edit: during the bottle digging segment that was a loss of audio. That part of the video has been reuploaded here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TwCwobVmqWo.html If I had to pick a favorite thing to explore, old houses would be it. I never get tired of it. This one is the sole survivor of a community that is gone and forgotten. I wish I knew more of it’s history. I originally would have thought this would have been a depression era sharecropper’s house but interestingly enough the square nail construction dates it pre-1880. From the bottle dump we learned the house was lived in very recently, relatively speaking. Maybe the 1960’s? 1970’s? Support Sidestep Adventures: Patreon.com/SidestepAdventures Announcing the new Patreon members only Facebook group! Visit our Patreon for more details..... My flashlights: bit.ly/2ZkatOt Wukong Magnets who provided me with a few magnets for my channels sent me a discount code to pass along to my subscribers.... The code: Sidestep16 You get 16% off using that code. www.magnetfishingwukong.com/
Sidestep Adventures I love it! When I lived in South Carolina for five years I used to drive around on my days off of work and take pictures of old houses in old barns
I also wonder if I’m related to these Taylor’s my great grandparents we’re both born in Ohio and my great grandpa ‘Taylor and his brothers and sisters migrated to different places my great grandparents ended up in Idaho
I grew up near a small town in western PA (New Bedford, established in 1798). Waaay back in the early 1960s, there was a very old Italian couple living in a very old run-down two-story house out "in the sticks"; about three miles east of New Bedford. On the front of their house was a two-story porch. The old couple would sit in their rocking chairs on the second story and watch the rare car go by. Well, they eventually died. The house sat abandoned for about ten years. As a kid of about 12-13 years old riding my bicycle past it, I said to myself that someday I would go explore that old house. Well, I never did. Around 1970, the grown children of the old couple finally hired a company to demolish the old house as it neared collapse. As the wrecking crew was tearing out the walls they started to find bundles of cash, dating as far back as 1929-1930 (Silver Certificates!!!). Turns out the old couple having survived the Great Depression saw many a bank go bankrupt during that time. They built up a strong distrust for all banks. As a result, over time they stashed their savings into the walls of the old house. In all, the wrecking company pulled out more than $40,000 (which adjusted for inflation equals approximately $273,000 today! Not exactly chump change!). All of the cash was turned over to their children. Quite the surprise inheritance wouldn't you say?
I am pretty sure the 2nd jar you picked up is an old cane syrup jar not mayonnaise.I don't know if it would have a date but with the neck on it I am pretty positive.
I could go for another hour and watch you do all the work on your expedition. :) What's there not to love! Your Cody is a fine apprentice on his way to becoming your partner and I am sure he will never forget those hours spend with you, He is a remarkable kid!
Love the old cans and bottles. When I was a kid in the 50’s and 60’s, soda cans were opened with a can opener. You made one triangle, a bigger one to drink from then a smaller one the opposite end to let air in. I had family in Columbus GA for a long time. My aunt and uncle passed away a while ago and my cousins moved to other areas in GA and FL. Love exploring “with” you!
Every time you show the old wood walls in these houses....my heart wants the wood! How I love old wood! I am always amazed with the stone pillars the houses are built on. Up north the old homes have cellars. My homes was built around 1885-1888 with a gorgeous stone wall foundation. Too bad it is only about 6 ft high in the basement. LOL!!! LOVE stone walls! I would have paid you for the Amber Bleach bottle! What a find! The stillness around those old homes are soothing to our noises souls....... thank you for this enjoyable trip!
Back in the 1880's few men reached that height. Interesting isn't it. I too love old buildings, and the logic used in their construction, based on the resources available at the time and location.
Wow! That support beam under the house that was held up by a tiny outcropping of rock looked so sketchy! Amazing that it was still holding! Love these old houses! It's the history that makes these places a treasure! Super thought provoking!
I am so glad I’ve found your channel!! I love it!! I live in Eastern NC and I just love exploring old cemeteries! I love that while driving you can look in a large field and see old tombstones in the distance. I always wonder what the landscape looked like during it’s hey day. You do such a great job of being attention and respect to the past!!
Sharon Tolbert My cousin Art Moore He’s like you guys also he goes around and he takes pictures of really old Graves and puts them on find a grave and he has had so many families contact him and thank him because they were looking for that family member’s grave
What an amazing place. WOW! Man Cody was on the hunt and found some cool items!! I had to LOL when you were under the house and found a main beam being held up by a pebble and said "well, it's held it this long". Oh gosh..... You are too funny! Thank you so much for taking us on this beautiful adventure. I so needed this today. Stay safe out there! God Bless.
Robert you have the best you tube channel I thank you so much. Always interesting. Cody is learning a lot from you he is quite but pays attention to history.
I love old houses I'd love to fix it up I love to dig around the old dumpsite to find goodies..man oh man I would love to be there with you Robert...I think you are super awesome guy thanks so much for taking the time to make good videos for everyone...I love to see how old houses people built them to it's so interesting.
My old farmhouse was built around an old one room cabin/loft that was built in 1872 and James Marshall built the fireplace. The cabin was built on local stone like the house you have here. It is really interesting as you say, and extremely sturdy. Huge beams under the cabin. We are in Garden Valley, CA near the gold rush discovery site in 1849 in Coloma that James Marshall discovered. He was a "jack of all trades" in his day. The rest of the house was built around the cabin in the mid 1950's. The cabin part is our craft room and the upstairs loft is a bedroom.
square headed nails was used from 1790-1830 after that they were replaced by machine cut headless nails until 1890 machine cut round headed nails I am no expert but it is what I read on a site. Hey Rob if the shoe fits wear it lol.. awesome old house beautiful fireplace.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you,!! I get tears as i see your wonderful videos bringing us the wonderful forgotton world. I have traveled the world alone and always tried to find the old cemeteries. I am much older now and seeing your videos bring me much pleasure without having to travel. That foudation was incredible! I wish U would accept paypal. Very easy for me to donate. Much ❤ to U and your team. Vasuna
Thank you so much. And while I do prefer Patreon because it allows me to give something back to those that donate, I do have a PayPal link in the “about” section of the main channel page.
I just love old houses, this was so especially awesome, I would have crawled under the house also. Thank you Robert for bring us this old homes that might have been forgotten but thanks to you they are not, keep bringing us old home.
Great find. Love the old house too. That was a big house. Noticed the fireplace in the fallen down part. Perhaps that was the kitchen part? Who knows maybe someone that lived there made their own hooch thus all of the whiskey bottles. There's a dump on my family's land where my great grandparents dumped their garbage. I have found old snuff bottles and jars, coke bottles(embossed), pieces of dishes, Prince Albert cans, etc. Always fun finds.
Hi Guy's, wow that old house was awesome to see and a testament to the craftsmen who built it that it still stand to this day. Those old bottles and cans were also very cool, thanks for sharing this amazing old home. x
Awesome glass bottle and jar find and thank you so much for sharing this amazing old home , and carma find please be safe out there and God bless you and your family ✝️👍
That is such a great building. Things were certainly built solid in those days. Although there is much damage over the years it has lasted much longer than a more modern building left to the elements. Great bottle find. Awesome. Really enjoyed this. Keep Safe❤Keep Well❤
@@greywebs1944 It happened on 1 other video so when it happened again I thought I'd ask. To make sure it wasn't me. That part was the part I was really interested in! Happy to watch it again with sound
@@sheenagrigsby2634 yes the bottles are interesting gives an idea how old they are 🍾 Robert and the rest of the gang are really good exploring around. And very beautiful surroundings. The graves I find really interesting. He has a blue brush, but I think it's self isolating 🙂
Now that was fantastic. Those foundations didn’t look very secure. Hope you took a bottle or two home saw one I would have loved. Thanks so much for taking me along. Do stay safw
Aloha Robert! Amazing to see a house so old ,& the field stones so carefully arranged to support the floor. That house could have been there during the Civil War, wow! Nice little bottle dump, I bet if you search for depressions in the ground in the yard, you'll find even older bottles and treasures!
You're probably going to need some WD40 to go with that Duct Tape. But on the brighter side, you can put in a complete shopping mall in the back 40 acres
With all those whiskey bottles, you may have stumbled across my grandfather's old homestead.🤔😊Nah, only if you found an old still too.👍Be safe guys...this was HARD HAT STEEL BOOT WORTHY.
Just imagine the people that made the dump area...could see someone digging in it...amazing finds in those dump sites...house was very interesting...your videos are great...stay safe...
Amazed at how the brick fireplace looks professionally built but the stone foundation looks scary bad. The bead board wall/ceiling look like a later addition. My 1918 house has same Georgia pine paneling.
Oh my gosh you guys are so much fun. 🥰 If you guys had, had a shovel there is no telling what you might have found. Could there have been another dump further from the house by the people who built the house. Exciting 🤩👍
Great video. As you were rummaging thru the old glasswear you picked up a very small bottle that had a orange or red rubber top that had been partially destroyed. That bottle I believe was a old "Lepage Glue" bottle. You would turn the bottle up and there was a slit in that rubber top that would open slightly and the glue would be smeared onto whatever you were trying to glue.Popular from the 40's and 50's. Don't know if it is still sold today.
That camera at the 9:57 mark is an old Polaroid from the late 60‘s or early 70‘s. I had one in the late 60‘s (still have it)... was the Instamatics self-developing film.
Wow, I can just picture it with the family inside.... it’s beautiful! You’re so lucky to be able to see these homes. Where I live, they all get torn down. We had a 110yr old home down the street from me, gorgeous and immaculate. Then two hurricanes came through. Beat it up kind of bad. Home owners couldn’t afford to fix it so they begged someone to buy it to save it, no buyer but got it on the historical register. We hoped it would save it. But the county condemned it as a hazard and tore it down. Built a hideous home in its place. I actually cried, and kept expecting to see it when turning the corner. Luckily I got pictures when I found out it was in trouble and grabbed one of the second floor balustrades that fell from the second floor veranda.
That old tin box you had there, that is most likely a Needle Tin. They were used to store between 20 and sometimes up to 200 needles for old Phonographs from the 1900s - 1940s. Needle's would have to be switched out after every play or every 2 plays depending on the record or machine. These were the old Wind up phonographs that played old Shellac records too. I really hope you kept that, because if not, it's going to just rot away and no one will probably ever see it again because of how it blends in with the ground.
That was wonderful video. It's a shame it's falling apart looks like a tree fell in the house. And boy did someone have a drinking problem. I agree if only the walls could talk!
Fascinating video really interesting My head was all over the place wondering who the people were that lived there how many lives in the house what was the grounds like when the house was occupied Thamks very much for taking me on your adventure looking forward to more Take care to you all
Lost sound when you were talking about the bottles, that's the 2nd video that happened too, grrrr Still interesting too see the house, thanks guys! 😁❤️
I love old houses like this.... it's beautiful, someone put alot of effort and love into that piece of property so many years ago. Now it just sits there slowly returning to nature. Oh and when you say "old ladies shoe", do you mean Old Ladies shoe, or Old Ladies shoe? :))
