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  1. J

    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...
  2. J

    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...
  3. J

    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...
  4. J

    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...
  5. J

    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...
  6. J

    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...
  7. J

    Another photo.

    Here is another one. -John
  8. J

    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...
  9. J

    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...
  10. J

    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...
  11. J

    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
  12. J

    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)...
  13. J

    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...
  14. J

    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...
  15. J

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    Every member new and old reply to this post

    Georgia represented by at least 1 member, maybe more... -John
  17. J

    S.C. Dispensary (2 Bottles)

    The name of the store is "Sunshine Thrift." He just sold a SC Dispensary flask with a paper label (out of Baltimore, M.D.) for $70.
  18. J

    S.C. Dispensary (2 Bottles)

    There are 2 S.C. Dispensary Bottles for sale in an antique store in downtown Johnston, S.C., right now. Both of them are a pint, but are different. Both of them have the SCD embossed emblem motif, but one is lighter than the other (embossing, that is). Both look to be in very good shape. One is...
  19. J

    Outhouse or not?

    This was the first dig that he had ever done. He was new to the forum. After he left me, I did not feel up to digging out the rest. I had found some pieces of broken jugs and S.C. Dispensary stuff nearby is why he wanted "to assist." -John
  20. J

    Outhouse or not?

    I am wondering if one of them is an unmarked grave. It is in front of the Master's cemetary, but yet to the right of it, down a little hill, is the cistern by the stream. There seems to be another sand filled pit near this one, but it goes the other direction. -John

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