Ironically, the opiates available back then, without a prescription, were probably much safer than the ones of today that kill over 100,000 Americans every year. Maybe we should go back to the way it was. At least people back then had some idea of how much they were taking.

Yep you dig

I’ll bring my shovel!

Definitely do that. There’s no telling how much great stuff you may find.

Outhouse, no, thank you

I will go with you

I wasn't sure if anyone else knew what this piece was - good job with the ID!

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Yes me too

Me too

Yeah, does he get to keep everything he finds?Especially when on Residential Yards??

Me too

Last night, I found a Sanborn (insurance) map of Hilger from 1916, when they lived there! I then combined that with the only photo I’ve found online of the town’s Main Street, as well as the one photo I have of their building from my own stash of pictures, to figure out where their building was at in town. Then I went to Google maps to see what’s there now, and it looks like there is one building on their lot, but I highly doubt it’s their building. It looks like just one building survives in that unincorporated town from a hundred years ago, and that was the only brick building in town, a bank when it was built, and a bar now.

Very cool!! Let us know about any updates!!

I live just a hour from my 5 times Great Grandfather lived. He was a founding father of the little town outside of Atlanta. He founded the oldest Church, the Local Masonic Lodge, he rented out the family Cemetery to the city for a dollar, for 100 years, and he had Gold Mines. One of which is till listed on the map! We know where he lived, and there is a exhibit in a local Gold Rush Museum. I would love to go out to some of these places and dig. How cool would it be able to dig some around a old Gold mine. Maybe some day I can get out there and look around.

The civil war was a major factor in legitimizing opiate consumption. The standard pain reliever was Laudanum, which was opium dissolved in whiskey. When you consider the number of amputations alone the surgeons distributed a staggering amount of Laudanum, the only pain reliever available to them. After the war it was an over the counter item at drugstores. In the movie “The Shootist” James Stewart playing the doctor gives John Wayne playing the retired outlaw a bottle of Laudanum to relieve the pain as his incurable cancer progresses. This scene was actually highly accurate.

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I think I know the one you mean. Was put off by the finds consisting of just the bottom fragments of bottles with the manufacturers' names..

Thanks for sharing this information with us! That’s something special!

Yes, I was going to say (given the dates for the pit) that it must have been a Battleship Maine souvenir/commemorative as the Maine exploded in 1898 and we responded by going into Cuba as part of the Spanish-American War.

You answered the question that I posted earlier in comments. My late father collected those in the 1950’s and 1960’s. There were all sorts of variations as I recall, different battleships and also animals. He died in 1997 and I sold his entire collection for not much money. I consulted a couple of antique dealers and interest in milk glass and collectible glass had fallen off. I wish that he had collected civil war guns instead. Originals were widely available in junk shops here in PA back then.

@@bobjohnston8316 I left the comment before I noticed there were others. I have a couple on my collection and really like them.

If those seeds are still alive then no telling what potentially harmful things are accompanying. Don't think of mixing them with food source, even accidentally. In western countries we tend to take our health too much for granted imo

@@kencannuck ???? How is a growing plant harmful? I'm sorry that is silly.

Was thinking the same about the seeds. See if they would germinate. I think could be a valuable source of non GMO seed plants of an ancient variety. I know they have found ancient seeds in Egyptian digs that have germinated.

He’s digging in old poo!

......cool ! I used to dig a lot myself !

No trash pick up 😂.

If you ever have doll parts you want to get rid of I would sure take them off your hands!

What about the next day then?

haha yeah i started using that song/artist about a year ago, and then i got a bunch of comments about that, and so i checked out the channel and now i actually watch it regularly. There is a royalty-free music library on youtube that you can put in your videos without getting a DMCA strike on your channel, so i think most channels use that. the song is called "to weather a storm" by Dan Lebowitz. thanks for watching

haha when its dry, it usually just smells like soil. but if the area has a high water table, once you get about a foot below the water line, it generally starts to smell. i guess the stuff cant break down as well when its under water. thanks for watching

​@@BelowthePlainsThanks for replying. I always wanted to dig the old outhouses on old properties up in Idaho.

thank you!!!!!

He's mentioned in other videos a depression in the yard, or a "sink spot" is a good indicator of an outhouse location on old properties.

@@vanmonroe4346 If I am not mistaken, he then additionally confirms the pit's prior existence by running a long rod down into the ground. Soil that has been used as fill for a small pit is evidently soft enough for him to pierce by hand (again, I just saw him do it in one video, so he may have multiple ways).

@@thegoodearth7 yeah, you're right --- he does check for buried objects that way.