FIND A PLACE TO METAL DETECT RESEARCH

Sir, I am a Professor of Journalism from New Delhi(India). Though, I have seen many videos related to metal detecting research earlier, yours is by far the best one. Its highly informative, exhaustive and unique too.I am very impressed. I confess, I have become your fan. I will be seeing this one again and again so that all the nuances sink in my mind. Its an invaluable contribution to the metal detecting fraternity. I have subscribed it and I will be seeing all your videos to benefit from your deep knowledge of various aspects of metal detecting. Keep the good work going on!

None of that was boring. Excellent information. I’ve never been much of a history buff, but this truly inspires me to learn the local history, and then go detect it. Thank you so much for this video.

Top notch! You did a superb job with this video from start to finish. Concise and complete, thorough explanations, you're a natural teacher. Patient and gifted! I bought my first brand new metal detector, White's Spectrum XLT, in the summer of 1997. The very next day and every day after, 5 days a week, for a couple of weeks, I drove an hour one way to the Historical Archives Building in downtown Montgomery, Alabama to research places to detect. I'd get there in the morning as the doors were being unlocked, first person in and was the last to leave in the afternoon at quittin' time. Each day I'd read through a stack of quarterly historical books pertaining to the county I lived in and a few surrounding. For hours and hours each day, I hand wrote notes on looseleaf paper in a three ring binder. And each day my fingers would cramp on the drive home. After reaching an inch thick goal of those handwritten notes I'd compiled, together with a stack of select photocopied pages of microfilmed newspapers, each copy costing a quarter, I figured this would be more places to search than I could cover in a lifetime. LMAO! I had a lot to learn! And so the next day I began detecting. Took many many years to near about locate all those places, but the part I still to this day laugh about is, yeah, that list was massive but I've since then searched the grounds of fifty times that number of sites. LOL! Thanks so very much for teaching this old dog a new trick!!! Plenty more new places to dig! That adrenaline rush is still intense between me and my XLT!

I have never thought about trying to find an old plat map online. That was such a cool thing to discover. Amazing how much land one person owned in the 1800's. I've looked at 10 or so maps going back 170+ years showing my entire side of town owned by 10 or so people, 200+ acres each, then as time passes it breaks down into a few smaller pieces, but all still huge, then smaller, and smaller into what is now a bunch of neighborhoods with each piece of land less than an acre. Amazing to see and very helpful with detecting.Thanks for turning me towards this stuff. Another cool place to look is on Newspapers.com where you can find articles from your local newspapers dating back a hundred or more years talking about where gold had been found, stolen loot from robberies, and ads about lost rings and jewelry etc. I saw an ad in our newspaper's lost and found from 1898 about a woman's diamond ring lost in a park by my house. If you're ever in Indiana hit me up, I might need your help looking for it. It says "If found call 1274." Hopefully its not disconnected. 🤞

Thanks! you opened the buried door I couldn’t find! Thought I was needing a research DETECTOR to find this ... LOL! Man that helps this old man out. Awesome well presented informational instructions. You have plethora of knowledge. Thanks for sharing!!

Thank you for referring to this video when someone asked you about your maps and research. I shared this video to my Facebook page, so others can learn from your knowledge as well. Your information is invaluable to me!! 😃👍

This might be one of your longer videos but it wasn't long to watch because you made it very interesting. You really have a super video here for detectorist that are very serious about wanting to find great places to hunt. You are going to get a lot of people watching this video. I'd put money on that. Well sir, thank you for sharing all this awesome information.

I took a whole page of notes. Learned things that will greatly enhance my hobby. Your videos are not only interesting, but so personally informative. I have a hard time watching the others on YouTube which are only guys in a picture, and a shot of the hole, with a frame of the target in hand. No other information. Your great at knowing what THer's really want to know and see. Thanks.

I still come back to this video to re-learn stuff. Thanks😊👍

This was the No. 1 best informative video I have ever seen. Thank you so very much, it added Tremendously to my search quest.

This is an amazing resource, I've watched it before but I think I could watch it over and over again to remember some of these tricks. Great video, thanks so much for putting this together!!!

Very well done and put together. With the internet basically in the palm of everyone's hand its amazing what is out there to help with research. Thanks for sharing your tips. Enjoyed watching and take care.

That was perhaps the best video I have seen. The tips you presented are invaluable and thank you so much.

Hey Kenny, writing from Smyrna, Ga. Thanks for this fantastic video! Realized a couple weeks ago (ah ha moment) research was the key to good finds and have been studying the post Civil War maps commissioned by the U.S. War Department. Fascinating how accurate the maps are when compared to Google Maps today. It's actually stunning! The engineers who did that work back then did a fantastic job. Please continue to provide content that may to you seem "obvious", because what is obvious to you, isn't necessarily obvious to everyone else. Your videos are EXCELLENT. They are entertaining and delightful. Thank you so much. Your work is very much appreciated! On a side note... I live in a condo where, according to the old maps, confederate fortifications were built... right below my feet. Literally. And society paved right over it. For those of us who love history, it's almost heart breaking. It's ironic that laws have been established to prevent us from metal detecting and preserving history but it's OK to build new construction over historical sites. WTH? If you can use your platform to advocate for our passion, please do. Treasure hunting is part of it.. certainly. But I am into it for archeological reasons too! God bless you and keep going! We love what you're doing!

I would like to say thank you. I have been looking for this type of video for some time. Your video has given me much needed information. 👍👍😃

This is a great information video for people starting into this hobby. We use the Sanborne Maps and Historical Aerial Maps for our research.

Thanks for sending me to this video. Others have tried to show how to find maps or areas like this, but you made it easy and Much more informative. Wish more detectorist that have sites would help others to find these locations before development wipes away history. Again thank you

Awesome video, it’s going to be a huge help. I’m going to sit down this weekend and look into all those map sources you provided. Sanborn maps are really cool. Thanks for taking the time to make this video to help out the community.

SSM = Steam Saw Mill I believe, where SM is usually water powered on the old maps. Thanks for the video, the LLC search was really a big help to me. Thanks for sharing and God Bless!

Not long and boring...possibly one of the most informative MD videos ever, nice job