An 1890s Map Found in an Attic Leads to an Unbelievable Payday Buried Under a Vacant Lot

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  • čas přidán 6. 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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Komentáře • 219

  • @SallyMayBaby
    @SallyMayBaby Před rokem +81

    It would be nice to see your collection all cleaned up.

  • @johnnytarponds9292
    @johnnytarponds9292 Před rokem +45

    After watching one or two full episodes of your channel, I noticed I was learning bottle types and other features. I learned terms relating to the separation layers and historical references relating to things found in those layers.
    Your side graphics are excellent (I stop the vid and read them sometimes) and you hold your excavations up so we can see what they look like too.
    I love your channel! Please keep up the good work!

    • @davewilson9738
      @davewilson9738 Před rokem +2

      I know what you mean! I even find myself trying to guess tooled top or not xD

    • @blessedadventures2802
      @blessedadventures2802 Před rokem +4

      Do you sell any. Do you have a site? We are visiting family around Niagra NY and went to a monthly flea market and seen a stack of 1870s plot maps like you show in your videos.. We thought of you. Thanks for your videos.

    • @peikathryn
      @peikathryn Před rokem +1

      That's what I love about his videos as well, so informative. I used to have a collection of old bottles but lost them when our house burnt.. I wish I had them back.

    • @johnnytarponds9292
      @johnnytarponds9292 Před rokem

      @@peikathryn [waves across the water]

  • @cordiscoscorner
    @cordiscoscorner Před rokem +4

    The Kilmer building in Binghamton, NY still stands today. It was about 3 blocks from my business.

  • @user-gx9tt1nl5f
    @user-gx9tt1nl5f Před rokem +19

    Love your videos and that you give the history of your finds...but very curious as to what you do with all those bottles.😮

  • @claymonsterpottery
    @claymonsterpottery Před rokem +2

    Please consider a second video with show and tell? 🙏🏻 Thanks! And new music… now I have something new to hum.
    I’m wondering if this wasn’t some kind of medical facility, with all the syringes and medical bottles from far and wide.

  • @sherimiller5857
    @sherimiller5857 Před rokem +9

    So I have started watching the new series of 1883 and you really have me hooked on your videos, I love the history! Keep them coming!

  • @carolmay5168
    @carolmay5168 Před rokem +3

    I think this is the most animated I’ve ever seen you during a dig! Love it.

  • @debbieseitler477
    @debbieseitler477 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Enjoy watching you on my phone throw CZcams well it is fun to watch you dig up old bottles and old thing

  • @dannmccord1923
    @dannmccord1923 Před rokem +5

    Wow those older bottles are amazing. That blue ink is so pretty. Wow Tom all the beautiful bottles you find. Do you ever find jewelry in those pits. That would be awesome. Just love your videos. Always waiting for the next one

  • @lizmbrad
    @lizmbrad Před rokem +3

    If the CH Ward med bottles were rare, you just flooded the market with those finds. You must have pulled 12-15 of those bad boys. Lol What an awesome dig. Just bottle after bottle after bottle. Fantastic!!!

  • @jimmieloge575
    @jimmieloge575 Před rokem +1

    I'm amazed at the knowledge you have regarding all the things you dig up!!! Please keep at it, these old bottles and things mesmerize me as you hold something in your hand well over 100 years old!!! Thank you for what you do!!!

  • @SaltwaterSean
    @SaltwaterSean Před rokem

    I could watch these types of videos forever. Great job

  • @benkirkland5354
    @benkirkland5354 Před rokem +6

    I think the turn mold vials are actually the plungers to the syringes

  • @donmcatee45
    @donmcatee45 Před rokem +5

    Found some fun trivia on C.H. Ward Druggist.
    According to The Coffeyville Daily Journal 11 September 1901-
    “ in the case of the city of Cherryvale against C.H. Ward, Cherryvale’s leading druggist. On July 12, Ward was tried in police court there on the charge of having sold intoxicating liquors in violation of the prohibition ordinance. He was convicted and fined $133.75 and sentenced to thirty days in the Cherryvale city jail.”
    I am starting to understand why he was the leading druggist!😂

  • @realnikonlover6207
    @realnikonlover6207 Před rokem +4

    I admire the "facts" of your stream. No supposition. Straight forward and fantastic history come to life.

  • @IrisBatDavid
    @IrisBatDavid Před rokem +3

    What a gem of a find!
    I’d love to have a bucket full of that broken glass and china for crafts!

    • @nancyjones247
      @nancyjones247 Před rokem +1

      Me too! Especially the flow blue! 😍😍😍

  • @WayaWolf
    @WayaWolf Před rokem +2

    That peach blow cream bottle is siiiiiiicccckkkkkkk

  • @sunrunneroldbottels223
    @sunrunneroldbottels223 Před rokem +2

    In all my 50 years of digging I have only dug one ocean weed. good going.

  • @jeanpowell7072
    @jeanpowell7072 Před rokem +3

    That heart bottle is amazing!

  • @Deborah1Craftygal
    @Deborah1Craftygal Před rokem +12

    It’s nice to see you enjoying a pit so much. It is really loaded and wasn’t very deep when so much started showing up. Glad you enjoyed it.

  • @m.c.master4622
    @m.c.master4622 Před rokem +1

    I don't remember your digging in Kansas before, but I could be wrong. Your enthusiasm is so contagious!! I was so sorry for you when the first Ward drugstore bottle was broken, but then you found many of them intact. Never saw an egg decoy before! Great Dig! Many thanks.

  • @petesuntrup2095
    @petesuntrup2095 Před rokem +1

    Thanks Tom and your crew, good work! Saw your short video on antique carriages…. Nice!

  • @terrancemiller8350
    @terrancemiller8350 Před rokem +4

    Thank you young man for the entertainment, love your enthusiasm, now if we could get that beautiful young stud of a photographer to say a few word like he did a few videos ago, it was fun to have the both of you chatting together, even if your to wound for us to get a glimpse of your I mean you because your photography is so spot on. You two look after each other, have fun love the videos Jake and the content Tom
    All my love guys. Afriend.

  • @designed_by_danita
    @designed_by_danita Před rokem

    The C.H. Ward bottles are beautiful! I would display them for sure! Great finds!

  • @lorihays4561
    @lorihays4561 Před rokem +2

    Because of your channel I decided to google C.H. Ward, Cherryvale, Kansas. Turns out he was jailed in 1901 for selling 'intoxicating liquors' in violation of the prohibition ordinance. Hahaha. A leading druggist's fall from grace. It cost him over $4000 in todays money and 30 days in jail.

  • @alisonmary1443
    @alisonmary1443 Před rokem +1

    Super dig, some unusual bottles surfaced, apart from the wow finds I adored the beef extract and the shape of "the some kind of toiletry product" bottle. Many thanks again for sharing, I love seeing these bottles, the embossing and colours, just such a treat.

  • @pattiefitzpatrick2075

    Love the blue ink bottle at the end of this video and everything before it!

  • @carolynsimone8647
    @carolynsimone8647 Před rokem +3

    Awesome finds...held my breath..hoping for a hutch...love your knowledge of the bottles...love the smalls....keep on digging...🥰🥰

  • @thomaswelcomer8443
    @thomaswelcomer8443 Před rokem +8

    This is quite addictive to watch... do you keep all the bottles???

  • @manderson3231
    @manderson3231 Před rokem +3

    What an awesome dig!! Thanks so much for sharing your bottle digs with us!!

  • @jeanpowell7072
    @jeanpowell7072 Před rokem +1

    I sure enjoy watching you and seeing you get excited .

  • @nancyjohnson8196
    @nancyjohnson8196 Před rokem

    Wow that area was loaded for sure! I enjoy your history that you give on each item found, that takes time and effort to add in but sure makes the videos more interesting. All the different elixirs back then when there was no government regulations so interesting.

  • @DavidJones-smiley
    @DavidJones-smiley Před rokem +1

    You never disappoint ! Great Digs ! Professionalism ! History and info you give us is great! Awesome job!💯👍🏻

  • @sherryroseman
    @sherryroseman Před rokem

    What a haul! Beautiful bottles. I hate that we have plastic today.

  • @bebeandjohnnotsonomadiclif5287

    Thank you. Your videos are always fun, and We learn something too. Thank you.

  • @claudebernardin1096
    @claudebernardin1096 Před rokem +2

    Fantastic channel! Love your pop up ads and history. You put a lot of work into it! Good use of research maps. You are impressive.

  • @randall2052
    @randall2052 Před 9 měsíci

    Just found you videos a couple of days ago, and have to say I find them very interesting. The thing that strikes me is that we haven't changed much in the last 100 years. Drugs and alcohol was just as prominent then as it is now.

  • @juneyshu6197
    @juneyshu6197 Před rokem

    Wow, someone was quite ill, sad. Lovely embossed finds and etc.

  • @CuttingEdgetools
    @CuttingEdgetools Před rokem

    Amazing Dig Bro! Congrats 👍🇺🇸

  • @michaelschuenemann3505

    Rare and Old Bottles and that's what it is all about - hey - that Ward Fellow was very Popular ! Great Video and many Cheers from Australia !!!!

  • @BacktoLifeMD
    @BacktoLifeMD Před rokem +1

    Lol, Carhart should be paying you for advertising the quality of their gloves. Happy Digging!

  • @christhompson4270
    @christhompson4270 Před rokem +2

    Awesome dig with so many amazing bottles, love how put up the history of the company. Can’t wait for part two if there’s one. Take care and thanks for sharing 👍🙏❤️

  • @nancyjones247
    @nancyjones247 Před rokem

    Wow! I would love to have some of those flow blue China pieces to make some jewelry! 😍
    Love your channel and thanks for keeping the language clean! 😊

  • @staylor5687
    @staylor5687 Před rokem +2

    I just learned recently that the first serial killer in the US was in Cherryvale, KS back in 1873. So when you are in that town/city, I always perk up hoping that you'll find something from the 1870s that represents the people who lived through the horror of this person's crimes.

  • @Deep-Rest
    @Deep-Rest Před rokem +1

    watched the full length version of this video about 3 month back

  • @jimmieloge575
    @jimmieloge575 Před rokem +1

    Every time you dig up a Listerine bottle, I get shivers down my spine, simply because after I brushed my teeth at night, my mama would stand watch and hand me a little cup of Listerine, watch me put it in my mouth, rinse it around a few times, then gargle awhile. She let me know when I could spit that 🔥 burning hot stuff out! I wonder just how much alcohol was in that stuff back in my kid days?

  • @Randeb86
    @Randeb86 Před rokem

    Dang! I think you found a pharmaceutical dump lol, fantastic bottles, well done!❤

  • @markhaines3716
    @markhaines3716 Před rokem +3

    that pit was insane!

  • @alanrobinson8999
    @alanrobinson8999 Před rokem

    Hey Tom, was wondering why you went to Cherryvale to dig this time. My grandparents lived in the next town to the east of there called Mound Valley, Kansas. My granddad was a druggist and store was Aber's Drug Store. Mound Valley had a glass factory that made glass dishes and were cut by hand, we have a few pieces from it, should go dig where it was no telling what you might find. They also had two brick factories, all of this was in early 1900's. My grandmother use to take her garbage out to the farm and dump it in a ditch along the road so would be interesting to dig there.

  • @jeanpowell7072
    @jeanpowell7072 Před rokem

    Love love love the hand bottle

  • @terryenriques6810
    @terryenriques6810 Před rokem

    Super cool dig.

  • @robertdoyal2196
    @robertdoyal2196 Před 11 měsíci

    One of the coolest one yet wow😮

  • @barbarahatcher4552
    @barbarahatcher4552 Před rokem

    Enjoyed it again thank you for putting it out but I’ll wait for you to put another one on. Thank you.

  • @tedlym.3390
    @tedlym.3390 Před rokem

    Do you ever have the pottery and ceramic pieces put together again? That would be most interesting. Thank you,

  • @lindalee9868
    @lindalee9868 Před 7 měsíci +1

    nice finds

  • @richardthomas1743
    @richardthomas1743 Před rokem +2

    Hello and thumbs UP!!

  • @deneasedenson6668
    @deneasedenson6668 Před rokem +1

    Need part 2 please!

  • @yamabiru4553
    @yamabiru4553 Před rokem

    Good work

  • @docinparadise
    @docinparadise Před rokem

    I grew up in that area. I found a bottle dump in my backyard, a c.1800 Victorian style house that was the surgery and home of a famous eye surgeon in Parsons, Ks. There were so many cobalt blue bottles (as well as lots of others) I just gave up and covered it up and planted my rose bush in a different spot😜
    It’s probably still there, since I didn’t tell the new owners.
    If you’re interested I’ll give you the address and tell you precisely where the dump is.

  • @jimh598
    @jimh598 Před rokem +4

    CH Ward must have put a lot of alcohol in their medicines. They sure purchased a lot of them and the Bromo for the next morning!

  • @martihetrick609
    @martihetrick609 Před rokem

    Love see what the bottle s look like clean up

  • @tinaj984
    @tinaj984 Před rokem

    Fantastic new finds!! So glad you get that new discovery now and then, makes it the perfect element of surprise!!😁😁😁💖

  • @5765storm
    @5765storm Před rokem +2

    What do you do with all the bottles and things you dig up?

  • @kensanity178
    @kensanity178 Před rokem

    Yes, I agree. A little mud swiped off is nothing compared to all cleaned up.

  • @jeffclark2725
    @jeffclark2725 Před rokem +1

    Great video, thanks for bringing us along on your adventures and digs

  • @gregadamo4423
    @gregadamo4423 Před rokem

    Just picked up an Ingrahams milk weed cream milk glass jar at an old tag sale leftover box!

  • @ramirolichtenberger2698

    Nice dig

  • @vickinoeske1154
    @vickinoeske1154 Před rokem

    Small and tiny bottles are my favorite, poison bottles and blue bottles. I really like the cherry phosphate bottle you found during this dig.

  • @soonzach4017
    @soonzach4017 Před rokem +1

    Your videos always so interesting. I love too watch. Thank you for sharing your hard work.

  • @dawnhaynes7784
    @dawnhaynes7784 Před rokem

    Amazing video

  • @enduringhope6859
    @enduringhope6859 Před rokem +1

    Missed you laying out the bottles at the end of your video.

  • @paranoidandroid7718
    @paranoidandroid7718 Před rokem +1

    Gotta say, your background music is much better than the average CZcams channel. Thanks for the video.

  • @detecting_with_matt3643

    You had some CRAZY finds!!! Awesome! The heart one is my favorite!

  • @lisawilcox3787
    @lisawilcox3787 Před rokem

    You find neat things

  • @BestSellers2122
    @BestSellers2122 Před 8 měsíci

    Great video!

  • @jeanpowell7072
    @jeanpowell7072 Před rokem +1

    I love the bottles with organs on them

  • @johnmichalski4407
    @johnmichalski4407 Před rokem

    What a dig! So many unique embossed bottles.

  • @beverlyhanlon8376
    @beverlyhanlon8376 Před rokem +1

    Another good find. Please stay safe.

  • @JeanStAubin-nl9uo
    @JeanStAubin-nl9uo Před rokem +3

    It amazes me that they had bottled water back then too. I like that heart remedy bottle with the debossed heart on it. You found a good pit! I still don't understand why people back then threw stuff down the toilet. We never did that at our outhouse up north at our cottage. They must have had garbage dumps where they could throw their stuff out? Can't imagine cleaning the house and emptying all the trash containers from each room down the hole. Thank you for this exciting video today.

  • @evamccray6500
    @evamccray6500 Před rokem

    Cudahy had a packing plant in Wichita until the 1960's, used to be on 21st street east of Broadway.

  • @jont8707
    @jont8707 Před rokem

    Wow Tom bottle hunters find of a lifetime that pit is congrats on the find bro 👍

  • @melindahawk8540
    @melindahawk8540 Před rokem

    Make some drinking glasses out of the ones the top broken off. They would be very nice.

  • @Merlijnvv
    @Merlijnvv Před rokem

    Excellent!

  • @grettaarmitage4675
    @grettaarmitage4675 Před rokem +2

    Love your video's! What do you do with your finds? Do you have a website?

  • @Jamsie27531
    @Jamsie27531 Před rokem +2

    Someone was pretty sick, judging from the remedies etc.

  • @freefall8243
    @freefall8243 Před rokem +1

    Ward had that city hooked up.😂

  • @evabuchholz9539
    @evabuchholz9539 Před rokem +2

    excellent watch as always... I know you get asked this a lot, but, what do you guys do with all your fantastic finds?

    • @DebraJean196
      @DebraJean196 Před rokem +1

      I see them pop up often on an antiquity kind of show I watch on YT called “Curiosity Inc”. I think they get sold to collectors. Funny part is that the guy on that show thinks they all get found in rivers and streams! If only he knew…😂😂😂

    • @evabuchholz9539
      @evabuchholz9539 Před rokem +1

      @@DebraJean196 Thanks so much for this great info reply

  • @dirtclodmetaldetecting

    Awesome dig! Love that blue ink!

  • @loripretti843
    @loripretti843 Před rokem

    That is absolutely crazy how full that pit was!!!!! Hope you had a Happy 4th of July!!! God Bless!!!

  • @ericrhinehart722
    @ericrhinehart722 Před rokem +2

    nice guys!!!!!

  • @kellybrown357
    @kellybrown357 Před rokem +1

    You're my favorite!!

  • @MoYvStarkey
    @MoYvStarkey Před rokem

    Heroin was used slot during g that part of the 19th century. What I would like to know is if there are photos around twin of these old pharmacies and bottle companies.

  • @melk.6024
    @melk.6024 Před rokem +1

    Great finds!

  • @williamwebster3271
    @williamwebster3271 Před rokem +1

    I always wonder when you dig up bottles with broken tops that you might be able to turn them into nice drinking glasses if you could cut off the the top somehow

  • @blessedadventures2802

    Love your channel.

  • @cheriehomebody9454
    @cheriehomebody9454 Před rokem

    ok the "dipping" makes sense. such a high concentration of bottles for an outhouse.

  • @jerrysadventures8952
    @jerrysadventures8952 Před rokem

    wow good video

  • @enaidyeltneb369
    @enaidyeltneb369 Před rokem

    Love the sit and dig!

  • @twindiggersminnesotapamandpat

    Tom, incredible dig. My favorite was the embossed hand cream. How many did you end up taking from there? Looking forward to part two. Awesome day for you and Jake.😀👏👍

  • @gregwelch389
    @gregwelch389 Před rokem +3

    Based on the number of bottles you found I think C H Ward was the leading druggist