My father and I were searching for this old fairgrounds and we finally found it. The fairgrounds were active from the late 1800s up until the 1940s. I heard that they had quarter horses, food stands, and games there. This place was hunted to death and you can tell by the 30 plus large holes scattered around. There was also broken thick blue glass, some rusted iron and some concrete moorings. There was also lots of downed trees, and some ground foliage.
ANY signals were few and far between. I had my first decent signal, a 13-27 turned out to be an indian at about 7 inches. Then I get a broken 12-44/43 right in the middle of a fern shrub about a foot high. At 5 inches, I pulled out my first seated dime, 1884. a few indians, later I get a weak 11-11/09. At about 8 inches, I pulled out a shield nickel, which was toast. All the copper/nickel coins came out really beat. NEVER to be outdone, when we were on the way back to the truck, my father nonchalantly pulls a 1907 D barber half out of his pocket and says "Poppy wins" LOL.
That was our first trip up there and we made two more. Here are the totals so far out of this "hunted to death" spot:
4 wheaties one had a .22 bullet dent in it from 1944
11 indians
2 buff nickels
4 shield nickels
5 barber dimes
2 seated dimes
1 barber half
1 token, pretty beat. working on it
There is more to be found, but we would have to clear some dead trees and do some major work there. There is a rumor that there was a stand where you tossed dimes to try to win a gold dollar...wouldn't that be a nice find. Anyway, if anyone has some tips on how to work a site like this please let me know.
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ANY signals were few and far between. I had my first decent signal, a 13-27 turned out to be an indian at about 7 inches. Then I get a broken 12-44/43 right in the middle of a fern shrub about a foot high. At 5 inches, I pulled out my first seated dime, 1884. a few indians, later I get a weak 11-11/09. At about 8 inches, I pulled out a shield nickel, which was toast. All the copper/nickel coins came out really beat. NEVER to be outdone, when we were on the way back to the truck, my father nonchalantly pulls a 1907 D barber half out of his pocket and says "Poppy wins" LOL.
That was our first trip up there and we made two more. Here are the totals so far out of this "hunted to death" spot:
4 wheaties one had a .22 bullet dent in it from 1944
11 indians
2 buff nickels
4 shield nickels
5 barber dimes
2 seated dimes
1 barber half
1 token, pretty beat. working on it
There is more to be found, but we would have to clear some dead trees and do some major work there. There is a rumor that there was a stand where you tossed dimes to try to win a gold dollar...wouldn't that be a nice find. Anyway, if anyone has some tips on how to work a site like this please let me know.
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