Ghost towns of PA sounds like an awesome series! The history of Pennsylvania is a microcosm of the history of America. Happy New Year Wandering Woodsman, and happy New Year to everyone watching!
There were a few stonemasons in my family and I'm always looking at stone walls and wondering who built them. It's amazing how hard our ancestors worked. I'm glad you are recording these places to keep them in our memories.
Whats up? Hope you had a good Christmas. Thanks for shout out, i think these towers were boiler house chimneys cause the one i found did not go down into ground. Love exploring mine towns and history. When could we meet up again? I could show you the 'tower' i found(plus there is more i didnt explore, yet). You inspired me to start my channel, love exploring, hate editing. Ive watched you come a long way with your chsnnel. Great footage and documentation!
Have you considered making some wonderful ASMR videos with ambient hiking/investigating sounds playlist. No "yapping," no music. So soothing for sleep. Even the sounds of traffic passing, snacks (minus chewing and slurping) rustling during your breaks - clothing fabrics, maps, equipment gathering.
Which raises more questions... Are we told our true history? Doubtful. They were cowboys and pioneers yet built with GIGANTIC stones and then how did the stones come to ruin? People knocked them over? Doubtful
Again, finding these types of things are so exciting - it is exciting to think about what kind of activity was once in an area, what those trees have witnessed, etc -in those cases, it is amazing to see how hard people had to work for the simple things - thanks for sharing! You have been on the move lately!!
Thank You for entertaining us through 2021. Like last year ,this year couldn't have been that much easier and I for one appriciate your dedication. Have a great festive season and new year. Regards, Dafydd
so this is where your famous channel journey began. Interesting. Exploring is cool. discovery and history is great. your channel has been a great help and inspiration to me, when I started watching two and a half years ago.
That was so cool I really enjoy these types of videos some thing about cliff when making these videos of him walking through the leaves an brush is just so relaxing and entertaining thanks you Cliff
That was just great. Gosh they laid some great stonework. Beautiful area and views. Fantastic walk thanks Cliff. Please stay safe and take cars. Happy New Year 🌺🌺🌺
Fascinating history & topic. Will check out the iron ore furnace vids, too :) (Grew up in an old iron ore mountain area in NJ & we loved spending the day in the woods searching for iron Revolutionary War musket balls & cannonballs. A light sanding & some wax furniture polish made them look pretty nice.)
Yay!!! So glad you revisited this area. I think the first video of yours I watched was when you were exploring the Stony Valley and it fascinated me. It's amazing how we can live in an area (or close to it) our whole lives but never know it exists. I've traveled the world but cannot wait to explore this area of PA. Thanks for bringing it to us.
I'm in North East PA, I recommend a place called " Concrete City" in Nanticoke PA. It's really spooky, when we went the Cicadas were out like crazy! It has a really awesome history and story behind it. Maybe bring gloves, water for sure and maybe a weapon???? :)
Now this is a series I can get into. A playlist like you suggested is a very good idea. I love old ruins, and I just wonder what these dwellings actually looked like. How much wood do you think they used during construction? It is a given that the frameworks would be wood, but you can go past stone. My favourite item you showed was the railway bridge. Looking forward to the future content in this series.
This one is really cool, never knew of this. Be neat to join you on some of your explorations. Going to have to check this out as I live in southern York county.
Hi Cliff, it always makes me think, what would life have been like for those miners and their families, a pretty harsh existence I would say and especially so in the Winter months. Thank you for sharing, happy new year to you and your family, I hope you have a fantastic 2022, much love. xx ❤
the more I learn about history the more I realize that until pretty recently, life was living, torturous hell for everyone, even the wealthy, and there was no effective cure or treatment for literally anything. We're lucky even on a bad day.
I and a friend were just here yesterday;we walked. various trails ,and although we seen several stone walls ,we didn't see any of the "foundations" .(?) The 2 stone walls at the creek/waterfalls was cool ,but that's all we seen. Possibly next time you could better guide us on were you walk. (?) But many THANKS for your wonderfully videos !
Ever get up to Alvira? That's a cool place to visit in Central PA plus a few miles east of it you can still see the old ordinance dam in the Susquehanna River.
From what I have read about coal mining, it must have been filthy, exhausting, back breaking work. I wonder how many of the men that worked these mines passed away from what came to be known as black lung disease. Well, if nothing else, they left their mark on the land so that future generations would know they were here.
Nice video. Seems all those foundations have rocks now strewn all over the place. It doesn't look like the natural decaying cycle. Those stones look like they were tossed about by people, over time, looking for treasured items among them. Shame!
so something just came to mind. where were the dead buried at this town? With all the wilderness and these ghost towns in PA I"d think there'd be alot of abandoned/undocumented cemeteries. I watch another youtuber down south and he finds them all the time. He posted one today, undocumented, a hiker found it, said there were 3 or 4 graves, he found over 100 and will go back and look for more.
@@JOE-on4pi I think you'll like it. what I like is that he reads every name and dates on what he finds, if they're still readable. and explains things so you can understand lol He has another channel too you can check out.
I would have to think that somewhere there are old photos of these old towns. I've seen the old photos of Centralia, pa. But if course the town of gold mine isn't as famous a place.
There are now many people that are realizing that the stories associated with these old structures can't be true. It is just flat out impossible that a sparce 1800's population cut hundreds, even thousands of stones with hand tools and then dragged them up a mountain and put them together into these stuctures.
Is there any historic photos of the area? I would hope that these sites have already been mapped and recorded as cultural resource sites. Check with your State Historic Preservation Office. Thank you for the videos and the series!
I’ve been enjoying your videos for a while now and just thought to ask you have you done one on the SINGING ROCKS , I’m in Mississippi and I think I saw a documentarie on that years ago ? I feel like you’ve probably done one on that already, your state is Beautiful, thank you
Does anyone else think this area was a known habitation of native Americans and/or the civilization that lived in America before them? I've heard different people talk about how when they were looking for gold they were really digging up old towns/temples of a previous civilization? Out of place artifacts is an interesting subject
hi love Sounds Leaves Brilliant stonework I've seen in ireland pity about JP videos But i think hes out of hospital written to him at least 3times Happy new year got my booster jab tdy had to 30th December already wish cud roll bk d yrs Gt Video Cliff bud Brian
Also what is up with burnt cabins PA? Why did the government make the settlers burn their cabins down? Did that ever happen again in the 13 colonies where the government made settlers burn down their cabins to appease the Indians? Those must have been some important Indians that lived at pyramid point PA
