AN AMAZING TIME CAPSULE - 1789 KUYKENDALL MANOR 

The house and its contents are so well preserved that it would make sense to turn it into a museum. Thanks for sharing.

Was so very excited to see this. I'm a Kuykendall, a descendant of Abraham Kuykendall (1719-1812). He was awarded 600 acres by the state of NC in the late 1780's for his service during the American Revolution in Flat Rock NC, not far from where I live today in the Mtns of WNC. Don't know much of my heritage but long to know more. Just wish I knew how the families tied together! Thanks so much for sharing this!

Absolutely 100% a museum. I think the train ticket idea is a great idea. What a remarkable piece of history. 💖 From Australia

I would lean towards a museum. Please don’t make new holes in anything or fill in any wood as in the floor boards. Love to see how everyday life effected the house’s components. What a national treasure and I hope it survives another several hundred years. Thanks to the max for taking us along from WA state 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸

It's not mud that joined the stones to build the barn. It was lime mortar, and the reason that the walls were so thick is that the crew who constructed it were from the British isles,where they would have been building castles 🏰 and churches ⛪️. I am a Historian, and as soon as I saw the architecture, I guessed who built it. This is my first time watching your channel and I will subscribe! ❤

Looks like "Edna" scratched into the stone, which was a common woman's name back in the day. That thing shown near the beginning with the 4 shallow impressions is an egg poacher, I believe. I have an old timey kitchen and use something similar to poach just one egg at a time. I sure vote for a museum, possibly with some living history. Was so very cool to have someone with you that has memories of the house.

Could the state help with grants? This place is a rare gem. Incredible place. Fantastic video Todd

This house looks so well preserved. Like a 18th century time capsule.

Todd, I am in awe. This was so interesting. When you have an opportunity to help save, and possibly restore a historic home and property as this, then it is a day's work well done. Amen.

This is Historic site and should be kept as a wonderful museum of the past History just the way it is like a time capsule to pst lives.

I really enjoyed this. I think the home should be turned into a museum. There’s so much to learn from visiting this site. I think more people would have access to it as a museum. Thanks for posting this video.

Its great to see this property with open pasture and no modern buildings, electrical or cell phone towers in sight.

Very interesting! So much history should be preserved for posterity. A house museum with a restaurant would be ideal. Kuykendall is originally a Dutch name (from the Netherlands) it used to be ‘van Kuykendal’, meaning that the name signifies a place or district in the country. Kuyken means chick 🐥 and -dal means valley. In the Netherlands it is now spelled as Kuikendal. On the internet you can find a family tree of Pieter Jacobsen van Kuykendall, born 1698, in Ulster New York. That area was previously Nieuw Nederland and the city of New York used to be Nieuw Amsterdam, before the English decided it was theirs. I very much enjoyed this video. Keep up the good work.

This was amazing. Seeing the history in the house and stonework on the property was such a joy! Thanks for taking us along!

You had me at 'there arent any roads that lead to this house'. Mesmerizing stepping back in time!

Such an amazing place, should definitely become a museum for its protection. It has so many stories to tell ❤

This reminds me of my uncle Rex’s house. It was wood but it was loaded with antiques from the 1700’s. He ended up allowing the Smithsonian to catalogue and use several pieces for their museum. Is this in West Virginia? That’s where my uncle Rex was. Edit: This channel was just recommended to me. My family has been in this country since the first ships for Europeans and Africans as well as the Native Americans. We’re the “Melungeon” of the Appalachia’s. If you want some more old places to explore, go to Logan or Wayne WV. I used to spend summers in a one room log home with my great great aunt. Zero modern amenities and I loved it!

Please continue to keep this place safe. Too many places in WV have been ruined by vandals. Enjoyed coming along on this adventure with you all the way from Texas!

so beautiful, trying to imagine the people that lived there and what their daily chores consisted of and what their lives were like all those years ago. what a wonderful trip back in time.

I do believe this video tops any of your others. This is absolutely beautiful. I can only imagine what it was like back when it was occupied and the family was going about their daily lives. Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful, huge home.

Absolutely incredible amount of history that should be preserved!!! Thanks for this marvelous tour!! I hope something can be done to keep it as a museum.

What a peaceful beautiful place. It is fortuitous that there is a tourist train route right by this place. Keeping a place like this even minimally maintained is far from free. It would be great if it could be shared with more people! Thank you for sharing with video with us!!!

Your background music was a perfect match to the scenery, both inside and out. The artifacts took you back in time as well as the music. Very well done.

I think this house should be a museum so many people can see it possible!

Thank you very much Todd for showing me this old house! It is amazing how much has change over time and seeing how people used to live in colonial times! Me liking antiques and being in this old house with you is just, a blessing 😊🥹!

One of your best shows to date and love the 1780 K House. I wish these comments would allow photos, but since it doesn’t I will try a description. I own a book called “Practical Housekeeping” dated 1883, one of the chapters called “Kitchen Luxuries” page 481, shows that cooking utensil as an egg poacher. The book shows some small individual, low cups that fit into the dipped sections. Can’t guarantee it but the one you showed today is very similar. Hopefully this will help 😊

I used to live on Kuykendall Road in Cookeville, TN. I wonder if perhaps the person the road was named for is a relative, perhaps a descendant of Isaac's. It's not a common surname, so it might just be possible. Thank you for sharing this. I have tears in my eyes - the stories those walls could tell!

It’s an amazing old house! And as well preserved as any I’ve seen. It’s important to preserve all the out buildings and wells etc… so the train station does not need to go where the ice house was. I hope it can be saved. Thank you for showing it to us❤️🤗🐝

Thank you for this amazing video. What a gem of an old place. Hard to believe this place hasn’t been turned into something. I would love to visit it.

That place is amazing! Needs to be a museum. That place is well preserved for its age

It's amazing the house is still standing, let alone all the treasures left inside.

Speechless on this one Todd. Holy Cow what a place. A museum tied into the train line. The Wayside idea is a good one. Tie it in with the train line.

I can almost imagine living an 18th century lifestyle on that property. Thank you for sharing such a gem of our history.

Thanks for that historical, incredible, and exciting tour. I enjoy it to the fullest!!!

The round rock found on the windowsill was not handmade. They find them in a river where for some reason a stone or rock sits where it “bubbles” and they begin to roll around being polished or worn as they turn. I saw some in Virginia that had been collected. I think maybe they are found where a water wheel dumps water in one spot or at the base of waterfalls.

I love the "Hollow at the end of Train Stop" idea. Not only would it bring tourists, it would make for a great day trip outing or longer with a place to stay and eat with the history and stories. It is in prestige condition and with the item's there, it add's to the time line of stories. What a great find...

Stunning! Absolutely breathtaking this house is basically in original state! So many artifacts contained within for eons too! It's been untouched, and any improvements should be carefully undertaken. Hopefully it will be kept out of the way & remote for its own protection. It's just so lovely and intact, it should have controlled access, which only a railway could do. I could spend all day there! (The name looks like "Edna" to me.) PS Thank you for taking us along Todd!

Oh, that HAS to be a museum! It is amazing! ❤

Oh goodness. Most amazing thing I’ve ever seen. Please, please preserve this home. There’s historical house museums but this is indeed a home. Beautiful. ❤

Missouri. German side settled in Pocahontas Missouri. Farmers. Church built 1789. Still there. Beautiful . My Great Grandfather was one of I believe five/ six families that settled there. Thank you for showing how ppl lived . ❤️

Wow Todd, maybe one of your best videos yet. As far as for an old historical house an all of its belongings from so many years gone by. You just don't get to see many of these places anymore, especially it being in such great condition. It's in the right stages to be restored back to its former beauty. What an amazing homestead Todd. Such an amazing place. I'm sure you will find many unbelievable/amazing relics when you detect the grounds. It really does need to be brought back to its amazing glory for sure. Wish i had a couple million to give them to get started on it. Todd, another amazing video my friend. Have yourself an amazing weekend an we shall catch you on your next video. 😁👍👍

Love this old house, so well preserved. I went to high school with a Kuykendall, but I can’t remember his first name. This was 45 years ago in Jacksonville, Florida. The last name is so unusual, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were their descendants. Hope it’s made into a museum. 😊

I'm so glad RU-vid brought this up for me so randomly. I really enjoyed the video. WHAT a treasure that house is and filled with historical domestic treasures to boot! Thank you so much, Jeff, for making this possible. And kudos to the film crew. Perfectly chosen music and calm, warm presentation made this a relaxing journey to such an idyllic corner of WV. Thank you!

Absolutely beautiful this place needs to become a museum!Please try to Save it! Thank you for showing this to me God bless Janet Sarlo

I hope it's made into a museum! I'm amazed it has remained intact for so many years. Anything out west (where I am) would be destroyed very quickly once people knew it was empty. Even if it becomes a museum, someone should be there at all times to guard it.

What a place. Incredible video Todd. So much history. The music the 🖼️ facts and everything just incredible. Thanks Jeff and Brayden!!!

Utterly breathtaking property and home. The treasures inside give us a rare view of family and home life in history. I pray this is preserved and shared with future generations ❤

This place deserves to be a museum with all those amazing antiques. Beautiful. I really enjoyed this video

This place is beautiful! And should be saved and preserved, ❤

Watching this was a joy. I grew up in a 1790s house and currently live in an 1812 house in Vermont. I was thrilled to see all of the marvelous items that have withstood time. I hope very much that the owners are able to get a nice (tasteful, to go along with the house) train station with a place for coffee or light lunch, and restroom facilities. This would allow the house to be made into a museum with the least amount of “damage.” Unlike a B & B, which would require the installation of modern facilities to pass inspection. Thank you so much for taking the time to film and post this!

I does my heart good to know that there is still at least one place out there untouched by time.

This house deserves a whole series with historian’s , what a fascinating video!

Thank you Todd for sharing this adventure with us!!! I thoroughly enjoyed it!!! I definitely think that this place should be a museum!!! God Bless Us All!!!

I love the history inside the house. I think it would make a wonderful museum.

This is beautiful!! The doors and windows need refinished to match the original design and the house totally sealed so no one can get in. I know you said it is under video surveillance but there’s sooo much irreplaceable history there. It definitely needs to be made into an museum and registered as a monument with the national historic society. Thank you for sharing this amazing history with us all!! ❤️🤍💙 Laura from the Tristate of Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia

Thank you for a wonderful video! And I’d like to thank Jeff as well, for the tour inside this historic property. Wow!

I was informed today that the Kuykendall's are my Granny's great grand parents, supper cool thanks for sharing this

Incredible. So many things of value the house and its belongings is priceless

It should be all three. Wow. This was wonderful. I’ll come take care of it. Todd, you never fail giving us the quality, videography, and content we want. Thanks for the adventure.

Such a beautiful amazing treasure for sure. I believe the name in the porch is Edna. Thank you for sharing this. Definitely should be a museum!

This was built by my 4th Great Grandfather Isaac Kuykendall along with his brother. It is just so amazingly beautiful. Thank you so much for creating this video and showcasing the timeless construction and all the other historical items and buildings.

What a beautiful home in excellent condition. Thank you for sharing. Unfortunately, I had no idea where and what state it's in until you started talking about the railroad. Not everyone automatically knows where these wonderful homes and locations are.

I have Kuykendall ancestors who appear in Sumner County Court minutes (future Tennessee) by 1787. Thanks for this video!

I hope this kind Gentleman will see his dreams come true. It would be so very much worth it. I liked the idea of a train coming, dropping folks off, even if they could have a sleep over or two, have a wonderful meal and just spend the rest of the time looking at all of the treasures in there. I think it would take more then one day for a person like myself who likes to take their time slowly, not missing on single item to admire, take a photo. I personally would love to love at all the things in the linen cabinet, both trunks we got to see. What a wonderful magical place this would be to me. Thank you ever so much for showing us such a well preserved home from the 1700's era.

Great to see somebody at least got the inside videotaped. We need more places preserved cause people today just take to much for granted of what they have. Thank you for sharing.

Hopefully this is preserved as a Historical site. Amazing that a home that this old is in such good condition

It definitely needs to be a museum for all to enjoy.

Coming from England, I found this a fascinating video. I love pioneer days of both America/Canada and Australia and how each country evolved, but more so how people survived, coped, birth and death and there are so many untold stories out there. For some reason, I have an affinity with West Virginia, even more so with all things Appalachian. Who knows, maybe an ancestor of mine went out there and it is in my genes! This house is amazing and all the artifacts left behind by inhabitants of years gone by and also, all your reactions of awe. Naturally subscribed and look forward to watching your other videos so many thanks for this upload.

I was in awe just watching this video. So much beloved history. My favorite part, was the little red photo album & Ms. Peters (Mt. Vernon) 1815 Bible.

So exciting to see. This is my family!!

Wow. That's a beautiful time capsule. I do hope their plans for it happen. It's alr easy a museum. The possibilities are endless. I don't know if it's possible but an interactive BnB would be amazing. People could rent it for several days to experience how the people lived back then. Cooking in the fireplace using candles and oil lamps and using the outdoor faculties. There isn't a lot of us old People left that remember having houses like that. But just having it as a museum for people to visit would be awesome. A living history site.

Wow! This history has got to be saved! This house, and its contents are amazing, I always said I was born in the wrong century. I would love to visit here!

Amazing, thanks for the tour! Truly captivating!

I love this so much!! As a history major and a collector of antiques, this made my heart so happy to see. What a blessing to have this in the family! I must tell you though, I also collect very old books and if you guys don't get them out of the dryness of that home, they will be lost forever. Please see about pulling the important books out and have a little restoration done! (those are worth saving!!)...antique books can't be in this type of dryness and last. The other items can hang on but those important books can't. Get that little one out and the Washington one for sure. I have had to carefully do restoration work on many of mine to help them last. :) what a fun trip to travel on a train, and even better if it would stop there for a little tour! Tour guides should be in period clothing! fun!! thanks for sharing!

Mind blown! Definitely a museum.

Such a historic building as this should stay original. This house is amazing. Make it a museum, and keep it original. This is history kept perfect. I love it. 😮

Isaac Kuykendall is my 4th great grandfather and Nathaniel Kuykendall is my 5th great grandfather. Dan Waggoner, who owned the property and recently passed would not have wanted electricity, kitchen, bathrooms, etc added to the house. He was a stickler for authenticity and keeping the home as uniquely original as he could. It would be so very sad to see the house changed in those ways. A museum with day hours could work as long as electricity or public restrooms are not required. I do hope the current owners take this into consideration and do their best to preserve this rare untouched piece of history. Marsha Kuykendall Tomlin

What a treasure trove! It has to be saved and shared. Beautiful!

I'd love it to be a museum with a RU-vid channel with unique finds of the catalogue of items. I imagine it would be impossible to display everything. God bless. Thanks for sharing this.

Beautiful home with beautiful things loveeeeeeeee seeing all the old beautiful things

Beautiful. My ancestors came here in 1643. This Dutch name is in my family in 16 and 17 hundreds.

Wow! I could spend days there just looking. I think it would work best as a museum tied in with the train. I would love to stop by there and enjoy a meal or spend the night there. What a place. Great video.

I’d give my right arm to fix up, run a place like that full time! What a dream!!! Absolutely amazing place and I honestly pray either way, something is done to solidify its place in time to be preserved for all time.❤️

Hi, I really enjoy historical videos and this one is special. I'm in Virginia and have known a few people with this family name and in VA, they do indeed pronounce it; "Kurkendall" It's spelled the same, but pronounced differently. It's German/Dutch and means; Church In The Dell. RE: Clocks. The gears works are called a "Movement" and they are made of brass. The little dots on the movement of the small Carriage Clock are known as "Bushings." My Dad was a clock repairman for 40 yrs. He passed away in '18. I learned some things from him, but didn't have the patience he did, for repairing. He would have loved this video, as I do. Oh my, that dough bowl, cobblers bench, balanced candles and Native stones. Wow. I wonder what the date is, on the George Washington book. Goodness. The burns on the floor are scary. Itty bitty Bible is unbelievable. Love the toys. Feels like a museum. Is the kitchen in the basement area or outside? This whole place is priceless and one of the best preserved I've ever seen, that wasn't a museum. Amazing. Thank you, very much.

Wow buddy! This is by far the true exhibition of a fine architect and historical teacher. Ooohhh and film maker! Nailed it! This may be my favorite.

Whatever happens, I do hope it is preserved and the items in the house displayed! So neat to see! I need to do some digging and see if my Kuykendahl is related to this family in any way.

What a great find ,I mean for myself on RU-vid and this is why I pay the premium for premium content. What a beautiful house and the setting is stunning. It’s got great potential for a museum,family home or a B&B ,this is a rich piece of American history and thank goodness it’s in the hands of respectful lovers of history,all the best in the future with whatever direction you choose to go 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💫

PLEASE make it a museum!!!!! But don’t change anything. Keep it as is. No electric, no water, keep it authentic! Wow what opportunity. Why has it remained so untouched. I wish I lived close enough to see and help

It would be great as a museum but I would also love to stay there too. Maybe they could do a combination of both or build little cabins for people to stay on the property which looks beautiful!! Thank you for sharing

This should be something all can experience . Love the idea of a train stop there, a meal and your. It would be easier to control the activity in and around the house.

What I gorgeous perfectly preserved home!! It is full of all you need for a museum and whistle stop!

Thank you Jeff for sharing your families old home.

Bed and breakfast but in a 18th century style. So like in keeping with the historical decor and stuff maybe even historical inspired menus . I would absolutely find that delightful both as a history nerd and someone who likes to be comfy 😅

Beautiful old home with awesome stonework and some very pretty country around it also!

I would Like to see this House become a museum. Sarah Kaykendall is my 7th Great Grandmother. This Video is awesome and to see my family's history up close and personal is something I have been wanting to do for a long time. Thank you for creating this video. History comes alive through photography and videography.

Todd This is the creme de la creme for videos! I'm in total awe of that house and the view. That would make for a fantastic museum. Build a welcome center/ restaurant by the ice house for the train to stop by. House the artifacts in a place where they can be preserved and viewed by the public. True gem of a house and everything there. It needs to be saved and preserved for the future.

Lovely & fascinating. Thank you all. ❤️

I would definitely visit this home if turned into a museum in a ❤ beat!! Love this!

Wow. That was just amazing,such a beautiful kept place. I loved they way they lived so simply yet beautiful, I have always wanted a one if these old homes . Just gorgeous.

I love the history,thank you for sharing. I think it should be a museum. A bed and breakfast would ruin the place and ruin the chance for a lot of people to enjoy. At least a museum would allow so many to enjoy all the historical aspects.