Exide lead-acid battery dump at an old substation site. One lead tag attached to a lid is dated 1 16 46 so I assume they were or installed in 1946. There were two sizes, large and small. Unfortunately all the large batteries are broken but two small ones can be saved along with 30 lids. The building that housed the batteries was located atop the bank the jars and lids have been found on. It was a brick building with a granite and cement foundation.

The batteries work as a car battery only more powerful. Lead plates were submerged in sulfuric acid with ends positive and negative just like a car battery, only these are 69 years old and for use by the power company.

Mike Green and I discovered this dump a few years ago as it was an important substation built in 1906. The batteries are about the only thing found that wasn't busted into smithereens or modern insulators tossed from the Duke substation.