Saturday, June 25, 2016

Interesting Find in Them Thar Woods: 6 '16


There's some interesting stuff  being exposed in them thar woods.  



Even before the forest was  cleared,   I could always see the outline  of of a dark shape about 70 feet into the woods behind unit 108-1, but  I never dared to check it out for fear of snakes and getting eaten alive by mosquitoes.



Once the bulldozer cleared away the undergrowth around it, the  heavily overgrown remnants of a chimney of some sorts emerged.     I got a little excited as I approached it, thinking maybe we had just discovered a rice chimney left over from the days when this land was a plantation. But the both the brick and mortar seem a bit too modern for that era


   On the other hand the shape is wrong for a house chimney, and there is no evidence of there being any building's foundations around it.   Our local farmers  and homeowners typically make  open burn piles  when  they wish to incinerate yard waste, so an out of door incinerator seems unlikely.  It is not clear what this might  have been used for, so it looks like we have a mystery on our hands.  I'm just going to report it to our Homeowners Architectural Review Board,  and let them figure out if it has any historical significance.


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