COAL MINE CATASTROPHE - The Odd Case of Shawnee, OH | Abandoned Ohio 

Southern Ohio actually wants to secede from the rest of Ohio, FYI.

You're right, almost......but its ok, I'd take care of you, no matter what....youre gorgeous! Keep you smiling til your face hurts lol every day!

We have the beauty of Ohio down here 😍

Anything outside Cuyahoga County is like another state, heh.

Thanks for watching! I really enjoyed visiting

We have a Shawnee, Oklahoma.

It's in Perry County?

@@bp5439 Yes it is.

​@@bp5439 yes it's In salt lick township. It is named that because there is a natural salt lick in the area It's my home town and yes I used to wear flannel and ride dirt bikes it was fun. making fun of people for what they are wearing makes them look petty. I am now a war vet who has traveled around the world from the arctic circle to Asia Africa South America etc. I have met famous people, politicians and CEO's of large well known corporations I have received a citation from the white house for being a medical escort for a past vice-president. And speak a couple languages. Looks can be deceiving.

Thank you! I got lucky filming on a Sunday

You don't wanna move here lol

@@clintcooper1467 why not?

It's a shit hole

My family is from Piqua; basically attached to Shawnee and Piqua is a great bed-town and people alway's wave. It's a great place to raise a family. There is a lot of beautiful historical site's. The lineage of my Indian and African American family are established there in that great town. It's not very exciting but we love it there. I'm currently moving back myself in the week to come. I miss old fashioned slow town's as where you can actually enjoy bonfire's and meditate. There is a lot of other small country towns surrounding on the out skirt's of Piqua/Shawnee as well. I encourage anyone to relocate there. I can't wait to see my friend's there. :)

Move to Piqua instead.

JOEY_UNDERGROUND Thanks!

Thank you!

Cool! I visited Corning too. Interesting little town

They renovated the train station here in Newark and it looks great.

@@scottdavidson526 Yes it does it looks outstanding

The Baltimore and Ohio went to Shawnee but not through. The Columbus, Shawnee, and Hocking railroad which later became the Zanesville and Western Railway came in from the east and serviced the XX mine at Tecumseh Lake. My understanding is the two did not meet.

I'm sorry, as I mean no harm.....but you are absolutely gorgeous! May life treat you well, babygirl, bc I know that i would! 💋

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Most of them are gone now. The buildings became too unsafe.

That is not true. The have a fire dept and even have a helicopter pad for medivac. Part time police in the village and Perry county Sherrif's dept.

Heres a 🍪

Hey that's a goal of mine! How long did it take?

@@theVHSvlog if I remember correctly, it took about seven hours from Akron to Ironton.

@@theVHSvlog another beautiful and haunting SR to go post to post is 7, from Conneaut to Chesapeake. New Matamaras was a cool stop.

@@getlostyougoofball Did you stop off in Logan? Hocking Hills is a beautiful area.

Before 1962, it was signed as State Route 75.

This was before unions.

@@MrThenry1988 yeah but the unions didn't learn anything from previous actions. Went on strike for nothing and now still no jobs.

idiot , without the unions children would still be working in the mines , any adults worked for starvation wages. If mine owners were even slightly reasonable , there wouldn't be unions. Can you imagine how brave it was to strike. Mine owners paid thugs to kill and beat miners. @@richardmcvey1508

@@Tony-hx2fj You got a point. But I figure you have nothing else but democrat bullshit from here on out. Prove me wrong.

@@Tony-hx2fj tell me all about what you know about unions in general. I grew up around UMWA and saw them in action. Ran a communist organization, my way or no way. The early union years was the best for the miners. Later they only considered themselves, not the jobs or the miners. Why do you think mines closed and sometimes reopened with different owner, name and nonunion? Nobody makes money when you are on strike more than you work. I saw the dictatorship in WVa and it put many companies out of business. I wonder how many people wish they had worked instead of striking over foolishness? Too late now but you always face reality when you tell an organization how to run their company. The UMWA was great in the beginning but wasn't much in later years. Just like majority of unions. Damn joke.

Ty Gehle me too. In Lima Ohio- There is Fort Shawnee and Shawnee High school. Very nice place!

I'm sure they left a thank you note when the left lol

I know that was crazy.

We love our knits💕

Drugs are baaad, mmmkay!

By members of the same family. A couple bad apples spoil the basket.

they want people to buy and restore the buildings there, you could

+the stig stigington If the cost of buying the properties are cheap enough.

it is a very quaint town. There is also New Straitsville, which is only a few miles from Shawnee that is actually alive and well.

That's the thing. What if a bunch of people got together and opened up businesses and made a town? Could be an opportunity

@@theVHSvlog I agree ... businesses that play into the history of the area . Check out videos of a town by me . Galena Illinois. Is a awesome old town. The businesses fit in well to the city .

I see this happening in many small forgotten places. Small communities will be the thing in the future for resourceful people. Especially after the financial system collapses and people will barter and develop local monetary systems.

That's great! I can't wait to see it revamped

Oh really?? I just visited there a few days ago.

That white building at 0:24 caught on fire and half of it is in ashes

@@astoriabeasley All of those buildings to the corner (3) have been torn down. The building on the other side of the street (left) has been torn down and the building next to it has been redone and is an ATV business. The Black Diamond Bar and Grill (center) is open.

Take any kids from poor folks n split up their families did ya?

they are trying to restore some of the buildings there

Do it!

Yes! That interview is in a video on RU-vid by the channel Tales of Southeast Ohio called "New Straitsville Mine Fire." I can't post the link in the comments but if you search for it, it will come up

Right? Here's a link to the article talking about it kenyoncollegian.com/features/2016/11/shawnee-ohio-not-just-a-ghost-town/

Ohio has a huge heroin problem I'm guessing that's why he's getting robbed.

Tough scene

Was kinda of an odd ending..

No but now I am determined to find out

Place called floodwood that's a abandoned city in the woods around there

Paul, you could be thinking of Haydenville. It's just off of route 33 not too far from Logan. Mostly brick and clay tile structures. The main street is asphalt though.

Yep, Haydenville. My grandmas maiden name was Hayden. She was born there.

@@Zoetropeification yes I've been through Haydenville a few times,there is an unusual little round house there built from glazed tile block same as most other buildings there,it looks a lot like a grain silo.

Yes but that mine was set on accident when hot ambers fell into a mine shaft while burning trash at the local landfill.. Asshole union people in Ohio set the fire in their town.

Fossil fuels are about at the end cause of our climate change

I know we all need to go out and buy $65,000 electric cars.

@@scottdavidson526 how about we start holding corporations accountable, gradually stop using petroleum based plastics and kick corporate lobbyist out of D.C., corporations shouldn't be allowed to kill millions and make our like bandit's at the end of the day, greed in minute amounts is healthy, greed unchecked is just pure evil that leaves nothing but a wake of despair and destruction

@@t-dawg61221 how bout we kick the dumb a@$ currant president out of office

@@t-dawg61221 Who do you think is going to own all the sunshine and butterflies to run the electric cars? Corporations. Wait until all those 300 foot wind turbines are left rusting in the fields and the used up solar panels are leaching contaminants out at the landfills because the U.S. has no recycle policy on them yet. I say produce all the fossil fuels and all the renewables you can and let the BEST energy win!!

Is this different than the Shawnee with the University?

@@katwilliams2950 definitely doesn't have a university. Has more bars than stores lol

@@blazedgamingkr1438 interesting. I toured a school called Shawnee state and it's small but not to the point I'd call it abandoned at all. I guess there are 2 shawnees

Yeah, this Shawnee is pretty much that intersection. Most people going through it mainly see that intersection with the train. Drive up the hill and the town shows it's colors, or age for that matter. This Shawnee is very rundown. They closed the factory, Nicofibers and it all really went downhill from there.

@@katwilliams2950 Shawnee State is in Portsmouth Ohio.

It's larger and deeper but affected less people over a longer period of time. Centralias fire breached the surface in many places almost killing a 12 year old. I visited centralia last month and the hottest coal vent I found was only 113 degrees which is much cooler than what they even 5 years ago. Both the fires are slowly being choked

Its really not ive lived there for 3 years.. great small town a lot of great party's lol...

😂 Its good to be back

The guy in the flannel and his friends are probably worried about getting to their off-road motorcycle spot or, most likely since they are already covered in mud, back home before a cop sees them riding on a highway. I didn't see any license plates or lights. Those are just off-road bikes and no insurance. There is always a game in rural areas to try to figure out where the cops probably aren't and make a run for it with non-street legal equipment.

Lydia Halliday They were fighting for their rights, because they weren’t being treated fairly for their work. Working in the mines was already a disaster itself, many workers often died and where as I’m not sure if this was the case around here I’m sure you’ve heard of coal companies paying their employees in coupons that could only be used in stores where goods were over priced. So yes they might have put themselves out of work but they stopped the coal companies from abusing them and their children. They weren’t after “revenge” they were fighting for their rights

@@evanseurkamp76 i didn't know that info, makes total sense

@@evanseurkamp76 ​ @Lydia Halliday They set the mine on fire because the company hired Chinese workers to work the mine while the workers were on strike. They sent those burning mine carts into the mine while the Chinese workers were inside. I'd say that they were after revenge.

@@Hathorr1067 I have never heard of that before, but that makes sense. And you are right, there was probably some form of revenge involved in it. I don’t think they were trying to get revenge on the Chinese working in the mine though. It might not have been the best thing to do, but people fight back when they are oppressed and being treated unfairly. We’ve seen it happen in history time and time again. Big corporations are constantly a screwing over people and are mainly only focused on making a profit and this is exactly the case here. I do feel bad for anyone who was caught up in this situation, like any immigrant workers the coal company hired after their workers went on strike. But I can’t say I blame the workers for wanting to get back at the coal company for screwing them over and then hiring more immigrant workers to screw over as well.

@@Hathorr1067 The mines were set on fire in the night. There was nobody in the mines. The miners actually were sympathetic to the "scabs" as the pay and working conditions were so bad, no person could make a decent living. Wages had been cut from 70 cents a ton to 50 cents a ton. After the "syndicate" of mine owners broke the strike, the workers were reduced to 40 cents a ton.

Plenty of turkey, grouse not so much