I love what you stumble on in the woods!
Recently, just west of Midlothian, I came across the raised embankment of the Chesterfield Railroad (1831) a gravity coal railroad that was actually pulled by mules.
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Nice. I found a hand hammered gate mount this week, while reconning 215 acres of abandoned farm land.
Rick
Nice countryside shot Rick, where at?
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It is amazing that you can find evidence of a fence where one cannot be seen, 😉
JonnyB
Have you ever stumbled upon any old coal pits?
http://www.greatcpa.com/coalmine.htm
About 20 years ago I was involved with doing topo work around several of them. They were to be sealed up. Some of them didn't even look like excavations anymore, just mud puddles. Mud puddles that were several hundred feet deep, though.
There was a group of them next to a modern subdivision, can't remember exactly where. The locals had bike trails all through the surrounding woods, some going right past the pits.
JonnyB
Hi D.J. , yes I've come across them once in a while, kinda just like you described only smaller, the coal activety here was very early on
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JonnyB
major kudos on that link, by the way
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Chenango County in Upstate NY, Jonny.
In the not distant past this was a fine dairy. Now, you gotta pay to farm.
Kinda like surveying.
Rick
