cannibalfromhannibal
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PS- Forgot to address your question, yes, they often buried the dumpsite and at times accidently dumped years later on the same spot, not knowing of the previous activity. What made a good dumpsite 100 years ago often makes a good one today. Some old town dumps have clear age layers where it may have been used for years, stopped and then reused later. In Quincy Il., I discovered that some neighborhoods had their own dump lots, where about a 10 block area used a particular site to discard. It answered why some areas, entire blocks sometimes have privies with nothing, or even no privies at all. I noticed on the old Sanborn maps that some neighborhoods were well built on, and suddenly in the middle there was a block, or half a block with nothing. No houses, nothing. After probing, it was discovered it was the privy lot for the neighborhood. It pays to be thourough and determined in the search. I hate waking in the middle of the night wondering the missed possibilities, so I am doggedly determined to turn over every rock. Determination will yeild piece of mind (and a strong back) if nothing else.