Vanity: Made a website regarding the history of our house which dates to 1760

http://www.1760loghouse.com ^ | today | Me

[Gennie]

I had been posting on another thread from last week regarding some discoveries a person had made in their log house. I thought those on here may be interested in checking out the site I decided to make. It was spurred because:

1) The barn originally tied to this house was sold and dismantled last week, and while I have been searching on and off for two years it renewed interest.

and...

2)The guy dismantling the barn came over to talk to us, and we had showed him some things we had uncovered in a crawlspace when my husband was installing HVAC. Some of those things including bones we thought were animal. He thought they may have been human so my husband (without my knowledge) contacted the coroner who took the bones on Friday night. We're waiting to see if they are, in fact, human...but I thought it would be a good idea to start documenting things, which I do anyway, but thought having a website would help. So, I don't know if anyone may be interested, but for those who may -

http://www.1760loghouse.com

[Gennie]

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.

[Gennie]

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 :)

[ottbmare]

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.

[ottbmare]

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.

[SeaHawkFan]

In some parts of Europe, that would be considered new construction.

[Gennie]

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 :(

[Beowulf9]

Well, it certainly is a beautiful house. I would just love to live in a 1700s home, it’s my favorite century.

Wonderful:)

[Gennie]

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.

[SunkenCiv]

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