Research Location Items-- Magazines, Books and Maps

Over the years I have collected quite a few books written about metal detecting and treasure hunting. I also have collected "treasure hunting" magazines from the mid 1960's on up to the present. In the 60's up to the mid 80's, in the US, titles of detecting magazines were "Treasure", "Treasure Search", "Treasure Found", "Western and Eastern Treasures", "World of Treasure", "Lost Treasure", "Treasure World", "Western Treasures" and "Treasure Search and Found" among a few others. Presently only 2 are published in the US, "Western and Eastern Treasures" and "Lost Treasure". There have been a handfull of articles written about Houston in these magazines and I have tried to get all of them and put them in the magazine binders. I have 6 of these binders with the issues that have articles I thought have been most interesting.

Among the metal detecting books I have in my collection of almost 100 books, are the following ;

Advanced Coin Shooting, by Patrick Fahey

Coinshooting, by H. Glenn Carson

Coinshooting II Digging Deeper Coins,

by H. Glenn Carson

Coinshooting III, by H. Glenn Carson

Competition Treasure Hunting,
 by Ernie Curlee                          
Diamonds in the Surf, by Bob Trevillian and Frank Carter
Metal Detecting Previously Hunted Sites,
 by Vince Pascucci
Modern Metal Detectors, by Charles Garrett
Professional Treasure Hunter, by George Mroczkowski
Search !, by James Warnke
Successful Coin Hunting, by Charles Garrett
Successful Treasure Hunting, by Lance Comfort
Sudden Wealth, by Deek Gladson

Cache Hunting, by H. Glenn Carson

Find More Silver Coinshooting Parks and Schools,

 by Robbie Morin

The Detectorist, by Robert Sickler

　

I also have about a dozen different year city maps of Houston from 1939 to present,

(1939,1950,1952,1955,1958,1960,1962,1965,1968,1972,1978,1982,1990,2006,2012) which shows parks, schools, roads,important buildings and where the city limit lines had been located over the years. Some of the city parks had been in use before the areas had been annexed to the city.

Example--- a particular park that the city aquired in 1971, is shown on a 1962 city map outside the city limits----- --and a park that the city aquired in 1952 is on a 1939 city map, also just outside the city limits line----------When the city annexed the areas outside the city limits the parks then became aquired by the city the year of the annexation. Older maps showlots of details about where prime searching location will be.

Many maps of the area you might be interested in are available on eBay. that is where I found all of these maps.