“Pirates of the Appalachians”?
Unless Teach made is way up the Potomac, not very likely.
The only thing I’ve ever found in these walls is weird or creepy stuff, like mummified rats and *thousands* of empty snuff cans.
When we took out the center chimney [hence center chimney colonial], *hundreds* of them and an ax head fell out.
Haven’t a clue how somebody got them all in there.
It was an 18th century blacksmith’s house.
I tried metal detecting for a while but you cannot even imagine how tiresome it is to keep digging up old horse/mule shoes, pieces of hand forged chain and millions of hand forged nails.
OTOH, it’s cool to go out after a hard rain and find the handmade ‘mud’ marbles and pottery shards that wash out of the dirt.
I even found a milk glass elephant Cracker Jack prize, once.
Not so much as single coin, though.
My dad’s place is the hot spot for those.
The horse paddock was lousy with silver coins.
Walking Liberties, silver dimes, you name it.
During the silver craze of the 70s, they all got sold for their weight.
What a pity.
Where I live was an epicenter for the wagon trail west, the Revolutionary War, French & Indian war, Civil War and *lots* of settler massacres by the natives.
This house has seen it all, including the wholesale slaughter of a family by Indians and part of it was once burned down.
We found an entire layer of charred logs whilst digging new fence post holes one day.
The ridge beside me was the site of two suicides within the same family.
If I were somebody else, the place would totally creep me out.
:)
Sounds like a cool house!