{"id":11,"date":"2006-11-10T08:38:41","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T13:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/using-historic-civil-war-battle-maps-for-treasure-hunts\/"},"modified":"2007-01-10T08:18:41","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T13:18:41","slug":"using-historic-civil-war-battle-maps-for-treasure-hunts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/11\/using-historic-civil-war-battle-maps-for-treasure-hunts\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Historic Civil War Battle Maps for Treasure Hunts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"147322a129097e1fa44d6732c925fd6d\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-8134560547846945\";\r\n\/* 468x60 tha *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1487607395\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<table width=\"250\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"105\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/images\/products\/72_small.gif\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><br clear=\"all\" \/><font size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/products\/The-Civil-War-Map-C-78.html\">Civil War Map Collection Series 797 Detailed Maps on 12 CDs<\/a><\/font><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>A key to a successful treasure or relic hunt with a metal detector is research.    If you want to have a chance of finding interesting relics, you need to know    where activities occurred that could leave a trail of artifacts. For instance,    if you knew the location of an abandoned mining camp from 150 years ago, you    could probably find a variety of unique mining memorabilia buried in the ground.    The same with wars. If you knew the location of an old battlefield, chances    are very good that you could find old bullets and other metal peices &#8211; such    as buttons from uniforms, etc. in the area.<\/p>\n<p>So how does one research these things?<\/p>\n<p>The easiest way is with accurate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/categories\/Antique-Maps\/index.html\">maps<\/a> that were created during the time period   in question. They will pinpoint key battle areas that can then be correlated   with modern maps to give you a good location to start your search. Other good   research tools are old newspapers from the location and era you are interested   in researching and local historians in the smaller towns in the area.<\/p>\n<p>If you do good research before beginning your adventure, your chances of discovering   interesting bits of history are greatly increased. And of course the enjoyment   of the event is much higher with each success you have.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehistoricalarchive.com%2Fhappenings%2F11%2Fusing-historic-civil-war-battle-maps-for-treasure-hunts%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px;margin-top:5px;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil War Map Collection Series 797 Detailed Maps on 12 CDs A key to a successful treasure or relic hunt with a metal detector is research. If you want to have a chance of finding interesting relics, you need to know where activities occurred that could leave a trail of artifacts. For instance, if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}