Metal Detecting And Exploring A Freedman's Home

Please join us as we explore and metal detect this old house that was part of a small community that sprang up immediately after the American Civil War by freed families. It was a very interesting exploration and investigation. Although we did not find many items that would date to that period, we do find several old coins and some other interesting artifacts.
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Metal detecting, treasure, history, coins, river treasure, adventure, nature, animals and MOAR! That is what my channel is about. I enjoy caving, SCUBA diving and flying my powered paraglider. I foster sick and injured pets. My channel is family friendly. My videos are meant to be fun, educational and informative.

[@millie-rosemorina3781]

Wow, you've been spoiling us lately with all the uploads! Your videos are really relaxing and informative - super enjoyable for us history nuts. Keep at it!

[@ILikeToLaughAtYou]

I kinda want to privately commission a set of plaques for this place. One for the house, the others for the cemetery. Would ensure this place’s history would never be forgotten. Love these civil war-era and post-war detects, Chigg!

[@melissalove2463]

I Love all these metal detecting channel’s but by far Aquachigger is my favourite hands down!

[@gazpitt8087]

Chigg's Army!!! My favourite time of day is when Chigg posts a video. Chigg o'clock 👌

[@melissalove2463]

Chigg’s” that is what you call A Doo Dad!” 💕😂👍🏻🤣💕

[@hardyakka6200]

A 94 yr olde asked me what I was looking for with my detector once in the 1980.s When I said coins he gave me a pitying look and said your looking for something they never had.

[@Roosterdoodler]

My Dad told me the same, he grew up during the depression!👍

[@alabamadixiediggers4714]

Thanx Chigg for another great AQUACHIGGER ADVENTURE see ya on the next

[@burymedeep-be7dm]

Honeydippers. I feel much better going to work tomorrow

[@AlanG58]

The 2 tone green car was a 56 or so Hudson Hornet, then I saw a 4 door mid 50's AMC there too, cool cars!

[@Blackys-Boy]

At the 18:44 mark the "rivet" you pulled up looks like a brass saw nut. If one end is domed and has a slot in it, that's what you got. That type of saw nut was widely used by saw makers like Disston and Simmonds in the early 1920s all the way up to the 1970s. Around near the 70s they were chromed instead of brass

[@michaelcormier620]

You beat me to it! I think so too; there seem to be two parts to it, and maybe a hint of the threads under the dirt.

[@tiny57521]

love the history of your digs

[@MrBruinman86]

17:25 is definitely a large pocket watch plate. Specifically the lower plate that attaches to the face.

[@buicklesabre8530]

Might have found more coins underneath the seats of those old cars.

[@lynnhiggins7340]

"sorry about the wind noises" as Chiggs about to enter the wc out house😳😂😂

[@gloriajoseph7031]

Thanks for the great videos.

[@WayneTheSeine]

I would live there.

[@ellengallerani9836]

At 21:40 looks like a pull button from a older car for a manual choke.

[@annetteamerine6055]

Thanks for the interesting tidbits of history.💕

[@hikerx9366]

Juat another good look at beautiful countryside and history all wrapped up in one. Thanks for the break from Day 21 on self Quarantine.

[@heatherbazinet274]

My uncle filled up old wells with old antiques and things he called junk at his homestead in Gallingertown in Ingleside Ontario Canada. He sold his farm ( Grandpa Gallingers)in 1976 for $45,000 and got married at his age of 60...he died a year later before exmas. He bought a house in Cornwall Ontario Canada ...still there too. Anyway just filling holes up with junk was a normal

[@JapanTreasureHunters1]

Another great video and finds. Keep up the fantastic hunting!

[@micheleaustin8328]

Lol...Don't ya just love those senior moments?!😁😄😂👍

[@rossdtool]

I started watching ur videos because I love caves. But I watch them all now.

[@sibylcook2755]

Very interesting.

[@didymusdaniels]

Hey Chig, back where I am originally from Moonshiners used to hide their stashes, both coin(in mason jars) and shine in those outhouses

[@marygarner5249]

Hi Chigg Hi Tod you guys are both Awsome 😉

[@AppalachianHistoryDetectives]

Mary Garner thanks!

[@sibylcook2755]

Great video!

[@andrewmoss1187]

Hey Chig have a great next hunt!

[@TreasureByMeasure]

Great permission! Can't wait to see what beeps. ...no spoilers 😉

[@eddominates]

Another day detecting! I look forward to your videos no matter what, if you find wheat pennies or iphones or just get skunked, it's just nice to be along for the ride and learn random facts from old Beau.

[@eagledetection4451]

Love ya Beau. Every tried hooking up with the Hoover Boys to hunt in their stomping grounds with them? That would be fun to watch.

[@anncece7767]

what a nice historical property! too funny when you found your own finds...hahaha!

[@marygarner5249]

Ps love when you talk l learn a lot😉😉😉😉

[@lynneperg6853]

Thanks for the video Chigg.

[@suettheartistickamillion9996]

wow clean shaved chig. looks nice

[@demonrathunter]

New Sub and I am glad to have found you !

[@jgarr9216]

good to see you are using a trowel instead of that shovel all the time. I always worry that you'll damage a good target

[@AdamosDad]

When I was a kid I helped dad dig 2 privy holes before we got indoor plumbing. We had a fancy one on a concrete slab, that we would drag over the new hole and Chigg is right you would throw trash in what was left of the hole and cover it with a mound of dirt from the new one.

[@randlerichardson5826]

It’s great Chigg that you fill the holes back in like that

[@1894Outdoors]

Love the videos Chigg I always learn a lot!

[@danielbrumbaugh9845]

Thanks for the laugh. At least I’m not the only one.

[@raynin]

Aahahahaha....Chigg had a moment.

[@lessismore6062]

The white car is a 1967 Chrysler Newport. My first car was a Newport.

[@SWWisconsinMetalDetecting]

👍Really Enjoyed the video👍

[@scottt8424]

Hey man thanks for the video you really didn't find that much today but just keep digging and you will find seek and you will find

[@aropals672]

It's a fun hobby but most importantly is that history is being saved.

[@dougalexander7204]

Chigg.... question. Why do we not find pipe stems and bowls, like Nikola does mud larking the foreshore of the River Thames? Surely those American whippersnappers smoked as soon as they got off the boat. Hey Todd. Much respect fellows.

[@nickyic]

Good question

[@dickjohnson1158]

Doug Alexander , if they laid on the land like other relics ( spoons ,buttons and coins ) they could most likely be found by digging a pit ,but not metal detecting as they were made of materials other than metals . It would be like finding pottery shards would be my guess . Plus Everyone smoked corn cob pipes here , didn’t they ? Lol

[@legendairy8483]

Am I the only one getting that warm Bob Ross vibe from Chigg..?

[@jeremynagel9427]

Haha you found the wheats twice lol

[@reginaromsey]

Slaves were freed before the Civil War and there was a fair size group of well to do Freeborn Africans in Savanna, Georgia and other cities. My ancestors were Quakers in Maryland and they were always opposed to Slavery. New members were encouraged to free their slaves if they had any. Those who did frequently provided the freed men and women with land and stock.

[@larrywilson5017]

Lotta miles on that Max!

[@lost1nanger]

Couple of years back Bunch of us went camping, and one of the girls asked "why would there be an outhouse out here?" We all looked at each other and laughed. Then she asks "and why the fu*k is it out of order" to which I reply, "shitters full" she asks "why dont they get someone to fix it?" I say "its a literal hole in the ground that you are shitting in pissing in, if its full, they need to move the outhouse and dig another hole" she wanted to leave immediately.

[@lisapino6739]

Hahahahaha My Uncle said when he was a little boy he would chase the "Honey Dipper" around his patch.

[@rogerdempsey7227]

👍 Why was a good trip janma scared there for man and find those 2 pennies

[@getin3949]

Jeez Beau, wouldn't there be seepage from the newer outhouse where you were probing?

[@timetraveler8169]

Great information!!!!

[@deathrattle1000]

Mr. Chigger you have inspired me to purchase a metal detector. You should be a professor of the wild.

[@starraustin9363]

I learned a lot about out houses

[@aquachigger]

Happy to hear that.

[@leannkennedy6568]

Hahaha really loud!! about finding the wheat pennies twice. That's something I would do and laugh hard about it!

[@stevenleeengland-henson2656]

Cool video always enjoying watching from over here in England 😁

[@aropals672]

The spouty thing and the thing after was a broken valve and the other was a motor mount.

[@TxnBBQ75]

The crunchies are the baby bones! Hope not!

[@johnrobertson8156]

When did they use a lot of harmonicas? I find a lot at home sites. Also a lot of pump organ reeds. The organ reeds are fun, they have numbers or maybe the notes. I don't know but they do give great signals

[@jimini1976]

I mark my pet graves with the same flowers.

[@ismewhat1234]

Hello everyone

[@victoriajean586]

Dearest frost, thank you. Lol

[@victoriajean586]

Also the later objects you dug up look like old car radio parts.

[@dianeclarke3112]

In the beginning with the penny's l think that you were following the old clothes line.

[@elisabethcole2571]

I'm curious to know what settings you have your machine on as well as which coil you're using? Please share and thanks for the video!!

[@shonettehathaway373]

Thank for the laugh u are so funny I could not stop laughing about the 2 penny's I do learn a lot from u I have a old old home in wv that's need metal detecting it go's back in the 17th hundreds

[@SmallWonda]

Thanks Beau for being a Mole Champion - I always thought they did lots of good & thought it sad people turned them into hats and coats... Shame you didn't find too much - next time... 👍😎🦘🐾

[@viningscircle]

Be sure to have your Wheaties every day!

[@scottt8424]

And by the way see if you can get in touch with the owner there and save those cars even if you don't want them for yourself Byam off the guy fix him a little bit and then resale that way you could make yourself a little money and you be doing good you be saving those old vehicles

[@AppalachianHistoryDetectives]

Scott T go to my page and email me. Her husband recently passed away. She will give them to you.

[@leannkennedy6568]

I can't seem to locate your email. Would like to suggest that American Pickers be contacted. They may be interested.

[@AppalachianHistoryDetectives]

Leann Kennedy Chigg doesn’t want me to post my email on his videos due to his security settings. It captures it. I will send it to one of your comments in my video. I need to check my “About” tab on my channel and make sure it to there. Believe it or not I’ve been to their place in Iowa....real cool there

[@AppalachianHistoryDetectives]

@@leannkennedy6568 hate to ask, but try again. I just added it. I have another channel it was on, so I added it on this one. Go to "About" and you will see my email address. I cannot put it on the Chigg's because he gets flagged.

[@geraldinehallisy8688]

Living it

[@dragonflydigs658]

Cool old cars! Did you get the Chiggmobile that you liked in the video a few weeks ago! That place sure looked promising! ATB Chigg! HH🎧⛏

[@KMBlaster]

"Privy" not an outhouse LOL. My family always refereed to them as "The Privy", we had a 3 seater and a 2 seater.

[@davidhigginbotham9042]

The outhouse thing is wrong. They didn't have rows of outhouses. They just dug another hole and lifted the old outhouse up and moved it over to the new hole and used the dirt from that new hole to fill the old hole. I remember that from my youth. Four or five uncles, sons and cousins had no trouble helping with it. On top of that, I distinctly remember accidently dropping things down the whole, like little metal cars or even coins. I remember my oldest brother rolling Georgia red clay into marbles and baking them in the sun on top of the corrugated tin roof of the Johnny House. No doubt some archaeologist will someday excavate them and think they were antebellum entertainment for poor unfortunate children. Our little brother Johnny was probably traumatized a little bit whenever we called it by that name. My grandmother named her outhouse "Miss Noblet" after a girlfriend she knew when she lived in the city. When strangers were visiting we called it Twin Pines. The grownups would occasionally ask us kids if we needed to visit Twin Pines.

[@Hunter-ym2kk]

at 18:54, rivetty thing is a hand saw handle screw..

[@GreyStuff]

I love everything you do. I have watched and liked every video .the chigg is as good as river monsters. I really hope you come out of retirement and make more content.

[@RobertoRodriguez-bs5ur]

Wow

[@sallyann1363]

Chigg, Coming from a long line of farmers, I have to disagree with you on the honey hole. Before commercial fertilizer, or before it was affordable, farmers used dried manure from chickens, cattle, horses, or some other animal. In living and working in the third world (pc - developing countries) I found that many farmers use human excrement, or piped from a sewer line. The caused the fruits and vegetables needing to be cleansed with bleach or other chemicals to reduce the risk of getting parasites, which would make you very sick. This still goes on in many countries.

[@jjfjeff]

What kind of strategy do you suggest for relic hunting after finding a silver coin from the 1800's by chance 2 feet down?

[@eddominates]

keep digging

[@johndaut7128]

They were called honey dippers because the waste attracted bees and Hornets.

[@ellengallerani9836]

Neat, always wondered why they were called that.

[@johndaut7128]

@@ellengallerani9836 used a few in my time

[@44towman]

Funny you should mention Dusk to Dawn I just watched the movie again on DVD the other day. lol

[@billynewton8241]

Wow a chig blooper lol

[@dogdrools]

Why do you get a hollow sound when digging with your shovel?

[@kinn1647]

Just been on a live steam with LA Beast he’s just bought a Garret at 300 ?? I think would be awesome if you both did a video would be extremely funny i asked him in the stream pleeeeease 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@thurin84]

well, seeing all the derelict cars i understand all the pull tabs.

[@Nostrathomas85]

i found my 1st gold this year, 3.3 gram 14k gold ring. then 10 feet away i find another ring, it was a 14k electro plated ring. the funny thing about that, i was there looking for a lost ring for my grandmother and neither of those were her ring. it must be the land of lost rings because i know there is atleast a 3rd ring there.

[@jbelme1]

At my home, I dig a lot of pull tabs that have the “blade” wrapped around the pull ring for safety. Like the one at around 5:00 . Why take the time to do that just to toss it in the grass?

[@geyotepilkington2892]

What do you mean? So barefoot people wouldnt slice their foot..

[@TreadwellJay]

Well if they're considerate enough to do that, why not consider not littering in the first place?

[@Thedandersonfanderton]

I miss the solo videos

[@fredruhman9604]

What was the odd hollow sound around 6:24 as you were tamping the hole?

[@davidgiza8022]

There was a W.F. Young who was the inventor of Absorbine Jr. Made in Springfield Massachusetts. Not sure if that's part of a Bottle cap.

[@randlerichardson5826]

Hey Chigg and Todd

[@Erock9201]

Howdy from Maine . Dose rechargeable Battery's work in your metal detector and pin pointer ? Happy Hunting.

[@VickieV1333]

My birth year is 1951, I need that penny!

[@Nunya_Bidnez]

12:26 because the fly's cant get through the giant gaps in the wood. ?????????

[@eddominates]

probably more for rats and squirrels and other creatures

[@normawinton6832]

Someone should put some markers for the children that were buried there!😢better luck next time!

[@babyrazor6887]

Chigg you ain't been home in days, wife lock you out?

[@bmiller22765]

Some of them car parts are worth $$$

[@thurin84]

25:01 looks like the screw on holder from some kind of badge, maybe military.