This Farmer Discovered Something Gigantic Under His Corn Field...
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Everyone probably knows about how the Titanic struck an iceberg. The things dredged up from the depths have become real artifacts today. But that's not the only sunken ship in our history. Today, I want to tell you about the Arabia, a paddle boat, that sank over 150 years ago and the unbelievable discovers found within.
I worked as a tour guide at the museum, the family are great to work for and the museum is constantly growing as the final remnants are brought out of frozen storage. One bone to pick in the title, the farmer did not find anything under his field, the Hawley family found it, credit where credit is due please!
While I have now moved away from Kansas City whenever I am back there I always try to make a trip down memory lane. RIP Bob Hawley a true pioneer, and also his son Greg Hawley, taken from us by a drunk driver.
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Oh yes, what you said. I came here to say the farmer didn't find it. Love the museum,
Agree- nice to see this video gives it some publicity but the title is dumb and there’s a lot sloppy editing and claims.
I love visiting the Arabia museum. We don’t show at the Royal anymore so it’s bin a few years.
My family has visited this museum, and I agree with those who say this is a “must see”! It’s like a department store stocked with goods from a couple centuries ago! The family has done and incredible job of preserving the items and presenting the history of the times and the sinking and the search for Arabia. Well worth the cost of admission!!
The music is a horrible distraction.
As an outsider from outside the US, it's inspiring to realise that the US reputation of "everything being available at a price" is transcended by some inspired individuals and free thinkers. I had never heard of the Arabia until I saw this video but its now gone onto my bucket list of everything to do before I die. I am now 71 so I had better get a move on.
I've visited the Steamboat Arabia Museum six times over the last 15 years. It's the BEST museum I've visited in my life and I like museums. A member of the Hawley family who worked on the excavation project conducts a presentation during each museum tour. Instead of selling the find and making a large profit the family ended up taking on millions of dollars of debt to preserve and publicly show the incredible collection of artifacts. You will never regret visiting the museum. I often describe it to people as what it would be like to visit a Walmart store had they existed in 1856. I usually spend about 2 to 3 hours each time I visit. On site is a restoration lab and they are still restoring artifacts and putting more things on display every few weeks. Truly an amazing collection of "old west" 1850 artifacts.
Wow, do they at least charge admission to try to make back some of that money and fund the ongoing expenses like utilities and property taxes??
This video is an interview with one of the finders of the boat: ruclips.net/video/UCkCvT0SbTQ/видео.html
From Nick Bell in Southampton, England.
What a great historic wreck. A time-capsule of it's day. Compares well with our own "Mary Rose" , King Henry VIII's flagship which sank just outside Portsmouth, now in her own dedicated museum in the City. In both cases, the sheer quantity and variety of artefacts recovered is staggering. The other famous historic shipwreck is that of the "Vasa", which sank on her maiden voyage in Stockholm Fiord, Swedish flagship, late 18th century, I think. The ship was raised and taken ashore in the 1960's. The timbers of both these ships had to be constantly misted with fresh water for years rinse out the salt, and prevent them from basically turning to mush once exposed to air.
Lovely story, and hope to come and visit your paddeboat one day.
Nick
Its a very long term investment
I would like more info where it is at. Deff worth a vacation to go see real history
We visited the exhibit and saw the collection when we were in Kansas City a few years ago. While we did not know what to expect, the display was breathtaking, one of the finest collections of 1800's Americana goods that we have seen anywhere. It was the highlight of our trip there. You must see it to believe it.
The piles of beautiful pearl buttons made me want to run my fingers through them. And the hand-painted buttons to match calico fabric are amazing. The entire exhibit is amazing!
@@bethfrench9064 Speaking of fingers running through historic items, the Titanic display that was moved from place to place had a waterfall feature that you could put your hand in and it was the same temp as the water the people that went overboard had to swim in,,,it was freezing cold and kinda eerie to feel and think about as you looked at the items on display.
@@warrenmichael918 That seriously makes the point about the difference between surviving and not surviving! Having that in a semi-darkened room would be even more eerie.
@@bethfrench9064 the whole exhibit was dim and playing the movie soundtrack, it was all made and assembled to bring your mind and senses to that place in time. You started walking through and looking at pics and things in a timeline as you went through , it just consumed your imagination and as you felt that cold water, you could feel what must have been a painful cold and slow death to be in that water!!
@@warrenmichael918 Sounds amazing!!
Its an amazing historical museum that provides the public a panoramic view of what commerce looked like in the 1850's.. It's like the Arabia was the first Amazon of consumer products to open to an expanding world. Its also the only Museum that I know of where a few people took all the financial risk, hard labor then built a building to house this historic collection for all of us to enjoy. We owe them all a great debt of gratitude.
--And to the precursors of this landmark project, the "Bertrand," whose DeSoto Bend, Iowa collection is equally stupendous, where the original project leaders literally risked all--and ALL was taken by the Federal Government--and taught the Arabia's finders what NOT to do in resurrecting this lost boat. Many lessons learned from the Bertrand. All the tremendous investment of the Bertrand's restoration crew from Nebraska/Iowa was naught--as they were nearly completely taken advantage of by the U. S. Government. You should do a story on how others risked all, spent all, worked all and then were screwed by our Government. Quite a story.
Honestly, I am impressed by the museum and would like to see it. Kudos to the many workers who dug up this treasure trove of artifacts.
the workers were actually the family that found the boat and them and their family and some friends did all the work. The museum is very amazing - a must see.
I'd love to see this museum but being in England, it'll never happen.
What amazes me is how far that river shifted over time. And how deep the wreckage was under ground!
Beautiful pieces of history there.
Yeah, and if an archeologist had found it by accident they would be claiming it was a million years old! LOL
You should see how the Nile River in Africa moved over time, the rollover used to be really close to the Pyramids of Giza
@@Rattlerjake1 Surely would ve been somewhere around 70000000000000000000 billions years
Hi from England, all rivers move over time in fact the river Thames in London moved a massive amount from where it is now and did you know it also had 2 other rivers that joined it that are no longer there
@@David-hi9rp As a former Londoner that`s interesting, would you care to expand on that?
What an absolutely incredible gift to the world, after expending so much effort and money to retrieve it. Thank you to all involved for their generosity. Shocking how quickly and totally the earth reclaimed the boat.
I have to say this is a bucket list stop for me now. 📡👽🇺🇸RUN!!!
This right here should show you glass use to be made very well and was very good for transport just needs a cushion.
Now plastic this that oh no cushioning needed proceeds to add cushioning.
Now this is a museum worth seeing. I'll definitely try to see it on my motorhome travels. Thank-you to everyone that decided to preserve it for future generations. I love you in Christ. Hugs from northern California.
Great job
Don’t miss it!
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My husband and I have been to this wonderful museum twice. If you’re ever in Kansas City MO, make time-at least a couple of hours-for this wonderland. Don’t let the entrance fool you. It’s a souvenir shop. What’s downstairs is truly a treasure.
The collection is incredible I lived in Parkville, MO -- in sight of where the Arabia sunk. It was fascinating to watch the excavation over the months and years. Very glad so much stuff got saved and is on display. This was the era of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Well worth a trip to see it.
!!A+b
You realize Tom Sawyer and Huck Fin are fictional characters right?
I have lived in KC my whole life, one of my favorite places in the city is the Steamboat Arabia really amazing collection
@@jerryferrell517 ...........but brought to life by Mark Twain!
@@jerryferrell517 ...........but brought to life by Mark Twain!
The museum is absolutely amazing! During my visit I actually met and talked with David Hawley. One of the most interesting things he mentioned was that when they had an appraiser come out to appraise the items for insurance purposes, the appraiser told him they didn't know how to appraise brand new items that were a hundred and fifty years old.
I visited the museum way back in grade school on a field trip. It was unexpectedly memorable. This was mid-'90s and It was pretty new at the time. It was how they laid out the museum to match the layout of parts of the boat that was the coolest part. At least to ~10 yr old me.
@@joshuadowdle9691 To an old me it seems pretty cool, too.
Indeed, the collection behind glass looks like a display from a Crate and Barrel store!
"New old stock" is a term I have heard during appraisals on antiques tv shows like the roadshow.. 😃 😃😃
Perfectly beautiful; entering into a past period of history; my heart melts a little, at the similarities in so many items, the clothing, the crockery, bottled preserves. oh, and that music accompaniment, squeezes my gooey heart.
A selfless act of generosity is certainly worthy of praise.
I've seen a couple of Titanic exhibits and this Steamship Arabia exhibit is equally impressive!
Amazing how well preserved everything was...the fact the pickles were still edible is kinda mindblowing
Go into a mom-and-pop grocery store. They have 20-year-old Twinkies.
They were underground (no light), temperature controlled (55 degrees) and not exposed to air due to canning.
Amazes me how deep and how much the course of that river changed. It's mind blowing!!
What a awesome group of people. To share the find with everyone.
Totally random that I ended up watching this and now I want to go to the museum they build. This is fascinating stuff!
The museum has been open for many years, maybe 30? I took my nephew and a niece there in the 90's late 90's I think. I enjoyed it, my nephew being a pre-teen of about 10 was very hyper and didn't notice and niece was more interested than he was.
Go see it, well worth the 3 hours drive from St Louis.
What a fascinating piece of history! So many things that we never hear of. Would love to visit the museum one day. Thanks for sharing this information with us.
Absolutely amazing! I knew if the discovery of the Arabia quite a while back but seeing the pictures of the actual funding and the items from the steamship is beyond amazing. This is a museum I’d love,to,visit if I am ever,in the area. Thank you so much for this video!!!!!😊
Amazing effort to find and recover the steamship. I was able to walk through the museum with one of the family, Greg Hawley, a good friend and good man that I met in college.
Outstanding collection and credit to all involved in putting history before profit.
I'm an Ohioan and I have visited the Arabia museum four times over a period of about twenty-five years. I've recommended it to friends and family and none have been disappointed. If you're passing through Kansas City it's well worth the visit. You can have a thorough look around in about two hours or so.
Incredible find. I really learned a lot from this video.
1st time ever hearing about this story. Very interesting and love seeing everything. Would love to visit the museum some day. What was the final cost for getting everything back the dig it’s self? Thanks for sharing the story.
My daughter's family now lives in the St. Louis area...this museum would be worth a weekend family trip. Thanks for posting this interesting video...much appreciated!!
I've been to the museum. I can tell you it's worth a visit. It's very interesting.
A unique and fascinating look into the past.
Thanks for sharing.
Drove through KC twice a few weeks ago and didn't know about this. Guess I'll be making a stop next time, yeah it's not gold or whisky but many precious rare everyday items that would have been overlooked for safe keeping or preservation.
It is worth the time. Interestingly, most of the things from this period you find in a museum are old and worn. These items are im brand new condition.
@@JohnSmith-ck3cq yes John. That's what amazed me so much. the fact so much of it looks to be brand new. It was preserved well.
This was so incredible!! Thank you for sharing!!!
...This is a most wonderful and exhillerating story, and the mere fact that the treasure hunter and farmer both realised and agreed that the true value of the find lies in preserving the ships find as a collection in as complete a historic form and shape AND presentation of for generations to come,
PLUS considering the effort which went into the careful, loving restoration of items found, is where the Heart of the beauty of this remarkable story lies.
One can only shake your head in disbelief and admiration at the very same time, that there are yet characters of this magnitude on earth, the US of A in particular, at times when materialism mostly rules the roost.
Like ABBA of late, this story brings indescribable, untold joie with no NADA bounds...
Thank you kindly, especially to those establishing the preserve of this remarkable effort and legacy...
HEART WARMING and INSPIRATIONAL.
And a joie into time beyond foréver...
Touché,
salút!!
Gracias en BAIE dankie!!!
I gotta be honest, I was most amazed by how much stuff they could fit on a 170 foot vessel - and this was only a part of the total!
20 tons of cargo!
Great job on your video. I hope the guy who dug up the boat makes a fortune for his effort to save a little bit of history!!!! Very interesting and fun tolearn about!!!
That is amazing. I love that they worked together to find all of these lost treasures and made them available for the people to enjoy! That's the best!
An absolutely amazing video, what a story and history
ha.... You said "amaze"... lol, Get it Maize? My bad, I'll show myself out.
Wow. Win win for the treasure hunters and the farmer n family. Huge win for our history.
Good vidio that takes us back in time. Amazing dedication of those who excavated this historic ship they deserve their rewards.
Absolutely wonderful recovery of American history! Many thanks to everyone who contributed to the effort!
Also see the book titled "Steamboat In A Cornfield", which describes a paddlewheeler stranded high and dry by a major storm.
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David Holly should get the Presidential Metal Of Freedom for not only discovering The Arabia, but choosing to preserve history by putting goods in a museum instead of selling them. It’s sad that I only heard of this story through RUclips and Im middle aged.. I’m fascinated with this story & Thankyou
I took my wife to be there on a date in 1995. It was a great time!
Just added another item to my bucket list. Definitely going to this museum. Fascinating 🥰
Extraordinary display of integrity, devotion, and will power,.... thanks to the team that saw this thru!!... the items of days gone by.....
Great video! Thanks for posting it. I liked the way you gave metric and standard dimensions.
the farmer didn't find it, he gave permission for the researchers to find it on his property
Ya that’s what was said in the video. Saying the farmer found it isn’t technically wrong though. It’s just a shortened version of the story. It was his land and he probably watched often as they excavated his land. When they found it he was probably called on site or was on site already. So he did find the ship on his land by way of the crew that was excavating his land. Christopher Columbus is credited with finding the new world. But more than likely it was the guy who called “land ho!” who saw it first. Entering an endeavor together as the farmer did with the treasure hunter and as Columbus did with his crew gives the group the right to say they found it if any member does.
When anyone pulls up the word "Outstanding Accomplishments "
The Hawleys name should be the 1st in line!!! May God Bless them for the countless kind things they have shared for countless People around this World.
I certainly hope they made their investment back and much more.
Great story.
It is worth your time to visit this museum. It is one of the best facilities of its type anywhere in the world.
Absolutely Amazing! Love watching historical documentaries like this😁👍🏼❤
Thank you, Hawley family, for preserving this for the people.
Went to the Museum 2 years ago ...It was a wonderful time.....amazing the stuff they had so long ago.
It’s amazing that it could be covered by soil over such a short period of time
Not really. The Missouri River is called the big muddy for a reason. The silt on the bottom is very thick and very sticky. What goes into the silt doesn’t come back out
Thank you for making this video and letting it see me.
i have no clue why i even clicked on this video but i am so glad i did,,,,i had no idea about this lost boat, not to mention i hadnt ever thought about a river shifting and leaving its sunken secrets inder the earth where the river no longer runs! Amazing
That flat bottom ship’s haul makes a great case for their use in developing areas. Hard to believe how much was in that one voyage. It would be great to be in the shipping business with a steel hulled ship.
Hats off to the people who decided to museum the pieces rather than sell them! I would call them real Americans.
Super cool video! Thanks for making and sharing it!
That is really neat that was well worth watching
A great video and a great documentary. I had heard of this river boat sinking years ago, 1960,s or so. I thought group of gold hunters had already found it and took all the treasure away. I gotta go to this museum and spend a week just looking. Between that ever shifting Missouri River and a humongous tree stump we all have a window to our past. How great is that? An old Missouri hillbilly from Taney County, just up the hill from Bee Creek.
I went to see the Arabia museum in KC. It's pretty awesome.
Amaxzing project. Such a great decision. Got to keep his land and ended up with a spectacular museum.
Wow ! Very good…I’ll have to visit this museum. Thank you for your video.
I'm so lucky I got to go here in grade school for a field trip , it was very interesting to me then and even more interesting now. Time to share this place with my family , I'm a local so we will be going very soon . Very cool place , if you haven't been . You should definitely go .
Nice love to see it one day good job done on preserving history thanks to everyone involved
Now thats pretty cool 😎..thank you
Mark Twain Pilot of Riverboats and the stories of an ever changing river.... What a great find and a super Museum!
I live in Kansas city and wrecks like this are EVERYWHERE!!
Great find and very interesting and educating
post..might go visiting. !
I'm shattered that he didn't find the gold and jewellery. 🤣🤣🤣 Does anybody else think he did find it BUT kept quiet so his share was 100%
Fascinating story. Well done all involved.
Very nice museum. A few years ago on a visit to the Museum we had a visit with Mr. Hawley. It is amazing the number of shoe and buttons they were able to bring back to life. Great to see what the ship was carrying.
A great story and rediscovery of so much historical material. As someone that used to dig holes for antique bottles, I would be rather in my element digging out a whole steam paddle boat:)
A fascinating story, and I'll eventually visit the museum when I'm down that way. As for the video, it reveals the limits of the actual descriptiveness of stock footage, which can tell a false story if not used judiciously. Several clips are obviously not river- or Arabia-specific. I especially enjoyed the views of palm trees along the Missouri River (about 4:50). Who knew the Midwest was so exotic?
I never even heard of this until now. Amazing.
An American version of the British Mary Rose, I would love to see both museums !
Not too sure with that analogy....the Mary Rose being an ocean going warship in the reign of Henry V111 some 300 years earlier.
@@flamingfrancis both vessels are a unique point in time, showing us the day to day life of individuals. The incredible amount of every day things from shoes to cutlery and even of what food and drink was being consumed on both vessels. We know a lot from ships manifests, peoples diaries and letters etc but to actually see these real items to me is simply amazing.
That Was A Neat History Lesson About That Dual Paddle Wheeler The Arabia Which I Had Heard About, But This History Lesson Video Is A Pure History Lesson About It, And It's Tragic Sinking, And It's Final Location Being Found, And All Of It's Cargo And Internal Mechanics Being Lifted Up And Out Of It's Sinking And Resting Place, And Placed Into That Museum Which Was Contructed For Everything Relating To It . . . :-) . . . Nicely Done . . . ;-)
I was to that museum as kid when I visited my uncle. It was a great place to see.
Excellent video presentation and want to visit the museum at some point. Impressive, especially that they kept the collection whole and didn't parcel it out on the antique markets.
I wish there was a roving part of that museum as that part of history certainly belongs in NYC Museum of Natural History , Wonderful historical find !
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?
They may not have found gold, but it sure is a treasure. I would certainly visit that museum.
Loved watching this, to see it presserved in this way is top notch.
Give a few of those preserved food items to Ashens to try eating. Could probably use it as part of the museum's exhibit talking about preserving food, tbh.
How did it end up 46 feet under the surface?
The river would be 10-30 feet deep of it then it said it slowly sunk in the mud as the years went by
Wow an unheard of historical museum I didn't know about right here where I live. I'm going to check that out!
What an interesting story. Would love to see these things and visit the museum. 46 ft deep - wow, that is some load of silt!
Great story, I enjoyed your video
Thank for the video I never know about this great find of history.
Discovered? Looked for and found, not an accident but a fantastic museum.
Amazing, and its still in America where all belongs.
We live in Missouri, so one day we'll have to see it. It's history.
Another find in a farmer's field was the SS Sultana (worst maritime disaster in US history), an overloaded paddle-wheeler (a greedy captain who wanted the money to transported released Union POWs) with badly repaired boilers which exploded, burning and sinking with over 1,900 ex-Union prisoners (many of whom were in poor health from Andersonville and other POW camps) out of the 2,100 people on board. The eventual death toll based on records and modern research is thought to be 1,167 people. It was found in 1982 by an investigative team led by a local attorney (Jerry Potter) from nearby Memphis, Tennesse buried under a farmer's soybean field on the Arkansas side of the Mississippi River. The river had shifted 2 miles from its original course in the almost one hundred twenty years since the disaster. I've seen remnants of its boiler bricks, cargo, and even some stuff possibly owned by some of the Union ex-prisoners who died on that ill-fated trip.
There is another found wreck who's portion of its cargo have been preserved just like this wreck The wreck is of the steamboat Bertrand . The remains are near Blair Nebraska , the DeSoto bend wildlife refuge.
It was found in the 1970s
Awesome recovery and restoration process....very wewll done.
I don't understand how it could be so far Underground or how they found it for that matter incredible just incredible
So, the Missouri river would regularly flood and spread across the nearby land. When the water receded, sometimes it would find a different path. In later years, the US Army Corp of Engineers deepened the channel and it became fixed, even during the flood cycle. The site of the Arabia wreck was no longer in the river's path. Aerial photos taken before the excavation show the original 1856-era channel, and even where an island stood in the middle of the river.
They probably used ground penetrating radar and vibration radar along with satellite imagery to locate its approximate location by following the old river bed.
WOW-Simply amazing! Next time I am in Kansas I am going here!
The Museum is in Kansas City, Missouri in the Market.
Amazing! I love stories like this!
thats so cool. glad its in a museum
This is fantastic thank you for showing us 👍🎈😀