>>2665900Not really honestly. The woods where I grew up had a farm going back to about 1690. The barn burned down in the 1780s. A prominent member of my town wrote a comprehensive history of the town in his old age, in 1850. He talks about the spots where Indians used to live in the early colonial days, where their relics were often found in the mud, and he mentions that farm on what was then called Mt Pleasant, and how the foundation still exists lost in the overgrowth (again, this was in 1850), and also that there was a root cellar nearby that by the time he was a boy had already been lost.
Well, my friends and I found the foundation of the barn. Incredible foundation considering when it was built, giant granite stones and the foundation was about 7 feet deep in the ground. No idea how pre-industrial colonials even quarried and built that.
We searched off and on for years for where this lost root cellar might be, but we never found it. Granted the Mt Pleasant farm did cover about 300 acres which is now almost all thick spoopy forest.
I did have an encounter with a mountain lion a couple miles from home in a part of the country where Dept of Conservation denies their existence, but I have no proof of this.
Pickerel, one night drunk me and my friend were stumbling around the woods absolutely certain that we were going to get lucky and uncover this 300 year old root cellar. We didn't find it.
There are several similar known root cellars around the area dating from between about the time of King Philip's War and the French & Indian War. Even those which are well visited for hundreds of years have yielded interesting archeological tidbits when a proper dig has been approved. Imagine a root cellar that has been covered and lost and undisturbed for 250 years.
