JOETHECROW
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From: Northwestern Pa. (Near scenic Lake Perfidy)
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Hey Brian,...your two cents is always appreciated...Had I told you about my Lockport buddy and I taking a cloth 1800's map and going into the swamps (now nature preserve) to locate the old site? (Ths was during the early eighties)...His dad was once head of the Lockport Historical Society),...and also the one my bottle came from, although now deceased...anyhow we had his fathers map with a plastic cover, and also his directions,....as a young man he had tied a piece of wire rope to a tree near the site....We spent HOURS looking,..finally sat down in our hip waders and took a break...there, higher in the tree above us was the wire,...nearly grown in. We did locate one small shard of green lockport glass, and as we were walkiing to our truck, a nearby farmer asked what we were up to in our waders....we related the story and he says...."Well, you should have been here a month ago then"...Naturally we asked why. He had some of the bottles on his basement stairs and gave 'em to the gas company guy! He also informed us, that when he was a boy, the bottles were in huge piles in the woods, and they'd throw them up in the air for skeet shooting... Later that year the ditch witch went through My freind and his fathers jointly owned property frontage and kicked out two acid spring bottles....One Olive example and a green one,....it also broke another...They are the folks that live near the old Royalton mill.
< Message edited by JOETHECROW -- 11/7/2010 8:44:58 PM >
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