Archive for August, 2008

Just What The Doctor Ordered

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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First Dig

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 [...]

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The Bols In My Quart

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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