Saturday rolled around at it was time to dig again. I had probed out a nice brick lined privy under my neighbor’s fire pit. No sod to worry about on this dig. The lovely Becky and Baby J came along on this dig. Becky and I started shoveling into center of the pit. We got [...]
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Comments(0) After digging under the watchful gaze of the privy-master himself, Anthony Green (pronounced Ann - tow – nee), I finally decided to set out on my own to try to find untold treasures. I was checking out the houses around my neighborhood on the 1907 Sanborn maps. 1907 is the earliest map available for my [...]
Read More..>> Comments(0) This was one of those houses that I had scouted a year ago and was unable to find any promising areas in the sizable back yard. But with the help of some later Sanborn maps, I was able to locate the 1901 privy so I thought I’d at least test hole it and see if [...]
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