Group Hunt????

[TmanfromTexas]

Hey guys!!! I spoke with a friend of mine that has 6 acres in Westville. He said we could detect it. I dont know if anything has ever been there but 6 acres is 6 acres. If anyone is up to it let me know and maybe we can set up date. TMAN...

[Ed - QUICKSILVER(appletree)]

I'm going now T, no really I would like to go! but my schedule keeps changing!!! you guys plan something if I can make it I'll let you know! then you can watch in awwwwwww as a pro cleans the whole 6 acres out!!!!!! LMAO How freaking long is your Tesoro going to be in the shop?

[TmanfromTexas]

I will let ya know Ed. Probably on a weekend soon. He is going to be building a house there soon so I want us to get over there. As far as the Tesoro, it shipped today. They said nothing was wrong with it. I spoke with a guy yesterday about it. He said he field tested it and it worked fine. I dont understand, if you discrim out iron, and it still sounds off, how it can be fine. I plan on taking it out this weekend and if its still pinging when it shouldnt I am gonna put the clean sweep coil on it and probably buy the x70. The thing that pissed me off was that he said it may not be the detector for me but they have others that I might like. Hell if I dont like this one I sure aint buying another. Time will tell. TMAN...

[bottlebum]

Sounds like I might have to take a trip soon!!

[Codes]

Hey Tman, can we get some more details on this place? Do you know any history of the property or the area? Also, could you get an aerial picture of it too so we can start thinking of places to hunt?

Thanks,
Codes

[Titan Man]

Hi Tman
I am interested in the group hunt. Is the place in Indiana or Ohio? If it is in Indiana it is about 119 miles from where I Live. Let me know what the plan is if it works out. Is there any history info available?

Titan Man

[bottlebum]

I think that if we are going to go to do a group hunt soon that we should try and do it when Ed has a weekend off and hunt someplace w- some history.

It's going to cost me a couple hundred in gas alone!! Sounds like Titan Man will have some gas expenses also. Just my 2 cents...

[Ed - QUICKSILVER(appletree)]

Yeah!!!!!!! I second that!!!!! Ed's Invisible Friend Pull my finger

[TmanfromTexas]

Guys I will check on the history with my friend. I will try and get an ariel or at least a better location for yall to view. I dont have google earth as I am on a work computer but I will check out live and see if I can save and upload an image. TMAN...

[Goio-AKA-Iron Man]

hey Tman,

how about we go scout the place up and then report back as to what we find there! :) If there is Iron there, I will find it!!!

[Ed - QUICKSILVER(appletree)]

History of Westville, Indiana



A Brief History
In February, 1829, Henry Clyburn left Ottawa, Ill., with his wife, Sarah, and her family to settle in what is now LaPorte County.

Sarah's father, Stephen Benedict, had died the year before, and according to custom, her brothers were to be "bound out," given homes with friends and relatives in return for the work they could do. Faced with family disintegration, Sarah's mother sought a new home elsewhere. Clyburn recommended the area of "La Porte," the door, a natural opening through the timber from one beautiful prairie to another. He had passed and passed again through the door on trips to visit relatives in Niles, Michigan.

The journey of Clyburn and the Benedict family was a severe undertaking. It was a bitterly cold February, and the travelers encountered blinding snowstorms almost daily as they plodded their way with ox teams. The cold froze the pioneers' faces. Some days, sleet and snow filled the lead oxen's eyes and it could not see. The leaders were placed behind until the new leaders could no longer see. Sometimes the wagon broke through the crust of snow, and the travelers extricated it by prying the wheels out with their bedrails. When they arrived here, 15 inches of snow covered the ground.

It was March 15, and the family established a camp, feeding trees branches and whatever prairie grass they could find of their cattle. Henry Clyburn, with the help of the Benedict boys, set out to build a cabin. By most accounts, it was the first white settlement in LaPorte County. It was also the beginning of Westville.

Those settlers helped make Westville's New Durham Township, one of the county's original three, along with Kankakee and Scipio. The widow Benedict was given the honor of naming the new territory and she choose the name New Durham in honor of her birthplace, Durham, New York.

In July of that first year, Elizabeth Miriam Clyburn was born to Henrly and Sarah. She was the first white child born in the county.

News spread of the pleasant country and its good land and more settlers were drawn. The first were William Eahart and Samuel Johnson from Niles, where Henry had taken his grain to be milled. Jacob Inglewright also came here from near Niles during the first year.


Historical Marker