https://northeastmetaldetectingforum.com/community/lets-go-diggin/ North East Metal Detecting Discussion Board en-US Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:31:55 +0000 wpForo 60 https://northeastmetaldetectingforum.com/community/lets-go-diggin/iffy-signals-by-doc-watson/ Wed, 19 Oct 2016 07:38:48 +0000 Let's Go Diggin'!!! Sea Hunter https://northeastmetaldetectingforum.com/community/lets-go-diggin/iffy-signals-by-doc-watson/ https://northeastmetaldetectingforum.com/community/lets-go-diggin/the-perils-of-detecting-kansas/ Sun, 16 Oct 2016 09:54:42 +0000 Let's Go Diggin'!!! Sea Hunter https://northeastmetaldetectingforum.com/community/lets-go-diggin/the-perils-of-detecting-kansas/ https://northeastmetaldetectingforum.com/community/lets-go-diggin/benefits-of/ Sat, 16 Jan 2016 10:06:27 +0000 Let's Go Diggin'!!! 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Sea Hunter https://northeastmetaldetectingforum.com/community/lets-go-diggin/cellar-dweller-by-john/ https://northeastmetaldetectingforum.com/community/lets-go-diggin/gold-panning-friday/ Tue, 30 Jun 2015 11:39:22 +0000 Let's Go Diggin'!!! Anonymous https://northeastmetaldetectingforum.com/community/lets-go-diggin/gold-panning-friday/ https://northeastmetaldetectingforum.com/community/lets-go-diggin/dublin-nh-rich-in-history-and-home-of-goldfinger/ Sat, 20 Jun 2015 09:26:31 +0000 One can barely imagine the hardships undergone by the early settlers in wresting a livelihood from the thin, rock-strewn soil found within the township's boundaries. Nevertheless, they cleared the land, and from it derived all their necessities: not only food (bean porridge being the staple fare) but flax and wool for clothing. Despite these difficulties, Dublin prospered. By 1775, the Town had settled a minister, started work on a meetinghouse, and made provision for schools. There were 305 people in town that year. By 1800 there were over a thousand. The Town was chartered in 1771 under the name of Dublin, but there is no record of why that name was chosen. There is speculation that one of the first settlers, Richard Strongman, was a native of Dublin, Ireland, but nobody knows for sure. Farms vs. Factories In spite of Dublin's steep hills, the only water power sufficient for manufacturing was on the very northern boundary, at the outlet to Harrisville Pond, where the first woolen mill was built in 1799. While Harrisville developed into a flourishing textile village, the rest of Dublin had to stick to farming. This led to divergent interests in the two sections, and ultimately to division of the Town. When railroads were being constructed in the 1860's, the mill owners in Harrisville wanted railroad service to their village in order to move their raw materials and products. The farmers in the rest of Dublin, where the hills were in any case too steep for tracks, had no such interest, and defeated a proposal at the Town Meeting of 1869 to raise the subsidy required to attract the Manchester & Keene Railroad. This led to a petition by Harrisville to the state legislature to be set off as a separate town, comprising the northern third of Dublin and part of Nelson. This petition was granted, and the towns were separated in 1870. The Decline of Agriculture The year 1820 was a watershed in Dublin history. The Town's population peaked in that year at 1260, a figure which would not be reached again until the 1970's. Farmers were leaving the rocky hillsides, some for the factories in Harrisville, Peterborough and the Merrimack Valley, some for less stony soil on the western frontier, leaving as their monument the many abandoned cellar holes found in our woods. The same year saw the settlement of Levi Leonard as the Town's third minister. He presided for thirty-four years over what one historian has called "Dublin's Golden Age", during which the Town became renowned for its high standard of education, culture and behavior. At the same time, better roads and the opening of stores meant that many of life's necessities could be bought more easily than raised, ending the need for subsistence farming. Farmers turned to grazing, principally of sheep, as a less strenuous means of livelihood. During the next fifty years, the gradual decline in the farming population was offset to some extent by the simultaneous growth of the woolen mills in Harrisville. The separation of Harrisville reduced Dublin's area by third, but its population by more than half, leaving only 455 inhabitants at the time of the 1880 census. Dublin as a Summer Colony An agricultural slump after the Civil War made sheep farming unprofitable, but farm families, here and elsewhere, found a new cash crop in summer boarders. The Appleton House hotel, later the Leffingwell, was opened in 1871. The first summer cottage was built in 1872, and over fifty others followed in the next twenty years. For the best part of a century, Dublin was first and foremost a summer resort. Much of the land painstakingly cleared for farming went back to trees. Care-taking for summer estates furnished the principal source of employment for the remaining permanent residents, whose number had dropped to 408 by 1920. Like other American summer resorts, Dublin began as an artists' and writers' colony. Unlike the others, however, Dublin retained the loyalty of its art colony, among whom were the painters Abbott H. Thayer and his pupils, Richard Meryman and Alexander James, as well as George deForest Brush and Joseph Lindon Smith. Amy Lowell, the cigar-smoking imagist poet, had a house on Beech Hill. Mark Twain spent two summers here in rented houses. In the leisurely days before World War I, the British Embassy moved for several summers to what is now the Pool's house on Snow Hill Road. Dublin Today In the last twenty years, Dublin has entered a new phase. Many of the former "summer people" have winterized their houses and retired here as permanent residents. New houses on Boulder Drive, Greenwood Road and elsewhere, as well as some converted summer houses, provide homes for a new group of professional and business people, many of whom work in Peterborough and Keene. Another category is that of self-employed persons working out of their homes. Some of these are artists and craftsmen. Others do their work by fax and modem, and their number will probably grow along with the information superhighway. Thank you to John W. Harris and Nancy E. Campbell for this brief overview of the Town's history.  ]]> Let's Go Diggin'!!! Sea Hunter https://northeastmetaldetectingforum.com/community/lets-go-diggin/dublin-nh-rich-in-history-and-home-of-goldfinger/ https://northeastmetaldetectingforum.com/community/lets-go-diggin/history-of-historic-rich-wendell-ma/ Sat, 20 Jun 2015 09:08:12 +0000 History of Wendell, MA Overview The Town of Wendell started in the 1850s when tobacco farmers in Granville County were hit with what came to be known as the Granville County Wilt. The tobacco crop failed and farmers from Granville County moved into eastern Wake County looking for fertile land to plant their crops Ambrose Rhodes donated land for a school to be built. The school would be called the Rhodes School. It was located at the same site as Wendell's present magnet school on Wendell Boulevard. The school continued to grow and in 1891, the name of the school was changed to Wendell Academy. As this area grew, a small village was forming. The people in this area needed a name for their little town. They asked their schoolteacher, M.A. Griffin, to come up with a name for this area. Mr. Griffin loved the poet Oliver Wendell Holmes. He suggested that they call their town Wendell after the poet. However, the pronunciation of the town is different from the way one normally pronounces Oliver Wendell Holmes. After the train came to town, the porters on the train would call out "WENDELL." They pronounced each syllable with emphasis. The townspeople picked up on this pronunciation, and it continues to this day. This area obtained a post office in 1891 and this first post office has been restored by the Wendell Historical Society, and it presently sits at the corner of Oakwood and 4th Streets. The oldest institution in this part of the county was Hephzibah Baptist Church, founded in 1809. The first newspaper for this area did not appear until 1911. The paper was the Wendell Clarion, and was succeeded by the Gold Leaf Farmer. Wendell was incorporated in 1903. After the town was incorporated, more people and businesses moved into Wendell. Main Street was laid out by a man who drove a horse with a very wide plow up and down the area. That is why the street is so wide today.  In 1911 the county built a new brick school in Wendell. The first graduating class was in 1915. Excerpt by Ray Hinnant from the Wendell Historical Society website Wendell on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places is the nation's list of cultural resources worthy of preservation. The National Register is a program of the National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior. Within the North Carolina the State Historic Preservation Office under the Department of Cultural Resources oversees the designation of historical resources deemed to have significance at the State and/or regional level. Within the Town of Wendell there are five listings on the National Register of Historic Places: Facility Listing DateWendell Boulevard Historic District 7/3/2009 The Dr. Thomas H. Avera House 1/29/2008 Harmony Plantation 9/11/2003 Riley Hill School 4/25/2001 Sunnyside 10/15/2001 The Hood-Anderson Farm 4/29/1999 The Wendell Commercial Historic District 7/31/1998 History of Leadership For a comprehensive list of the Town of Wendell's past Mayors, Town Commissioners, Town Managers, and Police Chiefs, click the links below. Full list of Mayors Full list of Town Commissioners Full list of Town Managers Full list of Police Chiefs Links National Register of Historic Places NC State Historic Preservation Office NC Department of Cultural Resources Wendell Historic Trail Wendell Historical Society]]> Let's Go Diggin'!!! Sea Hunter https://northeastmetaldetectingforum.com/community/lets-go-diggin/history-of-historic-rich-wendell-ma/