Cool Or Creepy Things Found In The Bush Or On Your Property

[Hay Dude]

Amazing how much mining machinery just left to rot. Encountered a lot of it on backpacking trips in the Appalachians. I guess they brought it up in pieces and assembled. Mining operations probably went bust so quickly they didnt have time or money to disassemble and haul back.
We encountered one mine where all the machinery was abandoned, but there were railroad tracks right up to the mine where it could have been loaded and back hauled.

 

[Rockbadchild]

Amazing how much mining machinery just left to rot. Encountered a lot of it on backpacking trips in the Appalachians. I guess they brought it up in pieces and assembled. Mining operations probably went bust so quickly they didnt have time or money to disassemble and haul back.
We encountered one mine where all the machinery was abandoned, but there were railroad tracks right up to the mine where it could have been loaded and back hauled.

indeed ...well back then they didn't have the environmental laws we have today and when it cost more to get a piece of equipment out then what it is worth it stay there and or you also have prices crash causing lots of abandoned time capsule... today we have mining closing & decommissioning laws so at the start of an operation they need to have the money for decommissioning up front freeze in a account and they get it once the decommissioning is completed so these things doesn't happen as much ... On the other hand there is mining claims and that's a other story they are not regulated as much.

 

[Oaktree]

While we were remodeling our old house that was built in 1930, we tore out the old paperboard used for the walls. Our kids placed some treasures and comments in a metal tin before the drywall went up. In the new house, the grand kids did the same thing. We will always wonder who finds them and when. Jon

I don't think it was an intentional time capsule, but a few years ago when I was remodeling my kitchen I found a bunch of old mail behind the counter cabinets. I'm guessing it fell behind it. A bunch of old letters, and some flyers for a long-gone movie theatre in a neighboring town. All dated to the early 1950s.
The letters were kind of hard to read...they were written in a really "flowery" cursive script, I guess that was the way writing was taught in those days.
Wife saved them somewhere...gotta find a way to re-seal them behind something for future generations to find. I did sign and date the back of the cabinets when I re-installed them.

Previous house, when tearing out a wall found a piece of paper with a name and a date (1890s). Maybe signature of the builder? Put it back in the wall when I re-did it.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

We called them crawdads. We would seine for them in still water beside a creek.
We never ate them, we used them for bait to catch catfish on trout lines or diddy poles.

Same here. I have heard them called Mudbugs before too.

 

[MossRoad]

It was crawdads or crayfish when I was a kid. First time I heard them called crawfish was Justin Wilson, the Cajun cook.

 

[m7040]

We have a cemetery on our farm with several graves dating back to 1840's. Does not appear to be related to the owners at the time. May have been servants or slaves not sure. Our kids when growing up were always spooked about going into that area and claimed that they could hear them at night.

 

[tshep]

I found this in the woods beside the rental house. (1979)
Very heavy. Found some references to M-R as a hardware store in the 40s?
I suspect it may be lead, stock. but marked as though a business card? Maybe 7 inches long.
Text is:

McKeel-Richardson
Carolina
Washington, N. C.

Any thoughts?

 

[MossRoad]

How big is it?

 

[MossRoad]

The hardware store (if it's any relation or not) is on the national list of historic places.

https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/BF0069.pdf

Maybe it's a doorstop or paper weight. Some sort of promotional item?

 

[Rockbadchild]

a kind of signature stamp ??