Part of my house is kinda old.

[Nebraska]

 

 

I am firmly sunk into a honey do bathroom remodeling project. Put the sub floor down last night.  When we purchased the old place 23 years ago it was the very first room we spruced up, as it seemed to be the very first incarnation of modern indoor plumbing.

Just found these two square nails that had fallen into the gap of the floor boards along the edge of the wall.  I wonder if the old carpenters who built this thought the house would still be sitting here 150 years ish later.  Little one is from the lath and horsehair plaster that was on the walls,  larger is from the sheeting boards  on tbe inside of the house. There were none on the outside walls just cedar clapboard siding straight to 2x4 rough sawn studs.
It was a chilly old house when we moved in.. I will put these in the coffee can with the rest that I have saved.

[kantuckid]

Are you near a river in NE? Where imported stuff could come in on flat boats, later paddle boats, etc.? My relatives in the NE corner of KS/SE corner of NE/NW corner of MO- at the Missouri River corner it would probably be a common nail there in old bldgs..
 Otherwise might be odd to see cut nails out there? I bought several styles from the still going Tremont Nail Co. for esthetics when I built our home. Most cut nails were not handmade like one offs from blacksmith's, they were made from iron sheets on steam hammer mills, only a few came from Blacksmiths I think?
Old stuff I've torn down here in E KY-these old folks saved every nail from earlier buildings, straightened them and kept on going. 

[Nebraska]

Yes a trip to the Missouri river would have been  a full day with a wagon, but yes close enough for freight.  These nails are mass produced ones not black Smith hand made type..  

[Sedgehammer]

@Nebraska , Pat them is kinda cool , err I don't mean how cold the house usetawas , but ... you know ... :D 

I wonder how many of our new 'better' built mass stamped out homes will still be standing in 150 years . I suspect the ones I have built for myself might be as long as a tornader or developer doesn't take them down . i always get from the 'help' that I'm too fussy and I don't have to build it to withstand a nuclear blast type complaints ....

My first house in WI was built in the very late 1800's . Was built like a brick turd house . Only thing that went bad on it was the stone walled basement caved in . It was a cold house also when I bought it . Same type of insulation yours had .... brrrrr type