Teresa Minard%27s interest in outhouses led to lectures on everyday rural history Those under 50 in rural America are generally unfamiliar with outhouse culture Modern plastic porta-potties are ...

If you drive through Old Town on Halloween weekend, imagine a time when the only paved streets in Scottsdale were short stretches of Main Street and Brown, Indian School and Scottsdale roads. Then ...

Robert E. Lee, whose hobby is excavating old outhouse holes found this single-shot pistol in a Jersey Shore dig of a hole that dated to the mid-1800s. Photo by John Beauge, Special to PennLive ...

AFTON, Minn. - An Afton art studio was recently home to a unique type of treasure hunt. The Old School Art Studio played host last month to an "outhouse dig" by Hastings resident Jim Lewanski, who ...

And you think your backyard stinks. An urban archeologist has refurbished the 19th-century outhouse that came with his Hoyt Street house, and now he’s hoping to transform the primitive bathroom into a ...

For the Midwestern pioneers who endured the relentless prairie wind whipping through the boards of an outhouse in mid-January, indoor plumbing was welcomed with open arms. Yet, according to Richmond ...

An Afton art studio recently was home to a unique type of treasure hunt. The Old School Art Studio played host last month to an “outhouse dig” by Hastings resident Jim Lewanski, who makes a hobby out ...

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, ...

The archaeological discovery of presumably aborted fetuses in outhouses in New York along with pill bottles and historical records have led researchers to conclude that many 19th century American ...

You can find a lot of things at the bottom an old outhouse, including local history. You can find a lot of things at the bottom an old outhouse, including local history. Adventures in Privy Digging ...