All,
Al and I waited all summer for the first weekend day that he had off so we could finally resume stone searching together. Today was the day and we invited Flash and Wolfspider along. With Jessica also attending we met at the Chatsworth Firehouse at 9:30 this morning. ( bobpox .... where were you at 9:30 this morning in your truck?
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We discussed our plans for the day and headed off to an area that we all had never been to before. Our goal was to search out and find multiple stones incised NN and AL, with one of the NN stones having a date of 1826 on it. I had acquired the deeds for three tracks of land not far from downtown Chatsworth, and we were hoping the stones still would be there.
At first the going was somewhat easy and we eventually found our first stone. Incised on the very top was the initials JW. After a few minutes of thinking about it I remembered one piece of information I had mentioned Joseph Willis. So it appears JW is Joseph Willis.
JW on the top of the stone.
From this point on the woods became considerably harder. And at each location we came up empty. Finally, at the very end we found a stone that a surveyor in the distant past spray painted and filled over with dirt.
The day up to this point was a little disappointing, and at this point Flash and Wolfspider had to leave for other endeavors. So Al, Jessica, and myself walked the mile down a trail to our next location where we hoped to find AL stones. I had acquired the deed but I have to say Al came through big time by figuring out where the deed was referring to. Again, we were unsure of their exact location but had a few clues. The first two locations were in an area that had serious disturbance and within a few minutes we gave up. We then headed through a swamp for two stones that were not incised. Jessica came through for us on this one after I walked right by it.
Less than 200 feet away Al found this one.
Then off to find the final two AL stones. Our guesses placed them on the back side of the cedar swamp and arriving there we found it to be really nice and remote. Confidence was high and in no time at all Al was yelling he had found his AL stone. It turned out to be a really nice large stone.
After officially declaring the stones his, we left to find one more. With exhaustion setting in we traveled the 500 feet to a really nice natural open area and Al had his second stone.
We were a little disappointed the AL was not very clear, but our concerns were a bit premature. Using my fingers I worked some magic as I should have done on the fist AL stone. I drove up the property value and Al was happy as was I. Jessica was just downright tired
Guy
Al and I waited all summer for the first weekend day that he had off so we could finally resume stone searching together. Today was the day and we invited Flash and Wolfspider along. With Jessica also attending we met at the Chatsworth Firehouse at 9:30 this morning. ( bobpox .... where were you at 9:30 this morning in your truck?
)We discussed our plans for the day and headed off to an area that we all had never been to before. Our goal was to search out and find multiple stones incised NN and AL, with one of the NN stones having a date of 1826 on it. I had acquired the deeds for three tracks of land not far from downtown Chatsworth, and we were hoping the stones still would be there.
At first the going was somewhat easy and we eventually found our first stone. Incised on the very top was the initials JW. After a few minutes of thinking about it I remembered one piece of information I had mentioned Joseph Willis. So it appears JW is Joseph Willis.
JW on the top of the stone.
From this point on the woods became considerably harder. And at each location we came up empty. Finally, at the very end we found a stone that a surveyor in the distant past spray painted and filled over with dirt.
The day up to this point was a little disappointing, and at this point Flash and Wolfspider had to leave for other endeavors. So Al, Jessica, and myself walked the mile down a trail to our next location where we hoped to find AL stones. I had acquired the deed but I have to say Al came through big time by figuring out where the deed was referring to. Again, we were unsure of their exact location but had a few clues. The first two locations were in an area that had serious disturbance and within a few minutes we gave up. We then headed through a swamp for two stones that were not incised. Jessica came through for us on this one after I walked right by it.
Less than 200 feet away Al found this one.
Then off to find the final two AL stones. Our guesses placed them on the back side of the cedar swamp and arriving there we found it to be really nice and remote. Confidence was high and in no time at all Al was yelling he had found his AL stone. It turned out to be a really nice large stone.
After officially declaring the stones his, we left to find one more. With exhaustion setting in we traveled the 500 feet to a really nice natural open area and Al had his second stone.
We were a little disappointed the AL was not very clear, but our concerns were a bit premature. Using my fingers I worked some magic as I should have done on the fist AL stone. I drove up the property value and Al was happy as was I. Jessica was just downright tired
Guy
