GW ping, Rev War ping, kinda
‘the group also discovered a set of four brass buttons celebrating the inauguration of George Washington, the find of a lifetime.
“In the metal detecting world, guys find buttons daily, but you don’t see George Washington buttons.” Pressl said.
The buttons are worth tens of thousands of dollars but money is not what motivated Pressl. He was interested in the history. ‘
Trenton school kids say “George Washington who?”
I used to live near Mendham, love the town, did my student teaching at the High School, what a great sschool for teachers, everything you could want to use in a classroom is provided.
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‘”I wanted to prove there was a Revolutionary outpost on this property,” said Pressl, who had heard that soldiers had stayed there in the winter of 1789.’
Uh...what has 1789 to do with “soldiers” and “Revolutionary outpost”?
The war ended in 1783.