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She Had a Big Hart
- Thread starter tabdog
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That WPA park is my kind of place
. I like just walking around places like that, and you can bet there were some older coins lost there. You should spend some time detecting along the pathways, especially around the steps or any place where people might sat down to rest or stopped to look. There's a park kinda like that about 20 miles from where I live, Jim and I spent maybe 45 minutes detecting along one of the paths about 15 years ago and I got a 1919 dime and two 1930's wheaties. We always planned to go back but haven't got around to it yet, but since your post reminded me of it I might just get back up there when deer season is over. No hunting in or near wooded areas in Mississippi during deer season as anything that moves is fair game, they shoot it and then go see what it is.
. I like just walking around places like that, and you can bet there were some older coins lost there. You should spend some time detecting along the pathways, especially around the steps or any place where people might sat down to rest or stopped to look. There's a park kinda like that about 20 miles from where I live, Jim and I spent maybe 45 minutes detecting along one of the paths about 15 years ago and I got a 1919 dime and two 1930's wheaties. We always planned to go back but haven't got around to it yet, but since your post reminded me of it I might just get back up there when deer season is over. No hunting in or near wooded areas in Mississippi during deer season as anything that moves is fair game, they shoot it and then go see what it is.Gunnar of bradford MN
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Tab i sure like your posts, i feel like i have been detecting after i veiw them whith the pictures and all , about the wpa park i have one hear next to the nursing home my grama is in and i hunt it lots but ive never found even one silver coin people wher poor in those days intresting to explor arkinsas thru your pictures . Say have you ever run into wild bore in the woods or are they non existant in arke land ?
Hay Gunnar,
Yes we have wild bore here.
After all we are tha Razorback State.
Thay are very shy, and very smart.
Thay can smell people down wind
and it is hard to even get a look at one.
I have never seen one.
Hunting them envolves hiding in a blind
usually, and some luck.
HH,
Tabdog
Yes we have wild bore here.
After all we are tha Razorback State.
Thay are very shy, and very smart.
Thay can smell people down wind
and it is hard to even get a look at one.
I have never seen one.
Hunting them envolves hiding in a blind
usually, and some luck.
HH,
Tabdog
Those are great finds Tabdog. They both look like great places to hunt. Are WPA camps similar to CCC camps? I assume they are/were federal property. Do you need any special permission to hunt camps like these? I really like to find a site like that around where I live. Do you know of any websites that list locations for CCC or WPA camps?
[size=medium]Hay Tseeker,
Thay are both similar programs started during tha depression.
Tha one I hunted in this post is now a city park. Or, at least part of one.
There is Allsopp Park North and Allsopp Park South. I was at the North
one for that relic hunt and in tha South one for one of tha tot lots I hunted.
Here is tha Wikipedia Dictionary deffinitions:
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a work relief program for young men from
unemployed families, established on March 21, 1933, by U.S. President Franklin D.
Roosevelt. As part of Roosevelt's New Deal legislation, it was designed to combat
unemployment during the Great Depression. The CCC became one of the most popular
New Deal programs among the general public and operated in every U.S. state and several
territories. The separate Indian Division was a major relief force for Native American reservations.
Initial opposition to the program was primarily from organized labor, but as the unemployment
rate fell, so did the need for the CCC.[1] The CCC lost importance as the Depression ended;
and following the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan in 1941, national attention shifted away from
domestic issues in favor of the war effort. Rather than formally disbanding the CCC, the 77th
United States Congress ceased funding it after the 1942 fiscal year, causing it to end operations.
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The Works Progress Administration (renamed in 1939 the Work Projects Administration; WPA)
was the largest New Deal agency, employing millions of people and affecting most every locality
\in the United States, especially rural and western mountain populations. It was created by Franklin
Delano Roosevelt's presidential order, and funded by Congress with passage of the Emergency
Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 on April 8, 1935. (The legislation had passed in the House by a
margin of 329 to 78, but got bogged down in the Senate.) [1]
It continued and extended relief programs similar to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
started by Herbert Hoover and the U.S. Congress in 1932. Headed by Harry Hopkins, the WPA
provided jobs and income to the unemployed during the Great Depression in the United States.
Between 1935 and 1943 the WPA provided almost 8 million jobs.[2] The program built many public
buildings, projects and roads and operated large arts, drama, media and literacy projects. It fed
children and redistributed food, clothing and housing. Almost every community in America has a
park, bridge or school constructed by the agency. Expenditures from 1936 to 1939 totaled nearly
$7 billion.
Until closed down by Congress and the war boom in 1943, the various programs of the WPA
added up to the largest employment base in the country
Thay are both similar programs started during tha depression.
Tha one I hunted in this post is now a city park. Or, at least part of one.
There is Allsopp Park North and Allsopp Park South. I was at the North
one for that relic hunt and in tha South one for one of tha tot lots I hunted.
Here is tha Wikipedia Dictionary deffinitions:
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a work relief program for young men from
unemployed families, established on March 21, 1933, by U.S. President Franklin D.
Roosevelt. As part of Roosevelt's New Deal legislation, it was designed to combat
unemployment during the Great Depression. The CCC became one of the most popular
New Deal programs among the general public and operated in every U.S. state and several
territories. The separate Indian Division was a major relief force for Native American reservations.
Initial opposition to the program was primarily from organized labor, but as the unemployment
rate fell, so did the need for the CCC.[1] The CCC lost importance as the Depression ended;
and following the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan in 1941, national attention shifted away from
domestic issues in favor of the war effort. Rather than formally disbanding the CCC, the 77th
United States Congress ceased funding it after the 1942 fiscal year, causing it to end operations.
<>
The Works Progress Administration (renamed in 1939 the Work Projects Administration; WPA)
was the largest New Deal agency, employing millions of people and affecting most every locality
\in the United States, especially rural and western mountain populations. It was created by Franklin
Delano Roosevelt's presidential order, and funded by Congress with passage of the Emergency
Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 on April 8, 1935. (The legislation had passed in the House by a
margin of 329 to 78, but got bogged down in the Senate.) [1]
It continued and extended relief programs similar to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
started by Herbert Hoover and the U.S. Congress in 1932. Headed by Harry Hopkins, the WPA
provided jobs and income to the unemployed during the Great Depression in the United States.
Between 1935 and 1943 the WPA provided almost 8 million jobs.[2] The program built many public
buildings, projects and roads and operated large arts, drama, media and literacy projects. It fed
children and redistributed food, clothing and housing. Almost every community in America has a
park, bridge or school constructed by the agency. Expenditures from 1936 to 1939 totaled nearly
$7 billion.
Until closed down by Congress and the war boom in 1943, the various programs of the WPA
added up to the largest employment base in the country
Hay Nad,
Those BB's were in a tot lot.
I was in all metal and thay were
probably 3" to 5" deep.
Hard ta tell. I was just kickin sand
and chasin BB's.
I will dig anything, except deep bad
targets in a tot lot.
If I don't, I may miss a gold chain, or
sumpum else I want.
Happy Huntin,
Tabdog
Those BB's were in a tot lot.
I was in all metal and thay were
probably 3" to 5" deep.
Hard ta tell. I was just kickin sand
and chasin BB's.
I will dig anything, except deep bad
targets in a tot lot.
If I don't, I may miss a gold chain, or
sumpum else I want.
Happy Huntin,
Tabdog