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February 2023, Recent Relic Finds

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    February 2023, Recent Relic Finds I have not been able to get the relic-hunting machines into the winter fields as much as I would like. I thought about aging and semi-retirement (what I call not being able to find enough business to call myself fully working – believe me I want to work, too!) would give me enough time to sate my overwhelming desire to pull ‘mysteries of histories’ out of the ground. As parenthetically implied above, this is not necessarily true. I still crave the peeps, squeaks, and moans of the metal detector. The weather has not been bad. It is easy digging. I have found plenty of new, often undiscovered and uncovered – by other relic hunters – spots to ply my hobby, and my son, Tom, and I have had some reasonably good finds. But the diggings have been good. Above are displayed one of God’s little anomalies, and yes, relic hunting is a religious experience for me. Concerning the two dimes above, I found the one dated 1856 is exactly 100 years ol...
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Baugh's Mill and Dam, Franklin, TN

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  Baugh's Mill and Dam Franklin, Tennessee, by Frank F. Baugh I cannot believe that I did not know more about this place until I was sixty-five!      Here I had lived my entire life in my hometown of Franklin, Tennessee, and knew little to nothing about this place. But there I stood with my older brother on the south bank of the Harpeth River looking at the ruins of Baugh's Mill and its massive dam located at the bottom of the loop of Baugh's bend of the Harpeth, now bisected by the By-Pass for the first time in my life in March of 2021.      No, it is nothing like standing in awe at the base of the Great Pyramid of Giza. No, it is not like Hiram Bingham stumbling upon the vegetation-overgrown ruins of Machu Pichu in 1911, but for me, it was pretty danged close! [Brother, Joseph Duncan Baugh, Jr. looking at the ruins of Baugh's Mill and Dam, on March 10,  2021]      My mouth must have literally fallen open. My elder brother, Joe, j...
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Fired Bullet from the Franklin Battlefield

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     I just added this new photo of a fired bullet photographed on my card advertising myself as an Historian and relic hunter. The fired bullet on my advertising business card.      I know people who have been able to dig on private property on the Battlefield at Franklin, but strangely, I have never really had that opportunity! But recently I happened to stumble across the opportunity to do so.      In April of this year, (2022) a friend of mine who is restoring a house on Columbia Pike in Franklin Tennessee, in the area of the Civil War Battle of Franklin gave me permission to metal detect the yard seeking relics. He knows that I am always very neat, and it is nigh impossible to see where I have worked. I do not kill the grass or destroy the landscaping, but I do find the History Beneath our Feet!      I discovered long ago that every relic recovered tells a story. They are like pieces to a puzzle that add one more par...
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