Electrician in North Carolina Discovers Historic Documents signed by Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren

A�home renovation turning up secrets from a hundred years ago.

FOX’s Lilian Woo reports:

Electrician German Martinez was helping renovate a home in North Carolina�when he uncovered a compartment hidden behind a layer of drywall and another of plaster and wood.

The find: a tin box and ash covered leather bound books,�among the treasure trove of historic documents, papers signed by presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren.

The Asheville Citizen Times reporting that the papers of Thomas W.�Patton, the house’s original builder,�included presidential signatures on land grants to Patton, who was a captain in the Confederate Army.

Its unclear who hid the correspondence in the historic Patton Parker House which an attorney bought last fall.

Lilian Woo, FOX News.