The Ancient Potts Creek Rock Shelter (St Croix, Indiana)
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
- Just east of St. Croix, Indiana, is an incredibly ancient place, that researchers say has been inhabited for thousands of years. Potts Creek Rock Shelter is a paradise in the woods, with a gentle stream rolling over solid rock, carved over unimaginable time. And above this eden, are caves where ancient people used for shelter against the elements. Crossing the creek is like stepping back in time, where Paleo-Indian, Woodland and Archaic people once called it home.
Potts Creek Rock Shelter was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
As I’ve stated before my Mom and Uncle were born in a dirt floor log cabin atop these cliffs closer to Westfork. They spoke often of the children’s finds in the cliffs including a tomahawk! My mom never learned to swim and was scared to death of Potts Creek it got pretty hairy to cross it in the rainy season, we learned to swim early in life because of her fear of water she held to the day of her passing. The cabin was dismantled and used for repairs of the buildings around Lincoln’s Boyhood Home.
I just found out about this place.. I thought I was going to have to drive 4 hrs South and come explore this for myself and take a video to post... but you beat me to it lol. Good ole' IN baby! 🍄 ♾ ♻️ 🌳 ♌ 🙏 🍄
Yellow Birch Ravine and Hemlock Cliffs are two excellent places to explore, and are fairly close to the Potts Creek Rock Shelter. Nothing like them elsewhere in Indiana. 🙂
Thanks for sharing! I'm always excited to find new places to explore. Appreciate your videos.
What a cool place! You find the best places to explore!!!
I have a voracious appetite for adventure! 😀
It's a beautiful place.
Not difficult to get to, a great fall destination
Thanks for the videos Rodger they are awesome! Never gave much thought to those roadside pull off's. But now everyone I see I want to pull off to see what's there. I did go to the Potts Creek rockshelter. I really never found some of the features you show in your video maybe I just didn't look up. I did find something very interesting when I walked back the creek towards Interstate 64I found an Old Homestead with an awesome stone foundation. structures are long gone but the foundations to a house with a basement possibly a barn and several other outbuildings all with the stone foundation. And possibly the road back to the homestead. It was very cool would love to take my metal detector up there. Thanks again!
My pleasure, Jeff! Sometimes these places are hard to see until you practically get right up on them. I drove by the rock shelter several times, could not see it from the road. So I decided to start at the bridge and walk along the ridge until I found something. I think I was 100 feet away before I saw the rock shelter! 😀
Another well done presentation Roger.
I have been caving all over Harrison and Crawford county's for 40 years and was never aware of this feature.
I love it when I find something unique and not well known. I’ve got a few more such places, to explore and film, but it might be next year.
Thanks for the info have hunting for years just down the road and didn't know this was there will now check it out
Very cool place and easy to get to!
Great job l was there last year loved it so peaceful.
Thanks, Brian! I was really surprised how serene it was, despite being so close to the highway
Beautiful place. I couldn’t live like this.
Me neither. I once thought I’d graduate and be like Grizzly Adams, living in the woods somewhere. But, I’ve gotten used to modern conveniences and healthcare.
@@AdventureswithRoger me to. I went to survival school but have no interest in it
hey.. new here. recently found this channel n living in brandenburg ky im always in indiana and this channel has been awesome in helping guide my adventures. love the videos sir!
My pleasure! Spent some time filming Brandenburg for a future segment on Morgans raid. Also got the Meade County Museums Brandenburg stone.
More to come!
@@AdventureswithRoger looking forward to it! til then ill keep binge watching haha
Another great one! Looks like a small paradise. Thanks!
My pleasure, Roman! And best of all: very easy to get to!
@@AdventureswithRoger Seems like I'll have to check it out. I've been right past it several times and didn't know it was there.
Gorgeous place. Nice video!
Thanks, Michael!
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Really nice creek an cave. I like that there's no signs an no people. I don't know what blue chert is. Guess I'll have to look that up. I'm finding Indian tools in my yard which I collected before I started looking for Indian tools. They must have been catching my eye all along. I bring home rocks from were ever i go in US an Canada. Thanks great video
Someone over the weekend told me that Wyandotte blue chert is also known as Indiana Hornstone.
Thank you Sir , I'm checking it out .🤠🖖
If you have time, Hemlock Cliffs and Yellow Birch Ravine is just up the road. Both are amazing!
Awesome sir! With the world today, I often think about places to go to get away
Thanks, Dejae! I am right there with you. Every time I’ve found these serene places, I’ve taken a picture of myself with the tripod. That way I can remember the peace. 🙂
Go but leave no trace
These formations are on the
South side of the road, across 62, downstream and are easily visible from the roadway even in
Summer.
I went in early spring, and couldn’t see the rock shelter, after several passes along the road. I ended up starting at the far west end of the bridge, and tracing the creek.
There's a cave across 14 Mile Creek from Rose Island, very similar to this one.
I have wanted to explore the caves along 14 mile creek. There’s one they call “Madoc’s Cave”, that particularly interests me.
Nice video....." If it could only speak, what would it tell us" Thanks!
It’s something to think that when people were living here, mammoths still roamed Indiana. What these people had to endure to survive against animals and the elements, I can only imagine
What a cool place Roger! It's amazing what our ancestors had to endure to survive. Like you said though, perhaps they had it better than our so called modern days.
It seems like civilizations go in cycles, from simple to complex,to back to simple. People value conveniences until the price overcomes the benefits. I like my electricity, indoor plumbing, computer, phone, internet, car, washer and dryer, but could always stand to get back to a less busy life, time with family and friends, and breathing room!
Our ancestors probably had more leisure time no debt or bills and lived in harmony with earth cycles and very intelligent
Been living off grid decades no garden no animals simple shelter simple food storage rain water hunt trap eat weeds nuts tubers fish etc now very old no Dr or ins look many years younger hmmm 🤔
Wow wish I knew of that. Was at St Croix twice within the last month Not to worry tho , GOD willing I'll be back before Easter
Yellow Birch Ravine / Taswell Arch and Hemlock Cliffs are pretty close too!
@@AdventureswithRoger believe went past a marker on 37 ate at Shwartze Restaurant
@@malcolmmeer9761 In the zone! I’m nearly finished with a feature about Crawford County, toying with including two amazing but “forbidden” and dangerous sites.
Roger is this open to the public? I'm always looking for new places to hike and this looks amazing.
Open to the public and really easy to get to. You can somewhat see it from the road!
If you’re in the area, just up the road is Hemlock Cliffs. You can do both in a day! 🙂
Yellow Birch Ravine is also a close one.
I’ve been to Hemlock and Yellow Birch. Both amazing. Have you visited Jeffrey’s Cliffs outside of Hawesville, Ky? It’s beautiful there too.
I haven’t, but I hear it’s pretty awesome! Hoping to get there this season. O’Bannon people tell me is great but is a tick paradise this time of year
Iv got yellow flowers at the end of my long dirt driveway up here in Maine.
I love seeing daffodils in early spring, down here! They are all over the place, just seem to promise another great year!
Food water shelter friends adventure the meaning of it all
Couldn’t have said it better! 🙂
Been by there before never knew it existed
Very easy to miss, not marked at all!
No 9 to 5? Just find food and water?? Sounds like the way we all should be living.
Creeks in that area really aren't good sources for chert or hardstone. It's predominantly sandstone and shale in those creeks. They had to travel in order to get good stone. Ferdinand chert to the west, Derby chert to the south, and Harrison chert (Indiana hornstone) to the east. Mostly
Don’t forget Wyandotte blue Chert, that’s just down the road: that stuff amazes me, for whatever reason. Only found naturally in Wyandotte Cave, archaeologists have found tools and arrowheads made from it, all way on the east coast, suggesting long distance trade.
@@AdventureswithRoger Wyandotte chert is the same thing as Indiana hornstone 😊. I'm a flintknapper and artifact collector. It's nice stuff. Wyandotte cave is pretty cool. I've been there several times.
Ah! You got me. Been to Wyandotte in the 70’s and late 90’s, before they demolished the visitor center. Hope to get in next spring.
East, west, north, south... consider the 4 directions