Our 1870 Root Cellar~
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- Опубликовано: 17 июл 2024
- A quick look at our root cellar circa 1870! We love it and think you will too! Thanks for watching! Be sure to watch our vid on how we harvested over 250 pounds of Yukon Golds with only 2 rows this year! • Digging For Gold! Our ...
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If walls could only talk!!!!! love it.
" ........... the walls couldn't get a word in edgewise to save the world either".
Delighted to find your video. I have recently purchased a home built by my great-great grandfather in 1870 (who was also a Civil War veteran) which has a cellar looking very much like yours. My grandmother was born in the home and I, fortunately, know a great deal about it. Restoring the root cellar is a priority. I will be eagerly watching your progress and good luck!
+L Todd BTW, the home was built in less than one year. Those old boys knew what they were doing.
+L Todd Thank you so much! You have a real treasure! Thanks for watching!
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Built in shelves. Someone was really thinking and planning for the future when they built that house. How lucky for you!
I love old homes. My great grandmother's husband built their home, and grandmother had a 1700s log cabin that rooms & 2nd floor were added over the centuries. All beautiful stone, wide window sills, 200yr old oak beams with a big pantry off the kitchen. It also had a spring house. My parents built their home too. Ah memories. I wish I lived on a farm like my grandparents. Your so lucky! What a great cellar.
Just sW this video. How awesome. I absolutely love this old root cellar. You are so fortunate to have found it.
It is beautiful! And I love that you use WISDOM in what you show. Cannot for life of me understand why people post all their stored goods, location, and tours that basically give blueprint of their homes. I enjoy your videos so much because you have God given common sense.
Real chestnut is priceless. Congratulations!
Truly amazing! To make a root cellar was a lot of work back in those days! Not only is it great for keeping your potatoes, onions, etc., and your canned foods, but is also a wonderful tornado shelter!
Just what I was thinking.
Love your cellar. My paternal grandparents came from Tennessee, were farmers. My grandfather ran a very clean farm. We were no close to them. I wish I had been taught some of what he knew.
That is really amazing. Root and storm shelter all in one. It's made beautifully. You were blessed to find it. Thank you for sharing it with us Patara.
Love the old cellar. Lucky girl
Thanks for inviting us into your home. You are very cordial.From Canada WCP
We have a home of similar age. Up north we call that a basement, with the same limestone foundation and parging to seal out the ground moisture. FYI.. freshening up with new parging is key to keeping out any mold. Thanks for sharing so much of your life with the rest of us.
Your old videos are so cool to watch. I love your root cellar!
WOW!!
You are BLESSED!!
AMAZING!! A beautiful structure!!
Fun to watch the old videos.
Wow! I mean....wow! What a treasure. ❤
Absolutely Beautiful cellar
I love LOVE the history. The original buildings are no longer on my property, but our family graveyard is here and my family has been on the property since (at least) 1740. I know my great great grandfather fought in the civil war, survived and came back to marry and have a family and I am fortunate to have a chair that he made! Plus his picture with his wife. I am trying to preserve the history! I apologize as I know I have just rambled on but I love love love this sort of thing. Thank you for sharing!
That root cellar is amazing
Wow what a treasured 😊 piece of your home
Such a beautiful home!!! You are truly blessed to be in the situation that you were in to obtain such structure and property not to mention the history that goes along with that it makes me so happy to see how proud you are to show it off I may still be a young man but I was raised through heritage, thank you so much for sharing this and I hope you understand and take full advantage is everything your house is because it's a lost soul but it will keep you alive through anyting it gives back!!!!
that was amazing!!! .... we've dreamed of having a root cellar!!! ... Some body put a lot of thought and work into it!!
What a great cellar. Thank you for sharing and Blessings to you and yours !
I love that root cellar. Awesome! Thanks for sharing your life on your homestead. Blessings. Shalom
the builders of your home understood just how important the basement is. it isn't only a place to escape to in the event of a tornado, or a place to store food supplies that you need to feed your family, but the rest of your home, one, two or even three stories rests on the footer foundation and the walls of your basement, possibly a few hundred thousand pounds rests on that basement. maintenance of it is very important.
Love it!!! Old homes are my favorite!
Fascinating! Thank you for sharing!
How nice and convenient to have a root seller in the house!!
The back into that staircase is amazing it looks brand new.
Brings back some memories. We bought our house in Cincinnati, that was originally built in the 1820's. As we stripped it down to remodel it, you could see the decades of changes and additions. It was built like that. It will be standing, long after the newer ones are gone. I love your house, you guys did great!
+Homestead Dreams At St. Bernard Acres Thank you! Oooo... 1820!
Wow!! What a wonderful blessing for you! Congratulations!
Don't you just love those blessings/surprises?! Love it!! 💝
Amazing!
A true gem. Thank you for sharing!!
Amazing...Love love love it! Alot of hardwork and love went into your root cellar
Wow, I have a friend that has told me about something like this under her house and I can't wait to tell her this is probably what it is called. Her house is very old and now the house is right in the heart of the little town we live in, in southern middle Tennessee. Exciting.
I’m from Pikeville, TN! I live in El Paso and the Adobe structures here and New Mexico are amazing as well
I love your home.
Excellent condition
My small home here in New Hampshire was built in 1825. There is a trap door in the floor of the hallway that leads to what I call a basement. The homes heating system and well pumps are down there. The walls are all stone and the beams are solid tree trunks. I wonder if this is actually more a cellar than basement now that I'm comparing the differences between the two. We don't use it for anything at the moment but it is certainly interesting seeing the exposed wood and stone. The entire main floor has large exposed ceiling beams that are gorgeous! When we bought the house we were told by the inspector that the house is solid and wonderfully made. We are in the beginning phase of researching our home and are lucky enough to have friends that have had grandparents live in our home years ago, the best part is they have photos of our house from decades ago as well! There's no mistaking the charm and character of a home that has stood the test of time for 190 years 😊
Jodielynn Roses your hot looking
Im in rollinsford nh and a neighbor had a similar room in her home, but in that room theres another door and tunnel that leads to the river nearby. Its because her home was an actual part of the underground railroad.
Incredible! I would love to see more of your home and how you are restoring it.
Wow!!! Amazing…
Thank you so much for taking us down to the root cellar. I would love to live in a very old house such as yours. Sadly my husband would have nothing to do with that or homesteading. Can’t wait to see more videos of your home. Be really nice if you could come across a picture of the original owner and place his photo up. You are making him happy. I’m sure he knows you love your home as much as he did. Oh the history in old homes.🙏🏻🥰❤️
Friend I’m in the same boat with my husband 😔
My great grandmother had a root cellar in her home as well and stored mostly food here in Connecticut. Thank you so much for sharing this video. Very exciting!
The root cellar shelf is also a structural item. The footing or lower half it wider to hold back exterior soil and provide strength for the weight of the house to sit on. Our farm house in Iowa has the same root cellar. Works great.
That's a great food storage area for sure!!!!
I imagine a root cellar is the same thing as a "basement" in Wisconsin? Almost every home here has a basement. I've seen many old civil war ear homes that had root cellars that look identical to yours there. Basements are very much upgraded nowdays. With either cinder block walls or poured concrete. A lot of folks build them out into a whole other level of their homes. Very cool. TFS!!
That is a very nice root cellar! We went down down in our flooded cellar in the farm house we just bought and I pulled out a 1920 era perfect mason, blue mason jar out of the water, no chips or scratches, like new! Just thought I'd share that the Lord has blessed you with a very beautiful house!
+beginner homesteader Thank you so much! xo
Awesome!
Love it thanks for sharing
I love history ...so glad I found your channel. Enjoying everything you share in your journey .
Now that is one fantastic root cellar, I've always loved houses with a lot of history.
+HWhit9000 Thank you! xo
how amazing you guys are definitely blessed!
Our cellar is damp sometimes. I'm jealous!
Beautiful rustic no basements in Florida which is hard to store food without preserving
My great grandfather built a Rockhouse on the side was a hill he made a root celler in that hill out of rock with shelf's built in
Too freaking cool :-) I love anything history! And to know that there's still a piece of it out there is amazing lol back when life was simple!
Just beautiful. My heart is happy for you.
How beautiful. I once had a home somewhat similar! loved this and miss mine. Good bones there!
Great tornado shelter too!!
Thanks, I have a 1920s/30s home, that has had a lot of recent work to update the top, but the walk in basement in my tiny home, is all but a dug out with the utilities in it. It is cold in the summer, and just warm enough in the winter to not freeze anything, but I don't like to have too much down there, I am hoping that I can get to a point where it won't bother me because my parents always used theirs and it was a great thing to have. I feel a little city-slicked coming back to the farming community
Wow! Thanks for the video. The house we just moved to (after quite a bit of renovating) was built in the 18070s, too. Our root cellar looks similar to yours, but has moisture issues that we're trying to resolve. I'll have to tell my husband about putting plastic on the floor. We always end up with lots of mud on our shoes when we go downstairs! Seeing your cellar gives me hope that we can rehabilitate ours. :-)
Awesome, so lucky I told hubby I want one so he is trying to figure it out. We do have a spot under the house that leads to a crawl space. I might get lucky!
I lam planning to build a big root cellar, so this was really a great find of a video... Thank you so much.. 🤙💞🙏
Very nicely preserved root cellar you have. Used to be standard equipment for a country home, things sure have changed!! All the best.....Darryl, AML.
My home has a basement like that ,cool ,cool
So awesome, Patara! I make cheese and would be over the moon for that root cellar! It would make an perfect cheese cave, too!
Our farmhouse is 120+ years old. Oak structure. One has to drill holes then use screws. The wood is harder than nails!
Love your root cellar! We found a 10 ac farm in Walterboro, SC which is on the outside of Charleston. While our place is charming, a root cellar is one thing that it lacked. We plan on building a root cellar, but it's definitely not the same as the wonderful treasure you found. We look forward to seeing what else you find out about your historical home.
God Bless :)
+Tammy Mcpherson Good luck with your root cellar, this will be a challenge this close to the coast. I've had some experience with a similar environment on the gulf coast. Ground water is usually only inches deep and there is not much clay in the soil. Consult local experts and do some research to save yourself some pain!
That was phenomenal, thank you!
What a treasure you have ❤
We also live in an old house probably built about 1871 but could not find any information on when it was actually built. We bought it in 1980 and there use to be a blacksmith shop on the corner of our property but it was donated to the Landis Valley Museum in Lancaster, Pa about 1969. I've lived and spent 38 yrs researching this old property but get lost about 1900. We also have a half dirt cellar and half crawl space. Looks similar to yours however we live in Gettysburg, PA. Great video and would be happy to share information with you. Best Regards, Gary PS-Have the original outhouse and believe it or not there was no running water or plumbing in the house until the late 1960's.
I Love it, so much history, and such a wonderful place to put extra things:-) AWESOME
Awesome find! You're so blessed!
Yes, ma'am! xo
How wonderful!
My grandma had a root cellar. Back in those days we didn't have any a/c. The root cellar was sooo cool in the summer.
when i was a teen me and a friend was hired to paint basement walls that was stone of a old mansion that was empty for over 20 yrs! the next morning there was dozens of very large hairy spiders stuck in the wet paint!!! i still dream about that 30 yrs later!!! lol
+gerald volkenand Oh... my... not a spider fan here either!
My place was built in 1930, and is by far the oldest home on my suburban block. It needs some minimal work (floor tiles have cracked and come up, like that), but other than that its the same as any other typical suburban house and is in great shape for its age. Your cellar is gorgeous!
When I was a kid my parents rented a big ole two story farm house on 885 acres of land. The house had no indoor plumbing, and heat was provided a wood cook stove in the kitchen and a big ole wood/coal burning stove in the living room. The outhouse was in one corner of a pasture field which you walked into from a gate in the back yard and the outhouse was about 100 ft. from there. We got our water from an ole time hand pump in the back yard just off the enclosed back porch. The house also had a root cellar beneath the kitchen but the walls and the floor were dirt. We eventually put in a bathroom and a pump so we could have running water in the house, and replaced the wood/coal burning stove in the living room with an oil heating stove. But that root cellar was amazing, we stored root foods and apples down there for months before they'd go bad. And it didn't matter what the temperature was outside that cellar remained the same temperature year round.
Oh, and the house was over 200 yrs. old at that time and had never been updated, I was 14 at the time we moved there and I am 60 now. The house was still owned by the great grandson of the original builder at the time we rented it and he was in his 70's. I always dreamed of owning that house, but it was just a dream. I was over there a few years ago and the house is still standing and someone is living in it. The house was huge with 7 bedrooms and Ma and Pa porches on the front of the house that were screened in. The drive-way from the house to the main road was over half a mile long so ya had plenty of privacy. That was my first and only experience with a root cellar, but if I ever had the money to build my own home I'd have a root cellar, they're awesome.
+Wayne Hodge That's amazing! I would love to live in a place that old. My own home is at least 120 years old and the basement looks like the one in this video with an outside entry door and bark covered logs for support beams.
meezergurl Your home sounds awesome. The town I live in and was born and raised in here in Va. was first settled in 1740 so we have a lot of big old beautiful homes. It sickens me every time I see them tear one down and put up a parking lot, office building or one those new match box homes. We have some grand old homes around here. Follow the link to see one of just many of the grand old homes we have around here.
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And we have some even bigger than this one.
WOW! I would get lost in a house that big and just think of the cleaning you'd have to do. It's beautiful and I agree about older being better but I also prefer smaller homes - more homey imo.
meezergurl Lol! While large in size many of those homes don't have a lot of rooms, it's just that what rooms they do have are large. My mother in-law lived in one similar to that and it only had four bedrooms. Downstairs there was the living room, dinning room, den, and kitchen and the third floor was a huge walk up attic. Even though the rooms were large it felt very homey because of the way she had it decorated. The walls were painted in warm colors and she had large pieces of over stuffed furniture and large pictures on the walls too. It was just very warm and inviting, I loved going to her house. My wife and I lived in a two bedroom apartment and it wasn't nearly as warm and inviting as my mother in-laws big old three story house. ;-)
Love it!! Can you show the rest of the house? Maybe not the front or anything (for safety reasons) but I would love to see more and hear about the history. I love love love old homes....just cant convince my husband to buy one lol
+TrulyBlessed withfourlittles I will as we continue to update. Working on the dining room now. Thanks for watching! xo
Wow that’s really neat
How cool, Patara! I love this video!!!!
Great for tornado weather as well
Fun to explore - I find that household stories often get perpetuated as fact for a lifetime. I am guilty of it but ask around. The “shelf” was certainly nothing more than a structural accident; usually base footings are widest to minimize settling before going narrow and vertical to sill plate. The stairs were likely replaced at some point - at least treads above and looks from beneath that work was done. My neighbor had a hole in back of stone house which was for ice block delivery - I believed it because I saw how it went directly into original small “refrigerator box”. Ice guy probably had an arrangement with some customers and had snack and beverage perks ;-) Not sure most of us would want access to stuff at back of our refrigerator.
Amazing craftsmanship. I hope I can find or build something like that. Janice
What a treasure! I love all your property you've shown us, and would love a Patara-approved tour of your home. ;)
Fantastic!
How cool
That is so cool. I love your title pic it would be beautiful on the wall in a kitchen. ;)
The reason there is a dirt floor in the root cellar is to maintain moisture, which is important to keeping the food you store down there fresh. It seems to me that adding the plastic may reduce the effect of the moisture.
Thanks for the quick tour. Nice living in an old historical home. We do too - one of the older ones up here. We had misgivings about buying such an old home. It dates all the way back to 1965. ...that's right 1965 (not 1865) - we are obviously living on the west coast. LOL.
RelentlessHomesteading lol ! I live in a house built in 1910 :) boy it's work!
thank, we have a likwise cellar, bricks and lime,.....1850...........perfect
Love the root cellar. The house my mama grew up in had one, and when Mam Ma would send me down to get something for her, I was so scared!
that is just so awesome
thank you for sharing
very cool! I like that you don't have to go outside to get to your root cellar!
I wish I lived in an area where building one of these was possible.
Jewel 🎯
Simply beautiful. I am so happy for you Patera. Ladies like us would just spit to have that. We are the kitchen, food preparer saver keeper grower preserver family hub. And that is just the cats meow. Congratulations on that hideaway. Now did you say the door to the cellar was behind another one or in a closet??? I'm not sure. Truly happy happy happy for you.