History in a Pickle Jar

A Time Capsule was unearthed that was buried about 1850, from the news piece:

Athol (Massachusetts) Historical Society President Susannah Whipps-Lee said the time capsule — which has yet to be opened — was made from an old glass container that looked like a pickle jar with a rusted metal screw top. It was buried about 150 years ago, she explained, in what is known as the Old Indian Cemetery or Settlers Burial Ground, which has no gravestones.

The capsule has not been opened yet, but could contain some important and surely interesting documents. The capsule has perhaps as many as “300 documents” and was discovered by Athol history teacher Keith Williams who had read about the possibility of a buried time capsule in an Athol Town History book.