Backwoods Ruins & A Lost Cemetery (Pt I) | History Traveler Episode 63
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2020
- It's hard to say how much history has been lost to time. In this episode, we're looking at one community that existed back in the late 1800s and has been all but wiped off of the map. Doing some backwoods exploration in this one!
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Your statement about being three generations away from being forgotten is profound. Eternity is the key!
Oh, wow! I love Sidestep Adventures! To me, I feel that the person buried in a spot used to have some kind of life, and always wondered what they were like when they were alive. Everyone has some sort of story, some happy, some sad. The older ones always fascinated me. Such a shame how many are desicrated and disrespected. Why would one steal a grave marker? Sick!
“Invest your life in things that are eternal”. Amen! Also this has given me an itch to find historic sites right around my home haha
Definitely. More people preserving history is always a win.
OMG, I just did the same thing yesterday; no cemetery but found the remains of mining town Santoy, Ohio. It was fun and chilling at the same time. Thanks for trying to keep their memory going
Thanks!
I loved your close to home adventure. There is so much history right at our back door . I am always excited to see your videos. 😃😃
You and Robert Wright make a good pair! Thank you for this video and for the reminder that what we are and have here on earth is very fleeting.
Thanks! Hope to do some more collaborations with Robert in the future.
I love the style of your videos! The way that you use music and expert shots to generate emotion is masterful! Thank you!
Glad you like them! Thanks!
That is so tragic! I have a relative that was a Methodist circuit writer in the 1800s who is buried in a family cemetery that is out in the middle of nowhere. Luckily there are people who are still taking care of it.
I lived in the Tennessee mountains for 28 years, and have been to dozens of these abandoned and forgotten graveyards deep in the forest!
I can’t tell you how much I enjoy your channel. I’m a big history buff, primarily about WWII in the Pacific as my dad served there. But the Revolutionary and Civil wars are also big interests. Thank you!
Thanks so much!
So sad! Thanks for sharing 💞
I live in a small village in England. The local churchyard is always a good place to visit, full of history and names which I well recognise as belonging to local families. Last year my wife and I were taking a walk therein and met up with a neighbour, an old lady who is a mine of local history. We were all being suitably respectful in the presence of so many deceased when I noticed a pair of graves, a man and his wife. Touched, I said 'wow, look! This lady spent fifty years as a widow. That's so sad.'
Our neighbour snorted, ''Yes, but she had four other men while she was. And two of them she married!' Couldn't help it. Just burst out laughing in the churchyard.
Cemeteries are fascinating places with so many stories to hint at so tantalisingly. Sad to see one where, as you say, people are lost to history.
Great Video ! i had an old graveyard just past our property and the graves there look sunken as well , i found out later that the body's had been moved and that's why they had that look. I hope that's what happened to those people.
Thanks for the info
Everyone leaves a "footprint" some big some small, you have stamped on all our hearts and so long as there are computers hopefully you will be eternal. I watched you post on a certain bridge in France and was hooked, I have had go back and watch from number one and this one is stunning. Thank you. Got to go now as so many more to watch.
I agree with you, it is so sad to see places like these just fall apart and disappear into history too bad there isn’t somebody still around that Kim till about it and at least get an idea of the people that were there and maybe there is a society that can reclaim that cemetery in market somewhat properly in the respect that a cemetery is intended thanks for all you do
Your videos are so well done. They're my entertainment during lunch break.
I have a old Welsh community cemetery that I maintain that was from the early 1800s all the land around was farm land but is now state land the remnants of the old foundations etc are scattered throughout this 6000 acre wooded tract. It's the most remote cemetery in the county near where I live in upstate n.y. I'm the caretaker on a voluntary basis because it has to be done to honor and respect the people who lived and inhabited the very tough region back when it was muscle and backbreak work to survive....most people have noooooo idea how or understand today!
How sad, a graveyard forgotten!
Another great video. Happy to be a supporter!
Awesome! Thank you!
Another great video man and you need to be careful outhere especially when you're by yourself. Looking towards the next video bub.
Was just thinking you better watch out for copperheads when you mentioned snakes. Lol. Another nice wee film. Thanks.
Love ur videos of our history. Please keep up the great work, and thank u for sharing
Thank you! Will do!
Thank you!
I am positive, but I believe a small stone with just the initials was used to mark the foot of the grave. Back in the 1960's, my father took me into some woods to find a family cemetery from an ancestor's pre-Civil War farm; we found the cemetery but at some point someone had cut pulpwood and had apparently dropped trees on the tombstones and grave markers and instead of at least leaving them there for some type of identification they discarded them. So disappointing.
I have recently found your channel and I really enjoy it, you take me places I will never get to go to myself. Thank you!
Brother I hope you're being careful for poison ivy out there, around 3:34 that's all I could see around that headstone. Leaves of three, leave it be.
great video as usual 😎
Revisiting an exploration Grandpa once took you on. That is so cool.
Like the way you said, ‘Hi, Buddy,’ to the tortoise.
Ha! Always looking to make a friend
Not sure how I missed this one but I love old cemeteries! All of my friends think I'm a nut 😅 but it's just so intriguing to me! I always wonder if I'll ever meet any of them some day.. There are many forgotten stories and so much history behind every headstone. Some of my favorite cemeteries are in utah of the first settlers there and another was just off the road to get to a hiking trail for a waterfall in New Hampshire that had a plaque explaining why it was there and who was there and I recently stumbled upon a local one that has 70 unmarked Graves from men who died in the Civil War. Been binging in Civil War documentaries and audiobooks on the time period ever since 🤣
Very Good....Thanks...
Thank you too!
I’m on a US motorcycle adventure forum, on it there’s a whole thread about abandoned cemeteries and what’s to be found.
They are definitely interesting places to visit.
Took me a while to find it, not looked in a while
advrider.com/f/threads/exploring-alabama%C2%92s-long-lost-cemeteries.577490/page-7#post-18154670
watch out for posion ivy. I love going to cemetaries and looking for Revolutionary War graves.
Bummer that you couldn't go to Rome. There is so much to see there. You have to go.
I plan on getting back over there next spring.
"1 yr 9 mos" is what the stone said that you couldn't read. But the one before it -- the first one you found (partial) -- was seriously old. We grew up with 300 year old graves. They have a different look.
In Savannah GA there is a large early colonial cemetery in the center of town. Many of the headstones are hanging on the surrounding walls, as the locations of the actual graves have long been forgotten due to various reasons including the Civil War and neglect. Walking through the graveyard I pick out one stone on the wall, from 200 feet away and walk to it. I get up close to the 250 year old stone and read John M. Baker. My late father's name right down to the middle initial.
Oh wow! Very interesting.
Sidestep is a cool channel, but i like yours more... hope your flight home was safe
Thanks! And yes, we had a good flight back.
People who desecrate cemeteries and break/steal gravestones are a special kind of evil. What a shame.
Agreed.
In New England we have cemeteries from the late 1700's. What I don't understand is some are very difficult to read but a lot are still legible. Also have cemeteries in the woods like that but never heard of anyone looting the grave stones. That's a shame. There's one small cemetery that has four British soldiers killed during the revolution about 10 miles from where I grew up. Always thought that was interesting, our local minutemen took them out in battle, yet buried them in the same cemetery with everyone else from that town and made sure they had grave stones.
An excellent reminder that we are mortal and even what we leave in stone won't last.
The first little building you came to is just a spring house a very fancy one it's time ,they found a natural spring and used it as a water source.
Who would steal a headstone? Cant even think what you could do with it!
There is an old cemetery on the land on which I grew up that has a few Civil War headstones, family plots and behind it are several rocks. The larger rocks are the head stones and the smaller were foot stones. We were told that all of those were slave burials. Reading the dates and so forth always wondered... much has been lost in time.
Interesting. Have to wonder how many others like it are out there.
@@TheHistoryUnderground From the comments to the video it appears quite a few.
@@TheHistoryUnderground Have you watched any of HISTORY SECRETS youtube video's. Check it out. Great world war II history.
Roadlizardcu McGuire - Yes. Very good stuff.
So cool!! Too bad more wasn’t readable. And yes, invest in that which eternal for sure.
Our life is like a vapor.
Re: unreadable headstones. Have you tried rubbings? Place a sheet of plain paper over it, and run over that with a pencil or the like. The image on the stone will be transferred to the paper and studied later.
Love the channel. What state were you at? Looks like somewhere in the Appalachian mountains maybe?
Thanks! This was in Missouri.
Steelville? Up in the woods?
Holy poison ivy!
Very much so.
All of you're video's are Excellent. But this one was very cool. Thank You Sir. Safe travels.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks!
Can the county or township clean it up and show them some respect? Maybe a scout troop can help as a badge service project?
Good idea. There's not much left of it though. I literally showed everything that's left.
Someone on USMF had mentioned that if you use/take a picture, using the I.R setting on phone or camera, that hard-to-read stamping's and impressions will become easier to see.
Now...if it will work on rock/concrete, I dont know, but it might be something to try in the future.
Thanks!
@@TheHistoryUnderground I will look for the exact post tonite, and post it here for you, if you havent already found it. I'll post it anyhow, either way, so others can use the technique and know how to do that. Anyhow, love your channel, love the subjects, and can't wait for the next one!
I’ve always been fascinated with old cemeteries/ headstones to the point that my family makes fun of me. But they as children would carry paper and pencils to trace the scripts on the headstones. Was always so sad to see how many were infants.. Mertens Apple Orchard in Green Ridge State Park in Hancock, Maryland was a thriving town and there are many cemeteries, shot tower, Paw Paw tunnel used before the railroad. John Mash, former forest ranger wrote a book on the history of the area. Check it out!
Thanks!
Time Forgets us
There's a small cemetery near my house here in Ar I ran across 30 or so years ago, alot of the head stones were missing the last time I was there from what I had remembered. Grown up the same way also. Never understood what happened to the markers. ?
your channel is awesome hope you do a civil war trip ive been to Gettysburg Fredericksburg Bull run hopefully you read make the trip im proud i made
Thanks! I've got some Civil War content coming up in the very near future.
@@TheHistoryUnderground I know you would enjoy the trip a lot of respect for you and what your doing
The smaller rectangular stones with initials only are foot stones.
Well said about 3 generations away from being nothing more than etching on a stone.
Reminds me of the Eagles classic “New Kid in Town”.....”...they will never forget you till somebody new comes along”.
Invest your life in things eternal!!
Amen to that.
I wonder what the name of that little town was.
Who could have desecrated an old cemetery?
one of them said a year 9 months ahhh they were a baby.
Lettuce, bacon and tomato? Sorry for the bad joke. It is sad to see a forgotten cemetery
Ha! Doubt it. I would have buried the lettuce and tomato and kept the bacon.
I just don’t understand what the purpose of people stealing head stones. Why? Today nothing is sacred. How sad is that. I really feel bad for those who’ve died n their names in stone is gone. 😞😞. ♥️😊👍👍
Im thinking poison ivy😬
I don't understand why people would steal the gravestones? What for?
Damn, why would someone steal a headstone?? 😡
Decorations. No lie.
So ur grandfather got u into history?
Yes, he was a large influence.
Where was this place. Like what State?
Yes please. I know of several communities in TN KY that are abandonied because building the TVA dams.
This was in MO
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Do you want to catch the voice in the clip it was like I said oh oh or oh no
Hmm... Why would a tombstone have the word 'died' on it? Sounds like a mystery to me
I would imagine that the date of death was right after it.
@@TheHistoryUnderground
Lol Thanks for replying, I was just kidding
Brandon Henry - Ha! Went right over my head 🤦🏻♂️
First!
Never gotten the chance to legitimately say that before lmao
I'm sorry, but I never understood the "first" thing😂
@@vipergtsmre Me either, I just saw an opportunity to state that I was for once.
@@anilliteratejanitor I gotcha😂😁
In the game! Thanks!
Boyo
Why would people steal a headstone. They can't use them. So disrespectful
Who steals a headstone?
Bleh!