Almost skunked......but Susie saves the day

[Wyatt Earp]

I have been chompin' at the bit to get to an old farm that was an active dairy and poultry farm, selling eggs, milk, butter and all that other cow-ee stuff to the locals for better than half a century....and I finally went there.

My guess is that whoever lived there before the current inhabitants had a detector, or somebody with a detector made a career out of this place. I found only 0ne recent penny 2 inches deep.....and the rest was on the surface (I did find some junk buried..so it's not the machine). There were 2 states quarters.....and a 1979-S Susan B Agony dollar coin (my first)...Funny thing about it is.... I got all excited when I discovered that it was a "filled S" variety....then I find out that's the common one....the 79-s with a clear mint mark is the scarcer one....85 bucks in the redbook.

Oh well......can't win 'em all....and there's always tomorrow.

Oh yeah.....I got a great lead out of this hunt though.....directions to an enormous hand cut stone fireplace/mantle and chimney in the middle of the woods....hmmmm. That might be the best discovery of the day.

Wyatt

[Wyatt Earp]

There's not a lot of relic hunter in my blood.....but I might just have to check this place out. It's about 8 miles from my house....within a half a mile of Garard's Fort. It seems unlikely to me that it would date back to colonial times....because of the hand cut (chiseled sandstone) masonary work, but I am not sure. It warrants further investigation for sure.

Wyatt

[Mr.Silver]

Mr.Silver

P.S. Did you ever check the school house on top of old RT 19 going out waynesburg?

[Wyatt Earp]

I don't know where that schoolhouse is....

but I know where this chimney is. It's supposed to be 30 feet wide! It has to have been a trading post or tavern/eatery.

Wyatt