The search for lost places drawn on old maps in New England
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- Using old maps that show where people lived in work hundreds of years ago we are off for a huge hike to find these locations. This part of New Hampshire is heavily covered with forest and out in these woods are the deserted places from the 1800s and 1700s. On a recent trip three stone bridges were found and well over a mile of old dit road that has probably not seen a wagon in 150 tears. Today we are using topographic maps from the early 1900s that show two structure were there along a small river. We hiked all the way in and started exploring and definitely found signs of people being here by reading the land. Way over the top of a hill we found a stretch of ancient road that would have been the wagon trail back in the 1700s and it lead us to a spot that when we started metal detecting we found relics. Exploring old abandoned places like this and metal detecting makes for some great adventure.
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The search for lost places drawn on old maps in New England
Thank you so much for sharing your adventure with us!!! I loved the longer vlog!!! You guys have definitely found a homestead!!! I can't wait for more vlogs in this area!!! God Bless Us All!!!
I like what you said Charlie, the history mystery. Things are definitely being found. God bless you for all that walking. The Not Thursday adventure continues. Joyce❤️🙏🇺🇸
The mystery of the 3 bridges road ! Thank you Charlie and Dame for the adventure , seeing some beautiful scenery and searching for the mystery of the road !
I love the woods i think its my favorite places to detect 💪💪💪
I am glad you did not cut this into two uploads. Love exploration and the purpose of it is DISCOVERY!
Charlie Sherlock and
Dam. Watson solving mysteries in the great expanse of New
Hampshire ! Excellent!
I just love these exploratory history mystery hikes. I cant wait till the next one.😊
I just found this chanel, and I ❤ it. Look forward to more. I live in Western Maine and our state is full of these old places. 👍. It's cool because I'm learning how to identify things that point towards old homesteads and cultivation zones.
Curiouser and curiouser. This place has a lot to say! Great video!
Great day thank you for the walk. Perty amazing what is out there.
Awesome. I loved exploring the old settlements here in the White Mtns
let's go let's go treasure and adventure✌👵
Do you guys happen to have LiDAR? For someone like yourself that actually is already an incredible researcher AND actually gets out it would be an awesome tool. I’m confident something you already know. Just wondered. Great video as always. I learned a lot.
@@mrychards6682is really almost there. I have a DJI Matrice 300 and have over a couple years got lidar, thermal, and photogrammetry payloads and they are incredible but I should of waited. Now they have ground penetrating radar for drones and magnetometer payloads. I think we will have a legit fully functional metal detector payload by next summer. We are going ti see some amazing tools but people still have to research and get out there so the good guys should be the ones that benefit from it hopefully.
Do they sell those at RadioShack?
I recently saw a lidar scan of a town up in Maine and you could see old building foundations and roads for neighborhoods that don’t exist anymore and have been reclaimed by the woods. It’s pretty cool
I have found a lot of interesting looking sites using LIDAR imaging. The government has made it available but it's a bit of an education to use it. I managed to 3D-print my coastal neighbourhood using LIDAR scans.
@@fergusontea it’s for sure nice to have access to the government scans if you can not get out. The quality isn’t great but they are supposed to keep improving old areas and adding new areas until it’s on file from coast to coast. I believe it will eventually lead to a lot of the lost mines being found. As the technology keeps improving. I used it this spring to find some very interesting trails that were not marked and in essence lost to history in and around the Swift mine area in KY.
One thing is for certain, that if they spent any amount of time there, and especially living in the area you're in.
Then there's going to be a fairly large trash dump, and it's gonna stand out if you get close enough to it with your metal detectors, because they're gonna scream.
Plus with most every dump site there's gonna be surface finds that jump out at you.
Unless they were dumping close to the creek, and then it's all going downstream at least the smaller pieces will.
Yes, you definitely need to further explore there! I would have kept the wagon wheel! Next time!
You two are definitely history detectives!
I swear I lost five pounds watching all the walking you guys did that day lmao! Awesome video!
I'm looking forward more videos from this area. I didn't want this one to end!
Side note: Some day I'd like to hear about why you guys find so many harmonica reeds. You seem find them about second often after buttons.
Admirable persistence!
Great exploration! So much territory to cover.
Great information about your fines awesome day for you guys 👍
That road would have been open for quite a long time after it became mostly unused. Great way to dump unwanted trash.
New england used to have a lot of cleared farmlands and grain mill at every creek ! The farms have disappeared and the trees reclaim the pastures
I sure enjoyed this trip into the Eastern woods. So different from taiga. Your discussions are so interesting.
Excelente aventura amigos, saludos cordiales desde chile 🙋♂️🇨🇱⛏️🗝️💍👍
Something I don't understand and maybe it's not shown is why are you not mapping? Even with the lack of precise accuracy a hand held GPS would make it easier in determining where you are. You could overlay your points onto a TOPO map along with the points from the maps you've mentioned. Enjoyed watching! Looks like you two are having fun !
Charlie/Dame; I am wondering about you checking the top of the ‘hills’ for the homesites. Where I grew up you would have wanted protection from the prevailing winds (especially in winter), so would have built down the lee side of the hill a bit… or would that have not been a concern way back when?
I suggest a video on how to access government LIDAR for our own property. That would be awesome. Thanks for the video.
That smell..could it also smell like butain lighting fluid? Or that bug spray they use to spray the streets with for mosquitoes? Smelling that at times here in Mo. Started a couples wks ago.
I giggled because closed captions said Auction Shoes hehe
Great video. Many stone walls in new england weren't built by farmers plowing fields and digging up rocks but were built in the 1860s during the "spanish sheep craze" when merino wool was very profitable. The trees were already gone from much of the land so they built stone walls to contain the sheep. The stone walls commonly had a wooden topper on it with what was left of lumber. Those structures might be sheep herders shelters and not logging camps at all.
Need more people to investigate it charlie😊
With all the filming you do walking around the backwoods, it's amazing that you haven't captured at least a glimpse of Samsquatch. One of these days.
Awesome video, cool finds 😎👍
Charlie they also made shotgun cartridge in paper Knott plastic 👍👍
Love your commentary
Thanks guys
You do realize that this is like, you two, heading off into this remote forest, in the 1800's & building a 20 foot massive stone road & several 10 TON lentil STONE Bridges, just so it would be easy to visit each other; (only to have a little brook wash away this hard work. You're killing, me!😫J.K.
The Maprika app might be able to help you find the old building/homesite. There are a few videos on UA-cam on it. No need to have wifi while you're out in the woods either.
That last bit was most likely a blacksmith shop, or equipment barn
English farmers stacked (and still do) their stones they found in the fields during plowing at the edges of their fields they plowed. Also, they did make their bridges stacking as flat as possible to get wagons over water, if they couldn't pass it..
And, water was very important, they did not wanted to live far from them.
So, if a group of new settlers came in, they flocked off the group along the way they went.. Up till indians wouldn't let them go further into their land.
So, definitely a homestead around there, possibly multiple along the stream, either to the left or right..
Finding maps as old as possible from rivers, streams, etc. is hugely beneficial to have 😃
going to be a fun one - good work!
I like how you do your homework!!
Soooo exciting!! Wow!
If I was on that site I would pitch the tent at sundown and throw our steaks on the fire so we could get up bright and early for a full day of exploring!
👍🏻 This is getting good...🤓👌
Enjoyed 👍
Good one.
I'm really glad that you aren't telling us where this is. I'm pleased that we can't look at the LIDAR data for the area. I would hate to have all that enjoyment, and I'm excited that we can't explore this area. Thank you!!!!!!!
If there was logging there were “houses of comfort” nearby. Book it.
maybe it was a place they picked to moonshine that would be a well traveled road back in the day lol
Good Stuff . !
Why don't you take the old map and match it with a new map like a DeLorme or something with GPS on it. I do that when I am looking for old sites on maps from the 1800s, saves hours of wandering around the woods.
some of the older older casings are made from copper b4 they switched to cheaper brass..I think....a lot of the older 1800s casings I find are made from copper and centerfire cartridges didnt comw out until the 1879s? b4 that they were all rimfire casings
LiDAR could have helped you locate the GPS coordinates.
Hello Not Thursday !!😊
Someday you and Dame will find The Seven Bridges Road.
Great video
Hey guys Charlie, caught you. I chimed in because the “Statement made small farms small enough if you broke an ankle ma would hear you”. 2 months in with a broken tibia 2 brakes in fibulae and 2
fractures in ankle bone. All while making wait for it .. a coffee, brain says go get milk turn but my foot didn’t get the message, snap snap snap. Wrote this thinking you all need a bloody good Laugh.
I did several times even though in my brain informed me it’s not a laughing matter😂😂😊
Oh man! Ya gotta laugh at stuff like this, or you'd go crazy. Not good crazy, at least!
Could there had a house without a cellar there and things didn't work out so they moved away ?
geeez was that shotshell Dame found an 8 gauge?
Curious. Did you dump your old colorful detecting friends cuz they cannot hike as fast as you & Dane…? If so, sucks
But why would loggers have a scythe?
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😅too bad we don't has any idea where about they are even to have some sort of bearing how far out they are.
What is that sound in the background? And do you ever see any deers, or bears?
I know he has seen deer
At what time stamp was the sound?
Believe it or not that sound is quite possibly from a rabbit.
Kewl finds. New area.
Quite interesting, even though I have no idea where this place is. It is amazing that you can find traces of old settlements in the middle of the wood with multiple farms/dwellings. So would the people that lived here have a cemetery somewhere? Or are they just buried in the local cemetery that is still being used? Those bridges are so cool too, if I had the space I'd build a water garden with bridges like that. Great video!
Probably buried at the nearest church cemetery or just in long forgotten graves that no longer have visible markers.
What an interesting question, which I'd never thought of. Where I am in, semi-rural NC, there are small family cemeteries all over the place. Some have only one or two graves, others have thirty or forty plus and are still used. I wonder why it isn't the same there in NH?
You guys should check out the treasure dog of maine. He gets some insane stuff off colonial beaches with the minelab equinox series
They were probably harvesting sand clay stone water cattails basket willow and possibly making charcoal. Clay and sand for bake ovens , fireplaces and chinking.
Dane get Charlie out of the woods, before he gets you lost on the other side of the river! Then we will have to send Waynos in to lead you all out. I bet if you ask him what side of the river he's on, he couldn't tell you. I actually seen him trip over the same rock twice lol.
Babe the blue OX size shoes along with three bridges, and I hear the Talkin Heads we're on a road to now where ...until ya find it.
I worked at a garbage bag factory when I was young and I know the smell lol
is it possible its an old military road not all of them are well known French and Indian war maybe