Hey there guys! I know I'm never really on the forum, but I'm thinking about getting on the forum a lot and being a lot more active, and I guess this is part of it!
So, me and my dad were talking about going to Ohio this weekend, and i was looking all over the state for some nice towns, and one of the old maps on historicmapworks i found looked like a resort! Keep in mind, this map was from the 1860s. After a bit of research, this place was gone by the 1880s, and was VERY popular in the 1840s and '50s. You can imagine I was getting pretty excited... I was hoping, since it was gone, it would be some sort of farm field so we could come back in the fall after the harvest. NOPE. After looking through some township maps, and making sure 100% that where i was looking at is where the resort was, following roads and bridges and houses and such. After about an hour or two, i finddddddddd.... It's a prison now . Apparently sometime in the '30s or '40s they built a prison on this site. I dont think we're gonna be able to metal detect there!
It's quite a shame that we won't be able to unearth the history buried at that site, although it is probably in some fill dirt in some house from the '60s now ! Sorry this post isn't really the typical sharing of finds and hunts, I just figured this was a funny/possibly relatable story lol! Do you guys have any similar experiences? I would love to hear them!
GL&HH