How I find cellar holes and old home sites

Just wanted to share a helpful website I use to find cellar holes. Historicaerials.com . I used it this fall and found some cool sites and some great things. It's free and easy to use. There is annoying copyright mark but for free I can deal with it. I used one of my locations as an example. It's been hit hard and well known for years so don't mind posting it. Heres a quick tutorial on how to use it....

When you open the site type in your location and go to the oldest topo map option. Looks like this...

The black dots are homes in 1900. The next thing I do is go up under overlays tab and select all roads.

This will make all of today's roads show up in yellow.

I can see the abandoned roads now and the homes on it so now I got through the topo dates on left to see when the homes disappear. In this case 1973 the roads and homes aren't even on the map so I know they have some age.

Here comes the cool part lol....

Up in the compare tab is the slide option...

I'll zoom in a bit on the homes first...

Click the "slide" option in compare tab and it opens google earth image on right side...

Now use the slide bar on bottom to overlay a recent aerial image over the area and see how it looks today.

From here I open google earth, find these locations and use the cursor to get exact coordinates. Plug them into gps and go find em! WITH PERMISSION! This site has helped me find enough 1800's sites to keep me busy for a lifetime. Hope it helps others if you don't already know about it.  GL+HH

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  • what a great site!  thank you for the information

  • Nice mini-tutorial ! Good info as well .

  • Pretty slick, Bob

  • very cool Bob thank you

  • excellent Bob thank you for sharing with us, the info is great and I am sure it will help a lot of people out thanks again

  • thank you bob ill be using this around hear.  

  • Great info and demo!  Thanks!

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