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.

[@melissalove2463]

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

[@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!👍

[@melissalove2463]

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

[@alabamadixiediggers4714]

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

[@burymedeep-be7dm]

Honeydippers. I feel much better going to work tomorrow

[@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!

[@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

[@buicklesabre8530]

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

[@ellengallerani9836]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@lynnhiggins7340]

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

[@gloriajoseph7031]

Thanks for the great videos.

[@rossdtool]

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

[@annetteamerine6055]

Thanks for the interesting tidbits of history.💕

[@sibylcook2755]

Very interesting.

[@lessismore6062]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@micheleaustin8328]

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

[@andrewmoss1187]

Hey Chig have a great next hunt!

[@sibylcook2755]

Great video!

[@randlerichardson5826]

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

[@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

[@aropals672]

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

[@TreasureByMeasure]

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

[@demonrathunter]

New Sub and I am glad to have found you !

[@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

[@dianeclarke3112]

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

[@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

[@anncece7767]

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

[@legendairy8483]

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

[@aropals672]

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

[@deathrattle1000]

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

[@TxnBBQ75]

The crunchies are the baby bones! Hope not!

[@rogerdempsey7227]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@danielbrumbaugh9845]

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

[@1894Outdoors]

Love the videos Chigg I always learn a lot!

[@jeremynagel9427]

Haha you found the wheats twice lol

[@SWWisconsinMetalDetecting]

👍Really Enjoyed the video👍

[@viningscircle]

Be sure to have your Wheaties every day!

[@timetraveler8169]

Great information!!!!

[@getin3949]

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

[@victoriajean586]

Dearest frost, thank you. Lol

[@victoriajean586]

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

[@RobertoRodriguez-bs5ur]

Wow

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@babyrazor6887]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@44towman]

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

[@thurin84]

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

[@normawinton6832]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@dogdrools]

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

[@VickieV1333]

My birth year is 1951, I need that penny!

[@thurin84]

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

[@n1ksf]

66 Dodge Polara or Monaco, Chrysler 300 or Newport to the right maybe?

[@leebrewer1190]

At 25:28 you can see a Samsquantch head peeking up over the rise in the background - look just above his left shoulder it then moves to the right behind that rise.

[@aldrichsmith]

Lee Brewer At 24:28 actually, but yeah, I saw it too. Probably was just the other dude though

[@AppalachianHistoryDetectives]

Sorry that’s me...haha

[@leannkennedy6568]

@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives Hahaha

[@bmiller22765]

Some of them car parts are worth $$$

[@BassheadGTP]

Three out houses, thatll attract digger dan and privey paul.

[@randlerichardson5826]

Hey Chigg and Todd

[@billynewton8241]

Wow a chig blooper lol

[@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

[@randlerichardson5826]

Wow buried their babies there

[@IratePuffin]

It’s weird now to go back and watch these video with Todd. It’s a shame y’all fell out like you did.

[@aquachigger]

Yep, I agree. It was so weird and unexpected.

[@fredruhman9604]

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

[@Erock9201]

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

[@philllppeckham4378]

It's called milk glass

[@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?

[@keithjohnson6352]

"" OLD COPENHAGEN CAN LID.!!! ""

[@roostin]

Keith Johnson that’s what I was thinking...and the cone shaped thing looks like it could be a choke or radio knob out of a 50/60s era car and the big square thing looks like a capacitor

[@keithjohnson6352]

@@roostin"" THANK YOU FOR YOUR RESPONSE.!!!!!!!! ""

[@hamshackleton]

Don't overlook the fact that slaves freed or not - were the poorest of the poor, and had almost nothing to lose anyway.

[@jasonleee9401]

Do you ever find gold or anything really valuable?

[@dalesworld1308]

Do you buy those probes or make them out of automobile hood props?

[@snowballil3133]

😀😀

[@Kaleb61]

I’m early

[@IFIXCASTLES]

Take a penny, leave a penny...hahhahha

[@7curiogeo]

Going to dive a out house?

[@Mudring76]

If I had a nickel for every time I gave someone my two cents...😂

[@jeffgraham48]

Always learn from your videos. Chigg or a subscriber... i would like to buy a metal detector what is a good starter?

[@AppalachianHistoryDetectives]

jeff graham Garrett AT Pro

[@jeffgraham48]

@@AppalachianHistoryDetectives thank you.

[@davidcassidy5868]

@11:24 - Human waste for fertilizer was NOT / IS a good idea because of high risk for getting intestinal worms. (ie recent North Korean defector cases). Like your video's, incidentally. PS: after metal detecting, I would have looked for their refuse dump for old glassware (IF you guy's didn't already)

[@1984rrc]

Ahh, a video about the truth of metal detecting. Most times you find nothing but junk. If it was always easy everybody would do it.

[@pawpatrolnews]

Wow, slaves were rich back then. I wish I had extra money to burry in the ground.

[@davidperry5631]

Chig you probably would have done better to search through those old cars for coins. I have found a lot of silver coins in them. Trump 2024!

[@jamescrain2723]

Don't care for Todd in your video's.......I don't think he adds anything to your shows......stick to yourself Chigg, you don't need anyone else. Get rid of Todd!!

[@headofturtle4305]

looks like I have to unsubscribe!?!?!?!?! KZbin won't let me watch your videos anymore (and it's only your videos) it loads every 10 seconds or I have to watch your videos in 144p

[@gazpitt8087]

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

[@marygarner5249]

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

[@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!

[@WayneTheSeine]

I would live there.

[@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!

[@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 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@MrBruinman86]

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

[@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