Someone on a college web site was nice enough to convert a large number of 1800/1900 Delaware maps into Google KMZ files and post them online.
I downloaded them several months ago but just started looking at them a few weeks ago. I was able to overlay them on top of "Todays" Google Earth locations.
Basically what all of this means is that I can click a button and turn on the overlay (old maps) and then click another button on Google Earth and it will show todays map. So I can see where
some very old houses/schools/churches "were" and where the location of the structures are "today". Using the "today" location I pull the owner information from the
Delaware online tax records and contacted a few owners to see if they will let me detect on their property.
Using this process from above I found an old house a few miles from my house in Lewes, De and after pulling the tax info I contacted the owner and he gave
me permission to MD on his property. The location where the old house was located was a heavily wooded area approx. 75 acres. It took me two visits
into the woods but I found the depression in the woods yesterday where the house was located and began dirt fishing. I found a metal blade of some
kind, a 1794 Liberty Cap half cent, a few flat buttons, a ball from a long rifle, and two coins so badly worn I can't see the dates .....
I plan to go back to the house in the near future and dig out some of the cellar depression to see if I can find any other goodies.
I downloaded them several months ago but just started looking at them a few weeks ago. I was able to overlay them on top of "Todays" Google Earth locations.
Basically what all of this means is that I can click a button and turn on the overlay (old maps) and then click another button on Google Earth and it will show todays map. So I can see where
some very old houses/schools/churches "were" and where the location of the structures are "today". Using the "today" location I pull the owner information from the
Delaware online tax records and contacted a few owners to see if they will let me detect on their property.
Using this process from above I found an old house a few miles from my house in Lewes, De and after pulling the tax info I contacted the owner and he gave
me permission to MD on his property. The location where the old house was located was a heavily wooded area approx. 75 acres. It took me two visits
into the woods but I found the depression in the woods yesterday where the house was located and began dirt fishing. I found a metal blade of some
kind, a 1794 Liberty Cap half cent, a few flat buttons, a ball from a long rifle, and two coins so badly worn I can't see the dates .....
I plan to go back to the house in the near future and dig out some of the cellar depression to see if I can find any other goodies.
