The Bennington & Rutland and the Lebanon Springs Railroad were consolidated into the Harlem Extension Railroad (HERR) in January of 1870, in 1872 it was leased to the New York, Boston and Montreal Railroad but after financial problems by 1877 became the Bennington and Rutland again. Hope that is useful, love this channel. Hi from the UK.
@rialobran I whole heartedly agree with your comment. The Harlem Extension Rail Road was chartered in 1870 as a result of the consolidation of the railroads you mentioned in your comment. Isn't it amazing that the internet has proven itself to be such a research tool? To thunk someone like yourself, who hails from "across the pond", could provide that kind of accurate information is amazing. When I was a child during the 1950s, I never imagined that, before my death, several libraries worldwide, could be researched with the mere touch of a finger! I praise GOD that I lived long enough to witness such a thing!
@@richardworkman5416 I have 4 genres of history I that I study, it so happens that the US between 1776 and 1900 and my love of 19th century engineering happened to meet at the finding of that plate. I had a really good idea where to start looking...not sure the other two genres, early medieval and Bronze Age will ever be useful to this channel 🤣
Brad I find your treasure finding adventures very intriguing because number one: you place a high value on things that the greedy metal detecting on other sites find as “garbage”. Every item you find tells a story. I feel the same way. I love history and historical finds. To me they are rich and rewarding. Thank you for being so up front and compassionate about what you do.
Brad , I love the way you tell a story about the items that you find ! It's a mini history lesson in away ! Thank you for sharing these stories with me !
You are a pro at giving us the history of the items. I am from New England and very much interested in the great things you find. I have two straps on leather with the sleigh bells. The sound is so thought provoking!
What do you get when you combine a romantic, a metal detector and some tree covered mountains.....easy, you get Brad. I'm realizing that the thing that sets your channel apart from the tons of other detector channels is your investment in learning about the people and their lives when you find their remnants. You can keep on painting the lives of past settlers and I'll keep on looking forward to the next installment.
I love the fact that the bell actually rang after being silent for all those years. Small things like that are exciting to me as well. The best item that I feel you found was that charm that had that girl's name on it. Can't remember her name but finding her story and talking about her after all those years was really special.
My first thought about that bell was "if he ends up making that thing ring, it'll be the first time it made sound in 200 years...." That's just an amazing thought and makes me feel giddy like a kid on Christmas
Had to leave Vt 7 years ago after 35 years as a homesteader . I grew most of my vegetables and had a great root cellar filled for the winter months. I found your channel and enjoy following you around the woods of Vermont finding pieces of history. Although I’ll always miss Vt. I am doing well using my artistic talents as a furniture artist in Ma. Thanks for your wonderful Chanel. ~ Lani
This is the kind of video I just wanted to see on metal detecting. Not just the kind of guys wanting to get silver on every dig. Congratulations. Nicely done videos!
Brad, love your vids, because like me, it's about the history and story, not the value of the item that's important. It's not all gold and silver, it's the experience that counts!
What an awesome day! The sweet sound of the bell ringing made me giddy. I’m a dork, I know, but I was excited because so many bells are found broken or without the clapper…. I love the padlock as well. Truly makes the imagination run wild!
I love imagining who heard that bell jingle the last time around 200 years ago. Or who dropped the coin. The mystery and the thrill of the find bring me back each week! Thanks Brad …
I love The Great outdoors! Jesus Vermont's just so damn beautiful. Make anybody want to go out and metal detect. The way you videos are put together are absolutely fantastic
I too love the jingle bells. They're truly something from a long ago, bygone era, something we don't get to see or experience in this age. I would love to see a real sleigh, pulled by bell covered horses.
Hi Brad, some really cool personal and historical items, my favourites were the old padlock and the jingle bell. Thank you for sharing, much love. xx ❤
Ahh finally the jingle of history rings. I been enjoying watching you enjoy your passion and the production of these videos and your stories is what brings me back, again and again. Bravo Brad...Bravo!
I remember back in the early 1970's as a young preteen, living in Massachusetts, there was a single rail car in the middle of a densely wooded area near a swamp i used to return to regularly and explore. I was so perplexed as to how it got there because there were no railroad tracks near or close to the swamp. Now i can only imagine having a metal detector back then to investigate.
Hi Brad, I've been watching for over 4 years and enjoy all of them waiting expectantly for Fridays. I wanted to mentions your music at the beginning of each episode is fantastic. I know you are the artist who creates them. Here, here Brad!!
Providing the E on your railroad tag meant Express, here is a couple for you to consider. The Hartford or Housatonic railroads were in the New England area.
I get so excited when u find gingle bells, this time is special cause it still gingles! I think that cut pad lock was on that chest of gold u dream about! Have a great week Brad! 💕💙💜❤️
Enjoy your video in the morning with my coffee ☕️ love the hills of Vermont in the fall. When you found the bell it reminded me of going to my grandparents house for the holidays and grandpa would get the horses hitched to the wagon and take us grandkids for a ride down the road and the bells 🔔 would ring as we went. Again thanks for the video and stories to go with it and for bringing back some cherished memories.
I love the little lock&key and the homemade‘button’ such imaginings they give to us. I like the stories they could weave in the the mind and maybe a book ♥️♥️♥️
Brad, thanks for another great start to my Friday morning with your treasure hunt deep within the Green Mountains .. Your prelude drone view is showing the early stages to the start of foliage season, one of my favorite time of the year .. Thanks for the enjoyable start to the day and for sharing your discoveries with us.
The hook is an over-check rein hook. I goes on the saddle of the harness. The overcheck reins run through loops on either side of the bridle, then to the hook to keep the horse's head up. BTW, harness belts are identical today. I use them in my leather business.
Thanks for another great video, Brad. I appreciate your love of "boots on the ground" history. When I watch one of your videos, it never fails that I learn something I didn't know before.
I grew up in central coast Maine and there are stone walls everywhere. Some of them are up to six feet high going up over basically small “cliffs” when I’d be out hunting sitting on one of those walls it’s hard to think how much work it was to make some of those walls, been watching your videos for three years Brad, you do great work on your videos Thankyou
My thoughts are the HERR tag came from a trunk on the Railroad, and the little pad lock was holding it closed. The Iron was from them trying to pick the lock, then they gave up on it and cut it. Fun to think about these things. Great hunt.
Brad,it is a joy to see a young man enjoying nature and adventure in nature ...I notice that you save the broken pottery that you find...I have seen mosaics achieved in so many designs, it would be one way to look back and remember when and where you found them...and a nice rainy day project...😊
Another good hunt although there were no buttons around. The Indian Heads and relics were cool. Enjoy your hunts. Glad I got to tag along. Best wishes.
How fun to get a whole bell. I guess it thought it needed payment for you removing it from its resting place. Thank you for sharing your adventures with us. I really enjoy watching your videos.
Brad, I stumbled across one of your videos about a week ago. Have always been interested in detecting but never really gotten into it (yet). I definitely enjoy your videos. My young daughter and I just finished watching this one. I want to say thank you for keeping the videos I've watched thus far family friendly and free from profanity. Looking fwd to more and may even give it a whirl myself!
Another quality, informative and enjoyable vid from you, Brad. After years of watching your adventures, I'm definitely not surprised. Thanks so much for enhancing our lives. Crotale/jingle bells are a fun thing. I've not found any when metal detecting (perhaps one day) but did purchase a couple. as Always, the Best to You and Yours.
Brad I look forward to your videos every Friday which is such a great video in the scenery in the storytelling behind the woods you're hunting it's just an amazing video thank you for sharing and thank you for the hard work you put in to making these videos for us
Thank you for sharing your adventures I wished I would have been able to document my native American artifact hunting down in Mississippi and a few other states keep it going man you are teaching history as its pulled from the earth
The Bennington & Rutland and the Lebanon Springs Railroad were consolidated into the Harlem Extension Railroad (HERR) in January of 1870, in 1872 it was leased to the New York, Boston and Montreal Railroad but after financial problems by 1877 became the Bennington and Rutland again.
Hope that is useful, love this channel. Hi from the UK.
@rialobran,, thanks for the info ! Sorry about your loss over there !
Love to see it when viewers solve these mysteries. Hi from Australia.
Made me sorry it wasn't the doorsign for a German men's room.
@rialobran I whole heartedly agree with your comment. The Harlem Extension Rail Road was chartered in 1870 as a result of the consolidation of the railroads you mentioned in your comment. Isn't it amazing that the internet has proven itself to be such a research tool? To thunk someone like yourself, who hails from "across the pond", could provide that kind of accurate information is amazing. When I was a child during the 1950s, I never imagined that, before my death, several libraries worldwide, could be researched with the mere touch of a finger! I praise GOD that I lived long enough to witness such a thing!
@@richardworkman5416 I have 4 genres of history I that I study, it so happens that the US between 1776 and 1900 and my love of 19th century engineering happened to meet at the finding of that plate. I had a really good idea where to start looking...not sure the other two genres, early medieval and Bronze Age will ever be useful to this channel 🤣
Brad I find your treasure finding adventures very intriguing because number one: you place a high value on things that the greedy metal detecting on other sites find as “garbage”. Every item you find tells a story. I feel the same way. I love history and historical finds. To me they are rich and rewarding. Thank you for being so up front and compassionate about what you do.
That bell hasn’t been heard for many decades. Really cool to hear it again.
Brad , I love the way you tell a story about the items that you find ! It's a mini history lesson in away ! Thank you for sharing these stories with me !
DITTO
I heard jingle bells and it’s not even Christmas brad Thanks for the good video buddy
You are a pro at giving us the history of the items. I am from New England and very much interested in the great things you find. I have two straps on leather with the sleigh bells. The sound is so thought provoking!
What do you get when you combine a romantic, a metal detector and some tree covered mountains.....easy, you get Brad. I'm realizing that the thing that sets your channel apart from the tons of other detector channels is your investment in learning about the people and their lives when you find their remnants. You can keep on painting the lives of past settlers and I'll keep on looking forward to the next installment.
Detective, story teller and metal detectorist all rolled in one. Awesome. Thanks for sharing.
You forgot awesome musician and leather crafter.
I love the fact that the bell actually rang after being silent for all those years. Small things like that are exciting to me as well. The best item that I feel you found was that charm that had that girl's name on it. Can't remember her name but finding her story and talking about her after all those years was really special.
My first thought about that bell was "if he ends up making that thing ring, it'll be the first time it made sound in 200 years...." That's just an amazing thought and makes me feel giddy like a kid on Christmas
Bc
B
😊 mm😅mmhm is MMO m you nnen
Great day there Brad I love the stories as usual I enjoy it can't wait to see you on your next Wednesday bless you and your family🙏💏
Thankyou for sharing. Lovely peaceful video.
Had to leave Vt 7 years ago after 35 years as a homesteader . I grew most of my vegetables and had a great root cellar filled for the winter months. I found your channel and enjoy following you around the woods of Vermont finding pieces of history. Although I’ll always miss Vt. I am doing well using my artistic talents as a furniture artist in Ma. Thanks for your wonderful Chanel. ~ Lani
This is the kind of video I just wanted to see on metal detecting. Not just the kind of guys wanting to get silver on every dig.
Congratulations. Nicely done videos!
Brad, love your vids, because like me, it's about the history and story, not the value of the item that's important. It's not all gold and silver, it's the experience that counts!
WOW that is special it put a smile on my face at the same time you 😊 smiled that's cool.
Two chuckles in one video! Copper around the spray bottle cap & losing your treasure inside a treasure. LOL absolutely adorable.
Love the Bells!! They are so cool!
Great find!
Great daytripping
Like your style. Well worth watching. Thanks
What an awesome day! The sweet sound of the bell ringing made me giddy. I’m a dork, I know, but I was excited because so many bells are found broken or without the clapper…. I love the padlock as well. Truly makes the imagination run wild!
I really enjoyed your video i enjoy the way you make them so interesting I love the history lessons you’re finds are really interesting
I love imagining who heard that bell jingle the last time around 200 years ago. Or who dropped the coin.
The mystery and the thrill of the find bring me back each week!
Thanks Brad …
Thank you for cleaning that bell, it is so exciting to hear the bell. So often they are broken. You are the best! 😁🇨🇦
I love finding suspenders and ihp's. The lock was an old one! Congrats on yet another crotal bell. A day in my book!
I love The Great outdoors! Jesus Vermont's just so damn beautiful. Make anybody want to go out and metal detect. The way you videos are put together are absolutely fantastic
Perhaps the tiny lock was for a tea box, or tea chest. They did used to lock those. Beautiful scenery. Thank you for sharing.
Great video, I could watch your videos all day and love your stories of what may have been.
Thanks Phil Stevens
That's cool about the bell being still having the ringer inside and working.
Glad to watch you look for things. Love to see the old coins 🪙
I too love the jingle bells. They're truly something from a long ago, bygone era, something we don't get to see or experience in this age. I would love to see a real sleigh, pulled by bell covered horses.
Hi Brad, some really cool personal and historical items, my favourites were the old padlock and the jingle bell.
Thank you for sharing, much love. xx ❤
Great video
I love your channel beautiful forest very nice thanks be safe watch your six Gene Gorringe Mi ✌️ 🇺🇲
Thanks for another exciting Friday morning in Vermont
One of your best Brad. The music was excellent also.
Ahh finally the jingle of history rings. I been enjoying watching you enjoy your passion and the production of these videos and your stories is what brings me back, again and again. Bravo Brad...Bravo!
Love the bells. The sounds of our ancestors lives.
We love your hunts, love your presentation and this week, love your little story about loosing the Indian head penny! Thanks!
I remember back in the early 1970's as a young preteen, living in Massachusetts, there was a single rail car in the middle of a densely wooded area near a swamp i used to return to regularly and explore. I was so perplexed as to how it got there because there were no railroad tracks near or close to the swamp. Now i can only imagine having a metal detector back then to investigate.
I always get excited when you find a bell and it rings. loved it. your imagination is captivating!
It still jingles. Awesome Brad.
Beautiful country. A bell that still works! Nice fine on the small lock.
Excellent start to my Friday!
Brad, you have the most relaxing videos on the web. Thank you for everything you post!
I look forward to your adventures all week and you never disappoint.
The small lock is the same size as a post colonial sugar chest would have been secured with. Great video Brad I do love your macro shots! Thanks.
Hi Brad, I've been watching for over 4 years and enjoy all of them waiting expectantly for Fridays. I wanted to mentions your music at the beginning of each episode is fantastic. I know you are the artist who creates them. Here, here Brad!!
So are the pictures at the beginning. A great place to take a dog out for an adventure walk!
Providing the E on your railroad tag meant Express, here is a couple for you to consider. The Hartford or Housatonic railroads were in the New England area.
Thanks for these videos! My daughter (8yo) and I love to watch them together and then go on adventures together. Thanks for inspiring us. Travis
I get so excited when u find gingle bells, this time is special cause it still gingles! I think that cut pad lock was on that chest of gold u dream about! Have a great week Brad! 💕💙💜❤️
That jingle bell was so great to hear made my day 💕💕💕💕✨✨✨
Enjoy your video in the morning with my coffee ☕️ love the hills of Vermont in the fall. When you found the bell it reminded me of going to my grandparents house for the holidays and grandpa would get the horses hitched to the wagon and take us grandkids for a ride down the road and the bells 🔔 would ring as we went. Again thanks for the video and stories to go with it and for bringing back some cherished memories.
I love the little lock&key and the homemade‘button’ such imaginings they give to us. I like the stories they could weave in the the mind and maybe a book ♥️♥️♥️
Brad, thanks for another great start to my Friday morning with your treasure hunt deep within the Green Mountains .. Your prelude drone view is showing the early stages to the start of foliage season, one of my favorite time of the year .. Thanks for the enjoyable start to the day and for sharing your discoveries with us.
The hook is an over-check rein hook. I goes on the saddle of the harness. The overcheck reins run through loops on either side of the bridle, then to the hook to keep the horse's head up. BTW, harness belts are identical today. I use them in my leather business.
Thanks for another great video, Brad. I appreciate your love of "boots on the ground" history. When I watch one of your videos, it never fails that I learn something I didn't know before.
Just love your chill videos Sir….GL and HH on your next adventure🙏🏼🍀👋🏼🇨🇦
Good love when you find those single bells reminds me of my life on the farm
I grew up in central coast Maine and there are stone walls everywhere. Some of them are up to six feet high going up over basically small “cliffs” when I’d be out hunting sitting on one of those walls it’s hard to think how much work it was to make some of those walls, been watching your videos for three years Brad, you do great work on your videos Thankyou
Another great video mate. You really bring the past to light. Thanks so much ☺️👍
Great finds, I love those Indian Head cents. That padlock is pretty sweet!
Excellent hunt... Crotal bells are on my wish list :) Thank you for bringing all of us along
Great video! I love the bells too! Please be careful and stay safe! ❤❤
The interesting artifact reminds me of the handle to either a candle holder or oil lamp holder. You hold on to that to carry it around the home.
Makes my Friday Thanks Brad from Ireland 🇮🇪
My thoughts are the HERR tag came from a trunk on the Railroad, and the little pad lock was holding it closed. The Iron was from them trying to pick the lock, then they gave up on it and cut it. Fun to think about these things. Great hunt.
To add to your theory Herr is Mr. in German. Trunk, padlock, and partial name tag?
Another very nice video. Thanks.
Sweet Digs Brad, the mountains are cooling off....great time of year out in the woods!
Superb video, really relaxing and enjoyable watching you find the old interesting things and the stories they tell , loved it , peace ✌️
Thankyou Brad, you don't disappoint. Another great hunt.
Good metal detecting post, always nice finding things from the past.
Couldn’t help a big smile with the sound of the jingle bell!!😊
Congratulations Brad
Awesome finds of all sorts
Great video thanks for sharing
Another day of great finds !
Nice hunt nice finds, i enjoyed the video, will catch you on the next one. 🇺🇸
Great finds Brad! Love the videos
Yes Brad I heard it thanks for the share 😊😊❤❤❤❤
great stuff Brad thanks
Outstanding job there, Braad
Brad,it is a joy to see a young man enjoying nature and adventure in nature ...I notice that you save the broken pottery that you find...I have seen mosaics achieved in so many designs, it would be one way to look back and remember when and where you found them...and a nice rainy day project...😊
Nice adventure…thanks for bringing us along!
I'd take that hunt any day of the week! Great vid Brad!
Another good hunt although there were no buttons around. The Indian Heads and relics were cool. Enjoy your hunts. Glad I got to tag along. Best wishes.
loved the video, nice water falls. funny that crawdad was there. you made my day. God bless youns.
Brad you do such good videos. Thank you for sharing your adventures.
Good morning Brad !
Love those bells and your stories. Thanks.
Nice job Brad !!!!!
I appreciate your skills...not only metal detecting , but the gorgeous scenery you share with us ! Thank you !!
How fun to get a whole bell. I guess it thought it needed payment for you removing it from its resting place. Thank you for sharing your adventures with us. I really enjoy watching your videos.
Brad, I stumbled across one of your videos about a week ago. Have always been interested in detecting but never really gotten into it (yet). I definitely enjoy your videos. My young daughter and I just finished watching this one. I want to say thank you for keeping the videos I've watched thus far family friendly and free from profanity. Looking fwd to more and may even give it a whirl myself!
Thanks for sharing your avocation...Rewarding I'm sure.
Jingle bell,
Brad did well,
Really made his day!
He had fun,
He's the one
We watch on each Friday!
(To be sung to the tune
"Jingle Bells."
The copper on the spray cap is a great tip. Thanks! I lose my cap every trip
Happy Friday!! A new Brad Martin video!!
Appreciate the time you take to produce easy watching TH ! I have a huge collection of detecting film but trust me it's a bit rough to watch lol 😆
Another quality, informative and enjoyable vid from you, Brad. After years of watching your adventures, I'm definitely not surprised. Thanks so much for enhancing our lives. Crotale/jingle bells are a fun thing. I've not found any when metal detecting (perhaps one day) but did purchase a couple. as Always, the Best to You and Yours.
Brad I look forward to your videos every Friday which is such a great video in the scenery in the storytelling behind the woods you're hunting it's just an amazing video thank you for sharing and thank you for the hard work you put in to making these videos for us
Great relics I enjoyed your video thank you for sharing ⚒️👍♥️🗝️
I love your music. It fits the time period, I think.
Thank you for sharing your adventures I wished I would have been able to document my native American artifact hunting down in Mississippi and a few other states keep it going man you are teaching history as its pulled from the earth