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My House Was Built In 1928

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Take some time & go to your local city hall & find out what was on/near your land way back when...

Seems my property was once a part of the local fairground, which means I could possibly have some great treasures buried below me!

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I've found perfectly preserved newspapers and magazines from the early 1900's under the linoleum of old homes. Also have hunted dozens of yards of homes dated from the mid-1800's to early 1960's and have dug hundreds of old coins and relics.
It's very exciting - borrow or even rent a detector and hit your yard -
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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 Posted 07/04/2015  6:10 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add new england collector to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Rent one?
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I bought an old 1830's farm house about ten years ago, the only thing buried in our back yard were bodies.

It seems it was the site of a double murder back in the thirties. The disgruntled farm hand beat the farmer and his wife with an oak log and took over the farm, told everyone in town they had moved back to Chicago. But really he buried them in the field.

Here in Ma. , the Historical Society only gives you a hard time if the house has some historical significance.Other than being known as "The Murder Farm" around the area, it had no architectural or historical significance, so we could restore/remodel it any way we wanted.

I didn't find anything of value remodeling, but whoever remodels the house in another hundred years, is going to find a treasure trove of mint state 20th and 21st century coins and magazines and newspapers.
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Wow that's one heck of a story! I don't know if I'd want to live there after finding bodies >.> I'm actually in New Bedford and the thought of knowing we were once the richest city sparks my interest for sure! Well that plus NB was discovered around the 1600's! I can only imagine what I'd find under this old home...
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I did a little digging in the cellar where there's dirt and I did come across an odd bone. I sent photos to a college that studies bones and they're clueless as to what it could be but they've suggested I try bringing it to the whaling museum here. I doubt it's a whale bone... I've tried searching every type of specimen possible and can't figure out what on earth it is. Needless to say I stopped digging. Kinda freaked me out :/
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My house was built in the VERY early 1900's. Tried to look around my yard. Found like an old, rusty piece of pipe. That was about it. Oh, except for an old, buried garden area. I plan on going out and looking again sometime soon. You never know.
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