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re: Anything historically cool about your hunting location?
Posted on 10/24/14 at 7:43 am to LSUballs
Posted on 10/24/14 at 7:43 am to LSUballs
Our family land down in South AL is just old farm land mostly. The camp house is the house my grandmother grew up in. Her daddy built it on the same site as the older house built by one of his great grandfathers. The original steps are still out front.
Also has the remnants of the old share croppers house at the edge of the field. Its fallen in now though.
At the other piece of property where my grandfather grew up, there is still the old general store/butcher shop / post office that his dad ran - he was also the postmaster.
The place we hunt up here is jsut rocky hills. It was farmed on the ridges at one point in history. We still can see sections of old stacked stone walls.
Also has the remnants of the old share croppers house at the edge of the field. Its fallen in now though.
At the other piece of property where my grandfather grew up, there is still the old general store/butcher shop / post office that his dad ran - he was also the postmaster.
The place we hunt up here is jsut rocky hills. It was farmed on the ridges at one point in history. We still can see sections of old stacked stone walls.
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Posted on 10/24/14 at 7:54 am to Chris4x4gill2
My hunting spot was homesteaded way back when by my family. My sons will be the sole owners if my no account cousin dont have kids which is highly unlikely. It's been pieced off to other cousins I dont know, but I operate on 120 acres that is untouched. My dad used to find arrow heads in the garden all the time. We still stay in the house that my great grand father built when my grandmaw was in highschool. We just replaced the roof a few years ago.
Posted on 10/24/14 at 8:25 am to 4X4DEMON
Wiki write up on the dudes they chunked in the lake on my land
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In August 1922, in a case that would attract national attention, members of the Ku Klux Klan abducted two white men--Filmore Watt Daniel and Thomas Fletcher Richard--in Mer Rouge. After torturing and killing the men, the Klansmen disposed of their bodies in nearby Lake Lafourche. Following the killings, Louisiana Governor John M. Parker sought help from the U.S. Department of Justice in suppressing Klan violence within the state.[2] There is a hill that serves as a boundary between Mer Rouge and Bastrop, named Red Hill. The name Mer Rouge was named by its founder, Davenport, naming it after the red wavy soil of the hill.
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This post was edited on 10/24/14 at 8:27 am
Posted on 10/24/14 at 9:04 am to LSUballs
Family owned land for more than a century. We have indian mound with ancestors buried there too.
Also Jefferson Davis's plantation was on the isle right across the chute from us.
Also Jefferson Davis's plantation was on the isle right across the chute from us.
Posted on 10/24/14 at 9:12 am to LSUballs
Pretty cool stuff. One of my good friend's deer camp is and old Confederate Army bunkhouse in the Tallulah/Vicksburg area. Lots of civil war history on the lease, pretty sure it contains a battle site or something like that.... to many white can drank there to remember specifics...
Posted on 10/24/14 at 9:25 am to TexasTiger01
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many white can
so dam racist
Posted on 10/24/14 at 9:26 am to TexasTiger01
quote:One was left at my camper. It was all I had yesterday. I completed it, but it was tough. Damn that's some gross shite.
to many white can
Posted on 10/24/14 at 9:47 am to Dodd
Cool thread Dodd. there is quite a bit of history, though I don't know much of it. There is a big concrete cistern looking thing by the shooting range. I forgot what it was used for 
that is the least cool thing.
What we call the boat hole, is a levied off area that is still 50' deep. some guys a few years back leased 40 acres and started digging for a civil war boat that was there. they thought it had gold in it. They left.....I guess they ran out of money before they found the gold or there was no gold.
we had to stop going down one ridge, the two track on top of it was wearing it down a little and some bones were starting to show. now we go around the old grave site. no head markers so it is really old or poor or both. when we finally realized it was a grave yard, we got to walk around and check it out before it was taped off. you cold see the outline of a couple of skulls that like the front was worn away and it is a sectional view. A little freaky.
we can't remove anything metal or use a metal detector for fear it might become a historic site.
that is the least cool thing. What we call the boat hole, is a levied off area that is still 50' deep. some guys a few years back leased 40 acres and started digging for a civil war boat that was there. they thought it had gold in it. They left.....I guess they ran out of money before they found the gold or there was no gold.
we had to stop going down one ridge, the two track on top of it was wearing it down a little and some bones were starting to show. now we go around the old grave site. no head markers so it is really old or poor or both. when we finally realized it was a grave yard, we got to walk around and check it out before it was taped off. you cold see the outline of a couple of skulls that like the front was worn away and it is a sectional view. A little freaky.
we can't remove anything metal or use a metal detector for fear it might become a historic site.
Posted on 10/24/14 at 9:53 am to Dodd
They area I hunt is bordered by the small cemetary where Mickey Schunick's body was found. We have hunted that area for over 20 years and used to run around in that cemetary all the time when we were younger.
Posted on 10/24/14 at 9:53 am to ReelFun
We own in the area where Theodore Roosevelt camped and hunted for the first two weeks of his Louisiana Bear hunt in 1907. (Quite possibly the actual campsite)
Was also the site of western front lines and several small engagements during the siege and occupation of Vicksburg
Was also the site of western front lines and several small engagements during the siege and occupation of Vicksburg
Posted on 10/24/14 at 9:57 am to ReelFun
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What we call the boat hole, is a levied off area that is still 50' deep. some guys a few years back leased 40 acres and started digging for a civil war boat that was there. they thought it had gold in it. They left.....I guess they ran out of money before they found the gold or there was no gold.
CH?
Posted on 10/24/14 at 10:18 am to FelicianaTigerfan
yep
Posted on 10/24/14 at 10:20 am to ReelFun
Thought so. My dad just joined this year. Ive been fishing that backwater for years.
A friends dad was a big player in the attempted excavation of that boat. River rose and flooded everything out and they decided to cut their losses.
A friends dad was a big player in the attempted excavation of that boat. River rose and flooded everything out and they decided to cut their losses.
Posted on 10/24/14 at 10:26 am to FelicianaTigerfan
cool. shoot me a message
This post was edited on 10/24/14 at 10:33 am
Posted on 10/24/14 at 10:38 am to ReelFun
<- @yahoo
Posted on 10/24/14 at 10:48 am to FelicianaTigerfan
Supposedly there was this White long haired creature that used to run around on our property. A few locals claimed to have seen it and my Gmas cousin who would walk the woods daily, one morning came home white as a ghost and the same weak moved chicago.
Jesse James supposedly buried a chest of gold stolen from the railroads in the creek that runs along our property.
Also, some black freed slaves buried their gold from an old plantation home on our property. The freed slaves were merchants in NOLA. They came back to get it and the thicket had grown up. My gma was a little girl but swears the gold is buried out front near our prime box stand.
Jesse James supposedly buried a chest of gold stolen from the railroads in the creek that runs along our property.
Also, some black freed slaves buried their gold from an old plantation home on our property. The freed slaves were merchants in NOLA. They came back to get it and the thicket had grown up. My gma was a little girl but swears the gold is buried out front near our prime box stand.
Posted on 10/24/14 at 10:54 am to FelicianaTigerfan
sent you an email. let me no here if you didn't get it.
Posted on 10/24/14 at 11:05 am to ReelFun
Our land in MS (Port Gibson/Rocky Springs area) also was used by the confederate and we have found several relics from the solders. We have another property in Onward, MS that is a part of the land that Teddy Roosevelt did his famous bear hunt. My stepdad's dad is really big into that stuff and actually tracked the (supposedly) tree that they tied the bear off too. He apparently refused to shoot the tied up bear.
This post was edited on 10/24/14 at 11:06 am
Posted on 10/24/14 at 11:45 am to LSUballs
Some POS women and her boyfriend killed her then husband and dumped him on our place. Grandpaw found him in the ditch. That's about all the history we got
Posted on 10/24/14 at 12:06 pm to Dodd
About 15 years ago, an old woman and her son were living in our old farm house at my farm and it burned to the ground the day before Christmas.
My pow pow said let it burn and let the insurance handle it, yet he and many other people helped them out greatly to restore their Christmas somewhat.
A little while down the road, it came out that they were cooking/selling/using meth and it burned down as a result of that
We kept the slab and built a shop over it.
My pow pow said let it burn and let the insurance handle it, yet he and many other people helped them out greatly to restore their Christmas somewhat.
A little while down the road, it came out that they were cooking/selling/using meth and it burned down as a result of that
We kept the slab and built a shop over it.
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