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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 7956248, member: 10461"]In my metal detecting days, I hunted a place near the dunes on Saint Simons Island, Georgia, which had been cleared to build new upscale beachfront condos. The land had been the site of the old Hotel Saint Simons, which was built in 1888 and burned down in 1898. The building that replaced it also subsequently burned in 1910. I found some Indian cents, a Liberty nickel, one brass key fob each from both the first and second hotels, and an interesting enameled festival badge. All of which had to have predated the second fire from 1910.</p><p><br /></p><p>But what was also interesting was how much old glass and tile was unearthed by the bulldozing during the 1990s condo construction. I found the bottoms of old bottles and drinking glasses which had been melted in one of the old hotel fires around the turn of the century.</p><p><br /></p><p>(I don't think there had been any loss of life in either fire. The hotels were seasonal back then, and maybe vacant when they burned. I don't remember the full history.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 7956248, member: 10461"]In my metal detecting days, I hunted a place near the dunes on Saint Simons Island, Georgia, which had been cleared to build new upscale beachfront condos. The land had been the site of the old Hotel Saint Simons, which was built in 1888 and burned down in 1898. The building that replaced it also subsequently burned in 1910. I found some Indian cents, a Liberty nickel, one brass key fob each from both the first and second hotels, and an interesting enameled festival badge. All of which had to have predated the second fire from 1910. But what was also interesting was how much old glass and tile was unearthed by the bulldozing during the 1990s condo construction. I found the bottoms of old bottles and drinking glasses which had been melted in one of the old hotel fires around the turn of the century. (I don't think there had been any loss of life in either fire. The hotels were seasonal back then, and maybe vacant when they burned. I don't remember the full history.)[/QUOTE]
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