The dump only appears at drought!

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Today,...we needed a little outing to search and dig for some old glass! Time was abit of a factor,..so we went nearby to my house, and walked upstream a ways to see if we could locate it. This dump is somewhat of a mystery... Years back we were at Penn Digger's brothers house, and spotted a roundshouldered stoneware brown jug. When we'd asked him where it came from, he told of a place about equidistant between our homes, (He lives just a tenth of a mile into Pa.) along the creek, where there was an old oil well protruding into the creek, He found it while fishing there and brought it home to show Tom. Later that summer I had a chance to canoe float down this waterway and rememered the oil well landmark...Just after the well was the dump,..plain as day. Aqua Mason's, pint, half pint and full sized local milks, a few aqua meds and some local sodas and beers! Well, every year since then, we've been back at low water, and...Still submerged...Laur found a few interesting bits today and we got in a little hike. Here's a few pics. (And a video!)[]

The brown jug that started it all a few years ago...

 

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Laur and Fred as we began today...

 

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Fred spots a 'hop' toad...[]

 

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Can anyone name this little guy?

 

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If you look you can see the oil well that was once on the shore, and as the creek aged and wound, it became marooned in the center of the creek...usually when the foilage is up, you can locate the dump area by the crude oil scent..The dump would be just along the waterline to the right of this pic.

 

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This small gravel bar is littered with local milk parts...

 

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Love this pic!...It looks like Mr. Fred is saying a prayer to the bottle gods...[] We searched around this farm dump, but could only drag a few shards up out of the murky water....Laur found some cool early lamp parts.

 

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Here's a link to the short video we took, that gives a feel for the place....I'll post a few pics of the bits and pieces...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P92G4eJcf5w

Here's a cool Shag barked hickory that grows near the dump...We were walking along and I spotted hickory nuts all over the ground,....Why are dry years usually good for apples and nuts? Anyone know? The apple trees are just loaded around here.

 

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Here's a shard of a new one to me... "Vedder W. Clark Dairy, Bradford Pa."

 

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This dump must have went up into the 30's judging by this minature cast metal truck part that Laur found.