Hitting an Absolute Jackpot Buried in the Rubble of a Burned Down Hotel from 1880
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
- Excavating a privy at the former site of The Cottage House, a hotel and boarding house in Cherryvale, Kansas.
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Here I am once again eating dinner watching Tom dig an outhouse pit.😅
That's my dinnertime program too!
Hi Tom, I've watched most of your videos and love them. I'm an antiques collector and wondering where do you sell the bottles ? Do you sell online ? I'm interested to know. Thank you.
I’m amazed the amount of knowledge you have and you can hear the passion when you’re in the pit thank you for sharing your knowledge with us
If most of these pieces are from a time period at least 20 years after the hotel burnt down, does that mean there's another outhouse pit containing MUCH older items (used by the hotel guests) from the mid-1800s?
Near the conclusion of the show, Tom used the term, the pit had been "dipped out", this means that between 1900-05 all the contents in this privy pit were removed to another location, (quite a nasty job but someone (s) had to do it), which likely was in keeping with the town ordinance. After this clean out was finished, the hotel continued to use it.
@@briane6345 I always wonder what they did with the "dippings"!
I wonder if it's possible to find Old Town maps that would have where the plot for the city dump was?
The house I grew up in, from the mid 1960's on in Grand Rapids Michigan, my dad was told was built on the old town dump. They filled it in and built over top.
This same house according to property records, was built in 1890.
When I was a kid I used to play amateur archaeologist and dig for treasures in the backyard. I did find pieces of old plates like flow blue, but I would get excited at every little piece I found and that ended my dig for the day. I had to run show Mom my finds.
The house is still there, but owned by other people now.
I would love to see Tom do an archaeology dig in that backyard!
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Another wonderful educational experience 🎉. 💪😎
Love to watch the amount of things you dig out of these pits, always wonder how much of a dip it leaves in the ground once you fill in the hole.
Lol me too.
Thank you all for interesting videos, I enjoy very much watching your videos.
Always fascinating!
good dig.
thanks!
Thanks,Tom and crew....
Our house was built in 1900. We live in Caney Kansas, on the Kansas Oklahoma line. Love your videos. I am pretty sure I know where the main house outhouse was and the servants quarters outhouse as well. I never thought of trying to dig them. Not sure we could by ourselves, we are 65. If you are ever in this area let me know we have converted the servants quarters into a B&B.
Love all your live digs
Nice large Parke Davis bottle - biggest I've seen you dig!!
Yes..a honey hole ..such good finds...sorry about the hutch...love your videos and your knowledge ...🥰🥰
Would be awesome to do a Q&A video about your finds. I'd love to know what you do with them afterward! Do you sell your finds? 😍😍😍
I would love if you found a spot where they just moved the outhouse spot and built a new one. They have to be out there somewhere. What you do to find these cleaned out ones is over the top, you have the touch for sure!
Love hearing that Redbird calling for rain,as you're digging...We didn't see any of that beautiful bird down here in the Tampa bay area...
Good job 😎!!!
Great video as always, but the last 3 have had more bottles than 10 videos before all together. I love it when you say, " I never seen this bottle before." If you haven't seen it, it is rare!! Your Patreon is the best bargain I have got this year. Keep them coming!!! Lou
A lot of neat bottles for sure. I really like the blue glass bottles.
I’m such a dork. I finally watched another of your videos, and figured out your digging tool was a spade with the two forks on the outsides cut off. I had a friend make one for me. Love it! What a great idea. Thanks for the idea. You guys find the most amazing stuff. Maybe I’ll have more of a chance with cool tools, lol….
You have no reason to feel dorky, because it's not a modified common spade. It's ether manufactured or custom made or both.
@@briane6345 not a big deal, but on our farm we called that tool a manure fork or garden fork. had flattened tines a bit wide. not rounded. necessity is the mother of invention. he got it right.
forgot to say, we had a spade too. all farmers do. they are like a shovel but a narrow blade instead a wide blade.
Good job
The pit that kept on giving! Lots of interesting embossed bottles. I really liked the pedestal cold cream jar.❤
Do you ever consider cutting down the bottles that have broken tops to make drinking glasses? A mudlarker I follow in the UK does that with the cod bottles he finds. They are so cool. Love your videos.
Yes! I actually made the same comment several videos ago and the answer was- 'that was a great idea and they are thinking about creative things to do with the broken bottles'. My guess, is you are are talking about Si Finds?
@@cdd4248 That's great you got a response from Tom and Jake. Yes, I am talking about Si Finds. I love all his art he does with the stuff. I really like Niclola White also.
I used to live in Pittsburg and have been to cherryvale. Nice finds!
love your videos keep them coming - I like the history you put with the area and bottles. I am a history buff so this is very interesting to me!
At the 4-h llama farm we belong to I found a woodbury skin cream jar from the 40-50s. The back of the farm was a dump for the people who lived there.
WoW👍👏gr from the Netherlands
It’s so relaxing as I sit here watching you work so hard for your discoveries 😍🤩👍🏼 keep up the good work
I absolutely love your you tube!!!
Loved this one it seemed like it was alot cooler during this one. Cannot wait to see what comes next, I love the adventure. Thank you again for taking us along with you guys.
Saludos and Thank You.... I do love these videos, yet another one; devoured....
Cheers and Blessings sent!
Learning alot about bottles and life styles from the past. Great job guys. 🙋
I am about 12 min in and my question is the bottles are 1905.
The building burned down in 1880 ?
I can understand if the outhouse got extended use after the fire .
Would you expect the bottles to get older deeper in the pit ?
Or do you think this outhouse was built on the property after the fire ?
Like a communal public outhouse ?
Appreciate your channel and hard work !
Favorite finds: Mustard drugstore and Foleys sample. Oh. And Hannah's drug. I was rooting for a hutch for you. Great photos! Thank you.
Love your digs. Can't wait to see your find in the northeast👍
What a pit! Those liquor flasks
Another great pit digging video Tom! Congrats on all the druggist bottles! Make sure to detect the soil piles as I've found gold and silver coins in outhouse pits!!! 👍👍👍👍👍
Congratulations. 😊
Awesome
Honey hole for sure, great finds!❤
I discovered you not too long ago while you were covering south Dakota and I was thinking to myself "I wonder if he'll ever do a dig in Kansas" ❤😭
Killer site man , and bet your right , no telling what’s hiding beneath, great vid thanks for sharing
Hi, I just read your documentary of when you became interested in digging, at a very young age at that…. Truly interesting being apart of wondering how your love for finding out so much and digging so many sights became your reality. I can see that you decided to take your interest into writing your own history books including your learned knowledge of some very remarkable finds from so many years ago and how the people lived in the days before we were apart of life itself.
From what I’ve seen as far as the amount of liquor bottles and extract bottles found in so many of the pits you’ve dug thus far….. alcohol played a huge part in many peoples lives during these times. It’s funny in a way because any way you look at it, really, not much has changes as far as as alcohol still being a big issue in society today.
Makes me wonder if people drank for the same reasons way back when , for the actual good feeling they got from the liquid, or also to cover pain either created due to accidents, sorrows or just plain addiction that comes with trying it there first time?
Crazy, that alcohol has survived as many era’s, as the bottles you have dug. Good on you in your endeavors of taking us further to the knowledge of times gone past.
Quite the jackpot!
My Great grand parents lived in Cherryvale in 1880... over on the other side of town. But I am certain they and their many children were throwing the same sorts of things into their outhouse pit!! I enjoy all your digs but the Cherryvale digs are special.
wow now thats some good digging
I think it's so cool that you're in Cherry Ville Kansas. I'm from Kansas City Kansas have heard of cherryville
Just recently found your CZcams shorts on your excavations. Love to see what you do. I was wondering if it would add interest to show your total findings after you finish all cleaned up to see the beauty of those artifacts. Maybe also show the pit after you fill it back up. What do you do with what you find? Sell them?
Another great dig!
What number of digs are you up to now?
Thanks a bunch gentlemen 🙏
Edit: We were talking about it in the comments a bit ago. Would be great to know! I seem to recall 1350 was mentioned once.
Hi Tom and jake another great finds 👍 we use to have a park Davis factory making medical products were I live so we come across some bottles but the pit was produced a good lot of bottles all the best Andrew south wales uk 👍 👌 😀 🇬🇧
Yup at 13:45 LOL its Carrhart, now how about the jacket!!!! hehehehe
Super find
My home 3 family home was built in 1900 and i want to try to find it old out house pit , have no clue where to look, I don’t understand the map thing , the people who built this house also owned a bar that was next door to the house, we remolded this house gutted it found the old oil lamp hanger in the ceiling,
You can certainly tell how people lived by what they discarded.
And by undigested seeds. 🤣
1 st❤️❤️ I love all your videos 😍
Thank you I enjoy your videos
Awesome finds!
I may sound like a broken record but I do enjoy your videos they are so educational you know alot about the bottles
awesome dig.
It’s time to show collection and what you do with it all!
A hotel from 1880s once occupied this site and subsequently burned. What would be the reason for this site to be vacant now? A large structure is razed and cleared of debris. What would be the reason another structure wasn't built on the former site if the hotel? It would seemingly be a prime location if a hotel had been placed there earlier.
Thought there would be more hutches....nice haul
Love watching your digs. Do you sell the bottles on Etsy or somewhere else? Im in Scotland so have found some really old bottles and an old pieces. But dont dig as i broke my back so dont get out much. Your videos help relax me and are easy to watch while crafting.
Love your videos, so informative ❤
What do you do with things you find? Does it take a lot of convincing of property owners to let you dig on their property? Do the property owners get any compensation?
I wonder if sometimes the ashes were still hot when thrown down the privy, and if they caused the privy to be full of smoke!
I notice a lot of these companies started in the 1850’s- where are the bottles from this era?
Hey Tom, you know artists who do broken glass/tile pieces would probably buy your broken colorful pieces.
With the broken china you could break them up in smaller pieces and sell them. People can use them to tile furniture table tops. I know a few people who would love this.
I’d love to make stepping stones 😀
A few unusual pieces dug on this site. Must have been many ailing folks staying at the hotel with the amount of medicine bottles unearthed and liquor bottles to kill what ailed them, just kidding. Thanks for another interesting dig.
Thank you for another awesome dig. Can I ask, what you do with all those bottles? I've watched you dig out thousands of them. Where do you put them all?
Keeps some, give some to property owner,gives to local library, museums, some goes back into hole…
You have to laugh when the bottle says good for cough, diarrhea and cholera
I found a dr king in northern Michigan 😂
6;16 is an egg cup
I would love to buy a piece or two
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Why not locate the old town dumping ground. Usually a deep ravine, a large hand dug pit or if close by, a river or creek. But what do I know, I've never dug a privy, though I know where some are. Great Finds !
Colonel Mustard did it in the parlor with a ketchup bottle 🤔🙂
FYI, colic and cholera are 2 very different diseases.
haha i know! its a very random assortment of stuff.. to be fair, it didnt threat any of that. it could treat the symptoms, but in the long run, it would make things a lot worse. it was usually heroine, alcohol, and chloroform in a lot of these "cures" and sometimes it was all three of them in one product. colicky babies would just basically be sedated. cholera caused diarrhea, and opiates would cause constipation... so it may have looked like it was treating you, and it may have made you feel better, but overall, almost all of these products were "pure quackery" and many of the health experts at the time knew this, and tried to change it.. the pure food and drug act of 1906 made it illegal to use the word "cure" on any product. and after "chamberlains" killed a baby in canada in 1905, the story gain international news, and was a huge scandal. there was another law passed in 1908 that forced companies to list all the ingredients on their labels, which is partially the reason for why embossing began to fade out around this time, and the switch to paper labels became more common. really interesting history on this stuff. almost all of this stuff was narcotic. thanks for watching and commenting
I think you could have your eyes closed and still know what the bottles is and where it came from 😊
Someone loveed ch ward.
What a honey hole. How many days after a dig does it take to clean all these after a dig like this? Thx for taking us along.
Do you sell your finds online?
Is there an airport or Air Force base nearby? I wonder about the constant wooshing noise in the background, I live not far from Detroit Metropolitan Airport and hear the same noise constantly.
Is is safe to dig those? What about bacteria? And I notice you don't use a metal detector or a pinpointer. Couldn't there be coins dropped in there?
Too much metal to really metal detect efficiently. 💪😎
finding any pre civil war bottle must be extremely rare
Does anyone ever analyze the residue in these bottles?
You have a great camera person. What happens to all those bottles after you clean them?
haha well thank you! i really appreciate that. well, we usually dont keep everything, in this particular pit we found enough good stuff that we could split it up with the homeowner, and the local historic society. but for the most part, we usually just keep some of the better stuff, and the rest we give to the homeowner, museums, historic societies, or landlords. sometimes no one wants any of it, and we cant take it with us, so we will just end up reburying the more common stuff. we've started taking more of it with us, just to get photographs for the end of the video.. so really it all just kinda depends on the situation, and how much room we have. but we always make sure it is going to somewhere that its not going to be destroyed or thrown away. thanks for watching!
@@BelowthePlains Thank you. I do enjoy your channel, especially the history and pictures of what the bottles looked like when they were new. Be safe.
First time watching…what do you do with the stuff you dig?
Darn shame all of the soda bottles were broken 😔
Hello! I was so involved with all your finds that I went to two estate sales and bought about 30 bottles and cartoon drinking glasses. I spent 133.00 dollarsS. I have a really old wawa milk bottle, medicine bottles embossed. Now what to do do with them ?
A repeat from the other day titled something about 143 year old finds from a map found?
Perhaps a part 2? Either way, I'm watching it 🤤
Same map, just a different location?
Etruria, like Hanley are both suburbs of Stoke-on-Trent in the UK. Not Italy. Most English pottery would have been manufactured and exported from there back then. Keep up the great work Tom!
Hello Tom, I sent a comment message a while back, I'm not sure where it went, but I was telling about a possible place for you to dig. I was at a presentation on the history of the town of Hendrum, MN by a man named John Kolness from that community. The town was preceded by a community that no longer exists named Quincy. I never heard whether my message was received or not.
I think this would a great place for you to explore.
Can you give an average price it would add fun
What do you do with all the bottles? Do you sell them?
Do you sell any of your bottles that you find multiples of?
Is that ground frozen? Have you ever been approached by law enforcement or anyone else questioning why you are digging where you are?
There is always so many drugstore bottles. Was everyone that sick or was it the ingredients?
You ever get over in Missouri?