The 100 year old Theater in Kentucky-cemetery-coal camps
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Did you know Henry Ford once bought and ran a coal company named Fordson in rural Kentucky? Did you know he built buildings on a coal camp and they still remain today, along with his previous party house and lots of interesting other things.
We visit Stone Ky, checking out some old buildings. A 100 year old theater and a cemetery across the street from Fords old hang out pad.
Since Henry Ford made cars-which required steel, which required coke and iron-it was no wonder he wanted to go into the coke, iron, steel, and transportation businesses. When Ford Motor Company experienced a work stoppage due to a coal shortage in 1922 he made his move, forming the Fordson Coal Company to buy the Stone mines and others in the region.
This is about 15 mins from Williamson WV if your ever in the area!
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This is awesome thank you
Beautiful country and you guys are so fun to watch
Fascinating!! Thanks for sharing this piece of history 🥰
That creek is calling my name lol those buildings are still pretty after all these years. Another super job !
Wow, that is amazing! A blessing box. Never heard of that. Thank you! Love to both of you! ❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
I’m currently in my bathroom coloring my hair. When you jumped thinking it was a bee, I jumped. You startled me. 😅
Beautiful theater. Did you know that Henry Ford never had a driver's license.
Heather's comment about the insects and the heat hit home for me. I lived in a really old house in WV by the river and it was like a jungle! But so beautiful. Thanks for another trip down the backroads.
Thanks for watching 😊
Up here (little east of Pittsburgh) we call them patch towns. We live in one. :) Our house was built in the 1880s.
I use to work for Bill Ball as an EMT, my name is Patti Beavers, I have been ghost hunting in that theater as well, fun fun time
Fascinating history! You both do such a great job. Thank you for taking me along.
Our pleasure!
USED TO BE A CREDIT UNION AND COMPANY STORE IN THAT BUILDING WE USED TO GO THERE ALL THE TIME
Amazing !
Appreciate it!
That’s awesome thank you I love history
Thank you 🙏
The large scale looking fossil you found I believe is a very large fern. I have one I found in the mines that was 44” long and 19” wide. And it was a single frond!! Huge!! And what you found I looks identical to mine. I found fossilized Bamboo trees that were 14” around. I brought a big section of it home. I’ve found snakes birds and turtles. All in the same area of the mine. Almost like a bone pile out west. WV is full of wonderful fossils. At a strip mines I worked at we uncovered a pit that was 300’ by 150’. It was at about 2800’ above sea level. The slate that was on top of the coal was 20” thick. It was 20” of nothing but sea shells!! It was amazing!
I lived in Stone camp all of my life in Palm Creek area. We moved around quite often in 1967. I lived at a flex. They are a graveyard up on the hill from the old ballfield that you probably never have seen get in contact with me, and I will give you a new place to go to in a flex.
My Mom was born in a coal miner camp in Pineville KY. A midwife helped with her delivery.
The Irick street that you saw was a street leading up to a teacher of mine's house, Mrs Irick She taught at Runyon Elementary. He husband and her went to my church.
cool thanks!
Hello Leo and Heather
What is the other channel? I recently found you all and I am binge watching. Thanks for all your hard work.
I came here to ask the same question.
I went to Berry College in Rome GA. Henry Ford donated a lot of money to the college and they built several buildings that kind of look like a cathedral. Beautiful place. Thanks Henry.
It was an orchestra pit
My mom was a secretary at eastern coal. Sweet vid y'all.
So my grandfather use to tell me stories growing up about this place I was raised up there btw I’m not into ghost but there was a orb when y’all was in front of the stage if your in to that stuff but I was raised up ballfork which is a little ways up in there.
They decorate that big ass tree down on the curve and it lights up every year which I was told growing up it was Henry fords house there’s all kinds of history up there all my relatives are buried up that way but I don’t live in the area no more.
I recommend doing more to explain Henry Ford's connection to this location. Currently in the Philippines so it is not likely that I can visit anytime soon.
We did explain before we went in the theater. But yes I lost the opening footage so it could have started better, Thank you for your input =)
BTW I'm from number 8 camp.😁
I love y’all’s Chanel but did you notice around 18:22 into the video there’s an orb? It’s to the left of the screen . You mentioned it was haunted .
oh cool!
At 14:45 That could be a Oxyacetylene LIME LIGHT!! They where used as spot lights to showcase one actor or singer at a time. High watt electric lights did NOT exist in the 20' 30' and 40's They bounced Oxyacetylene off of a piece of limestone to acheave a bright spot light. Search lights where built the same way. Once they got going they shut off the Acetylene and left pure oxygen take over the burning of the lime. One ounce of lime would last a whole hour. Carbon arc was to temperamental with out electric analog control feed motors making the spot light to heavy and bulky to follow the actor. HENCE THE TERM: "Your turn in the limelight".
Very cool! Thanks
Bugs, heat and attacking leaves (lol.)
Did that guy standing at the back corner of the stage work there or something? I’m kidding 😅.
The side entrance was probably where the African Americans entered, you ‘reckon.
It was
Hi nice video!
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