Abandoned places of Rural Appalachia
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More Abandoned places of rural Appalachia. So much our Appalachian history is slowly going away and being forgotten. Our history and the lives our elders before us are all but gone. Only in our memories. Thanks for watching. SUBSCRIBE:: LIKE AND SHARE:: HELP GROW YOUR CHANNEL. THIS CHANNEL COVERS 9 DIFFERENT SUBJECTS ! All Videos are Copyrighted and used by permission only.
I can't pass an old deserted home without thinking about the memories, the tears and laughter it holds, brother Donnie. Thank you so much for sharing these videos and recounting our past! I hope you're having a wonderful time on your camping trip, brother. Shabbat Shalom, and G-d bless you and yours! Please pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
Thank you friend for sharing this. God bless you.
I Scotch Irish from Ulster Northern Ireland , many of my relatives lived in those mountains and a number of the fought with Clacks infantry during the civil war , my family name is Herron a real hillbilly. God bless you for doing this.
My grandmothers father was from Irland, her mom was Cherokee, I live in Scott Co Tennessee
Thanks for another great video. I always enjoy seeing old buildings and learning the history behind them. I also appreciate the beauty of the architecture of these older houses. Modern houses are plum ugly compared to them, and subdivisions destroy the beauty of the landscape. We have a lot of old houses and other buildings down here in Texas that are being neglected and falling in or being torn down in the name of progress. It's so sad to see them go and be replaced with some ugly modern monstrosity. Even worse is when they are replaced by a subdivision full of ugly modern monstrosities. It's called progress, but sometimes I'm not sure it really is.
I love all the old houses 😊
I hope you stay friends with ol Bill! Sounds like a wonderful human being! This brings tears to my eyes but a huge smile too! Takes a great storyteller to do that. Thank you again my friend and God Bless 🙏✌️❤️
Thanks for sharing this my friend. Your very welcome.
I always wonder what stories these old places could tell... I still see them on the back roads. Thanks Donnie 😎👍
Your very welcome my friend.
Thank you for sharing this Mr Donnie ❤ I love seeing the old places. ❤ It is mighty sad to see them rotting away though. If walls could talk, they would tell a million stories❤ God bless you, sir ❤
Thank you friend. God bless you.
Morning Donnie, thank you for such a great video
Thanks for sharing this video I also enjoy driving through the country and seeing old house and barn. They are so many old buildings where we used to go that are gone now just a memory. My grandmother old house is all most gone I remember them telling me about how they cut out a way through an Ivy ticket to build the one room house they cut down the trees and built the house on the stumps. Back in the 30s. They went to the spring to carry water. And I remembered my grandmother told me that one time her and my uncle who was younger then went to the corn crib and shelled out some corn to take to town to sell so they could buy him a new pair of shoes to wear to church. I love your videos they bring back so many wonderful memories thanks for your hard work and for sharing them with us .have a blessed day 🙏
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories. God bless you.
Thank you once again ❤
Hi Donnie. I enjoy your videos so much especially those where u talk about the old ways of life and the houses people of that time lived in. Yes it's very sad to see communities gone and homes becoming derelict but on a positive note it's good to hear there are those who value these old properties and want to bring them back to life. I just love the american houses that have the big beautiful porches on them. If I was ever in the position to buy a property I'd live out in the countryside and I'd choose a house with lots of character then I'd have a beautiful porch attached to it from front to back.... that's my dream lol. Much love and thanks to u and your family from the UK 👍
Thank you friend. God bless you.
God bless you for doing this. I'm from east tennessee and about your age and I do appreciate what you do
Thanks Donnie for sharing this. I guess you're hunting. Love these old homes and I'm looking forward to your video talking to Mr. Bill
Thank you friend. Your very welcome.
It's so sad to see our history in our mountains fading away
It's so sad my friend. Thanks for sharing. God bless you.
I find it interesting that old homes will work their way back into nature, but the new homes will be polluting eye sores.
Love your videos. I often think about what it would be like to live in one of these old houses.
Me to my. Thanks for sharing this.
Life as we knew it Donnie is about over now. It’s gone but never forgotten. We are the last of a dying breed sir. It breaks my heart to to watch so called progress stick it’s ugly head up. It is what it is.
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
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So wish I had been able to see where my Daddy grew up 😢!
God bless you my friend.
I live in north Carolina sad to say same thing is going on here
I thank you Donnie for recording these places where folks used to live. When I was young I could drive just half an hour away and I could visit with my old friends at the general stores, gas stations and feed and seed stores. The area where I lived as a child was still half rural and I could walk to an old Methodist Church to pray on Sundays and Wednesdays. It was a two mile walk but my parents never worried about me walking that far. The most that I would meet was a neighbor's car or truck. All of these places of my childhood and teen years are all gone now, even the church, replaced by the urban sprawl of the spreading city of Atlanta. They even call where I used to live Atlanta now! But once, it was a thriving little town with the big city at least twenty miles away. That town was my home address! It's no longer there, all office buildings now, including where my house was. Please record as much as you can before it's gone! We need to remember where we came from. Take care in your travels my friend! May God bless you and yours.
P. S. I enjoyed seeing the horse!❤
Thanks so much for sharing this my friend. God bless you. It is sad to see nowadays.
My family members are building in Appalachian part of Kentucky. Two brothers building 2 log cabins there.
Never gave it much thought when visiting my great grand daddy . I'm not sure and I've discussed it with my first cousins and we believe great grand daddy has natural gas on his property? Mr. Donnie can you or anyone confirm?? It's Clay county Kentucky. I've been told the log cabin is still standing, however there is no road to it today. One of my cousins lived at a Baptist boys home in Clay county and we are going back in the spring of 2024 to refresh our memories about ALL of it! Im 78 years old today.
Those old mountain folks didn't have much, but they had more peace, privacy and natural beauty than we have today
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Isn't it amazing how fast mother nature reclaims her world?!? Doesn't take any time for the weeds and vines to grow up over structures!! I also love that so many young folks are buying up old farm homesteads and breathing new life into them!!
I don’t call it progress. It’s just so sad. Growing up, we kids found an old foundation of a farmhouse that even the elders didn’t remember. I loved visiting it. So quiet and full of history. I remember those old country stores too. We used to camp near The Wilderness, the little village on the river is now a subdivision and a Walmart is/was being built where so many lives were lost. Our history doesnt matter anymore. $$ are all that count. I hope you enjoyed your trip! Thank you sir for leaving this for us!🙏🏻
Hi Donnie. Thanks for this video. I, too, am saddened by "progress" and neglect. I think we could solve the issue of homelessness if we would tend to some of these old houses. I'm so glad you're out enjoying yourself! Have a great trip and don't worry about the comments.... you deserve a vacation! We all understand!
Thank you so much for sharing this my friend. God bless you.
"These old people that didn't have nothing. But they made it." True words Bro. Donnie. And for the most part they were happy with what they had. Great memories that if it weren't for you would be just that. Memories.
Thank you for sharing this with us Donnie and for what you do to keep the history alive!
It has always made me sad to see a barn, let alone a house, fall to pieces like that. And like you, I do love to see people restoring the old homes , or at least putting it back into service. I think we've forgotten how to build houses. The old ones have lasted thus long because they were made to last. Thanks again! Have a nice time on your camping trip!
My parents were from Clinton and Lake City, Tennessee. So much history there. I am glad someone is keeping the past alive. Thank you Mr. Donnie.
Both of those towns are packed with history. My dad was born in Claxton and went to high school in Clinton. I live in Arizona but I could write a book about that area of East Tennessee.
@@scottackerman8981 Maybe you should. Write a book, I mean. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you, Donnie, for sharing these beautiful old houses and memories 😊
I can't wait to see you chatting with Bill, 92
Off to see my Dad, today, he's 88 1/2, give him something to aspire to 😄🤗❤️
I love old houses, churches, buildings. So much history. Thank you, Donnie💛
These places are like very elderly people who sheltered and took care of families, full of memories and becoming weaker with the years, but left alone, neglected, and forgotten. They inspire a haunted melancholy in me, but I love looking at them. Thank you.
It makes me so happy to see a young couple save and restore an old house. These old houses will outlast the newer homes if you do a little upkeep on them. Young people are saving 200 + year old stone cottages with only walls standing by putting a roof on. They are saving their history in France and Italy by working so hard to save ruins everywhere and moving in them. It is great to see many doing the same in the USA. I love your videos and hope that a young couple will watch this video and get inspired to save an old homestead.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Can't wait to see the story of Bill and his house! The man doesn't look 92 for sure. Good, clean living is why he's that age and looks much younger. Back then most of us played in the woods and on a creek or river and ate what we grew, it makes all the difference. I really enjoyed this video, thank you so much. God bless you.
Thanks for keeping these memories alive.
Your very welcome my friend.
I have no words to do justice to the specialness of this video. It is a treasure! Thank you so much , I’m blown away, this is just amazing!!!
Awesome my friend. Thank you.
That was, both, sad and beautiful. Sad because it’s going away but it’s still beautiful. Blessings,❤.
Nice work as always Donnie! Keep up the good work brother
Thank you so much my friend.
GOOD MORNING, GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS.
I SO MISS THE DAYS.
Thank you Donnie for all the hard work you put into these videos. You really know where the history is waiting to be seen. You have the perfect voice tone for story telling. You present things peacefully and with a calm tone to your strong voice. Thanks again for keeping history alive. Your friend, Louise
Came across your page. Love your stories next year Appalachia mountains of NC is where I'm calling home. Can't wait been dreaming of living in the AM since I was a kid. I'm from Texas. Those mountains are calling me. My wife and I are going back to living the old fashioned way.
Good morning Donnie and Happy Friday! Thank you so much for sharing the History of old abandoned places. I love to imagine kids playing in the yard and farmers plowing in the fields as it brings it back to life.
I like you am in awe of the History of our country and preserving it for future generations. I hate things being destroyed in the name of progress,pretty soon it will all be gone and it breaks my heart to see it go.
May God Bless You and I hope you have a great weekend and I'll see you Monday on As the Ridge Turns.😊
Your very welcome my friend.
This is so sad I see places of my yesteryears here in South Carolina falling to ruin as well ,it breaks my heart as a child of the 60s and 70s .I remember going on trips with my Grandma to see kin folk in the country ,not much country anymore either .much love to you and yours Donnie God bless you brother ✝️💜🧂🪖🇺🇸
I understand my friend is. It's so sad. Thanks for sharing. God bless you
Damn good video Donnie I’ll say it again you sir can tell a story like nobody else when me and my wife come down in the summer this is exactly what we do.love looking at all the old places …..THANK YOU
Thank ya Mr. Donnie for keeping these memories alive. I hate to see old home places deserted and gone. My granddaddy had an old home place just a few feet down what use to be the old dirt road but I guess it got too small for the family be was raising at the time so he built a little bit bigger house a few feet back up the other way which is the old house I grew up in. It wasn't that much bigger than the other one....lol. Bless his heart. But fortunately the old house I grew up in is still there.
Hey Donnie,as I told you before. My Mums heart broke when she would see a building breaking down.
She new the hard life , the good life😢.
Very well done friend 🎶.
Enjoy your time in the Woods 🎉.
JO JO IN VT 💞
Donnie, I loved every moment of that video. I love seeing old places like these, although unfortunately in my part of the world they are inevitably torn down to make way for new dwellings or sheds if they are on a farm. I love to imagine the stories those four walls could tell - the children raised there, the good times, the bad times. Places like this are so important. God bless you 🙏
Excellent video! I really enjoyed watching this.
I seen that old house with the large oak tree, that brings back wonderful memories hearing wisdom on front porch. Thanks Donny!
I really miss the old, full-service gas stations; where an attendant would come out, wearing a uniform, to pump your gas for you. Some, would even check your oil and clean your windshield. They usually had a change dispenser on their belt because everything was cash. No cards to worry about.
I do the same thing here in mountains of SW Virginia, just driving around on the back roads looking for abandoned homes and barns, wishing they could talk. Take care Donnie, and God bless.
God bless you Donnie watched your video while me and my wife were making butter so glad to hear and watch your videos fixing to take the table cloth off and make some dumplings. People might think I’m lying but I’m not there are still a few of us left
Howdy Mr. Laws, don't you wish they'd put restrictions on where and how much they are allowed to put in the East, TN Region, especially close to our creeks, rivers and lakes, and in our Mts.? They're simply ruining our culture and peacefulness. God bless you always.
The more we progress the worse we get. Funny how progress turns people into animals.
The abandoned home with the cross speaks to it all. Very sad.
Oh if those old houses could talk! Love your videos, thank you.
Thank you Donnie! I like the history of our ancestors. It's interesting. I'm glad that some people are rebuilding these old homes. It is amazing how much has changed over the years. Keep up the good work !
God bless !
my husband I really enjoyed this video. We are from Southeast Ky originally and can really relate to everything you said here. It saddens our hearts that the old places are going away too. you are right , these folks were God fearing and just downright good people. Yes things have really changed, and not all for the good. Thank you for the video. We appreciate you bringing it to us.
I'm with you Donnie. My heart hurts seeing and imagining the families there. I grew up in these buildings.
It saddens my heart too, to see all the history going away. So sad.
Thank you for remembering these old people. Our history and the lives they lived. The Bible was their first reader, for a lot of them.
Another amazing video
Always love your videos. They could almost be the backwoods of Arkansas where my folks settled.
My favorite Bible teachers the Murray's are in Arkansas even though Pastor Arnold has passed still watch his and his son Dennis on Shepherd's Chapel, God bless you ✝️💜🧂🪖🇺🇸
Wish there was captions on each house with the location of them... great video, especially the sevierville exit on I40 that's home for me 😢
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
I love this video. We've done several videos of old abandoned places that nature is reclaiming. It's such a shame. My grandson probably won't know about the rich history. I wish we could give all the children our knowledge. Thank you for your time and video!
Good morning Donnie, I appreciate all the time you give to your fans' editing video's and such. As the adventures you share we enjoy as well as you. Progress is very sad. To see old homesteads in shambles. But atleast we give the families thought. I hope you are having a great time with your family camping and look forward to the story of Bill life's. God bless you Donnie! ❤
Thank you for these videos. This one brought back a lot of memories of my grandparents' old farm house. Happy times there as a kid. God Bless!
Have fun camping Mr. Donnie and thank you for blessing us with this video. God bless you.
It is such a shame to see these old places falling apart or being torn down. In this little six mile long valley I live in (Western Middle Tennessee called Wood's Valley) there are at least ten, maybe more, abandoned houses. There are two literally in sight of my home. Thanks for sharing.
This was a great video. There is such beauty in these old homes. I always try to conjure up the memories of the families and people who lived there and imagine what their work and lives were like. I'm glad you're going to tell the story of the two story farm house. So cool to see the pic of the house back in the day. That upstairs balcony was beautiful. Thanks so much for preserving these beautiful places and sharing them with us. God continue to bless you, my friend. Jane in SC❤🙏
Hello from KY love your channel ❤️.Glad you are enjoying yourself.Hope you are warm and safe.Love these videos.Boy they really spark a thought provoking time in my life.❤
I always wonder about the people who worked the land and lived in the houses and communities so I'm looking forward to the video on that when it's finished. These places are awesome and such a treasure of day's gone by. Wish people everywhere would stop to smell the roses and just slow down. These are priceless memories and much can be learned. Thank you 😊!!!!
The on going rat race!, it makes me sad to see it like it does you Donnie. I especially hate, hate to see the beautiful tree's cut down. The town that I live in used to be so quaint, and fun to live in, and drive in. Now its nuts!, more and more people are moving in here, they want the country, yet their bringing their concretely jungle with them. Its awful.. this is my second comment, i appreciate you sharing this. A simpler time. I wanna remember them too. God bless you.😊,
Thanks Donnie
Would like to see the price of gas on those pumps..it'll tell you when they closed up.
Have a great weekend folks & Happy Thanksgiving
Oh I loved this Donnie, ever since I was a kid I always dreamed of exploring the old farm homes. Thank you so much for sharing ❤❤❤
I love old houses, especially old farm houses. I love the porches. Also love old photos. Really looking forward to your video with the gentleman you met while you were out filming this one. My father passed away at 95 in 2021. He grew up in West Orange, N.J. in a little bungalow and back then their street was still dirt. Hard to believe it was ever that rural . When we went back to see it in the late 90's or early 2000's, you can't hardly even tell where the old bungalow was. It held a lot of good memories for my Dad and he use to tell us stories about his younger years and growing up there. Thanks so much for this video. I really enjoyed it. Brought back happy memories of my Dad. ❤
I sure enjoyed the old houses with all the character of the families that once lived there. What stood out in my mind was no matter how snall or large the home was it had a porch and 99 percent of the buildings had metal roofs. Now up here in the Northeast they are going away from shingles and back to metal roofs. What goes around comes around. Thank you for another great video.
Hi Mr. Laws, I think Im feeling a lil better, my Great Granddaddys place is still standing, my Great Granny sold the old homestead to a sporting gun club, she died in the 70's and my Granny and my Great Aunts and Uncles got millions....she spent hers on nursing homes, she was happy I guess, she died in one....I never liked her and she knew it, oh well, anyhoooo I loved this trip down memory lane, have a great Veterans Day tomorrow, gonna see what our local Vets have done , daddys name had been added to Veterans Park....Bye for now Mr. Laws 🇺🇸
Nice video! I prefer driving on backroads and looking for old houses & businesses to explore & document. I really enjoy the 'ol mom & pop places.
For those that have passed on, much respect to them. May they rest in peace!
This video slammed right into the folds of my heart. The same mess is happening here in little old South Jersey. I guess all the North Jerseyans, philadelphians, and NYC people want to get to somewhere out of the city so they have some space and breathing-room - retire - etc. The problem is, with all of them coming down here in droves, it's beginning to look like the area they're trying to get away from! I hardly recognize any of the areas I grew up in. What was once farmland and chicken coops, is now cookie-cutter neighborhoods, warehouses, and strip-malls. Sad to see. It's just all gone. Thankfully, I have a powerful and vivid memory, so it still exists if I sit back and close my eyes.
Thank you so much for sharing. My mind just goes back to my childhood..what sweet memories. I was raised in a coalmining town here in SouthEast Tennessee.
I enjoyed this, sad as it makes me feel. My Grandmother was born in 1894 and grew up in a log house near Lima, Ohio...not sure where the family pictures from those old days have gone. My older brother did family history for us, but now he's gone too. I think it's important to remember.
Good morning friend 😊
I love looking at abandoned homes makes me think of who lived there? Were they happy? Thank you so much.
Wonderful video. Not much different than Central West Virginia. I was watching your story, but my mind was full of memories of things that no longer exist. Right now, I was recalling a lovely old woman who still lives in the farmhouse that her husband built, and her daughter who lives just down the holler (hollow). I have land in that holler that I bought to pass on to my children just so they would have a piece of WV and hopefully feel a connection even though we all live in Florida. I do believe that they also feel the pull of those hill and mountains. Over the last twenty years I've taken my Father, Mother and oldest Son back to the family burial plot. It's not pleasant but the connection to those hills is not broken. East Tennessee. My old H.S. football coach who is gone many years was from East Tennessee, as was his wife. They were the Bales family. Thank you for your poetic look at your homeland. Those of us from Appalachia will always have that connection and love for those hills. It's no more than a day or two before I will find myself, in my mind, back to where God created me and am proud to be a Mountaineer. Thank you, I have great respect for what you are doing.
Hi Mr Donnie, hope you are enjoying your camping. Thank your for the film showing all these old buildings. Very sad to see. God bless and rest up. How fascinating about the older gentleman that you met!
I remember as a kid when my parents would drive through the foothills of the Ozarks that from time to time we'd see the old farmhouse my 2nd great grandfather built. It's long gone now, just the street next to it bearing the family's surname (O'Brien).
Love the old homes! Each one has its own family stories!!Thanks for the video! I hope you and your wife have a wonderfully blessed weekend!!
I so would love a home in the country! Being a widow and losing everything, I am stuck in an apartment, although it is nice and I'm grateful.
I find your segments enjoyable and relaxing. Very down to earth and i like that. Thank you!
I love remembering the old times thanks Donnie for helping to keep it remembered. Have you ever done an Ancestry on your family's passed I have an I found some awesome things about my ancestors. Thanks Donnie God bless you and yours
How could people live with houses stuck near each other that way? See these song lyrics to Subdivisions by the band RUSH:
Sprawling on the fringes of the city
In geometric order
An insulated border
In between the bright lights
And the far unlit unknown
Growing up it all seems so one-sided
Opinions all provided
The future pre-decided
Detached and subdivided
In the mass production zone
Nowhere is the dreamer
Or the misfit so alone
Subdivisions -
In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
Conform or be cast out
Subdivisions -
In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Be cool or be cast out
Any escape might help to smooth
The unattractive truth
But the suburbs have no charms to soothe
The restless dreams of youth
Drawn like moths we drift into the city
The timeless old attraction
Cruising for the action
Lit up like a firefly
Just to feel the living night
Some will sell their dreams for small desires
Or lose the race to rats
Get caught in ticking traps
And start to dream of somewhere
To relax their restless flight
Somewhere out of a memory
Of lighted streets on quiet nights…
Fantastic video!
Amazing pictures of these old home sites and businesses I often wonder if they could talk...oh what stories they could tell. When you speak of foundations these are the foundations to many families that started at the very point...a hard struggle for most but a drive and determination to make it better for the next generation to come...I am humbled by my family's history we come from hard working farmers and laborers working to make life better for each generation and with a deep faith and a love for family and extended family. What I find in all the generations in our family no ill words were ever spoken of anyone and they were admired for their love of family, country and community they called home. We can learn much from this legacy how we ourselves are to conduct how we live and treat others... because our families did it prior to us with far less resources and trappings of the modern era we live in. Always a joy to be along on your journey into the past my friend and truly appreciate you sharing your thoughts with us. God bless you my friend 😊🇺🇸😇🙏
Progress everywhere where I live as well I want to go metal detecting on the old home sites Thanks for sharing ♥️♥️♥️♥️🚞🗝️🇺🇸
Donnie, Donnie you pull the ol heart strings! I guess progress is important but I’m not so certain when it cost our heritage. Hope you enjoy your camping trip thanks for what you do.
It’s sad. How quickly we forget.
Such a shame it just breaks my heart. I miss it so. I feel so privileged and blessed to have grown up that way. The values the morals the integrity taking pride in your work and what you do and how you carry yourself and treat each other is still ingrained in me and instilled in my family to this day. These generations now have no idea what it took to get them where they are now! And sadly all we have are the memories that we hold and cherish. I will never forget the sacrifices that my great-grandparents, grandparents and parents made for us. It makes me who I am today and I take great pride in that. God bless those who lived the good life and taught us how to be good stewards of this way of life. And I have a feeling that the right things are going we're all going to have to go back to those days. I truly pity those who won't be able to take care of themselves. God Bless You.
Property taxes are causing farmers to sell their land to developers for the subdivisions and condos. I have a retired Georgia State Senator friend who called it "legalized theft."
Thank you Donnie. Love this channel & it's time we'll spent learning all the history of the past
Happy camping ❤😊 my friend . Bev. INDIANA.
These old places are beautiful. So much character! I don't care for the progress in the area either.. ❤
Now that's good content, Donnie. Thank you for doing what you do, and keep up the great work.