let's go Detecting today!"
If you're in the north eastern part of the US... Maptech at http://historical.maptech.com/index.cfm?CFID=682331&CFTOKEN=51628076 has some historical maps at the link. There are alot of old schools that no longer exist in my area. If you use OziExplorer and GPS with those maps you can find sites that used to have houses there. I've found quite a few sites using the maptech/OziExplorer/GPS combo... 
-Bill
-Bill