Yup! Fascinating story. Strange how it was such a huge deal and it’s almost faded into obscurity. It’s a story that deserved to be retold, that poor family!
....the Collins home is in good shape because the CRF...Cave Research Foundation....use it for living quarters when they are doing caving research/surveying either in Crystal Cave or another entrance nearby...they also have headquarters closer to Sand Cave near the parks main entrance...
I actually got a slight peek at Floyd Collins body when his coffin was on display in the 1970's, the chains were a bit loose, and you could crack it just enough to get a good look.
About that newspaper.. unless I'm misunderstanding, the "wool presser" job listing right beneath the one you pointed out specifies that the applicant must be white. That's far more interesting than a posting for a window trimmer. I imagine that's one damn old piece of paper.
My grandma's maiden name is Collins. One of her brother's name is Floyd Collins. Her great grandpa's name is James Floyd Collins. I'm wondering if they are related...
Ferris-Wright park, Dublin OH. Made a park in honor of Athena-Hopewell earthworks on site. At least 2 significant caves in natural drainage creek leading to Scioto, interesting geological formations and in my experience, a constant feeling of a presence (like you're being watched) and strange occurrences that I can't wrap my head around. Most certainly considered a sacred site to a people at some point in history. A newish park and so somewhat unknown to local pop, worthy of exploration and easy to access. I'm sure there is much history to be discovered re: this site, but my pursuits have so far been minimal. Just a suggestion. Great work.
Well I'm raised in Cincinnati Ohio & live in s florida now ... so if you're in Southern Ohio or anywhere around that region you're absolutely surrounded by lizards .. they are there
This guy has it all wrong. It's a 1 mile walk down a good road. It's not Floyds house it was his fathers house and farm. This guy isn't even in the right spot. That first spot was a private club near the Collins property. The gravel road is the right road. Now he also said sand cave was there. It's not, sand cave is just outside of the park. Next to the house is Floyd Collins Crystal Cave. The house is actually the 2 house on. The property. And yes the building on the right was the tickets office. You cannot get into the cave. Thru the first door is a large room with a steel wall and a another door and a passage continues down to the main chamber. This is where Floyds body and coffin was. This guy is giving out the wrong info and facts. 95% of the info out there about Floyd is wrong mainly because people are just giving out the wrong info that they have heard but if your going to put out a information video you should make sure you have the right information that your giving out.
Thanks for clearing that up! I’ve been interested in Floyd’s story for a long time, so I’ll definitely do some more proper research. Guess you can’t trust anyone online.
@@MadCapMag it's really not a question of trusting anyone on line as far as this story goes. Misinformation plagued this story from the beginning and as you see it continues to this day. This is why any and all news had to come from Miller. You can read all you can find on the story but TRAPPED by Brucker is the best and most accurate info on the whole story, only because I haven't wrote a book about it yet. Followed up by THE LONGEST CAVE by Watson. And feel free to ask me about any of it. To date I'm am one of the few people that knows the true story and has 1st hand knowledge on all the place talked about in the story. I've been researching the story for 20+ yrs and I'm a caver. Why your interest in Collins? Just wondering
I didn't mean to make it sound like I was coming down hard on this guy or trying to say he dosent know what he's talking about. It's just a matter of limited information and miss understanding. Now as I said this first place he went to is not the Collins farm but still a very interesting piece of land. The only thing I could find about it was it was a private club here at one time. I've been told there was a few of them around. It would take some digging but I am sure there is pictures and info out there somewhere. Now any trace of the buildings are gone and it just looks like a big empty field and it is for the most part but there is signs of human activity. What I found. The first clue is the closed road going into the field. Most are not this easy to see until you know what to look for. I'm talking about driveways. You can find them all over the park and those lead to what was homesteads. If your lucky you might find a footprint of where a house was or even part of a fireplace still around. It is somewhere around 1000 families that were forced off the land as the park was being setup, eminent domain is what it is called when the government takes your land. But as you drive through the park you will start noticing the overgrown driveways to where families once lived. As part of the process things were torn down and cleared out and there was a few private clubs in the park. Halfway across the field this guy is in I found a pile of glass bottles. Mostly old alcohol bottles but turn of the century anyways. Someone for whatever reason brought them all to that one spot, it was kinda of a strange find but cool anyway. Yea I know what your thinking, did I take any? I'm not saying one way or the other but it is against the law to remove anything out of the park. And besides it would have been added weight to my pack. I was outback hiking. No trailers, no GPS just a topo map and a backtracked. A backtracked is like a reverse GPS. you set it to the point that you want to return to, in this case back to my car at the end of the day. The park does have some great marked trails but you are supposed to get a trail pass. It doesn't cost anything for a pass it's just a way for the park to keep a eye on things. Now the park is cut in half by the green river and there is only 1 crossing with in the park and that's on a ferry, again no charge but if you miss the last crossing then you will have to go around the long way from outside the park. Now from the bottle pile keep crossing the field and you will find a dry river bed with concrete pylons following the river bed. I'm thinking that there was at one time a raised river walk and those pylons were the bases for the walkway. In this same area at the bottom of a cliff is a cave. You can't see it until your right on top of it. But just like almost all the caves in the park it's gated and locked. The passage goes back a few feet and turns to the left and that's all there is to see there. I'm sure the cave has a name and may lead into the Mammoth system but I don't know. There are a lot of caves in the park that do not connect but whatever this club was it must have been something back in the day. If anyone wants to persue this I would start at the Rangers station over by the elevator that goes onto the cave. Which is mainly used for the handicapped and is right by the snowball dinning room in the cave. If you take the half day tour or wild tour you will get a box lunch in the dining room. But anyway this is the 1st place this guy had went to
@@scottnichols7811 I spent about a year at Great Onyx Job Corps in 1980. Which had also been the site of a depression era CCC camp. The remains of some of the cabins from that time still remained...found old glass pint milk bottles etc. Fell in love with that area.. I was in the Union Carpentry program and we did some restoration on the house shown I believe...Just remember it being called the Floyd Collins house.
@@slixca Literally 50% or more of his information is false, or without full context, and left out too. In the only source for information apart from Associated Press that he listed, has info that literally contradicts areas in his video. I'm currently making a video about it that should be up in the next few days. Don't expect the same visual quality as IH's, but it will be factually superior.
Who's here after the internet historians video?
Yup
Same
Yup!
Fascinating story. Strange how it was such a huge deal and it’s almost faded into obscurity.
It’s a story that deserved to be retold, that poor family!
Yo.
Shut up maan....
I spent a night with my two sisters, in this very house. Floyd Collins house. back in the late 1970's. I'll never forget that.
Amazing. I wouldn’t forget something like that either. Thanks for sharing.
I appreciate you for the hike and education of this area! Keep up the great work!
Always appreciate you watching! Thank you.
....the Collins home is in good shape because the CRF...Cave Research Foundation....use it for living quarters when they are doing caving research/surveying either in Crystal Cave or another entrance nearby...they also have headquarters closer to Sand Cave near the parks main entrance...
Very interesting, thank you
I actually got a slight peek at Floyd Collins body when his coffin was on display in the 1970's, the chains were a bit loose, and you could crack it just enough to get a good look.
Thank you Drayton for this most splendid "walkabout"
About that newspaper.. unless I'm misunderstanding, the "wool presser" job listing right beneath the one you pointed out specifies that the applicant must be white. That's far more interesting than a posting for a window trimmer. I imagine that's one damn old piece of paper.
Good observation & yes, that’s one old piece of paper. Thanks for watching
@@DraysWorld thank you for sharing! It was very interesting
Awesome!
Nice walk through the woods, but my what a long ass brim you got 😂😂😂👏🏿
Thanks for this video man also love the van
Thanks Chris. I appreciate the comment.
That must of been a hike but you were rewarded at the end. Cool vlog.
Total reward!
My grandma's maiden name is Collins. One of her brother's name is Floyd Collins. Her great grandpa's name is James Floyd Collins. I'm wondering if they are related...
Ferris-Wright park, Dublin OH. Made a park in honor of Athena-Hopewell earthworks on site. At least 2 significant caves in natural drainage creek leading to Scioto, interesting geological formations and in my experience, a constant feeling of a presence (like you're being watched) and strange occurrences that I can't wrap my head around. Most certainly considered a sacred site to a people at some point in history. A newish park and so somewhat unknown to local pop, worthy of exploration and easy to access. I'm sure there is much history to be discovered re: this site, but my pursuits have so far been minimal. Just a suggestion. Great work.
Thank you for the suggestion. I’m in Dublin right now and will look it up.
Buckeyes....y'all nuts 🤣
Well I'm raised in Cincinnati Ohio & live in s florida now ... so if you're in Southern Ohio or anywhere around that region you're absolutely surrounded by lizards .. they are there
columbus ohio. jack nicklas and muirfield village
This guy has it all wrong. It's a 1 mile walk down a good road. It's not Floyds house it was his fathers house and farm. This guy isn't even in the right spot. That first spot was a private club near the Collins property. The gravel road is the right road. Now he also said sand cave was there. It's not, sand cave is just outside of the park. Next to the house is Floyd Collins Crystal Cave. The house is actually the 2 house on. The property. And yes the building on the right was the tickets office. You cannot get into the cave. Thru the first door is a large room with a steel wall and a another door and a passage continues down to the main chamber. This is where Floyds body and coffin was.
This guy is giving out the wrong info and facts.
95% of the info out there about Floyd is wrong mainly because people are just giving out the wrong info that they have heard but if your going to put out a information video you should make sure you have the right information that your giving out.
Thanks for clearing that up! I’ve been interested in Floyd’s story for a long time, so I’ll definitely do some more proper research. Guess you can’t trust anyone online.
@@MadCapMag it's really not a question of trusting anyone on line as far as this story goes. Misinformation plagued this story from the beginning and as you see it continues to this day. This is why any and all news had to come from Miller.
You can read all you can find on the story but TRAPPED by Brucker is the best and most accurate info on the whole story, only because I haven't wrote a book about it yet. Followed up by THE LONGEST CAVE by Watson. And feel free to ask me about any of it. To date I'm am one of the few people that knows the true story and has 1st hand knowledge on all the place talked about in the story. I've been researching the story for 20+ yrs and I'm a caver.
Why your interest in Collins? Just wondering
I didn't mean to make it sound like I was coming down hard on this guy or trying to say he dosent know what he's talking about. It's just a matter of limited information and miss understanding.
Now as I said this first place he went to is not the Collins farm but still a very interesting piece of land. The only thing I could find about it was it was a private club here at one time. I've been told there was a few of them around. It would take some digging but I am sure there is pictures and info out there somewhere. Now any trace of the buildings are gone and it just looks like a big empty field and it is for the most part but there is signs of human activity.
What I found. The first clue is the closed road going into the field. Most are not this easy to see until you know what to look for. I'm talking about driveways. You can find them all over the park and those lead to what was homesteads. If your lucky you might find a footprint of where a house was or even part of a fireplace still around. It is somewhere around 1000 families that were forced off the land as the park was being setup, eminent domain is what it is called when the government takes your land. But as you drive through the park you will start noticing the overgrown driveways to where families once lived. As part of the process things were torn down and cleared out and there was a few private clubs in the park.
Halfway across the field this guy is in I found a pile of glass bottles. Mostly old alcohol bottles but turn of the century anyways. Someone for whatever reason brought them all to that one spot, it was kinda of a strange find but cool anyway. Yea I know what your thinking, did I take any? I'm not saying one way or the other but it is against the law to remove anything out of the park. And besides it would have been added weight to my pack. I was outback hiking. No trailers, no GPS just a topo map and a backtracked. A backtracked is like a reverse GPS. you set it to the point that you want to return to, in this case back to my car at the end of the day. The park does have some great marked trails but you are supposed to get a trail pass. It doesn't cost anything for a pass it's just a way for the park to keep a eye on things. Now the park is cut in half by the green river and there is only 1 crossing with in the park and that's on a ferry, again no charge but if you miss the last crossing then you will have to go around the long way from outside the park.
Now from the bottle pile keep crossing the field and you will find a dry river bed with concrete pylons following the river bed. I'm thinking that there was at one time a raised river walk and those pylons were the bases for the walkway. In this same area at the bottom of a cliff is a cave. You can't see it until your right on top of it. But just like almost all the caves in the park it's gated and locked. The passage goes back a few feet and turns to the left and that's all there is to see there.
I'm sure the cave has a name and may lead into the Mammoth system but I don't know. There are a lot of caves in the park that do not connect but whatever this club was it must have been something back in the day.
If anyone wants to persue this I would start at the Rangers station over by the elevator that goes onto the cave. Which is mainly used for the handicapped and is right by the snowball dinning room in the cave. If you take the half day tour or wild tour you will get a box lunch in the dining room.
But anyway this is the 1st place this guy had went to
Fyi if the house is white it's a older photo, the yellow one that's pictured here is after restoration.
@@scottnichols7811 I spent about a year at Great Onyx Job Corps in 1980. Which had also been the site of a depression era CCC camp. The remains of some of the cabins from that time still remained...found old glass pint milk bottles etc. Fell in love with that area.. I was in the Union Carpentry program and we did some restoration on the house shown I believe...Just remember it being called the Floyd Collins house.
you best be listening for rattling,not pitter patter. lol
Internet Historian's video is garbage. No respect for the true history of the incident.
literally wdym
@@slixca Literally 50% or more of his information is false, or without full context, and left out too. In the only source for information apart from Associated Press that he listed, has info that literally contradicts areas in his video. I'm currently making a video about it that should be up in the next few days. Don't expect the same visual quality as IH's, but it will be factually superior.
@@CPorter look forward to seeing it
@@CPorter I'm interested to see the facts im looking forward to your upload
@@Adventure3Man stay tuned then.