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!
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
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.
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
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.
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 🌺🌺🌺
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
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.)
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.
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.
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???? :)
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.
@@JOECorsoNova 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.
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.
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 !
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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
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
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.
It's amazing how quick nature reclaims the land.
Thank you for your efforts to document the history in our backyard before it disappears.
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!
I loved adventuring through old and abandoned places like this in my neck of PA. Tons of old mining places like concrete city and blue coal
Very interesting-thank you-it's fun to imagine how this would have looked 200 years ago!
It always seems sad to me; to see something that took so much human effort to build, laying in ruin, and only used for such a short period of time.
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
Thanks cliff for a look at a forgotten town lost to time. I enjoyed the adventure ☺
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.
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!!
My early explorations began in the Goldmine/Rausch Gap area as well. One the the coolest sections of PA wilderness.
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
On my bucket list-------Thanks for showing us oldsters what we have trouble navigating to.
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.
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 🌺🌺🌺
Thank you it great to see all these old towns I never new about
If you are doing iron furnaces, there's always "the park that Lehigh county forgot". Lockridge park in Albutis, I grew up there.
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
You are doing a great job. I enjoy your videos and adventures. Please continue to educate me and your viewers to the wonders of PA.from Texas USA
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.)
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.
I would have been so turned around looking at all the foundations lol no sense of direction 😅
See? you are STILL a teacher at heart. You are teaching us.
Thank you Cliff the bridge and stream was beautiful such a peaceful walk
Happy Holidays Cliff! I never miss a Video, Thank You So Much.
Really enjoyed this video. Love learning about abandoned mining & ghost towns. Thank you & Happy New year
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.
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???? :)
The water tank was also used to produce the steam for the RR engines.
GREAT JOB AS ALWAYS ..HAPPY NEW YEARS
Great adventure. Thanks. All the best for 2022.
Got me one of those hoodies and sticker. ❤️ the design
Happy New Year !
These are my favorite explores! So much beauty in the scenery, the stonework too. Happy New Year Cliff!
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.
What the channel name? I’d like to check that out! Thanks
@@JOECorsoNova Sidestep Adventures
@@carolb29 cool, thanks! I’m gonna check it out
@@JOECorsoNova 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.
@@JOECorsoNova let me know if ya like it.
Thank you for your channel. I never knew that these places existed.
I really like these videos
Hat's off to you and Thank you 👍👍
Outstanding video and information. Thanks
I didn't know Pennsylvania had any ghost towns but one
I would be interested in a detailed map of that area. Keep us posted.
I'm originally from NJ and there is a preserved town called Allaire.
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.
I have been there several times.
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 !
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.
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.
Really appreciate your Ferver to preserve history while it’s existing
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!
Love your videos.
sorry for so many comments. There is a book you might like called Pennsylvania ghost towns by Susan Tassin. Cheers mate
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.
That tower, it may be a chimney for a charcoal furnace.
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.
This guy should be state historian for pa
Beauteous
Happy New Year! 🎆🎈
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!
No photos that I know of.
Is this in Jonestown?? I’m trying to figure out where this is. Thank you, I love your idea of a series of Ghost Towns of PA!
Northern Lebanon county
Great video! I'm doing my homework..... 👍
n rail bed i meant Great colours etc. because weather n cork is Brutal tks
I will take the second one
I wonder if you could insert historic photos of the structures when available.
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.
Nice area
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
I need to know where I can get maps of these places....I'm retiring in January and want to get to some of these places
Have you ever explored or found anything under uprooted trees like the one at the 27:00 minute mark?
29:46 nooooooooooo
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
I did a video on ringing rocks
Here in NM your not allowed to take anything that pertains to Native Americans such as pottery or arrowheads 😎
So these walls represent house foundations (time mark 34)?
we have been lied to about our true past
These are ancient artificial structures,,from the giants time period
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
What was the tower for?
Where was the source of the water for the water tank?
Synchronicity ⌛ Lunch @ 13:30
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hi Really looking for to rail abutments im a Rail fanatic travelled n Scotland Wilderness n Europe by train etc
If he organize s tours sign me up
What is the most recent ghost town you've ever visited or heard of?
go on rail bridge n
Love your videos