My husband and I wanted to turn the old store into an antique shop, and home but parking caused an issue we didn't know how to fix. Glad someone is now living there!
Grew up just across the Ripley county line outside of Sunman,In riding my bike's down weisburg road during summer breaks eating black berries and sucking on honeysuckle along the ditch lines.some of my best childhood memories where riding my bike with a friend through the old town..yes it was old even in the 80s lol
Hi I now live in the old general store shown in this video and i love seeing the history of my new house and town thank you so much for showing me what it used to be.
I have lived on Weisburg my entire life... your house was still a general store when I was a kid (in the early 80s). I didn't know there was such a big fire. Wow just wow. Someone sent this to me & Im shocked.
Fun fact... in our main room due to it having been a store there are 162 shelves lining the walls! I was counting as I was painting them a couple years ago and couldn't believe that there were really that many.
I can say a lot of reasons these small towns die off is because kids that live there cannot wait to leave! Not much action going on in a small town unless you’re into cow tipping!
Thanks for the video. Please do one on Mechanicsburg in Decatur County. My grandfather went there for school. As schools consolidated, these little schools and towns disappeared. Thanks again!
We do plan to do a series of videos on Decatur County this year. I will talk to the sponsor for the project and see if they would like to have us do one on Mechanicsburg as well. Thanks!
I am from Greensburg and my great uncle had the general store and post office in Kingston. School is falling in and the store has been leveled but the church and cemetery is still there. Thanks for doing these videos.
Thank you for that video. I was married in that church in 2000 and went to services there with my grandparents in the 60s and 70s. Many Easter Egg Hunts on that yard! Thank you so much.
I remember the store! My dad would take me fossil hunting there and I remember the store was old and kinda run down and had one of those old-fashioned pop machines where you opened the lid and moved the bottles out horizontally.
I live in the old general store. My grandmother bought it in 2015. We are trying to get a historic loan to fix it up but we are not sure how. If anyone can help us out it would be greatly appreciated.
A couple enters Gastons Wood Finishing Supplies I worked at in the mid 80s. They have come to purchase supplies and gain knowledge of architectural wood restoration. They start talking about a grandiose idea of buying an small abandoned town in Southern Indiana. I'm young and nieve to the world yet. Under my breath say I got some swamp land in Florida for sale. After a fantastic "story" and a gracious sale of merchandise the couple heads out of the store. Waving good bye. Under my breath. "They really did buy and abandoned town and restoring it for a bed and breakfast community. Imagine that!" Now you know the beginning of the "Story". Goodwood Day
it is very sad that smallest town little towns and other different towns on the 50 states that are big city and suburb cities and small town it will be the ghost town of today right now in 2018 and 19 and 20 20 but the problem is that I get more depression coming together as a family as the United as one in working together and all different language that are bringing them together as if working some new ideas to get past the gift I hope for this one account for the future because the big city is taking your people and to go over there to see big city and then your people will be disappearing on Sunday older small town and that will be like a ghost town seriously I am telling the truth for all of you that you don't like my message then don't say anything because this is going to be my own words
My husband and I wanted to turn the old store into an antique shop, and home but parking caused an issue we didn't know how to fix. Glad someone is now living there!
Grew up just across the Ripley county line outside of Sunman,In riding my bike's down weisburg road during summer breaks eating black berries and sucking on honeysuckle along the ditch lines.some of my best childhood memories where riding my bike with a friend through the old town..yes it was old even in the 80s lol
I believe that's the train from the Honda plant in Greensburg, headed for Cincinnati, at the end of the video.
You're absolutely right!
Hi I now live in the old general store shown in this video and i love seeing the history of my new house and town thank you so much for showing me what it used to be.
Paige Charles that's awesome I was thinking it would be great to live in the store lol I want to live in that precious little town
I have lived on Weisburg my entire life... your house was still a general store when I was a kid (in the early 80s). I didn't know there was such a big fire. Wow just wow. Someone sent this to me & Im shocked.
I remember going in the store when I was fossil hunting with my dad, sometime around 1980.
@@dumbartonyankee that's so cool. There is so much history to be learned here and I absolutely love it!
Fun fact... in our main room due to it having been a store there are 162 shelves lining the walls! I was counting as I was painting them a couple years ago and couldn't believe that there were really that many.
I can say a lot of reasons these small towns die off is because kids that live there cannot wait to leave! Not much action going on in a small town unless you’re into cow tipping!
Thanks for the video. Please do one on Mechanicsburg in Decatur County. My grandfather went there for school. As schools consolidated, these little schools and towns disappeared. Thanks again!
We do plan to do a series of videos on Decatur County this year. I will talk to the sponsor for the project and see if they would like to have us do one on Mechanicsburg as well. Thanks!
I am from Greensburg and my great uncle had the general store and post office in Kingston. School is falling in and the store has been leveled but the church and cemetery is still there. Thanks for doing these videos.
Her's the video we did on the church in Kingston: historyinyourownbackyard.com/video/kingston-presbyterian-church-kingston-indiana/
Thank you for that video. I was married in that church in 2000 and went to services there with my grandparents in the 60s and 70s. Many Easter Egg Hunts on that yard! Thank you so much.
I remember the store! My dad would take me fossil hunting there and I remember the store was old and kinda run down and had one of those old-fashioned pop machines where you opened the lid and moved the bottles out horizontally.
Brief, but well done. Thanks!
I live in the old general store. My grandmother bought it in 2015. We are trying to get a historic loan to fix it up but we are not sure how. If anyone can help us out it would be greatly appreciated.
Have you contacted the Dearborn County Historical Society?
Yes i live in Manchester indiana i live in a house that was a church in the 1800 - 1955 it became a dwelling. I would love the history on my house
Go to your county auditors office, they can give you the chain of title going back to when it was built.
Nicely done
Thank you!
Please do one on Story Ind
A couple enters Gastons Wood Finishing Supplies I worked at in the mid 80s. They have come to purchase supplies and gain knowledge of architectural wood restoration. They start talking about a grandiose idea of buying an small abandoned town in Southern Indiana. I'm young and nieve to the world yet. Under my breath say I got some swamp land in Florida for sale. After a fantastic "story" and a gracious sale of merchandise the couple heads out of the store. Waving good bye. Under my breath. "They really did buy and abandoned town and restoring it for a bed and breakfast community. Imagine that!" Now you know the beginning of the "Story". Goodwood Day
Thank you for this history lesson. I found it interesting!
Excellent video. Truly enjoyed the sweet girl telling us all about it.. Thank you.
May I suggest deep river and ainsworth indiana
I live in a 1905ish house on the tracks in Guilford that I can't find info on.
Want to see a ghost town? Go to Gary
Waste of time.
It's not a ghost town. Some people still live there. No explanation for why the town died out.
I question, "...is basically a ghost town." It either is, or it isn't. Since people live there, I would say it is not.
Ghosts don't put out the trash...
Do ghost towns even have trash pick up?... 😉
Mrs. EVE King I think they do recycling too!
Pleasant Lake is one ghost town near me.
Tyner, Ind., (near Plymouth) looks about the same.
Love the story but the audio is really bad
Audio was fine.
Pam Vernon, give us a call at 812-623-5727 and we'll check out your house.
Didn’t look much like a ghost town
it is very sad that smallest town little towns and other different towns on the 50 states that are big city and suburb cities and small town it will be the ghost town of today right now in 2018 and 19 and 20 20 but the problem is that I get more depression coming together as a family as the United as one in working together and all different language that are bringing them together as if working some new ideas to get past the gift I hope for this one account for the future because the big city is taking your people and to go over there to see big city and then your people will be disappearing on Sunday older small town and that will be like a ghost town seriously I am telling the truth for all of you that you don't like my message then don't say anything because this is going to be my own words
WHY THE SHOUTING????
A black woman in Weisburg who knew
A racist here, who knew...