Greetings All.
Well, I promised an update and here goes.
I am Still working and living during the Week down at Fort Myers, Florida. We are doing the Archaeological Survey for an 8000 acre Citrus Grove (Oranges, Grapefruit, lemons, etc). We are currently nearing the project's end and up to this week have not found a damn thing other than an old Hand adzed (a wood working tool - think carved) part to a wagon hitch (prob 1920s-30s).
Now at least, we have something of interest,,, a town. Yep,,, a whole Damn Town. We know that it was first settled in the early 1900 and was abandoned sometime between 1944 and 1953. It is all plowed up Grove now. We spotted it on an old aerial photo. I did some research and found out that it was a small community called Corkscrew Settlement. It contained about 20 odd families at its height and although it never had a store or a church, it did have a school between 1923-1946. Around 1946, it got its first "all-weather road" (a hard Shell road). A small part of this old road is still visable on the surface. We are doing our shovel tests on a 20 meter grid right now trying to zero in on the exact spot of the settlement. There is just nothing on the surface right now to show us anything. It is all underground.
Sometime between 1946 and 1953 it was wiped off the map literally. In the 1953 photo, not a SINGLE structure was still standing, not even a fallen in Shack. All gone. Our guess right now, and I think the obvious one, is that it was hit by a Hurricane. We are still trying to narrow the time down. The groves did not begin to come in until around 1958 (another aerial photo).
Anyways, we figure that the Project will last another 2 or 3 weeks. Until then I will try to get online occasionally via a piss poor wireless connection. It is too slow to do much more on Fubar than use the Shout and post a bulletin, but I can at least view my Comments. And I want to Thank everyone who has been leaving them over the past few weeks.
LUV YA & Brighest Blessings,
Eugene
