150 Year Old Map Led Us to an Absolute Jackpot in an Underground Stone Chamber
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Excavating the privy at a house in Decorah, Iowa
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Have you ever found anything that you got really exited about?
I had a solar utility line trenched 3ft backyard found a clear small tool top clear bottle intact pieces of stoneware,also discarded pieces of my exact bathroom tile in back yard as well.perhaps I'll probe it in a couple dipped spots possibly the outhouse..You get me excited to unearth and bring to light things.I live in Cincinnati alot of old history here.
I’m in costal south Louisiana and that would be a wonderful hunt here
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It's so interesting to imagine these peoples' lives based on the contents of these pits. Thanks for making these videos.
Well said,hisory of pioneers of the land
Probably Logdon
I really enjoy you, Tom, and the way that you appreciate the beauty and art of even the broken pieces that you unearth. I'm really enjoying watching these videos and marvel at the amazing finds that you dig out. Many thanks for your hard work.
The coffee pot, the soup kettle, the snuff jars, the liquor jugs, and the candy dish tops - WOW! What a wonderful find! Enjoy your videos very much! Thanks for all that you do!
All those medicine bottles make me wonder if someone had an addiction problem and was hiding it from their spouse! Cool finds.
Maybe not necessarily hiding an addiction but it sure looks like someone had one. Doctors were freely writing prescriptions for heroin and morphine at the turn of the 20th century.
Cod liver oil was commonly taken every day.
Doctors used to give already isolated house wives mixtures of essential liquid speed balls of heroin/morphine/opium & cocaine then tell them to not leave the house when they were depressed. Narcotics weren’t regulated until around/just after ww1. Now we under that telling a depressed person to go develop and addiction and do the worst possible thing you can for depression, is a bit counter productive. However it was a different time & it only seems weird now because of extensive over regulation by government.
Cough expectorants frequently had narcotics in them. I agree with the potential addiction theory. Also, if from the 1920s, they could have been used to hide liquor.
Most were probably alcohol extracts......Booze was everywhere and in every form.....Now you know why the Prohibition movement had many supporters....
It always fascinates me how a delicate light bulb can go unbroken in a dump and a thick milk bottles gets broken lol
And I have eo ask myself; where ARE all the milk bottles from this household? Or did milk arrive in something else then, like in a bucket straight from the cow?
@@yoopermary The empty milk bottle were returned to the milkman.
@@michiganjfrog5714 Oh sure, that must be right. Thank you.
An Edison light bulb in working condition is worth $95
Light bulbs were much thicker back then.
My garden was the tip for the local castle so i have several feet depth to excavate and found some interesting items , the top layer is thick with blue domestos bottles from when the cart shed was used as a milking shed . Mostly i have 1950`s to 60`s rubbish but below that is the good stuff but its fair to say they didnt throw much out except glass items and worn out shoes . My pit looks just like yours but over a much larger area . Old smoky ink bottles are the best finds along with the poison ones . Its very cathartic on a lazy Sunday to do a bit more scraping . Getting rid of the broken glass is a pain , so far well over 2m3.
Get a tumbler for the broken glass. Then it can be used for aquariums, planters, jewelry, etc
I concur. Red glass especially if it's old enough is quite valuable. Many seek it for bead making and other crafts.
The Sandford ink company...
In 1964, right around the time the ballpoint pen was overtaking the old nib fountain pen as America’ preferred writing stick, Sanford needed a Hail Mary pass to ensure its continued relevance in the industry. Their solution, developed and refined by Lofgren’s VP and lead chemist, Francis Gilbert (along with Green and Keith Beal), was a pen-like, felt-tipped permanent marker that could write cleanly on virtually any surface. The “Sharpie,” as they called it, not only sent the business to unexpected new heights, but also-ironically-helped bring some permanence to a long legacy that otherwise might have faded into obscurity.
Interesting.
For the commenters on the drugstore bottles. It was common to give children cod liver oil to prevent rickets and other vitamin A and D deficiency diseases.
That pit was loaded! Thanks for taking us along.
Hey Tom....
Thanks for another great ride along. An old neck injury won't let me get out much any more so I follow you. My grandma was from Davenport but I've never been there. Bottles were my thing when I was able though.
Just wanted to say hi from N. Alabama and express my appreciation for the care you take digging up history. Be safe my friend.
Just another guy from Winston co.ala,love your adventures
Caffeine AND cough syrup! That would be a good country song! Lol
Its sad to think that so many bottles of the same kind could be indicative of a person with a serious condition. thanks guys for all the contemplative digs.
During prohibition some people went to the doctor for "medicine"/liquor, which was the way to get around it, which is why there were so many of those bottles...
That's what I was thinking too.
The blob top bottle has the most beautiful color!
The colored glass is my favorite like green, and blues.
I ❤your videos, can’t stop watching.
I'm addicted to watching your digs!
@Below the Plains *_We love your channel. Can't get enough of these videos! Thanks for all you do!_*
The bulb was amazing find,Jackpot
Crazy how you found 1880 blob top soda with all those 1923 bottles.
Would enjoy seeing some of the button and marble finds from time to time. Thanks. The views are really adding up. Congrats.
haha we always do show the marbles.. but yeah, thats a good idea about the buttons.. i actually collect both of those two items... i havent come across much marbles lately tho.. it always makes my day when i get a pit with like 5 in it.. thanks for watching tho! and thank you for noticing about the views adding up.. feels good!!
Wampole's preparation tonic and stimulate contain 12% alcohol by volume. My theory is the reason there are so many of these in this pit is because this was during prohibition and this was their way of getting alcohol. I believe this person was an alcoholic. Just my theory. Correct me if I'm wrong
We came here for the absolute jackpot, and all we got was a bunch of early 1900s bottles! I can’t get the word bromo out of my head now! Thanks a lot! 😅
All I can say is WOW!!! That was a Great Dig!!! Thank you for sharing it with us!!! Amazing Finds!!! I enjoyed it very very much!!! God Bless!!!
That clock mechanism looked amazing, but whoever lived there through that time was either ill or addicted to that medicine
That was my assumption. I was assuming that they were using laudanum.
@@That70sChannel I looked up most of the Wampole’s bottles & it seems like they really liked cod liver oil, not laudanum, which is an interesting addiction. One version had cherry flavoring. Cherry cod isn’t a combo I think I’d like.
I also looked up the Creo Terpin, another of this family’s favorites which contained chloroform as the main ingredient. 🤔
@@denalinde a lot of medicine of the time was based around chloroform and opiates, you didn't get better, but you didn't care
@@stevehands4262 Yep! Bayer Heroin was available for a bit. I was kind of surprised there didn’t seem to be opiate products in any of the Wampole’s bottles, which was the majority of what was pulled out.
Great content!!! A episode of your best or favorite finds would be cool
Amazing finds, take care and thank you for sharing 👍👏💖
I know of a plumber in St. Louis whose trucks are painted with the logo “ Your shit is our bread and butter.”. 😆
I have learned so much by watching you dig. Do you have a web site where you sell your finds? I would be interested in buying some if you do. I would like to buy also small scraps of patterned dinner ware especially flat pieces.
You ever think about using a metal detector in the holes you dig to see if any coins or rings fell into the outhouse pits
Wouldn't it smell just a little like sh*t down in that hole?
There's actually all kinds of things. It's better to sift if you have time.
So have you found any rings or jewelry in the pits
@@ryansell metal and non metal things while sifting like buttons, coins, marbles, toys etc. No jewelry.
I said the same thing on another video. I do metal detecting and would LOVE to follow these guys around.
Great soda!
Previously only XXX Wampole medical bottles were known to exist. Now there are 48 more.
Previously only XX Bromo caffine bottles were known to exists. Now there are 15 more.
So much for rarity values.
i dont know how i stumbled upon this channel but i have now watched several hours of somebody digging through old poop for old bottles and it raises some questions. mainly, why did people throw so many bottles into the poop pit? seems that would just fill it up even quicker, meaning having to dig another pit sooner. what is really interesting, and cool but sad is how many of these bottles seem to be manufactured in or labeled specifically for the area. its nice to see things that were made here and not "made in china" on 95% of what is found. now i want to go poke around the family farm where the house was built in the 1860's or so and is still sort of there. in a pile of wood & rubbish. but there is surely a pit to dig up somewhere. plus a cistern and a well or 2 i believe.
yeah.. there is probably a few outhouse pits out there.. really good age too.. probably find something thats valuable too.. and yeah that local embossing is the best stuff you can find. collectors go crazy for that.. and ya know, i think they just threw them down because it was just easy.. on farms they would sometimes have junk piles somewhere in the woods or at the edge of the property, but even then, alot of the time they would still throw stuff down. i suppose they didnt want it to break and get cut, or have a kid step on it, and then hurt themselves.. a small cut could be a death sentence back then., and im pretty sure they burned everything they could, but the glass, pottery, and metal always seemed to go down the pit.. there were town dumps, but it was probably just alot easier to chuck it, and be done with it, especially in the winter.. we are thinking of making a "how we find what we find" type video sometime in the next few months, so maybe if we do you can do figure out how we find these things.. its just really hard to explain, and they could honestly be anywhere on a farm, but there are a few ways to find them. but yeah, 1860s farm.. theres probably stuff buried there until at least the 20s, maybe even into the 50s.. but that pre 1910 stuff is gonna be the best. 1860 is great, great age, i hope you get out there and find it. not gonna lie, its a rush when you find something good. even when you find anything its a rush, but i promise you, if you find an embossed local drugstore bottle, youre gonna be hooked. good luck! and thanks for watching, glad you found us!
It would be awesome to know what things you dig are worth would add a lot of excitement as a viewer love your channel either way 👍
I saw a collection of bottles went for $200,000 plus.
@@IamRemoWilliams omg 😱 wow ty for that info so some can be worth a small fortune
That Pit just kept on giving. What a haul. 💙
Great finds Tom ! Love to see what you dig up everytime !! Ty
Unreal how many Henry Wampoles came out of there. I have that problem with round bottle mineral bottles currently. Great stuff, love your videos.
H.K. Wampole Cod Liver Oil was 12% alcohol (24 proof). Prohibition was from 1920 to 1923. There's a good chance the Wampole bottles and the caffeine were for just folks looking for a little high.
Hello 👋 from New York you found some amazing finds my favorite definitely was the ink bottles and the little perfume bottle Thank you for bringing me along with you I can't wait to see if you find next 😊
Wampole met a sad end. From his Obituary:
"The body of H. K. Wampole, head of the firm of Henry K. Wampole & Co., of Philadelphia, was found floating in the North River off Weehawken on Friday, September 14. On the previous Saturday, two physicians started with Mr. Wampole for a sanitarium in the Adirondacks of New York State. He had been suffering from a physical breakdown, and it was feared that if he did not get a complete rest his mind would give way. While they were at a Courtlandt street hotel in New York City, Mr. Wampole eluded them and was not seen again until his body was found nearly a week later. His son said that for the past five years it had been evident that his father had been failing mentally. It was thought it was merely a case of overwork, but a long rest seemed to do him no good so that finally it was deemed best to send him to a sanitarium.
They didn't know about Alzheimer's and related diseases back then. No amount of rest would have helped.
Well made vid I always pause to get a better look at the old ads that help us connect with the items you dig. Thanks for the entertainment!
Great finds there! You hit the jackpot on Bromo bottles! I'd just like one Bromo Caffeine!
i was at a nature sanctuary this morning and found a broken piece of glass in the woods. it just so happens that it is part of a bottle that was shown at 38:37. it’s near were they dug out a well
Looked like whoever lived there had serious medical problems. Wow! Great dig Tom.
The sewing machine bottle is a gem of a find, the label oh wow. What do you do with the finds?
@Tom A Thank you.
Whoa! With all the medicine bottles and cosmetic pots, leads me to believe there was a brothel nearby.
Brothels are on Sanborn maps. In my town they were listed as suspiciously common "women's hotels." In an era when there weren't many women from back home, it is odd to see a hotel for them on every block. :) Went well with the Chinese laundries. When statehood ruined the men's fun, both the ladies and the laundries were given notice to depart, after servicing the legislature one last time so they had traveling money. Such thoughtful politicians. :)
This channel gets me motivated to find my own bottles.
I wonder how many cool little finds you miss out on by not screening the dirt? Seems like there would be some buttons, coins, etc.
I went with Tim on a dig once and a guy tried metal detecting the pile of dirt and it buzzed every inch of soil due to all the old nails and other metal in the backfill layer
I love that you are digging up the past! 😍151 years passed and people are still hooked on alcohol, (prescription) drugs and toiletries. 😏
Creo Terpin had 25% alcohol and Chloroform -whoa-I love these old patent drug containers-I used to work at a drug wholesaler and many of these products were available at least until the 1980s-such a cool dig! Thanks for the upload ☺
One could make a drinking game with the word Bromo while watching this. Results would be... staggering. :)
Jokes aside - thanks for showing Your world (and these secrets of the past) to us!
Awesome dig & finds ! Some cool relics besides the bottles. Great job ! Best regards !
With all the medicine bottles found, I had to find out more about them. The 16 oz tonic bottles sold for about $1 by druggists pretty much everywhere in the 1920's-30's. That translates to about $17-18 in 2023. $1 per bottle back then was definitely not cheap! For them to have bought so many means they had some wealth in the family. I would love to know more about the families that lived there during that time!
OMG This is the BEST find yet! AMAZING
I come from a very dense clay area and I am so envious of that soil.
Well, damn.....I was just digging today, my nails are still dirty. I've got half pint milk bottle, round, and a big honey bear bottle stuck under some tree roots i can't seem to budge......until tomorrow hehehe. Love your channel!
Thank you for always posting great interesting content, amazes me how you find the right places to dig.
James. Australia
wow thanks! well we use probe rods.. we are probably gonna show a play-by-play on how we find them in the future, but we usually dont show it because its pretty boring. and theres usually some clues on the maps, but the probe rods are how we find the exact spot, and then the dimensions.. and sometimes we dig up something that wasnt a pit at all.. so its hit and miss, but obviously we dont show all the times we fail.. which is probably about 40% of the time. but thank you tho, that was really nice. and thanks for watching
@Below the Plains thank you for your interesting comments, which means a lot .
I look forward to viewing your other uploads.
Take care.
James, Australia 🇦🇺.
I suspect the medical condition was the migraine headaches. The Bromo Caffeine started appearing after the Wampole bottles stopped appearing. Maybe they used the tonic like we take vitamins. I suffered with migraines my whole life and began to use codeine to medicate, before Imitrex came to market. Love your channel!
30 wampole’s 😜 crazy, pony blob way cool. Good group of inks.
I thoroughly enjoy your channel. I'm amazed of your knowledge but as you stated you have been recovering treasures for a few years. Some other channels the person digging will almost seem as if they are bragging but you give a down to earth approach that l like more. I have recovered Chinese ware & bottles from the North Queensland goldfields here in Australia but the area l live in does not have the history as you do. Please keep up the great work of you & your silent partner. Cheers, Pete (down under).
wow, lot of bottles in that one. a few pretty nice finds! keep up the hard work
Amazing how many of the same bottle types , at least they definitely knew what they liked ! Thanks for sharing
Ok, I'll ask it out load, does it seem to anyone else that around WWI the house could have been occupied by "soiled doves"? Hairbrush, perfume bottles, cold cream, and a nearly four dozen medicines and over a dozen caffeine bottle seem to point in that direction. Like you Tom I was surprised there wasn't more whiskeys.
Unless they were using the bottles during prohibition.
That Wampole cod liver oil was 12% alcohol and probably all the liquor content people needed. Good thing the Treasury men never came around to ask the Decorah druggist why he was suddenly selling 13.458 times more cod liver oil than he was in 1919.
So glad I discovered your channel! Really fascinating. I’m going to subscribe!
That was a Pennsylvania railroad keystone on that little inkwell
Sunburst on the bottom was for baccarat crystal!!!
Hi Tom and Jake! I love these videos. You have the patience of Job to do all that hard work. I haven't watched all your videos yet, but I have some burning questions! What is the most interesting thing you have found in your opinion? What is the oldest thing you have found? Do you ever run into human bones anywhere? (I watch too many murder mysteries...haha!) What do you do with your bottle collections? Do you trade them? Sell them?
Lastly...has anyone commissioned you to do a dig? I live in Texas, and it's too hot and dangerous to do what you do in the summer. Late fall and winter is the best time to explore anything. There are several smaller German towns not too far that were founded around 1845 in Texas...and the state has survey maps and of course, there are Sanborn maps, etc for locations of outbuildings in the later 1800s. Have you ever traveled this far South? I have an ancestor that came from the Isle of Man to San Antonio, and he and another young man started a business digging wells as young entrepreneurs. He ended up moving to the country not far from there and farmed 200 acres and was a postmaster and had a small general store and saloon for pony riders. His property is still fairly unimproved. No maps other than the plat of his land. I do know one of the recent owners that know the property well. Lots of different types of privvys or dumps to explore everywhere.
I don't know what is done in other places, but an old tradition in Texas is very interesting. When a person owns the property where a home burned down, or a building had been neglected for years, some landowners would dig huge pits and bury the remains of the house. I have no idea why this got started unless it was to prevent uncontrolled fires in the plains.
The North side of San Antonio has a lot of limestone rocks, so any soft dirt would almost always be a well or privvy. South is more sandy soil in layers. Lots of very old history here before Texas was even a state in 1845. We'd love to have you!
I looked up Bromo Caffeine for those interested. The bottle did have a brown label and a metal lid. The National Museum of American History included this description:
Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer, or as found in contemporary medical literature, are:
For brain workers. This delightful effervescent salt is an almost certain remedy for the relief of the nervous headache resulting from overtaxed mental energy or excitement, acute attacks of indigestion, the depression following alcoholic excesses, the supra-sensitiveness of chloral, morphia, and opium habitues, and with ladies the headache and backache of neurasthenia, hysteria, dysmenorrhoea and kindred disorders. A great boon and prompt source of relief in almost all cases of headache and distress attending mental fatigue and physical exhaustion, it commends itself especially to physicians, teachers, clergyman, lawyers, merchants and others following professions or pursuits requiring nerve energy subjecting to mental strain.
I wonder if those drug store bottles were some kind of vitamin like elixir ?? So many of them. You woukd always here of kids getting a dose of Cod Liver Oil . Wondering if it could be something along those lines. The fact u find those light bulbs intact amazes me. Great segment Tom !!
I saw some guy digging with a backhoe and breaking everything! And he didn't care! It's nice to see how careful you are!
I was just curious if you glue some of the broken stuff back together if you have all the pieces? Also do you keep some stuff or sell them, I know a few outhouse diggers do both.i hope you enjoy doing this.
I can’t help but ponder the difference between the glass bottle and its necessity during early industrial revolution and the ubiquitous plastic of today. They won’t need to search for it because it will be in the air, the soil, the water.
I just really dig this channel..it's so relaxing and very interesting. A hobby becomes a career 😊
I don't know what to say. What an awesome adventure. Thank you for sharing it. From Ohio
thanks. Many items are my type of family remembrance.
I never complain about finding Colbalt blue bottles !!🥸
Blue ink is beautiful
That pit just kept on giving😁 way to go.
Ink pots and caffeine tablets. I sense the home of a writer with many deadlines. A local reporter? Anyway, thanks for the shares. There is something satisfying about digging in the dirt and uncovering the past.
Never seen so many bottles in one small spot!❤ UK
Oodles of questions…how do you clean your finds? They look amazing in the end!
Lol I can't imagine what someone would think of me if they dug up all my trash! 😂
you's must have-a-good-eye for manual steel-rod probing when surveying the land prior...?
Just discovered your channel this week. It’s really enjoyable. I’m assuming you slow down hunting during the frozen winter months. IMHO that would be a good time to showcase collectibles, prices, history, etc. Also, some bottles appear to have caps in place with product inside. Commentaries about this aspect would be appreciated. I enjoy the channel regardless and will continue watching!
Remember druggist used patent medicine methods to distribute bath tub gin and liquor 😉😉....
I love the Carter's ink bottle
Why not me. I’ve found a dozen old bottles. Can’t imagine a score like that. So cool. 😃😃😁
That pit just kept on giving😁
You two are so cool. Love your channel. 😅😅😅
oh wow, thank you so much!! we really appreciate that alot. thanks for watching and leaving us a comment
Oh boy more bottles! 😂
Niiiiice! What an amazing find. Thanks for sharing
36:48, that's some brutal archeology right there! hahah nice video!
I went to college in Decroah! It's a really old Norwegian town and I'm sure the old yards are LOADED with stuff. Great video! Thanks for sharing!
Always your videos very interesting, thank you for sharing.
It cracks me up how dry and ill at ease your intros are but, when you are getting your hands dirty you come alive.
*MY GOODNESS! Those people loved their caffeine!! I bet they were known as the jittery family!*
I feel it's only right to watch these while sitting on the toilet! Lol can't believe the light bulbs made it.
Great bottles brother
After watching you i was inspired to dig up my yard sadly no pottery or glass was found. I did find a well known soda bottle plastic cira 1990, and a tamagotchi made me ponder whether archaeologist of the future will be disappointed to find just plastic rubbish our legacy very disappointing 😢
Great finds!! Loved the bucket. Those early bottles are fantastic.
I would love to know what you do with all those bottles…would also love to see them cleaned up! Great video!
These videos are great! He could build a cool bottle house out of them! 🌵
He gives some to the property owner if they want some, gives some to the local historical society and sells some.