143 Year Old Map Found in an Attic Leads to an Unbelievable Jackpot Buried in a Back Yard (Full)

[@judyhobday4760]

I really enjoy watching you dig history. It isn't just watching, it is also learning history as you tell us about the finds, plus having the information on the screen.

[@torij3961]

So much knowledge 😊ty

[@beckireissner132]

Your Chanel helps me relax after a hectic day at work, your knowledgeable narration is the best. Thank you.

[@melindawhite5198]

I love watching these old digs. Great job

[@flamebroiledeggs]

My family was in living in Yankton SD in the 1880's till about 1894 when they moved to Irene SD. Some of the bottles you're digging up could have been handled by my great grandfather, Rasmus Hansen. Great to see history from that time frame.

[@normagrimstad8869]

Lots of Scandinavians in that area I imagine?

[@philipcallicoat3147]

I never thought I would like watching privy digging.,Tom, you're the exception... Good podcasting and excellent editing...👍 PS.... I'm subbed with no regrets... Simple and straightforward.... Always a pleasure... Especially since I have been through most of the North Dakota villages you are doing most of the digging....❤

[@FidgetyGuy]

Ah, yes. There's nothing like digging up an old outhouse without any protection. Why not expose yourself and the world to unknown viruses and bacteria living in a capped bottle for 150 years.

[@budburcar4603]

Tom…addicted to your videos. I have been striking out finding privies lately, so your the next best thing.

[@pennyhughes513]

Don’t remember every viewing an episode on a Thursday night, I was surprised and so happy to see this dig, another time travel into long ago…. I love taking these trips with you and never leaving the farm, your amazing! Great Dig! ! ! !

[@pattimessenger6214]

Thank you for sharing this amazing dig with us! It is a joy to see you getting excited about rare bottles that are so old!

[@beverlyhanlon8376]

Thank you for having your program on. The best . You find the most amazing items. It makes you happy too..Stay safe.

[@monkigrl11]

So love watching you dig holes and find the coolest stuff! Much love from Louisiana❤❤

[@steven2212]

Another excellent adventure back in time. Outstanding finds. Winter coming soon! Be safe.

[@christeenhinton5336]

I've been sending my 90 yr. old friend some pics of your finds. They had a pit but never threw anything in it except lime. She was amazed at what you're finding.

[@d.b.6240]

im amazed ive watched 6 episodes of a guy digging up a outhouses, great work

[@dbicht]

My ancestors moved to the Dakota territories as homesteaders. They ended up in White (SD). He had a farm and also a minister at the Baptist church. It is amazing what you find in these privy pits!

[@DavidJones-smiley]

Congrats on hitting that old of a pit! Amazing finds brother . Great job👍🏻💯

[@VolcanoTimeLapse]

Now you guys have done it! I bought a new probe and I’ve got the fever again after 45 years. Thanks!!

[@BelowthePlains]

hahaha hey! got some people in their late 60s who sometimes come and help us dig. i know im gonna be doing this til the day i die! well good luck out there, and make sure you got someone to go with you to make sure you're okay!!! stay safe! and thanks for watching!!

[@debbejones6086]

I enjoy watching you dig for these relics.

[@sallyethridge1393]

I am in awe of the amazing history you dig up!

[@TangoCharlieAlpha]

Would you ever consider doing a "behind the scenes" video? I would love to see some of the ways that you research your areas, the best way to gain permission for the excavations, and even what you say and discuss with the homeowner in order to be allowed to dig. I love watching your digs, but I'm one that wants to know the best way to do what you're doing, and do it in a way that preserves the finds, is nondestructive to the property, and also follows local laws and regulations. Just a thought, anyway. Thanks!

[@geralyncurtis1533]

I was thinking the same exact thing. I would love to see how you check for the right area to dig, how far down you actually go, what you do with all your finds, and what made you get into this in the first place???

[@fleshbag7754]

100% agree.

[@Ijustcantbelievethis]

I wouldn’t if I were in Tom’s position. Nope. Never. 😂😂😂

[@Waderizer]

This is always my favourite… thanks for the adventures

[@angewalling916]

You are so excited about digging this pit. You have such a connection to this area.

[@scottvaughn1763]

You are a beast! Keep up the great work! Looking forward to other treasures you find!

[@scottreeves1305]

You have alot more knowledge than I do, so I am watching your work.

[@girlnorthof60]

Your amazing knowledge knocks my socks off... but each sherd of pottery/ salt-glazed crocks🥰 china etc makes my heart skip a beat. I *really* enjoy watching your digs & appreciate you both for the difficult work you do. 🙏 Pat- Yukon Canada

[@robertkreiling1746]

Thank You for being so educational , even to us old dump diggers

[@penelopep5356]

Great footage!

[@dannmccord1923]

Tom that soda bottles are so beautiful just love them . all of them are awesome

[@daviddarrall9384]

What a Fab dig! UK

[@tinaj984]

Oh boy!! Everything i love in one space!! Single pontil German swirl marble, coffin flask, and the bottles!!!😍😍😍😍💖💖💖 Thank you!!!😊😊😊

[@brianjohnsen7682]

Great early haul! Enjoyed it!👍🏻

[@PeppieP]

Were pits like this the normal thing back then. So a house, or saloon would dig a pit and put all their trash down in it. Were there any maps of the area back in the 1880s to see if it was a Saloon there? I love this channel. Thanks for this x

[@patsykenny9188]

Love what you do and the way you deliver your videos no shouting

[@soonzach4017]

Always love your videos, thank you for sharing 🙏👍

[@donnyboyo32]

Your videos are always so amazing I wish this could be me digging like this

[@christophermollan1684]

Awesome finds.. the clay marble was a great find..I did not know they made marbles out of clay!!!

[@shirleyjjones7958]

Nice to see the history you explain as you go. Some of them I grew up seeing.

[@glennmurphy1820]

Amazing dig.Great bottles.

[@thecatsmeowfromny]

Let's give a shout out to Tom's biceps. All that digging has really paid off in more ways than one! Great finds also!

[@andrewowens9382]

Hi Tom 👋 👋 👋 and hi jake yes you can tell that it was a saloon out house pit glasses 🥂 and soda bottles Tom what is your oldest bottles you have found I really enjoyed watching your videos always intresting all the best Andrew south wales uk 👍 👌 😀 🇬🇧

[@firecracker8071]

I think you are the luckiest person to be doing what you do. My dad took my brother's and I into the Sierras in an area where gold settlements were and we found old cabins and bottles and old pans etc I had the time of my life. That's what got me started the love of old bottles

[@kgreen7918]

I love your channel! Thank you for sharing. Have had family in Yankton for years!

[@joanneachildoftheking4199]

Your knowledge blows my mind. And your memory for knowing what you have and haven’t seen before. Just amazing!

[@BelowthePlains]

thank you! we really appreciate that. and thanks for watching

[@beatndagutta]

@@BelowthePlains I have a question what do you do with all the dirt after you dig it up? Do you sift through it all to see if there’s any change or buttons or small pieces that wouldn’t generally be found with just a shovel?

[@shepherd4406]

Marathon watch. 🎉. Congratulations! What an interesting era. Enjoyed every minute of it. Thank you. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼

[@figgy7099]

Remember if this was an old 1880's Saloon, there would have been a group of working ladies on the second floor, those perfume bottles and med bottles maybe came from there :)

[@pauljefferies2091]

In the last hole there is such a thing as too much stuff in a hole! Lots of things get broken. When you find lots of whiskeys and lots of perfumes you might have an saloon with some women employees if you know what I mean. Great stuff!

[@ToddTheJoker]

no, what do you mean?😕😕😂😂

[@connieholley1124]

The angel on piece looked like a candlestick holder, but had a much closer look. Lots of pressed glass in different forms & always many prescription, ink, glue & condiment bottles. Great job team!

[@garysimonson9593]

I've never seen a two-prong fork like that - did you cut it down from a four-prong? To think some of these things may well have existed in the Civil War era.... amazing history. Another question: Have you dug these pits further east in the US, area settled earlier, and if so how old have the items been?

[@marykaystreasures]

Sweet all the beautiful glass ware and bottles I loved the glass vase with the cherub on it Thanks for sharing your awesome video ♥️♥️♥️👍⚒️🇺🇸🗝️

[@DCHoosier62]

There was so much dinnerware in there it makes ya think maybe they were preparing to move and dumped all of their dishes in there.

[@diannmcdonald4949]

I just discovered your channel and have been binge watching now for a couple of days. I enjoy reading your info inserts and like the fact that you give a detailed description of the type and date of the bottle. I have done a little bottle digging and found it quite hard. I admire your determination to clear the entire pit. I know for a fact I would not be searching around in the water and toilet muck. I like all vintage bottles but especially like stoneware ink and food jars. The glue bottle with brush would have been an ultimate find for me. Also absolutely love the cone ink bottles you have found. I would love to have one of those in my collection. Thank you for sharing and please keep safe. 😊🇨🇦

[@junglejane2824]

Great finds! I love the way you show/tell the history.. Ty for your hard work!

[@monicawellman3200]

I really love watching historical things this is perfect !

[@JoLoretta727]

When you say drinking glass or jelly jar, you know they sold jelly in jars made for drinking glasses when I was a child. Just found your channel, love it! I live in what was once a one room mountain cabin built 1915. Before that it was one of the town's original 15 tent houses 4 walls and a canvas type roof. I have found a number of things just digging in the flower garden, a somewhat terraced garden. (Old bottles, old tools and locks.). There is a sink hole about50' from the house I have been raking pine needles and small branches over 40years. Going to find something to poke down there like you do. I know where the old outhouse was, right where the best lilac trees you ever saw is. You have made me think I should have dug more when I was younger!!! And wow, this other area I found a ways out from where I keep a small camper... Ever hear of anyone using sand as a floor up in the mountains?

[@richardthomas1743]

HEY! Hello and thumbs UP!!

[@captjeff2321]

Its been said great video thanks for taking us along. I only member seeing you get worn out on couple muddy pits. truly awesome finds. Looking forward to the next good work.

[@barbarahatcher4552]

Enjoy your videos

[@martinco712]

Whitall Tatum co-made telegraph pole insulators they were clear. you can find them near the railway tracts.

[@brianwalker9185]

I found a perfect bottle like the green preserve bottle you found. I was exploring a ghost town...no buildings left. The area was mined before the Spanish Conquistador explorations. I was scanning the area and saw a crude foundation across the wash. Under a Palo Verde tree I saw the lip standing proud in the leaf debris. The area is thick with rattlesnakes so one must go slow. I found a dozen bottles and cardboard boxes that patient medicines came in....very dry area. When I returned the next month a mining company had fenced off access then started an open pit...the difficulty of access and the snakes gave me the impression that few ever tread after mining had ceased.

[@angelabarnes1547]

Watching these videos are addictive!

[@kimberleybrown-j7y]

My grandfather was born in 1899 in Portobello, Scotland (a beach community very near Edinburough. He loved marmalade and his mother did too. Now I think I understand why.

[@cobaltpaul]

Thanks for another great video! Love em!

[@franceshurt3517]

Hi Tom, there are some British mudlarks who would go crazy over some of your finds. I was wondering whether some of those seeds and grains you find in the pits would actually grow and give you the old style fruits, it would be a cool experiment. Happy digging Tom cheers!!

[@Dhutchy2023]

What do you do with the bottles you don’t keep? I’m sure it’s a lot

[@romeoslover817]

We bought a cabin with an outhouse….I wonder what was in there. My grandpa had an incinerator, But I sure there was an outhouse at some time. The house is relatively near the Mission San Jose.

[@susanschley4265]

Awesome dig lots of great things 🎉🎉 😊

[@nickt7658]

Tom you rocked it again

[@Savedbythegraceofjesus929]

Fascinating to watch!!!!

[@nancyhainline2517]

Love digging where there are no rocks!

[@susanhaggart3675]

love watching you. Just to see the history being dug up.

[@travisraybos]

Great videos! Wow, you sure get a lot access to people’s attics and they all have maps in them? I do dig on the videos.

[@dirtclodmetaldetecting]

Awesome finds! Loved watching you pull out that old stuff!

[@geralyndebolt6099]

Wow, so old of items !🎉🎉🎉

[@ryanchampney2637]

Cant help but wonder what the earliest put you've dug is. This stuff is so fascinating

[@ninapross3337]

I think the 2enclosed small sealed glass jars with fluid were fire extinguishers. The fluid is very dangerous. Good show

[@sarahjarrett2155]

Great video! Seems like a saloon and drug store shared a privy!

[@atuuschaaw]

Incredible! ♥

[@adelebosch7642]

Hi from South Africa 🇿🇦 enjoying your videos. What do you do with all your finds.

[@lawrencebernas9229]

Keep on diggin

[@oldfordcarsandtrucks]

Another great dig guys!

[@bruiserbuk]

The tiny little porcelain dolls you find look like Frozen Charlottes.

[@TCW-hw6iw]

Really like the look. Hopefully the roof will fit into the lines with not too much hassel.

[@scottnyc6572]

Looks like a holy grail of a site!!!

[@MG-hz7li]

Great channel, do you sell your wares? Incredible finds!

[@jerryogstad]

I think you are at my grandmom's house. they lived in Yankton SD they had a big farm close to town and then my grandmoms moved in to town Thare name is Ogstads . some of my family still live there . hope you find good stuff

[@lincolngogolin1960]

You should come to Huron South Dakota and do some excavations there are lots of places to dig around here

[@torij3961]

Wow,,i love your videos,,do you sell any of the bottles or broken ceramic glass?

[@williamsedlock3903]

Is there a site or a place where you sell some of your pre-prohibition whiskey bottles?? I would be very interested

[@jennabaal605]

I want one of those Warners bottles!!! They're so pretty!! Great finds 😊 I wonder what you'd find in Mobridge lol.

[@garyhite7343]

I’m 77 years old and I can’t remember so many types of bottles, sizes shapes, and for so many different content’s, seems like everything came in a bottle, how time’s have changed😮now it mostly plastic, can you just imagine what 80 years will be like 🤪😏🧐, what will my “our” Lord let happen

[@Phaota]

Shame you only showed three cleaned bottles in the end. Everything that was found and saved should be cleaned up and displayed. You know we want to see them. I'm still very surprised you do not keep on hand a toothbrush and a small soft bristle brush to wipe away dirt, as well as a shaker sifter box to find the small things I know you miss in the dirt.

[@virginiapendleton.2.]

Back then, people just threw their trash in a hole. I have one on my property. Then they went to burn barrels. Which some people still use! I've been wanting me one. I live out in the country. Country living was that way!!! You are very lucky if you find unbroken pieces 😊

[@dennismadison9613]

You dig some great stuff. Question you show a book page showing the type of bottles you have it looks like it is out of a book. What is the name of that book.

[@LazyIRanch]

I've been wondering about that book too, looks like an excellent resource to have!

[@scottreeves1305]

Love what you do, and I have done the same, and it kept me busy all day long.

[@barbarawright5548]

Looks like nice rich black dirt.

[@DallasARCH79]

Imo this out house was part of an old Drug store and soda shop. Many pharmacies also had soda jerks. With all of the pill vials, soda bottles, pharmacy bottles and apothecary bottles. A soda shop would have had sodas bottles and drinking glasses, jams and jellies etc. I’d be willing to bet this was a drugstore and soda shop!

[@georgetteroenfeldt8144]

So what you go to a house you want to digg and ask to do it? For a price or shair what you find?? How dose that work? And how do you go about finding a place you want to digg?

[@joek511]

The last dig, my observation. All the window glass and pottery mixed in at he same layer. Why so much window glass? Almost like the building took a serious hit, and they threw all the sharp broken stuf in the only thing left standing. The out house.

[@lisaroberts298]

Dude I am soooooo jealous....

[@jeromehawkins8485]

Have you started a museum in Yankton yet?

[@SugarplumFairy01]

Cool Finds