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Something I was thinking while editing this video, and one reason I like it so much…. This is like “classic” Sidestep Adventures - exploring the woods, dusty roads, just having a great time while chasing history.
My wife and I planted Gladiolus many years ago on our property, even though their too weak and spindly to support their flowers for long, they always come back year after year. I guess they'll return even after we're long gone.
I used to do what you gentlemen are doing in this video for a living , AND a hobby. I worked for one of the south east's largest geotechnical testing and consulting companies, and am sad to say that I participated in the destruction of a great deal of the north metro Atlanta area. This was before GPS & Smartphones. I went into the woods with a blueprint plan, a USGS 7.5 Quad map, a roll of survey flagging tape and a compass. All the history of Atlanta that has just been bulldozed with no thought of preservation.. Just makes me want to cry. I remember as a teenager ( 1960's-70's) laying with friends and drinking beer in some funny holes and ditches that I found out in the woods and wondering why someone would come out here in the woods and dig these? And then I looked up at the horizon, and Kennesaw Mountain less than a mile away and realized that we were lying in Civil War trenches and pits. I came back there a few years later, but of course it was all a new industrial park by that time. I must have hundreds of stories like this. 😢
wow. interesting. i used to play in the woods in the 70s and 80s next to our home on Statewood Road off of Wieuca Rd. This was before GA400 was built or even cleared. i remember as a kid finding all kinds of interesting things in those woods. old bottles, random old trash, odd trenches, etc. didn’t think much of it as a kid. i moved away from Atlanta way back in the 90s and now it’s like a different world there.
I love your research of the forgotten cemeteries and homes with Mr Dan and the other Robert and all others that include cars. Thank you for your respect of all properties. I watch and so enjoy.
Yes, Dan why don't you write us a book? I would be one of the first to buy it!! I am from East Texas, and we also share a lot of the same type of history. Long lost homesteads, forgotten grave yards both black and white. Again thank you for another great history lesson!!!
Funny to find you here. I am likely a decendant of these Pitts and 100% a decendant of the Pitts who founded Pittsburg Texas whom are originally from Georgia
My ancestors went to GA after the Revolution. From North and West Georgia to Middle GA, to the Okefenokee Swamp of South GA, the state and her people are beautiful. May the Lord bless you for preserving as much history as possible.
Most folks have no idea how diverse the GA topography, flora and fauna are. There are over 10,000 plant species in the state. That's more than all the states west of the Mississippi combined.
love the channel. i grew up in ATL in the 70s/80s.. then left to NYC and now in Europe. but watching your stuff reminds me of my original home, Georgia :)
I love the red clay dust cloud intro, slow motion and you getting out of the jeep!! 👍👍😎 This was really fun. You can read a map and read the land - I still say its an remarkable skill you have, Robert! Dan and Scott, pretty awesome!! Its like being along with a group of friends. The Pits and Whitehead sun on the gold watch vs silver was quite the tale. Who would have thought? But I guess rivalry is an age old human trait! This episode is really helping to fit this entire area together and to fit the people and their times together. Yes, a beautiful view and that red clay flour, all in all, awesome. I loved all of it. 👍👍❣️❣️😎
Did you ever think about getting a drone to get the full perspective from above?Many times an airel view shows more definitive outlines of foundations and landmarks.
Such a great vision to have of days gone by❣️ I think.i can see it. Thank you Dan, Liberty Bell Scott & Robbie .. 😉😁 Cool map & great story Dan of the watches. Where there's blackberries .. there's usually snakes close by. Y'all b safe. 🙋🏼♀️❣️
Robert, I've been watching your channel for quite a while now and you and your friends have been very educational. I also watch The Wandering Woodsman and he found a site deep in the woods with huge areas of daffodils, spread out an area with almost know signs of buildings. Clear cutting really does a job on history, but somehow plant life reminds us of what was once a thriving place. I hope you are able to get back sometime. Cheers, Rik Spector
Robert, Dan and Scott I would love to buy a can of that red rural Georgia dirt. Oh my goodness this adventure is amazing. Dan I love your history telling. I can imagine how much that property meant to a lot of folks back then. This is mesmerizing because we're walking with you, breathing the air, hearing the footsteps crunching the leaves, listening to you guys. Oh my goodness!
Learned to drive on roads like that in Greene Co ga! Very few dirt roads at all now, but still try to ease along the ones that are left! Got my county history from my dad riding those roads! I've gotten the " used to be a so and so" lesson over and over my whole life! Now I teach others!!
I grew up in Oklahoma where there is plenty of red earth. My dad worked construction and often would come home with the bottom of his pants colored orange. We couldn't get that stain out of those pants.
Clearly a labor of love, finding the lost. And it bears repeating, that at some point in our American culture, 'old things' weren't valued anymore. The mind set was to move on, get modernized. Only in our recent collective mood do we revert back to the historic. Searching for what was tossed away, abandoned. Hopefully that trend will continue.
As you men walked and searched, especially down the trail I was thinking of the lives from long ago. The children playing and the parents working so hard. You men amaze me how you know the area so well....especially Dan. He's a walking memory bank of local history!!👍🏼 Thank you Robert for sharing this with us. I like and support your channel every video!!
Exactly what I was thinking. Any place with history my imagination takes over and I try to visualize people of the time. I also love walking old forgotten cemeteries and I wonder what the person in the grave was like in life. Weird, I know. Lol. But done that since I was a kid.
boy oh boy! I bet that Jeep has alot of miles on it. Man you go every where in Geogria. Can't wait to hear more about the Pitts plantation. hope u run across some cemeteries too.. IT's always nice to see your videos guys.. Keeping history alive..
I agree with Scott. Yes we need timber products but they could be more careful in cutting in some areas.out here they destroyed a pioneer home was fined and finished destroying it a 160 plus year homestead and destroyed the graves and 2 walnuts trees that stood there during the Rouge Indian war. I enjoyed your outing keep on searching
The intro reminded me of an old western where the hero pulls up and there is dust everywhere! That red clay looks like it has the consistency of flour. Deadly when wet I'm sure. Cool that you found a brick and the flowers. The view was incredible. I envy you being able to see all that green daily. Loved that old pecan tree! Thank you for the trip! :)
You should collect and maybe save any unique bricks that you can or able to collect. Some of the old and unique bricks that have distinctive markings are very collectible to some people. There is even some very interesting stories that go along with some bricks that would be a a nice add in to some of your posts if that was of interest to you.
This kinda tore me up some. I imagine all those houses there n the children out playing. Or Mamas sharing a little gossip. I love the name of Pits Quarters. It’s has strength in it n it had to to farm this land. Sometimes I just don’t care much for progress. I think like Scott mentioned. All those that lived there n died. Could some of them even be buried out there? They didn’t have the money for proper burial? Who knows. It is a beautiful area even though loggers have taken over. I wasn’t raised in Georgia or even born there but I love the history of it. How I envy all of you that you this in your heritage. Something to be very proud of. Thank you Mr. Dan again for sharing all your knowledge that it may reach us. Thank you Robert for taking us along. ♥️♥️♥️😊👍👍👍🐶
Great video Robert. Wiped from history, that is so sad to hear. Glad you guys are out there trying to document these places. That red dirt makes your jeep look burgundy 🤣🤣
It's easy to see at 4:57 why trees are considered a renewable resource. I counted 25 rings on that one log close to the bottom. I also saw a period of five years when rainfall was scarce, ending about 12 years ago. I enjoyed the exploration and I'm glad a homesite was found. It's not easy looking for history. I'm glad you three have the map. I'm glad you found a brick, Robert.
In the early '50's my brother as a young teen bought a ticket from Columbus to Geneva. When he got there he was in Geneva, Georgia instead of Geneva, Alabama.
We call that real fine dust in Australia... bull dust... as soon as it looks like raining you get the hell out of there or you are 90 percent going to get bogged or slip and slide into a tree or off into bushland and you aren't getting your car caravan out till it dries...🧡
Hey I just love all of your videos on both channels, Walters video in the community section is most excellent! Please pass along my kudos to him, thanks!
Great adventure. Heads together to find out where you were. I had a chuckle at the start when you stopped and got out the Jeep I swear I smelt the dust. Same here in Australia with the red bull dust
You boys need a drone in the worst way! Still, these videos are a great way to teach people how to use an old school map. I still prefer paper maps in my car. GPS has led me astray far more often than a plain old map. What a great day, dust notwithstanding!
Is there any kind of radar equipment that would help find foundations, wells, or graves? I'm just south of Atlanta and see history that has been wiped away all around me just in my lifetime.
That was a fast 31 minutes. You know Scott was making some good points about the logging up there. I was personally thinking that maybe they should have had historic resource surveys done before any logging was done, but maybe that would be too time-consuming. Interesting though.
My gr.uncle, couple of gr. Grandpa s all bootleg ed. I never drank. While I had lived in Noble IL. Daddy and mom retired and moved next to us. First week Dad went to local barber shop and told em all about the family bootleg history. No secrets in My family.
WOW, you can tell it is dry out there when you drive up and the car then gets lost in a cloud of orange dust! cough cough cough!! Glad you were able to get your Jeep repaired and ack on the road again:-). Great to see Mr. Dan again as well as Scott:-) ..This RED dust, almost reminds me of the RED clay they have on Prince Edward Island, up in Canada, which I had experiences many year ago, back when I was young and stupid and was engaged to a guy that was form there and we would go up every fall to visit his parents. it is such a shame that so much of this logging is done to see how much of this once working land has been stripped of everything just about and left in this almost useless state, as if the land is being raped by greed. wondering if all the logging didn't also destroy any7thing that was left of where the former houses were?? seems that the company doing the stripping of the land and logging also destroyed it all, cause they don't care, they are only concerning about the trees that can kill, they do not preserve anything else in their path. Scott is right, most of the homes have been all erased. Glad that there was a BIT of evidence by a few brocks and some flower blubs that had been planted, and that usually tells you that there used to be a homestead out there, learned that form you Robert, and all the videos of all the places you and Dad have been though. Preserve what history you can still find and document it. cause with Genealogy, it is all important, and makes our lives a bit easier in finding what places are left. I went looking for a my great grandfathers home up in the Nashville Tennessee, area, and with Google maps, it is all gone, now a parking lot, no evidence what so ever that anyone ever lived on the site, sadly..
My ancestry DNA leads me to Ga seltters I think of them each time I watch but no clue to what part I believe it's close to the Ocean due to also being South Carolina seltters to into Alabama & FLa seltters . I wonder if they ever lived near where you are to. Enjoy watching you
For taking us along on your adventure. History abounds all around us. It only requires a great interest and labor of love to reveal and share it. Love your channel.
26:36 Forgive my ignorance, but can you explain how you know that tree was left purposely from clear cutting and how you know it was from a previous homestead?
I have a Question. You mention large trees in many of your videos. My question is, what significance does that have in relation to finding what you are actually looking for? Enjoyed this video very much. TY
I'll give you an example; the big dead Pecan tree, they aren't a native. They're planted so, probably next to a homesite. Usually they were planted in groves. Wonderful summer shade. That dead tree is well over a hundred years old. Eastern Red Cedars also, slow growing tree. Big ones are rare and very old.
Sometimes it’s about the adventure and experience getting out and exploring even if not much is left. From red clay dust to following old maps… this was a great time.
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Are Dan and Scott related? They look a lot alike! And have so much in common!
Something I was thinking while editing this video, and one reason I like it so much…. This is like “classic” Sidestep Adventures - exploring the woods, dusty roads, just having a great time while chasing history.
We have to learn that history was not written on interstate highways and freeways. History was written on the dusty back roads of rural America.
Absolutely!!!
My wife and I planted Gladiolus many years ago on our property, even though their too weak and spindly to support their flowers for long, they always come back year after year. I guess they'll return even after we're long gone.
I used to do what you gentlemen are doing in this video for a living , AND a hobby. I worked for one of the south east's largest geotechnical testing and consulting companies, and am sad to say that I participated in the destruction of a great deal of the north metro Atlanta area. This was before GPS & Smartphones. I went into the woods with a blueprint plan, a USGS 7.5 Quad map, a roll of survey flagging tape and a compass. All the history of Atlanta that has just been bulldozed with no thought of preservation.. Just makes me want to cry. I remember as a teenager ( 1960's-70's) laying with friends and drinking beer in some funny holes and ditches that I found out in the woods and wondering why someone would come out here in the woods and dig these? And then I looked up at the horizon, and Kennesaw Mountain less than a mile away and realized that we were lying in Civil War trenches and pits. I came back there a few years later, but of course it was all a new industrial park by that time. I must have hundreds of stories like this. 😢
wow. interesting. i used to play in the woods in the 70s and 80s next to our home on Statewood Road off of Wieuca Rd. This was before GA400 was built or even cleared. i remember as a kid finding all kinds of interesting things in those woods. old bottles, random old trash, odd trenches, etc. didn’t think much of it as a kid. i moved away from Atlanta way back in the 90s and now it’s like a different world there.
Sad. I know it was your job but I am so glad you realized how wrong it was.
Being a southern boy myself, it's a pleasure listening to you fellow southerners. I can't take too much of a yankee's talk.
I love your research of the forgotten cemeteries and homes with Mr Dan and the other Robert and all others that include cars. Thank you for your respect of all properties. I watch and so enjoy.
Love the history you bring alive, Robert. Always a great adventure here.
Thank you
Thank you again Robert, Dan AN Scott Lost History so sad yet it is glad to know your out there trying to bring them back to life
Yes, Dan why don't you write us a book? I would be one of the first to buy it!! I am from East Texas, and we also share a lot of the same type of history. Long lost homesteads, forgotten grave yards both black and white. Again thank you for another great history lesson!!!
How about a calendar? I’m a former Ga girl living in AZ now… I miss the backroads, the trees and the history!
Funny to find you here. I am likely a decendant of these Pitts and 100% a decendant of the Pitts who founded Pittsburg Texas whom are originally from Georgia
@@jerredwayne8401 I have discovered my family's history back to 1680. I love all history.
@@joannhenry3551 I've gotten back to the revolutionary War so far
Id buy a copy too.
My ancestors went to GA after the Revolution. From North and West Georgia to Middle GA, to the Okefenokee Swamp of South GA, the state and her people are beautiful. May the Lord bless you for preserving as much history as possible.
Most folks have no idea how diverse the GA topography, flora and fauna are. There are over 10,000 plant species in the state. That's more than all the states west of the Mississippi combined.
I'm from East Texas too! And this channel makes me want to go and find some of our old homesites and abandoned graveyards and cemeteries.
love the channel. i grew up in ATL in the 70s/80s.. then left to NYC and now in Europe. but watching your stuff reminds me of my original home, Georgia :)
That’s awesome
I love the red clay dust cloud intro, slow motion and you getting out of the jeep!! 👍👍😎 This was really fun. You can read a map and read the land - I still say its an remarkable skill you have, Robert! Dan and Scott, pretty awesome!! Its like being along with a group of friends. The Pits and Whitehead sun on the gold watch vs silver was quite the tale. Who would have thought? But I guess rivalry is an age old human trait! This episode is really helping to fit this entire area together and to fit the people and their times together. Yes, a beautiful view and that red clay flour, all in all, awesome. I loved all of it. 👍👍❣️❣️😎
Did you ever think about getting a drone to get the full perspective from above?Many times an airel view shows more definitive outlines of foundations and landmarks.
Such a great vision to have of days gone by❣️ I think.i can see it. Thank you Dan, Liberty Bell Scott & Robbie .. 😉😁 Cool map & great story Dan of the watches. Where there's blackberries .. there's usually snakes close by. Y'all b safe. 🙋🏼♀️❣️
Robert,
I've been watching your channel for quite a while now and you and your friends
have been very educational.
I also watch The Wandering Woodsman and he found a site deep in the woods with huge areas of daffodils,
spread out an area with almost know signs of buildings.
Clear cutting really does a job on history, but somehow plant life reminds us of what was once a thriving place.
I hope you are able to get back sometime.
Cheers,
Rik Spector
Love your videos and enjoy watching them every time they come on. Especially the study of history
Robert, Dan and Scott I would love to buy a can of that red rural Georgia dirt. Oh my goodness this adventure is amazing. Dan I love your history telling. I can imagine how much that property meant to a lot of folks back then. This is mesmerizing because we're walking with you, breathing the air, hearing the footsteps crunching the leaves, listening to you guys. Oh my goodness!
Another interesting video and love the music!!😊Thank you.
Learned to drive on roads like that in Greene Co ga! Very few dirt roads at all now, but still try to ease along the ones that are left! Got my county history from my dad riding those roads! I've gotten the " used to be a so and so" lesson over and over my whole life! Now I teach others!!
That’s great. Same here. And plenty of dirt roads down in Talbot Co still…
Man I’d love to be with you guys finding these old southern places lost to time. Thanks for bringing us along
What a great find! Love watching Dan describe history of Georgia and the area you all live in! He is fascinating!
I grew up in Oklahoma where there is plenty of red earth. My dad worked construction and often would come home with the bottom of his pants colored orange. We couldn't get that stain out of those pants.
Robert , you always pick great music to start the video ! Gets my juices flowing with anticipation !
Hi guys from Croatia love your videos and old historry thank you for that
Thank you guys
My grandma was from Srem
When I heard the music at the beginning I thought I had accidently clicked onto Donnie Laws channel 😄...(another excellent channel btw).
My thoughts too! 😳🙂
Clearly a labor of love, finding the lost. And it bears repeating, that at some point in our American culture, 'old things' weren't valued anymore. The mind set was to move on, get modernized. Only in our recent collective mood do we revert back to the historic. Searching for what was tossed away, abandoned. Hopefully that trend will continue.
Thanks y’all I’m learning so much about our local history by watching these great videos.
As you men walked and searched, especially down the trail I was thinking of the lives from long ago. The children playing and the parents working so hard. You men amaze me how you know the area so well....especially Dan. He's a walking memory bank of local history!!👍🏼 Thank you Robert for sharing this with us. I like and support your channel every video!!
Exactly what I was thinking. Any place with history my imagination takes over and I try to visualize people of the time. I also love walking old forgotten cemeteries and I wonder what the person in the grave was like in life. Weird, I know. Lol. But done that since I was a kid.
@@justaputz-e8p same here!👍🏼
Robert, put on your Byrd farm dinner jacket to repel the snakes and ticks away.
😅
love it! lol
Before I got married i was a Horton . Thank you for sharing
boy oh boy! I bet that Jeep has alot of miles on it. Man you go every where in Geogria. Can't wait to hear more about the Pitts plantation. hope u run across some cemeteries too.. IT's always nice to see your videos guys.. Keeping history alive..
I enjoyed this red clay ride along. Thanks!
Great video, very interesting! Love your history videos! And by the way my husbands name is David Pitts! Keep up the great work guys!
This was another History lesson, i love and enjoy it very much, thank you Robert, Dan and Scott.. hugs from wisconsin ❤
I agree with Scott. Yes we need timber products but they could be more careful in cutting in some areas.out here they destroyed a pioneer home was fined and finished destroying it a 160 plus year homestead and destroyed the graves and 2 walnuts trees that stood there during the Rouge Indian war. I enjoyed your outing keep on searching
You guys should get a metal detector to bring along with you. You find bits of iron from nails , hinges, etc around old porches, barns etc.
Thank you for your service, Scott!
Thanks for this VERY educational video, gentlemen!! I learn so much when I watch your videos!!
Keep up the GREAT work!!
Regards,
Nadia from the UK ♥️👍
The intro reminded me of an old western where the hero pulls up and there is dust everywhere! That red clay looks like it has the consistency of flour. Deadly when wet I'm sure. Cool that you found a brick and the flowers. The view was incredible. I envy you being able to see all that green daily. Loved that old pecan tree! Thank you for the trip! :)
Fascinating story !! Sadly it will be lost to history soon. I love learning about all this tho !!
Get the same dust in certain areas of Harris County Texas.
So interesting boys I think you need a good drone sometimes which could give that aerial view where possible
This has been very interesting to me and I think you God bless you all 🙏❤️
Ah, The Bright Red Georgia Clay as in the song!!
Being that I was raised in Columbus I really enjoy your adventures....
You should collect and maybe save any unique bricks that you can or able to collect. Some of the old and unique bricks that have distinctive markings are very collectible to some people. There is even some very interesting stories that go along with some bricks that would be a a nice add in to some of your posts if that was of interest to you.
Any chance that the town could put up a plaque up indicating that it was Pitts Quarters
This kinda tore me up some. I imagine all those houses there n the children out playing. Or Mamas sharing a little gossip. I love the name of Pits Quarters. It’s has strength in it n it had to to farm this land. Sometimes I just don’t care much for progress. I think like Scott mentioned. All those that lived there n died. Could some of them even be buried out there? They didn’t have the money for proper burial? Who knows. It is a beautiful area even though loggers have taken over. I wasn’t raised in Georgia or even born there but I love the history of it. How I envy all of you that you this in your heritage. Something to be very proud of. Thank you Mr. Dan again for sharing all your knowledge that it may reach us.
Thank you Robert for taking us along. ♥️♥️♥️😊👍👍👍🐶
Great video Robert. Wiped from history, that is so sad to hear. Glad you guys are out there trying to document these places. That red dirt makes your jeep look burgundy 🤣🤣
coolest adventure!
This has been a great adventure loved every minute of it. Thanks Robert Dan
and Scott!
Damn… Good Stuff… my new favorite channel.
It's easy to see at 4:57 why trees are considered a renewable resource. I counted 25 rings on that one log close to the bottom. I also saw a period of five years when rainfall was scarce, ending about 12 years ago. I enjoyed the exploration and I'm glad a homesite was found. It's not easy looking for history. I'm glad you three have the map. I'm glad you found a brick, Robert.
I immediately started humming Emmy Lou Harris' 'Red Dirt Girl'!
PS- If you can, PLEASE go back in the Winter!
So glad I discovered Sidestep Adventures... always searching for episodes I missed. Love what you do!
In the early '50's my brother as a young teen bought a ticket from Columbus to Geneva. When he got there he was in Geneva, Georgia instead of Geneva, Alabama.
We call that real fine dust in Australia... bull dust... as soon as it looks like raining you get the hell out of there or you are 90 percent going to get bogged or slip and slide into a tree or off into bushland and you aren't getting your car caravan out till it dries...🧡
Robert your the apprentice. Always great videos and very interesting. Thanks again. From my hill top in Sc.
Hey I just love all of your videos on both channels, Walters video in the community section is most excellent! Please pass along my kudos to him, thanks!
First
Awesome 👍
Merry Christmas Robert and guys
Love watching what you do and the history . However ain't this modern time get a drone and solve the where are we problem.
Love all those old red dirt roads. 🤭 Thanks Guys for sharing.
We have red dirt here in NC also. Spend a lot of money correcting the dirt in our plant beds HA
love the music
Always love the classic sidestep adventures.👍
Great adventure. Heads together to find out where you were. I had a chuckle at the start when you stopped and got out the Jeep I swear I smelt the dust. Same here in Australia with the red bull dust
Just start of the video and the intro I’m loving!
Love your Nat Keefe music.
Look for the cell tower just south of Hamilton, at the wood yard across from fortune hole road
Slavery can be defined as the destruction of history, not merely the past. That is why these videos are important!
Robert I'm watching cool
Robert yes I love watching you looking it's great
WOW thanks y'all for another great video. Would it be worth it to look that place over during the winter months while the leaves are off of the trees?
You boys need a drone in the worst way! Still, these videos are a great way to teach people how to use an old school map. I still prefer paper maps in my car. GPS has led me astray far more often than a plain old map. What a great day, dust notwithstanding!
Very interesting ... having a broken leg, its almost like getting to go too, as close as im going to get anyhow ...
Super interesting as usual
All we are is Dust in the Wind
Is there any kind of radar equipment that would help find foundations, wells, or graves? I'm just south of Atlanta and see history that has been wiped away all around me just in my lifetime.
That was a fast 31 minutes. You know Scott was making some good points about the logging up there. I was personally thinking that maybe they should have had historic resource surveys done before any logging was done, but maybe that would be too time-consuming. Interesting though.
Love the intro music. the dirt doesn't look good for farming now, was it once?
We are brand new subscribers and we absolutely love your channel
Thank you!!
Make more videos with the “other Robert!” Dan is good as well but we all miss the “other Robert.”
That's some red dust on the car for sure, reminds me of the red dirt/clay in Oklahoma
My gr.uncle, couple of gr. Grandpa s all bootleg ed. I never drank. While I had lived in Noble IL. Daddy and mom retired and moved next to us. First week Dad went to local barber shop and told em all about the family bootleg history. No secrets in My family.
Vary sad , these homes are gone ! So much history !
WOW, you can tell it is dry out there when you drive up and the car then gets lost in a cloud of orange dust! cough cough cough!! Glad you were able to get your Jeep repaired and ack on the road again:-). Great to see Mr. Dan again as well as Scott:-) ..This RED dust, almost reminds me of the RED clay they have on Prince Edward Island, up in Canada, which I had experiences many year ago, back when I was young and stupid and was engaged to a guy that was form there and we would go up every fall to visit his parents. it is such a shame that so much of this logging is done to see how much of this once working land has been stripped of everything just about and left in this almost useless state, as if the land is being raped by greed. wondering if all the logging didn't also destroy any7thing that was left of where the former houses were?? seems that the company doing the stripping of the land and logging also destroyed it all, cause they don't care, they are only concerning about the trees that can kill, they do not preserve anything else in their path. Scott is right, most of the homes have been all erased. Glad that there was a BIT of evidence by a few brocks and some flower blubs that had been planted, and that usually tells you that there used to be a homestead out there, learned that form you Robert, and all the videos of all the places you and Dad have been though. Preserve what history you can still find and document it. cause with Genealogy, it is all important, and makes our lives a bit easier in finding what places are left. I went looking for a my great grandfathers home up in the Nashville Tennessee, area, and with Google maps, it is all gone, now a parking lot, no evidence what so ever that anyone ever lived on the site, sadly..
Loving the music in the intro
My ancestry DNA leads me to Ga seltters I think of them each time I watch but no clue to what part I believe it's close to the Ocean due to also being South Carolina seltters to into Alabama & FLa seltters . I wonder if they ever lived near where you are to. Enjoy watching you
Thank you tak
For taking us along on your adventure. History abounds all around us. It only requires a great interest and labor of love to reveal and share it. Love your channel.
You mentioned the Winfrey family. Isn't Oprah Winfrey's family from Georgia?
I’m not sure - someone will probably chime in on that
We did find and film the Winfrey cemetery… up coming video
It would be nice to metal detect that land. I bet you would find alot of relics there.
This is very interesting but would be more interesting if you used metal detectors to help locate lost house sites.
Does anyone know if “Clark Cemetery” is still around in Jasper County?
We have red clay dirt here in Grenada county and I hate it you can’t hardly dig in it when it gets dry from lack of rain
Yeah
I bet a LIDAR survey would show where the houses were.
26:36 Forgive my ignorance, but can you explain how you know that tree was left purposely from clear cutting and how you know it was from a previous homestead?
I have a Question. You mention large trees in many of your videos. My question is, what significance does that have in relation to finding what you are actually looking for?
Enjoyed this video very much. TY
I'll give you an example; the big dead Pecan tree, they aren't a native. They're planted so, probably next to a homesite. Usually they were planted in groves. Wonderful summer shade. That dead tree is well over a hundred years old. Eastern Red Cedars also, slow growing tree. Big ones are rare and very old.
Robert Bates nailed it.
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My guess is that large trees will indicate homesteads.
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Mr JW McPherson told me stories about the moonshine days
Have any of you ever thought of using a drone? It seems to me it would be a lot easier to find what you’re looking for with an eye in the sky.