Nice find, Gene.  Maybe you can contribute to get the TPW corporate jet back up?  

Turquoise is cheap. Not enough $$ to contribute to anything but a couple bags of peanuts.

2 hours ago, Gene Howe said:

Turquoise is cheap. Not enough $$ to contribute to anything but a couple bags of peanuts.

OOOOO!!!  Inflight meals!

First class passengers get two bags. International travelers get a paper dust mask.

On 2/4/2020 at 9:05 AM, Cal said:

@aaronc & @Artie -

 

 

Likely you already know about USGS maps, but maybe not.

If I may digress for a moment...  I grew up in upstate NY.  There is a lot of rural area in upstate, a lot of which is now owned by the state and has been forested or maintained as wild hunting areas for conservation purposes.  I think it was in the late 40's when my grandparents moved from a farm "on the hill" to a larger farm closer to town.  I grew up listening to my dad talk of his neighbors up on the hill and that most all of them had moved off the hill.  Some time in the late 50's very early 60's the hill farm was sold to the state.  We retained haying rights for some few years and we baled the hay each year until that ran out.  The old home place was there, but the barn had fallen in by this time.  I really don't remember the house either, except that it was donated to the town volunteer fire department who burned it down for practice around that same time.  As a boy, we would ride those back roads and there were no houses or buildings, but there would be remnants from stone fences here and there in the woods that could be seen.  As a young kid it all seemed like ancient history to me.

 

Back to the maps.  A few years ago I was visiting in NY and went to a local history museum.  On display was a large USGS map of the county, I thought I had taken a picture of it but could not find it this morning.  What stuck me, was the number of homesites back up there on the hill.  The whole area was littered with homesites!  While most all of the roads are still there, if you went to that area today all you would find might be a sign like this:

 

 

The USGS site lists many maps available for the area, but I could not pull up anything earlier than a 1943 model.  Sure enough, my grandparents place is shown, a little black square - and the place they subsequently bought.  I couldn't figure out how to circle them on the map.  By 1943 many of the homesites shown at the history museum are gone, although there are still three schools up on the hill that closed soon after that I believe.  Here is the 1943 map.

 

 

This is a blow up of the area showing where my grandparent's farm was.  Even in 1943 there were a lot of homesites, including a school (at New Boston).  By the early 60's there would have only been about 4-5 of the homesites shown on this map still occupied.  The school at New Boston was remodeled to a home, our school bus driver's family lived in it.  The roads with solid lines were and still are dirt roads.  The road shown by a dashed line were, and still are just single lane truck trails.

 

 

Wow, what a load of memories this post has brought back.

Anyhow, this is one way to locate some old home sites.  Cannot say what any laws might be regarding metal detecting.

 

Some great info !,...Thanks - Aaron