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This brings back so many memories. In the 80’s my dad worked that exact gate at the Green Swamp sign. I spent many of weekends hunting and camping with my parents. One time my dad was assisting in a search and rescue and ended up getting lost himself. He spent all night in the woods and had stories about the panthers screaming all night. He passed away in 97, Green Swamp was one of his all time favorite places. We had a memorial for him next to the Withlacoochee River.
Last time I was at Green swamp area. Guy was shot off an a bike 100 or 200 something yards and person whom shot the person was color blind. We were called because our hunting dogs got lost and was called to say found. Went up to get them but place we went to dogs weren't there
Cattle was huge in the early century. The ranchers who kept the cattle were called Crackers. To this day, many old style FL houses are called cracker houses and we also have Cracker festivals annually. The 'swamp apes' are more often than not FL panthers screaming their mating calls at night. Extremely eerie sounding to say the least. By the way, $500 was a huge sum of money for anyone back in those days but especially to homesteaders/crackers. The big trees are Live Oaks and were used primarily for shade and firewood. I love my FL and delight in the real history of it. 🥰
Hi Adam, I am one of your fans from Indonesia. I grew up watching your videos, and I remember the first video I watched was when you entered the Triceratops enclosure at Universal Studios. Since then, I keep watched all of your videos until now. I really enjoy your videos where you explore abandoned buildings or unique places like this.
I camped in SWIFTMUD( Southwest Florida Water Management District) managed areas many times. No services, boondocking. The sites are free but you must make a reservation. They give you a gate code to get in and out. Colt Creek state park located within the Green Swamp. This area is ecologically crucial as it the headwaters for four major Florida rivers and has a huge aquifer for clean dirking water. This is the Real Florida. Excellent video showing that Florida isn't just theme parks and beaches. Kudos. One thing, if your there during hunting season you should wear a reflective vest for your safety.
another good tour - I found this that was printed Oct 2009 by Linda Charlton for the Ledger- Inside the cabin, there is one indication of the homey touch that Sarah Stewart may have brought to the old bachelor's place. There is a tree stump inside, still attached to the ground, the top sawed off smooth. Look closely and you see the heads of the tacks or nails rimming the edge and on one side, there's still bits of fabric. In the ceiling overhead, there's a round hole, just about the right size for a stovepipe. The stump was upholstered, and in just the right place so you could sit in front of the stove and stay cozy on a cold night. Old Ishom Stewart had laid his cabin out around the stump.
It's funny to joke about, but this isn't "how horror movies begin," this is how people who live in rural areas treat others: with respect, kindness, generosity, and genuine friendliness. Great video!
"This is how horror films begin. . .Again, this is how horror films start. . ." Ha! Thank you for the off the cuff adventures, man.Take care and be safe. If you hear banjo music, ride like the wind!
I really enjoyed you sharing this adventure with us into the real Florida. It amazes me that so many pioneers lived in remote areas like that. I had a good friend give me a book years ago that his brother wrote about their family's homesteads in the Micanopy, Cross Creek area and then on down to the Lakeland area. This was in the early 1900's. I would love for you to share your visits to more places like this.
You sure are dedicated and adventurous to head out into that wilderness to get your story. The Green Swamp is primordial Florida. Pretty much the way that most of Florida looked before modern civilization came. You have to hand it to those who struck out into places like this, at Cross Creek where Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings came to live and on down into the Everglades. They were tough people. The Green Swamp along with The Ocala National Forest are supposed to both be prime habitat for Florida "Swamp Apes" in Central Florida. When you are out in the Florida forests, woods and swamps, you can sure imagine such creatures to be living out there. I've been researching the history of settlement in Central and North Florida. It's amazing that there are so many places like these old homesteads that people came to settle. If you have not done videos on them, you ought to go visit Richloam not far from this area and Evinston up in Alachua County. They still have their old general stores in operation from those lost farming communities.
I enjoyed this vlog, as I do all of your vlogs. It reminds me of the movie "Cross Creek" starring Mary Steenburgen and Peter Coyote, which was based on the autobiography by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. I shudder to think of life in the swamps of Florida without air conditioning and industrial strength bug spray. I'm going to rewatch that movie now.
We lived in Ocala when Cross Creek was filmed in Micanopy, Florida. Adam has covered Doc Hollywood filming locations there but not Cross Creek. They covered the streets of Micanopy with leaves so it looked like they were dirt, not paved.
@@nickc247 Nick, that kind of thing just "goes with the territory" when it comes to digging into such history. Unless a family had someone who wrote down the family histories, experiences and such at the time, there was little documentation about what happened back then. About all we have are the recollections and stories passed down in families. Such stories more often than not get "misremembered" and embellished.
Great video! I do enjoy these explorations with a backstory. I would add a hunter orange safety vest and hat to your gear. I bought a cheap combo that had both at Scheels (similar to a Bass Pro or a Cabela’s) for $10. I wouldn’t rely on a regular safety vest in a hunting area.
You might enjoy reading a Land Remembered in your spare time. It’s fiction but it goes through some generations of an old Florida family back in the day. It was a page turner. Lol I’m also a nerd though, but I really enjoyed it and this reminded me of it!
This was such a great video. I’m slowly working my way through all your older content I haven’t seen before and even back then, it was the smaller towns, off the beaten track places, and roadside attractions that you excel. I love seeing these sites: it places like this I would love to see if I was in area and had time. Well done
They have some really nice parks in Florida. You were very fortunite to meet the people who gave you the real info on those places, made for a great video. You traveled back in time even the ride in the back of the Truck was like going back in time when we rode in the back of trucks all the time. That was a great video to watch I enjoyed ever minute Thanks .
Little pump spray bottle of Picardin is good to have handy, Fl winters have been so mild that pests haven't been dying off. Glad that others get a chance to see real Florida through this video. Also great that people get to see the kindness and generosity that's common but doesn't make the news. Hope 2023 is a good one for you.
Hello Adam. Your adventures made our day. So happy to follow you. Thank you for sharing this with us! Have a wonderful, magical, and blessed New Year. 💕
What an amazing and fascinating tale!! You are a brave soul riding in the back of that truck!! I love these type of adventures!! Thank you Adam!!! Happy New Year!!! Even when you say the vlog is over, I continue to watch!! The same thing I do when I go to the movie theater, I watch the closing credits!!
Sara you're exactly the same as me I love that I always watch till the very end of movies and videos as well I love you so much you're such a beautiful amazing sweet person sweetie stay safe 💙
Love these episodes. As you were telling the story and showing the old homesite, I got to thinking that this would be the type of site for a Geocache. looked up the area and sure enough, there is a Geocache there named "Stewart Homestead"
@tbirdracefan I love geocaching - both finding and making my own vessels/containers to the point that I've been writing a story about one mega cache that leads to many smaller caches around the US. Think "The Secret" but without the illustrations (wink) Here's hoping I finish writing it before my ability to hide them runs out from old age.
He said it three times. I first time I chuckled. I busted out in laughter when he said it on the truck. I was thinking “who the heck would agree to take a ride in a truck in a deserted forest with a guy that sounded like he came out of the movie Deleverance???”
I thought the same thing. Adam says that and then promptly gets into a random guys vehicle in the middle of no where with no cell phone signal. During hunting season no less. This is making a sweet slide seem like a GOOD idea. Adam definitely took all the risk for us on this one
Interesting vlog Adam. Thank you for all your sacrifices in making your vlogs. Be careful with those mosquitoes. Also a big thank you to all the kind people who gave you a ride along the way. I was also hoping no one would steal your bike. Happy New Year to you and family too. 🥳❤️🙏🏻
Wow! Rally neat tour, I just love those old buildings slowly merging into the swamp. Should have covered yourself more though to protect from the bugs. Thanks for sharing!
I was waiting to hear "Dueling Banjos" from the movie Deliverance when you got in the back of the pickup truck - LOL! Nice folks willing to share their knowledge of the past...
Cool stuff. I love old foundations and buildings. I always think to myself if this area could talk , all the stories it could tell. It was super nice of that man to bring you to that location. Definitely a hidden treasure in the woods. Lol the ending , you definitely get some Ed Gein vibes running through your head 😂
I guess you realize you just went out into an old soggy swamp with people you've never met! Love it. Kinda like Boggy Creek 😄 but seriously I really like these videos.
I can tell some stories from the mid 70s. We used to come out here from Lakeland to camp and party. No marked roads, just trails that mud trucks played on. What a difference 50 years make. The buildings was still in tact back then. People would pull boards from them to help them get unstuck.
We have ridden so many parts of the Green Swamp on horseback. It is beautiful and full of wild life. That was a red Shouldered Hawk talking to you btw.
Love ❤️ your explorations into small towns and out of the way destinations! You can learn so much history from old cemeteries and abandoned buildings. I always wandered how these homes become and stay abandoned. The cemetaries in Upper Vermont and New Hampshire have rows of headstones. I remember a whole family several kids and babies wiped out by the Influenza epidemic in the early 1900s.
Really like your bike it's a nice one! Good to see ya back in action 😎✌️ Hahaa "this is how horror movies start" , this was a very interesting story. Love your dedication to the vlogs, catching rides and such. Way cool of them
Every since I saw your Facebook post yesterday I was waiting for this video!! I was concerned for your safety!! They seemed to be great people! I saw you and your mom earlier this month getting off the monorail at Polynesian! I was waving like a goof ball!!! I was very excited to spot you in the wild! 😂 You said hello and thanked me when I said I watched daily!!
Those century old + dwellings are something else and the bathtub. So nice of that guy to give you and your bike a ride to the Ellis homestead. I couldn't tolerate the bugs.
G'day from 🇦🇺! Love thedailywoo each morning with my piping hot caffeinated beverage. I especially like you exploring locales with the history and stories like in this ep. Thanks for the great content!
Well, this was quite the vlog Adam, it felt more like a film, that could of ended badly, a sad tale, wasn't expecting the grandson to be one of the murderes, an axe, brutal murder, kept thinking somebody is gonna smack you round the head, and you'd be gone, extinguished, no more Adam, " This is how horrors start" yep I'd say so lol, loved it, Thankyou
That’s beautiful. Brings back memories of my childhood. I was born in Florida, grew up in Alabama, visited down there many times. Live in Dallas now, I miss nature.
oh my Adam, your mama probably had her eyes wide open thinking what are you doing son ? lol as you had no orange jacket vest to alert hunters and saying this is how horror films begin 😬😱🤣 be careful out there, sharing all these interesting history scenes, it's super cool to see all of this, thanks for sharing
Awesome stuff.Just looked up Stewart homestead on line .You always get it right .. Very interesting.Laughed so hard with you and the bugs.Keep the Great stuff coming..
Wow Adam that's a side of Florida I have never seen before totally awesome. I just want to say as the year comes to an end I want to thank you for all the great interesting entertaining wonderful vlogs this past year. from Universal Jamie
Most of the time the Florida cracker houses had more than one section . Often the kitchen would be built beside the main living quarters separately like another building connected by a porch. It was built that way to keep from heating up the main living quarters during cooking .
@@universityofwtmp Fort Christmas has some really good examples of the old cracker houses they have a lot of old buildings set up there adjacent to the fort.
