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1750 House - 3/28/2007 8:07:13 AM    hed11877   Posts: 55 Joined: 3/4/2007 From: Bristol PA Status: offline My friends parents own an old farm house that was built in 1750, I thought it was 1800 based on information off zillow and they showed me the records that prove it. The house is pretty large and I was hoping someone could tell me where I should look for and old privy or where they might of thrown their garbage. Anyone know what the average distance privy's were from the houses in those days? Post #: 1

RE: 1750 House - 3/28/2007 8:19:24 AM    towhead Posts: 914 Joined: 12/31/2004 Status: offline Look here:  http://www.privydigger.com/ or, do a Search here (on the top of the page select the search option) ....type in something like:  find privy.  Lots of stuff here too. _____________________________ J (in reply to hed11877) Post #: 2

RE: 1750 House - 3/29/2007 10:07:30 AM    hed11877   Posts: 55 Joined: 3/4/2007 From: Bristol PA Status: offline http://img161.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1750qt7.jpg < Message edited by hed11877 -- 3/29/2007 10:08:06 AM > (in reply to towhead) Post #: 3

RE: 1750 House - 3/30/2007 11:21:59 AM    hed11877   Posts: 55 Joined: 3/4/2007 From: Bristol PA Status: offline ahh, this is better (in reply to hed11877) Post #: 4

RE: 1750 House - 3/30/2007 11:49:07 PM    druggistnut Posts: 387 Joined: 1/7/2006 From: Otisville, Michigan Status: offline If it is a 1750's house, look for a trap door in the kitchen area. It might be sealed up by now. You need to get under the house, somehow. It was very common then to drop all the trash through a hole in the floor. What state are you in?  Remember me if ya hit, under the house.  Smile. Bill _____________________________ Michigan drugstore bottles/dose glasses, jugs, etc... Any paper from Mich drugstores, pre 1900. Mich. blob beers/sodas, hutches. Anything unusual from Michigan, i.e., paper from bottlers, etc... Buy or trade President-Flint, Michigan FOHBC Club (in reply to hed11877) Post #: 5

RE: 1750 House - 3/31/2007 6:29:55 AM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 3877 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: offline If there are woods near that house I would look around there to, I  have found some killer (pontil dumps) in over grown pits in the woods,  behind old homes like that, I also dug a 1870s home and found a trash pit with property, marbles, and pieces of jasper cutting tools used by Indian's, the pottery was all in pieces, I also found a 1900 privy in that same yard, but never found a really good pit there, there should be many pits in a yard where the house dates in to the 1700s, it all depends how long the house was occupied,and until they got in door plumbing, if you find a 1700s privy chances are there is going is not going to be a lot of (glass)  bottles, I would search like you are looking for a 1800s privy, walking distance out of the back door, and so on, if that is the only house there, get ready for some sore probe arms! I don't see any property line. that yard looks BIG, Rick _____________________________ My web page. Dig story's published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector. New story coming Feb & March. "Privies by the yard" www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com Digs in action. http://www.flickr.com (in reply to towhead) Post #: 6

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