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    Digging Old Blacksmith's Shop in Columbia County, Georgia

    Need to get in contact with somone who knows how to ID some of the metal objects that I am finding. I could put a picture on here of the SAD irons, but will need a couple of days on that. Also have found some type of long chisel (for detailed work, I think) and a nicely glazed ceramic insulator...
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    Question on Ravine Digs

    Thanks for the encouragement. I went back out there and resumed my search for any surface tin cans, and I found one off the road, closer to the ravine. It seemed to be from the 1930s. Also, I removed a layer of leaves and debris to see how deep it went. Would you believe that the layer was about...
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    Question on Ravine Digs

    I've found some interesting bottle and pottery fragments near an old home site that has a very large ravine near it (more like a valley), but there is a lot of trees in the area and leaves on the ground. My question is has anyone here ever found bottles down the side of a ravine that were not...
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    Governor George W. Crawford's House (Georgia)

    I'm digging a site (with permission) where the house was 3 stories tall (old plantation house) and once housed one of Georgia's ex-governors! I found an area in the back of it with a lot of bricks buried in the ground, along with some odd ceramic pieces partially in the ground and on top. It...
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    Need Help (finding Peach related bottles)

    I'm sorry if I have posted this in the wrong area. I did not know where to pose this query. I have been a member of the forum here for a couple of years. Here is what I need help with. I have written an article that will soon be published in the local county magazine about a peach that...
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    Another photo.

    I had actually given some pieces to a fellow who had an ancestor out there that had one of the 1830s houses. I took him out there to look around, and see what I could find. I felt charitable at the time, but now I wish that I had held onto them because I kept digging these out of a mound of red...
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    Another photo.

    Here is another one. -John
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    Cisterns

    I have a number of cisterns from an 1830s settlement that I want to dig/pump out. One is at the head of the spring as it comes out of the ground (like a resevoir), and the other one is just off of the stream, where it draws water from it via a trench. I have heard tale of another one closer to...
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    total newbie needs help

    Check out this antique topographic map of Martha's Vineyard: http://www.wardmaps.com/viewmap.php?map_id=3483 1908, if I remember correctly. If you compare it to a modern satellite map picture of the island (GIS), and select an option to view the elevation lines, then you can pinpoint...
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    total newbie needs help

    Find an old topographical map of your island. What is the name of it, btw? I will try to find something online for you. Seems like I saw a story on cable about a tribe still living on an onine off the coast of MA. My father was 100% American Indian. I am 50%. If you find an old enough...
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    10-6-07 1880s Pit Dig

    Do you have all of the pieces to that ceramic pitcher? I sorta have become interested in them. Were they keepers, or tossed? -John
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    Baltimore City Maps (for Chris)

    Crhis, I told you that I would try and find you some old Baltimore City Maps. Sorry for the delay. My wife and children have been sick for over a week now. Here is a couple of links for you to check out: http://www.raremaps.com/maps/big/11500.jpg (1854)...
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    Old Baltimore Dump

    See if you can find an old military topographical map. I found one for the county I live in from 1918 that shows every house in the county from the year 1918. I have used it to find houses that you'd never be able to locate using other methods, and there sometimes is an old dump near a home...
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    Old Baltimore Dump

    I am a librarian by trade, and I found the following "digging story" online about a Baltimore Dump by a cove: Well I got up this morning with nothing planned to do so I turned on the weather channel and when I seen that the tides where just right this after noon for a dig at the old...
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