Posted by Jim Koch on August 05, 19100 at 16:07:11:
In Reply to: Shield nickles and other silver washing up on beach posted by Shanon Cross on August 04, 19100 at 14:41:09:
: When I was in my teens,(i'm now 34)my family moved to the coast of lake Erie. The Vermillion area. Several times during the year old rusty nails would begin appearing in piles at the water line. We would take rakes and rake up a small mound of stones and gravel and let the small waves wash over them. We would begin the find silver shield nickles, St. Christhoper Medallions, and cruxifixs <---sp? Silver was really expensive at the time and I was young, so I don't have them anymore. I don't know if this is helpful information to anyone but if it is let me know.
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Believe it or not, back in the 20s and 30 Vermillion was a summer vacation destination for people from Cleveland. Just today my mother mentioned the fact that her aunt had vacationed there. My mother and a friend spent a week there as well before she had enough cash to afford a cruise up to Georgian Bay. Perhaps there was once a cruise boat pier on the site you mentioned. Such a pier existed at Euclid Beach. It was still there when I was a kid. More recently divers have dug up piles of coins, fishing sinkers, park tokens, jewelry and such on the spot.