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Vanity: Made a website regarding the history of our house which dates to 1760
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Posted on 09/24/2012 8:51:50 AM PDT by Gennie
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To: lowbridge
We have a metal detector that we purchased from a local store in Gettysburg, but I think it's only a beginner one. When we were first installing the HVAC, we had taken the shop-vac and sucked dirt into it and then scanned the dirt, found a 1775 British halfpenny -
http://1760loghouse.com/?p=51
There was also pottery and other stuff, but I think that was the neatest so far...unless the bones turn out to be human, and I guess then they would trump the coin. As far as ghosts, not really...YET....I did not sleep well last night however, hope nothing gets stirred up from bones being removed.
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09/24/2012 9:59:04 AM PDT
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Gennie
To: Damifino
WOW, that’s a great story either way. I figure the kids will hopefully appreciate living in a house like this AFTER they move, yet another reason to have the website to compile things :)
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09/24/2012 10:05:43 AM PDT
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Gennie
To: Gennie
Good for you! You’re doing something important for our nation’s history and culture. Generations yet to come will thank you. God bless you. It’s not easy to live in and restore a very old house.
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09/24/2012 10:18:34 AM PDT
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ottbmare
(The OTTB Mare)
To: Safetgiver
Before you do any expensive landscaping, try to find depressions where the old outhouses were. Dig them up and find a whole array history from bottles, gold, crockery to weapons and, yes, skeletons.This is a good suggestion. It's not likely that there will be priceless finds, because people really did not throw gold or other valuables down the midden. But there may be items that are treasures of sociocultural information.
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09/24/2012 10:25:42 AM PDT
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ottbmare
(The OTTB Mare)
To: Gennie
In some parts of Europe, that would be considered new construction.
To: Safetgiver
Don’t worry about expensive landscaping, no $$ for that, but when my husband put the geothermal tubes in he did dig around and found old bottles. Unfortunately he wasn’t thinking of searching the property then :(
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09/24/2012 10:36:52 AM PDT
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Gennie
To: Gennie
Well, it certainly is a beautiful house. I would just love to live in a 1700s home, it’s my favorite century.
Wonderful:)
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09/24/2012 2:30:13 PM PDT
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Beowulf9
To: Beowulf9
Aww, thank you! We’ve done some things to it...exposed some more logs, I’ll try and post those pics soon. We eventually want it to look amazing :) Right now, since it’s in the middle of all the work...it doesn’t, haha.
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09/24/2012 3:22:23 PM PDT
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Gennie
To: Gennie
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09/24/2012 7:00:07 PM PDT
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