My husband and I love watching your videos. You do a wonderful job of narrating as you go along. The stories you tell and the places you go are full of history, so interesting. Thank you for sharing. My husband is disabled and can no longer take these awesome hikes, your videos take us along on your journey with you. Thank you so much. 🤗
Very cool. I live in a rural area of middle Georgia and there used to be a township in this area but it disappeared after the civil war. The family homesteads and such are documented but no one knows where they were. I may use these tips next time I am out poking around (currently I have a broody hen with a hidden nest in the woods so I am out there trying to find her and finding random junk in the process).
I just started watching ur channel. I can’t believe it took me so long to find you. I have finally found the perfect fix for my addiction to history/archaeology. Thank you for doing this. U make me feel like I’m walking next to u. You convey the sights, sounds, and smells...
Love your Tavel to this old cemeteries, the sounds of you walking though the woods are so awesome. Stay safe and keep the videos coming . Thank You for caring.
I use to collect old bottles. I was told if you dug where an old outhouse had been you probably would find some. When ppl moved an outhouse they threw trash in to fill it up
You may already know this, but when you find white glass like the mug glass you found , hold it up to the light and if you see a bluish color , or some times a bluish pink color , it's called milk glass. If it is , the family either had some money , or it was a family heirloom, as it was expensive glass.
Since you love old cemeteries there is one on Hwy 27 between Bremen, Ga and Carollton , Ga. the Merrell family cemetery and it is behind a Subway sandwich restaurant. One set of my 4th great grandparents are buried there. Benjamin smith Merrell and Patsy Chandler Merrell.
I have relatives from Carroll County. On my mother's side is the Chambers and Cash. On my fathers side is Dickson. My brother in law is Wynn. The Wynn is one of the original settlers of Carroll. Im not familiar with the cemetery you are referring to but my son probably does, he lives at Temple.
Even in some if the dryer places in this country, you can see trees that are definitely out of place for the region and know for sure that there was once a home at the location 👍 Another nice video Sir!
I believe those green spiky plants up next to the tree are irises. Exploring old home sites is fascinating. There are usually trash sites nearby, where the occupants discarded things. We have found an intact tea pot (no lid), a cast-iron sailor figurine, canning jars with lids and contents intact, and a solid brass aladdin oil lamp with a metal bottom, which we had restored. These were all on either relatives' property or on old homesteads we rented years ago. I wish I could go on these jaunts with you and your friends!! :-)
Love your videos,the places you explore,are interest ing.you seem full of knowledge, and you explain, what you find,really good keep it up I look forward to more videos hello from new Zealand.
Looking at the old brown beer bottle in the tree root ball has a diamond shape with a letter O and with a letter I inside of it. That is the trademark of Owens Illinois bottling co. My hometown had a large plant here in Alton, Illinois and it supplied Anheiser Busch in St. Louis before closing down in mid 1980's.
for dating coke bottles, hold it up in the light and look around the middle part of the skirt, on the middle of the bottom half, there will be two numbers, a diamond like symbol and two more numbers. two of them will be a date and the other two will be a mold number
Thanks for taking me with you and showing me the back roads of Georgia . I explore the back roads of Kansas and have found a lot of great places. Love your jeep
I know a guy that was riding a lawnmower and his lawnmower broke through the ground. It turned out to be a old brick lined well. He showed us pictures of it. Very nice well.
I would love to get a metal detector out there, especially around the uprooted trees, the house surround and that rock wall. Some amazing stuff comes out of that ground that probably hasn’t seen the light of day or been touched by human hands in 100 years or so. I love stuff like this. Just so cool to imagine what life was like back in the day.
Lots of Wells dried up in early 2000s when we had a big drought. One of my Mimi's neighbor recently put his house back on his well because they finally replenished their self not sure on my Mimi's well she is scared to even check but there u go
You should metal detect that old chimney. Back in the day, when banks were few and far between [and none too trustworthy, at that] it was a common practice for people to cache their gold and silver coins in a jar or other small container placed behind a loose stone in the chimney. Chances are that somebody has already metal detected that site, but you never know. You guys are out in the woods as much as anybody. Persistence will eventually pay off!
Several years ago a friend and I spent an entire day in a creek digging up cool finds, bottles, watering cans, discarded items. Your hula girl did the hula so much she lost her skirt on the dash. 🤣
There is a creek near where I live where, allegedly, back when the Union Army was coming thru the wife of the house buried all the valuables in the creek bank.
I asked about mortar because the stones looked as tho they had been chosen by flatness so mortar wouldn't be needed. Lots of old homes in FLA had chimneys made that way, both double sided and singles. Most of the double sided chimneys were for cooking on one side, and to warm the house on the other side.
@@AdventuresIntoHistory oh. That explains it 😞 They should've let you and just like other metal detecting RU-vidr's; you could've given them the finds so they'd had something of historical evidence to keep.
Sidestep Adventures what is WMA? Also check yourself for chiggers they are horrible down here. I live in an area with many old structures, homes 100+ year old homes some which are still standing. I have been climbing in and out of these homes since I was a child. Be very Careful of chiggers, please, they are rampant here. I live next to
Any possibility that it was a general store for a community or a house with a cellar for storing moonshine/alcohol during prohibition? My great grandmothers 135 year old house (as of now) in upstate NY had a cellar added in the house that we found out that had a door wall. It had wooden planks that aligned the walls, which I thought was strange because why do that instead of just leaving it bricked up. The cellar flooded during a rainstorm in the early 90's so my dad and I rented a pump and removed the siding. We got to one section and that's where we found a room with all sorts of liquor from Tennessee to Europe. We found a trap door that lead from the master bedroom to that section of cellar that was long covered up by carpet in the bedroom.
Have you ever seen old abandoned tractors sitting and rotting in the middle or edges of gone-to-seed crop fields? I have from time to time when I was a kid and as a teenager. I always wondered why a farmer would simply turn off his tractor where it was and leave it forever.
Alice Capen either ran out of gas and funds, blew engine had a extra tractor. My adopted grandpa had one like that, but it was his dad's. Hole through engine, just left it there. The one grandpa used still runs today, kept very well.
I’ve got one.... but... it’s illegal to metal detect where we were. Clear cutting timber, hunting, exploring and other activities are welcome. But not metal detecting.
Yeah. That was all state owned land. And it’s illegal to remove any “artifacts” off state owned land in Georgia. The law was written to protect Native American sites. But it was also written that it is illegal to remove anything over 50 years old from state owned land. So technically picking up a penny from the 1960’s is illegal and deemed an artifact. It’s an extremely stupid law to me considering all the recently destroyed relics that were found at the first site. The land had been recently clear cut and the ground turned over. The state does not care about those relics or even Native American artifacts on this land.... they just don’t want you digging it up. And that goes for all state land in Georgia. It is also illegal to metal detect in the river here.
Love your show's, am a new Subscriber. Am wondering, do you ever find cemeteries out by these old homesteads, and y'all seem to be in primary metal detecting area's, do you ever hunt much with those while you're out-n-about?
THOSE YELLOW. FLOWERS THAT WAS IN ANOTHER VIDEO ARE JONQILS. THEY BLOOM AROUND MARCH, AT SPRING. ANYONE FROM THE SOUTH SHOULD KNOW WHAT THEY ARE. YOU CAN ALSO SEE THEM BLOOMING ALONG THE ROADSIDE. ENJOY YOUR VIDEOS. I CRINGE WATCHING YALL BRUSH STUFF FROM THE TOMBSTONES. WATCH OUT FOR COPPERHEADS, ETC.
13:23 I hated those pop top cans...people would throw the curled up tabs down and if they were laying sideways they could do some damage...just ask jimmy buffett :D (one of mankinds greatest inventions was the pop top that stayed attached to the can) :)
That Coca Cola bottle design is from 1916. The drink Coca-Cola was originated in 1886 by an Atlanta pharmacist, John S. Pemberton (1831-88), at his Pemberton Chemical Company. His bookkeeper, Frank Robinson, chose the name for the drink and penned it in the flowing script that became the Coca-Cola trademark.
I can't help but wonder if you ever run across people in these deserted places? Maybe doing some illegal activities or even something as harmless as bird-watching?
andyjay729 Sidestep Adventures what is WMA? Also check yourself for chiggers they are horrible down here. I live in an area with many old structures, homes 100+ year old homes some which are still standing. I have been climbing in and out of these homes since I was a child. Be very Careful of chiggers, please, they are rampant here.
Love your videos.But if you pick something up.Please put it back in the same spot.When you move it.you are changing the history.Thanks.Keep making these awesome videos
