Midwest Lost Site Blog

This post will be cross posted between my personal blog and the Midwest Lost blog.

This last weekend, I went out with Ron (Carrie’s father) to go metal detecting. The event was put on by dfxonly.com metal detecting club, and was held at Camp Tuscazoar in North East Ohio.

This was my first adventure in metal detecting, although I had always wanted to try it. I have to say I greatly enjoyed it and cannot wait to be able to go out again. I met a lot of great guys (and ladies), and had a lot of fun. The stuff the group found was awesome. Personally, I found some old rifle shell casings (there were a lot of these just laying on the surface, as the camp had been used by the US military at some point for training), a silver plated spoon, this really neat twisted tent spike that I suspect may be wrought iron, and a 1944 Walking Liberty silver half dollar. I would have been very very happy with the other things I found. The Walking Liberty was just icing on the cake. Ofcourse I would have been equally happy with any coinage. Be it a wheat back penny, a buffalo nickel, or really anything. Being my first coin, I’m very very excited.

I’ve spoken with Ron, and we are discussing other sites to visit and explore. We are starting to discuss other places we can go and we may go out next weekend for afew hours.

If you poke around the site, you sill see some minor changes. I’m actually (once again) performing a rewrite of the site. Usually I try to ensure there are no broke links, spelling and grammar are corrected, generally clean up, and and make minor changes. Most of the changes are behind the scenes. You will notice the link colors have changed. This is because I have started adding style sheets to the site.

With the “upgrades” to the site, it only took me a matter of hours (rather than days) to update all of the HTML. Moving forward, the changes I made will allow me to write new pages faster. This is a very good thing because I tend to drag my feet in writing the HTML after I have the photographs up.

I’m very very satasifed with the site. Please let me know of any comments or feedback you have. Also let me know if I missed any broke links or pictures.

I’m sorry for not getting the HTML done sooner, it seems I forgot to write pages for Agudas Achim Jewish Cemetery and Mitchell Cemetery. This is an error I have corrected tonight. I also did some clean up on the West Virgina pages. Let me know if you find any broken links or anything else that needs corrected.

This post deals with 2 events. First off, I was giving permission to photography a cemetery that is on the property of a Dublin, Ohio business. This required several emails and coordinating with their PR & security staff. Due to the requirements placed on me, I am not allowed to mention the business, the exact location of the site, or show any pictures that depict their building (which was kind of hard and I was not able to post several of my favorite photos from the shoot).

Mitchell Cemetery

The second piece of of news is that when I visited Salem Cemetery on 10/20/2007, I had the chance to meet with a news paper reporter for The Times Leader. Here is a link to scans of the actual article. I really wish I could have found a copy of it online. This is the first media attention the website has received, so I am pretty excited.

I had visited this cemetery last spring and sorta lost the pictures in the shuffle. This is a very cool little Jewish cemetery with lots of intresting stones. It is located basically at the corner of Alum Creek Drive & Integrity Drive in Columbus, Ohio. When I first went there, I drove past the entrance and had to turn around. I would highly suggest not pulling into the cemetery as there is no where to park/turn around.

Feel free to check out my gallery of the cemetery. I hope to have HTML pages written by the end of this weekend.

I met up with the folks from Egypt Valley Paranormal Investigations (I’ve mentioned them in the previous post). We met at Salem Cemetery, and I got some new pics. Click here to see them. I had a great time meeting the folks, and talking to a news paper reporter from the Times Leader.

The news paper article should appear on Sunday, Oct 28th. I’m waiting to see if myself or the website are mentioned. Wish me luck. I will post any information that relates to the site from the article here.

I also stopped by another cemetery off of SR-147 in Tacoma (near Barnsville, Ohio). I’m working on finding the name for the cemetery. For the time being, I am just calling it the unknown cemetery on 147. Click here to see the pics.

I found the following site while searching around on the internet today. I’ve already contacted the the site and find they are really cool. I look forward to possibly meeting with this group and doing some exploring. Feel free to check out their site:
Egypt Valley Paranormal Investigations

I’ve also done some minor maintenance to the site (mainly fixing broken pictures and spelling errors). This year has been a drag, because I’ve got some personal things going on and have not had a chance to do much exploring. I still hope to go out once or twice before it gets cold.

I found out today that my contact script had died. For anyone that has sent me a message and I never replied, I am sorry. I never got it. I did spend the morning working on a new scripting package. The new package should be a lot more secure, but should look very similar to the old script.

Being as the same script had been running on all 3 of my sites, I will be triple posting this entry.

Sunday morning after going to a ham festival (yes, in my personal life I am an amateur radio operator). Myself and some friends were driving back, and wanted to ride past the new E. L. Bowsher High School they are building. As we rode past it, there was a comment about an old cemetery behind the building site.

It was decided to stop and look around, and I took the chance to snap some pics. These pics are from my cellphone, so they are crappy.

Ron, (one of the people I was with) said he thought he had some older photograph’s of the cemetery from somewhere between the 70’s & the 90’s. If I can get my hands on those pictures, I plan to scan them and get them into the gallery.

Click here for a link to the gallery.

Also, upon further research of the area, across the road (now University of Toledo property) sat an insane asylum and/or a TB hospital. There was also a cemetery there that has long since been moved. If that didn’t make this area cool, there is a small creek near there that was a spur off of the Erie canel, and was used to move stuff to the docks in Maumee, Ohio (or so I have been told). I look foward to researching and exploring this area in the future.