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Serious question, I found something weird in my backyard digging a new garden bed.

Last week, I was putting in a small vegetable patch behind my house in Cincinnati. I was about a foot down when my shovel hit something hard and flat. I pulled out a piece of thick, greenish glass, about the size of my hand, with letters and numbers pressed into it. It says 'CINCINNATI SODA WORKS' and has the number '5' on it. My house was built in the 1920s, but I have no idea what this is from. I tried looking it up online and found some old ads for the company from the late 1800s. It's not a whole bottle, just a thick fragment. Is this just old trash, or could it be part of something bigger? Has anyone else dug up factory marks like this in an old neighborhood?

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leerobinson18d ago

Guess your yard was the original recycling bin.

uma_baker991d ago

That "original recycling bin" yard is why I always wear gloves and check for old metal before I dig deep.

tara74518d ago

Finding a piece of factory glass like that is a neat little history lesson. My cousin in Cleveland dug up an old clay pipe stem from the 1890s behind her garage. It's not trash, it's a time capsule. You're holding a piece of the city's old soda business right in your hand. Maybe keep digging, you might find the bottle cap next.