Paying $2500 to Tear Down a Garage, After an 1875 Map Led Us to This Yard
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- Excavating a privy at the former site of the Wynn Residence, in Yankton, South Dakota.
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A little backstory: but first, remember to hit that like button!
ok, so we have been spending the last 5 years using our 1875 map to go up and down the streets of yankton. there arent a ton of places left that we havent dug/been rejected from. And this was one of the few places left, but the backyard was fully covered by a garage. so Tom talked to this guy and he said he was fine tearing the garage down, but he wanted to keep the cement slab. so we offered to pay for a new one, if he let us tear out the old one. so we pay the guy, and then he says he will tear it down. we come back back about 2 months later and we probe the spot.. and we didnt hit anything... but there was a small slab of cement that was a walkway leading into the garage... so he agrees to let us tear that out, and sure enough.. there it was.. but obviously we dig the pit..... and yeah, it CLEARLY didnt work out.. as you may have noticed, we never really mention value on the channel, mostlt because the market is always changing, and there really isnt any set price on anything... but obviously there are no market conditions where what we found would make up for what we spent... but there is some good news! we got done with the dig, and we ended up running into another guy in town who lets us dig his yard.. and we ended up finding probably the best thing that we have ever found (on camera anyways) so it wasnt all bad.... and that video will be out in the next few weeks (available now on patreon!)
anyways. thanks for watching!
well, you cant win them all! keep up the good work, cant wait to see what you found in the upcoming video
Beautiful pitcher! It looked like it was intact too.
I was wondering, what is the oldest thing you have found so far? I find your videos very interesting and fun.
I look forward to your next one 😊
I hit the thumb up before watching usually. Sometimes I forget at the beginning, but I always hit it. As far as not hitting paydirt on this dig, I hope you'll make up for the loss through donations from history fans. Certainly the historic value is priceless. Having it documented on video is beyond priceless. As for the unusual number of medicine bottles, I wonder if some of it might have been preventative. Without knowing the contents it's impossible to say, but my mom said that every Saturday night the entire household of 8 kids had to line up for cod liver oil. If one of the kids had been irritable that week, that kid got castor oil as well. Grandma and Grandpa believed that irritability was caused by constipation. Grandpa was born in 1913, Grandma in 1920, and they added to the family from 1936 to 1952. So they would have kept some of the same medicinal practices as the household you excavated here, only slightly updated. Edited to add that yes, Grandma was only 15 when they married, not uncommon in those days, even when you didn't "have to" get married.
As one door closes, another opens up... good on you guys for continuing the search 🙌
I applaud your tenacity & hard graft, along with hours of excellent recording/research & editing.
Thank you so much... from a very happy subscriber, Pat in the Yukon🌞
Cod Liver Oil was my suspicion too 🤢Gross, but hey, my Gram swore by it back in the day.@@kimfleury
where i grew up as a kid in England the farmers fields were built on top of a victorian dump.. Every time the field was ploughed i could just walk over them and find hundreds of clay pipes and pottery of all types. The area also used to be underwater millions of years ago so there are were fossils as well.
You lucky duck. Where I dig, I’m lucky to find one bottle.😂
I know where our Victorian village dump was….but I can’t be bothered to explore it….my dear departed mum told me where it was (because you wouldnt know where it is today) my mum was born in 1923..
With all those booze bottles,the medicine bottles would be newer…
Be careful grandads hand grenades might be in there..
Any burton on Trent beer bottles in there from the uk ?
Love your love of work.... You're not the typical you tuber...Low key and your most awesome finds...A bit of mystery about what you do with your treasures that you find...Adds attraction to your endeavors... You're a good little crew with excellent camera work and editing...
I'm a fan Who's physically unable to get down in there with you... Keep on with what you do.... You also do a lot of your digging in places I was familiar with back in the 70's....I lived in Bemidji and later,Grand Forks.... Great life for a tough young man.... Loved it...Had to move south due to family circumstances... Haven't been back but, I'll never forget the great hard working people who would give you the shirt off their back.♥️🌹
I grew up doing this kind of bottle finding and never have I ever seen such easy non packed dirt to move that you have.
Ya know Tom, you never cease to amaze me with your ability to successfully probe for these pits and so casually dig with such conviction. Then there's your seemingly bottomless knowledge of these bottles. How did you come to all this knowledge?
Hearing Tom say “I don’t think I’ve ever run across one of these before” is really mind blowing when you think of all of the digs he’s done and all of the things he’s see over the years. Truly amazes me every time I hear him say it!
Wow. If Yankton is cleaned out, where will you go next? Really love your videos, Tom. Excellent editing, just the right amount of music, and the knowledge base of bottles is remarkable.
Tom and Jake, I am so happy to see a new video! I watch all of your videos at least 3 to 4 times to the point where I don’t need to watch because I know what’s coming up next as you pull it out of the ground. Keep up the good work, and let’s see some more good videos.
please show more of your finds after they have been cleaned
Yes!!! Or, as I have been whining about, wipe the embossed and interesting bottles better with your hands. Once we see 1 or 2 tool topped slicks meds or ketchups, you could just mention them rather than showing each one. Until next time....thank you for sharing your hard work and expertise!!
Love watching the various ceramics and glasswear you uncover, real urban archaeology
I’ve been watching your videos for some time, but just realized I hadn’t subscribed! Now I have. I’ve been selling vintage collectibles for several years, but I only scrounge through thrift stores and yard sales. You’re braver than I am. I do enjoy metal detecting. Keep up the great work - can’t wait to see what you found later that same day!
i believe the porceline doll head was a chorus singer from xmas decoration. amazing dig!
😮 You guys always find such amazing stuff. I get excited about finding skeleton keys, 30’s bottles, old suspender clips, and clay marbles. I’d probably have a heart attack if I found a score like the one you found in this video.
I’m so glad you found the other half of the plate, it’s awesome when things can be mended so you can see the history. Thanks for the hard work guys!
Staged and planted there
The little yawning figurine .. so cute I had to look it up. Schafer Vater German Bisque Porcelain.
Singing?
Very interesting. I thought the little figure resembled Byers'Choice Carolers, which I learned was an American company, must later than the one Tom dug up.
You guys continue to be my hero's. Hard core diggers. Hard work digging those pits.....
I like watching this channel because it reminds me of being a kid and searching for bottles at an old garbage dump in the Arizona desert. By the time we got there, all the rest of the garbage (food, paper, metal) had deteriorated so the only thing left was bottles. One of the cool things were the bottles that had gotten so hot after years in the Arizona sun that they had partially melted.
We brought boxes of bottles home but I don't know what happened to them.
Hi Tom, you know what I'd like to see, the cleaned finds, especially the porcelain at the end sort of like a post mortem to your dig cheers!!🥰💪👍
That was fun! Packed full! Love your channel Tom! I look forward to more content!
You guys are the best diggers... really enjoy your shows and your knowledge and expertise shines.
The beautiful pitcher is so beautiful I enjoyed hearing the history of the home as well as the history of the bottles Thanks for sharing 👍♥️🗝️❤️⚒️🇺🇸
It’s amazing to know that so many people lived in these places so long ago considering the brutal weather that the Dakotas get
I AM 65 so even in the sixties we had no indoor bathrooms so every year we would dig a new pit and move the outhouse over the new pit. i remember it had to be 8 ft deep min and 4 x 5 ft . the new pits dirt would be used to top off old pit and you had to be 5 ft from the old pit for stability . we had six people in the family so a pit would only last a year
Always love your channel, I always looking for your channel, thank you for sharing 👍🙏👋
Have you ever considered doing a podcast? Or maybe put out a Q&A video answering all the questions you get in the comments? But a podcast would be very interesting! You guys are amazing. Great job on all your videos!
I dug 50 years ago in NJ .this brings me back in time. Thanks.
Cool Tooth Brushes - and all those Medicine Bottles - someone was really Sick in that House ! That White Pitcher was Complete - what a Great Find - wow ! That French Bowl can be glued back together - its soooo Pretty ! More History Dug Up and Preserved ! Job well done and Cheers from Australia !!!!
I don’t know why I love watching these videos so much…perhaps because several relatives worked for Wheatons in south Jersey many years ago…but it’s great to watch while I crochet!
First time watching, its amazing how you know each thing you pick up without uncovering the entire thing... good job mate, much love to you and yours
Great program Tom. Really like the pitcher, amazing it was in such good condition. Good luck with future digs. 👍
I ❤ watching you do your thing! I'm digging it with ya! 😂 lol. Take care, you're an amazing prospector-archeologist! 😊
I grew up in a late 1800s town, it is Oakland, Oregon. My grandfather, who was mayor for a while, told us where the "dump" used to be near the creek. My father and brother dug up some old bottles there. I would love to see you dig some privys here! Let me know if you decide to visit. ❤
digs up priceless artifacts, mementos of a past gone by, forgotten in time:
- thats kinda cool...
Tom, another amazing privy did. An lot of medicine bottles. Loved the large water basin. We hope you continue to get more permissions. Come to MN, we could use your help. Take care.👍😀👏
Wow, that's pretty cool! He got himself a nice little archaeological dig site. 👍🏼
Being that human beings have always loved breaking glass to see bottles that old is pretty amazing especially that many and one spot.
It always blows my mind that my father was born in 1919 when so many of these styles were current. I've seen pictures of his family when he was a baby and I can't wrap my head around the fact that I am just one generation away from that.
Great channel and content! It is very relaxing to sit back and see what you find! Thank you for sharing some of your tricks of the trade in different videos. I live in a neighborhood that was settled by the Ebenezers back in 1860-70. There are a few old farm houses in the neighborhood that were original when the area was settled. One is owned by a friend of mine and it is tempting to see what is around in the neighborhood. I did find a 2 cent piece in my back yard while digging for a garden fence last year. It is from the late 1860's - early 1870's. Thanks for sharing what you find! My wife and I really enjoy it!
Great video thumbs up, it's amazing how so many old properties have these under the yard's
Exciting to see a different and new variety of bottles. And you scored bit on the intact pitcher and two pieces of plate that fit together. Keep digging crew, love to see all that is dug up from the pits.
There HAS to be an older site in that yard if it was on the 1875 map!!!
Agreed.
Not much room on the lot for multiple pits, they would have been cleaned out by a service when it got full or periodically. Most of the pits in town probably date back to when sewers were finally constructed, seemingly in the 1910’s, since most pits from this town have contents from the same era.
Every time I watch one of these videos it makes me think "if this is what you find in just one dig, there must be many more troves of bottles that are missed and still waiting to be found across the country". These digs must be just a fraction of what is buried below the surface.
Not just bottles my friend! In June there was 700 civil war era gold coins stumbled upon and dug up in KY. The amount of caches found by accident alone fills the old newspapers to the tune of thousands of articles. And those are the ones that we know about. People think treasure they think chest of gold coins in the ocean or lost mines in the southwest. I think a mason jar a quarter of the way filled with gold coins in some old farmers field. Granted they aren’t easy to find but they are out there and there are thousands still waiting to be found.
@@legacyXplore Yes, you're right - it's more than just bottles! I did see the article about the people who dug up their kitchen floor and found hundreds of old coins worth millions of dollars. It would be great to find such a trove but as you say they're not so easy to locate.
Finding the tops in the bottles is amazing, nothing like the glass/porcelain stoppers in place. Thank you for pic of pitcher, beautiful. I laughed at the label for Blatz beer, an angry Mrs is unusual 😂 I think the yawning man is a singing choir boy lol. Thank you, off to start my day, oh one other thing I love the floral pattern plate, I'm using a Liberty fabric at the moment with a similar design, very pretty plate. Here's to lots more great digs.
I really like this modern day archeology.
That porcelain figurine/boy at 11:21 was potentially a pie vent. When placed in the middle of a pie during baking, it supported the center of the crust and prevented the crust from getting soggy. Many of these old pie vents have the hole/vent positioned in a persons or animals mouth. I bet, if he cleaned up the pie boy, it'd be hollow where the mouth is. As far as I know, the first pie vents hit the scenes around the 1880s.
In the old days you composted out of necessity because your garden required the nutrients returned to the soil to continue to be productive so only the broken household items or discarded containers were then tossed into the outhouse. Today, these places hold numerous old bottle and other items from past times, not found in many other places but you just have to remember what your digging in.
Omg...just love that pitcher! I collect them and that one's beautiful!❤
HEY! Hello and thumbs UP!!
haha that was fast
Great dig! 🎉 I enjoy treasure hunting 😅 Love your channel ❤
WOW what a pit find Tom👏🏻 hard work pays off🍀 Christmas caroler
Born in Yankton on my way to San Francisco. My grandparents lived in Meckling. I spent many a summer in South Dakota. Love your channel.
❤❤❤all of your digs
I really appreciate the research notes you add to each find!
Omg! That liquid piture was, I think, you're best find. The next one was the little pill bottle. Then, when you found that other part of that bowl, it was amazing. Thumbs-up👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍, and thank you for sharing your amazing finds.
My great grandma was born in 1870 and died in 1970 when I was 10 years old, she had a lot of these things, my whole family did.
Watching from Australia. Always enjoy your videos.
I really enjoy watching your digs I live in Victoria BC I used to do some digging 20 years ago fun stuff
Keep on rocking champ!
Tom, you HAVE to get your bottle site up so we can make you a rich young man!!!! Even the common finds would sell to beginners like me that will never have a chance of getting into your neck of the woods up there!!
Would love to see the bottles after cleaned up.
They liked the alcohol content of those medication bottles…😂😂😂
Just wanted to let you know you have the best bottle digging videos out there well done 👍
I was sooo looking forward to seeing that beautiful pitcher all cleaned up in the end photos.
I would love to hear more about the Eastport, Maine dig. Is there video of that? Truly enjoying your channel. I used to dig bottles while in my early teens here in NH back in the late ‘70s/early ‘80s. Learning so much about bottle styles from you that I didn’t know! Still have most of my bottles too!
Thanks for sharing guys! Gotta keep on truckin'
Classic right at the end of the walk,gotta love that.
Tom?? Your killin it again. You rock all things.
Live in Wisconsin amazing to see bottles from here.
Love this, I lived in the Wyoming desert when i was growing up, found all kinds of interesting things,plus hieroglyphs,and names and dates from 1700 ad 1800....Continental Divide, Overland Trail .
These are just too cool
Great video...enjoyed every moment of it...keep on digging...🥰🥰
Why would you discard a perfect mason jar? They can be reused . I can see hiding booze bottles from the wife or Nabors. Hiding medicine bottles because it's nobody's business. When they throw out something like a broken dish, it means that everything that can't be burned goes into the pit. How many years does the pit last? It seems like there is only one per house.I love your channel. Thanks
Really enjoying your videos. Nice filming and audio. Just had to subscribe!
Hi Tom and jake some more good bottles find and the pitcher jug was marvellous it was intact all the best Andrew south wales uk 👍 👌 😀 🇬🇧
Some nice finds👍🏻
If all those prescription bottles contained alcohol based "meds", maybe someone in the house had a secret drinking problem.
That “yawning” figuring has a halo and is singing. Maybe part of a Christmas display?
So enjoy your videos great to see another one
Nice finds!
Must had someone really sick by all those medicine bottles. Boy Bunch of awesome bottles. Nice pitcher too very nice. Just love them .awesome video
Excellent filming as usual. Good dig! UK.
Awesome finds!! Love that pitcher!!
Nice work! Great finds!
My sister lives in Bryant, SD. Do you ever dig there? Just wondering. I used to live there for one year. The plains has it's own beauty. Keep up the great videos and thank you for sharing with us!
Love it!
Liked it!
haha thanks
Someone there might have had a serious laudanum addiction 🥺🥹😳.
I find it interesting that many of the bottles had what I'm guessing is water in them. I would have thought the dirt would have desiccated it out of them.
GREAT backstory by the way!!! I would have thought you got ALL of the houses in Yankton by now!!
Nice dig. How do you determine which properties will get dug up? How do you locate dig sites?
Love the pitcher!!❤️❤️
always fun to explore with you
I wonder if maybe it had been a dry county and they hid alcohol in prescription bottles.
He's done a lot of pits in Yankton with many bottles for liquor. ND was dry and people sneaked booze in from other states, his videos said.
In the Boston area we call this ash pits and we where jacking up a house n you have to dig to put the beams in and I found n old old gold watch it was corroded but was gold . My buddy took it like he’s some watch gyro
Awesome.
Awesome job guys.
Amazing finds! I’d love to see a video of before and after of the bottles you find. Dirty to clean. Amazing work your doing uncovering americas past. Maybe a Dr lived there. Might explain all the medicine bottles.
Bakelite and celluloid are two different kinds of early plastic. Not sure why you are saying "Bakelite" and then printed on the screen it says "celluloid". Nice dig today! Thank you for keeping us entertained.
Nice finds! The pitcher!
You are so knowledgeable. What is your background? I love to watch you. I am a forager at heart so your videos are very entertaining.