Discovery of a Picnic Grove in Upstate New York

Metal Detecting The Piles Of Scraped Soil At The Construction Site Can Bring Amazing Results!

I had unearthed 200 more coins before the construction finally destroyed the picnic grove completely. On my last visit, I found only one coin, sort of a Grove's symbolic farewell to me.

1875 Seated Liberty Silver Quarter

1875 Seated Liberty Silver Quarter

Here is a series of pictures that could be called "Then and Now". I took pictures of a few spots at the the picnic grove during the first year I was metal detecting there. And I photographed the same spots after the construction was completed a few years later.

Metal Detecting Patch Back Then

Metal Detecting Spot Back in 2001

The Same Spot Today

Former Metal Detecting Site

Back Then

Shelly and Sergei at Picnic Grove Site in 2001

Old Rail Road Tracks and Forest are Gone Now

Picnic Grove Under the Black Top