Rowland Bisher has a nose for local history and will go to great depths to flush out pieces of Easton’s past. For more than a decade, the South Easton painting contractor has descended into ...

Long before modern-day yard sales, garage sales and moving sales, people disposed of their unwanted household items by dropping them down the hole of their outhouse. Broken pottery, used ink bottles, ...

LAFAYETTE — While excavating her home’s old outhouse pit, Rebecca Schwendler set down her trowel and picked up the phone after unearthing what looked like two human finger bones and the top of a human ...

A shack and outhouse on the Mississippi River’s edge, taken in 1917. Image from Carol Aronovici, seen in "Housing Conditions in the City of Saint Paul." INTERVIEWER: So, if you've ever used an old ...

HICKORY CORNERS — Scott Hendrichsen kept sticking a steel rod in the ground until he found what he was looking for. It was 150-year-old poop. Hendrichsen's hobby is collecting antique glass bottles — ...

HICKORY CORNERS, Mich. — Scott Hendrichsen kept sticking a steel rod in the ground until he found what he was looking for. It was 150-year-old poop. Hendrichsen's hobby is collecting antique glass ...

BUXTON, N.D. – An old outhouse pit might not be the first place that comes to mind when searching for buried treasure. But for Tom Askjem, yesterday’s toilets are a treasure trove of information that ...