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	Re: Central Texas Ghost Towns « Reply #10 on: August 11, 2009, 04:58:09 pm »

Hey Texas Jay,
I was reading on a Coast Guard site today that there is a Historic Society in Austin has a large map collection that might be of some interest to ya. If interested I will back track and try to find the info.

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	Re: Central Texas Ghost Towns « Reply #11 on: August 11, 2009, 05:03:58 pm »

Hi findoldstuff. While I am so far behind on books to read, codes to decipher, and photographs to analyze, I'm afraid that I can't do much with the map collection right now but I sure think it would be great if you would post the link to the historical society's website on this message board, maybe under the Maps section.
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	Re: Central Texas Ghost Towns « Reply #12 on: August 11, 2009, 09:40:18 pm »

Tex,
I am kind of jealous that you have so many awesome places to check out.... anything like the pictures you sent me.... here would be a museum or something to charge the public to check out...

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	Re: Central Texas Ghost Towns « Reply #13 on: August 11, 2009, 09:56:00 pm »

Hey Texas ,
My son and I just got back from a 1830's church- confederate soldiers removed the stained glass for the lead and melted it for minnie balls- church destroyed by a tornado in early 1900's- sketters and fire ants tore us a new one- found some iron- nothing good for 45 minutes

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	Re: Central Texas Ghost Towns « Reply #14 on: August 12, 2009, 03:05:38 pm »

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Tex, I am kind of jealous that you have so many awesome places to check out.... anything like the pictures you sent me.... here would be a museum or something to charge the public to check out... Keith

Hi Keith. We do have an exceptional number of ghost towns, old homesites from the 1800s, and many other historically important places in our area of rural central Texas. Currently, I am trying to recruit a team of experienced people to re-discover a Knights of the Golden Circle tunnel network under downtown Brownwood so that they can be opened to the public for the first time ever. They were constructed in the 1870s by European stonemasons and craftsmen that the KGC brought in to do this and other important work. When successful, this will be the first KGC tunnel system ever re-discovered and opened to the public.
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	Re: Central Texas Ghost Towns « Reply #15 on: August 12, 2009, 04:22:14 pm »

Hi findoldstuff. It sounds like you and your son are on to a potential hotspot. I know how pesky fireants and mosquitoes can be as we have our share of them in central Texas too. We just got a nice downpour here so that should soften up the ground for detecting. Now, if only the temperatures will drop to a bearable level. I've got some plans for some coin and jewelry hunting here in town if it will just cool down some.
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	Re: Central Texas Ghost Towns « Reply #16 on: August 12, 2009, 05:05:21 pm »

Hey Texas Jay,
I went back and looked at that map page I told you about yesterday- the maps are ship wrecks off the Texas coast.

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	Re: Central Texas Ghost Towns « Reply #17 on: August 12, 2009, 06:20:26 pm »

Hi findoldstuff. Scuba diving is something that I always intended to learn to do but it seems the years have flown by too fast for me to get around to it.

Mel Fisher is one of my heroes. I'm sure that there are some underwater treasure hunters who would be interested in that map site here. Did you know that, after discovering the Atocha, Mel Fisher also did some work on the KGC treasures in Arkansas? Bob Brewer tells about it in "Rebel Gold".
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	Re: Central Texas Ghost Towns « Reply #18 on: August 12, 2009, 06:47:47 pm »

Hey TJ
No I did not- what do think about Iron Clads? I know where one is. Its only 9 foot down. In mud and should be preserved rather well. Problem is part of it run under a levee. Much paperwork.

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	Re: Central Texas Ghost Towns « Reply #19 on: August 12, 2009, 07:11:48 pm »

Hi findoldstuff. I must confess that I have no experience, at all, with any kind of sunken or buried shipwreck. But your ironclad certainly sounds interesting. Your mention of "much paperwork" reminds me of how far behind I am in my own. When I started researching Bloody Bill Anderson in early 2006, I had no idea how tangled up my work would get. I started out with what my grandmother had told me about Bloody Bill Anderson when I was a kid and then I read Bob Brewer's book. From there, the work rapidly branched off in many directions including the KGC, Brown County history, Quantrill's Guerrillas, the James Gang, genealogy, DNA and on and on, with no end in sight. So, now, I have enough paperwork to do to last me until my dying day...if I live to be 138.

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