Digger_O'Dell
12-04-2015, 12:38 AM
Hi All,
Recently I located a park that I had not known about before and did some more research on it. I found a newspaper article dating it back to at least the 1920's when the local politicians tried to rename it and found the person who willed the land had the stipulation that the name had to remain or the land would revert back to the family. So I researched the person who had willed it to the county and found he was a Lt. Col. during the Civil War. So that dates the land as being in use during that time at least.
I had hopes that it hadn't been pounded too badly in the past and spent 2 mornings searching. But as has been the story lately there were no good targets below 4 inches at most and nothing older than late 1960's coins. Other than a key, everything else was typical ghetto neighborhood trash. I still have hope that there may still be something good left there, so I will be back eventually
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I tried another approach and after a lot more research and poring over the maps I located a potentially great site. It is an old nunnery and school that far as I can tell was built sometime around the late 1800's. Unfortunately there are no records I can find, no documentation on the particular order, and no date on the building. Just the banner stone reading "S S Of Notre Dame", or School Sisters or Notre Dame. It's now run as a government social services facility, so open to hunting. I had high hopes for this property, but so far hasn't produced coins as hoped as it's turned out to be mostly a field of pennies of which only 1 was a wheatie. Odd again as only the wheatie was below that 4 inch mark, and that was along the edge the sidewalk. This makes me highly suspect that this yard has also been pounded previously.
On the plus side, it did produce a couple firsts and some interesting finds. I did manage to pull my first watch which just goes to show a Timex may take a licking, but won't keep ticking! :lol: I also found an odd brass piece and an old drawer pull which looks sort of art deco style. Lastly, I found what appears to be a very early lipstick tube. It has an odd shape peak at the end, and is made of brass with rolled rings on the tube. The butt end looks to be maybe gold plated as it came out bright and shiny as opposed to the brass end. It also has a floral decoration around the outside diameter. The best surprise is that it still has dark ruby red lipstick in it.
51762
51760
Recently I located a park that I had not known about before and did some more research on it. I found a newspaper article dating it back to at least the 1920's when the local politicians tried to rename it and found the person who willed the land had the stipulation that the name had to remain or the land would revert back to the family. So I researched the person who had willed it to the county and found he was a Lt. Col. during the Civil War. So that dates the land as being in use during that time at least.
I had hopes that it hadn't been pounded too badly in the past and spent 2 mornings searching. But as has been the story lately there were no good targets below 4 inches at most and nothing older than late 1960's coins. Other than a key, everything else was typical ghetto neighborhood trash. I still have hope that there may still be something good left there, so I will be back eventually
51761
I tried another approach and after a lot more research and poring over the maps I located a potentially great site. It is an old nunnery and school that far as I can tell was built sometime around the late 1800's. Unfortunately there are no records I can find, no documentation on the particular order, and no date on the building. Just the banner stone reading "S S Of Notre Dame", or School Sisters or Notre Dame. It's now run as a government social services facility, so open to hunting. I had high hopes for this property, but so far hasn't produced coins as hoped as it's turned out to be mostly a field of pennies of which only 1 was a wheatie. Odd again as only the wheatie was below that 4 inch mark, and that was along the edge the sidewalk. This makes me highly suspect that this yard has also been pounded previously.
On the plus side, it did produce a couple firsts and some interesting finds. I did manage to pull my first watch which just goes to show a Timex may take a licking, but won't keep ticking! :lol: I also found an odd brass piece and an old drawer pull which looks sort of art deco style. Lastly, I found what appears to be a very early lipstick tube. It has an odd shape peak at the end, and is made of brass with rolled rings on the tube. The butt end looks to be maybe gold plated as it came out bright and shiny as opposed to the brass end. It also has a floral decoration around the outside diameter. The best surprise is that it still has dark ruby red lipstick in it.
51762
51760