Great location! The interior still looks somewhat intact in the state it was abandoned in, around 1991. I always get a kick out of seeing these time capsules.
Hey Brian!! I live about 5 minutes from this ghost town!! When I was 5, back in the 90's, there was a building across the street that was a little general store but it closed down and eventually was torn down years later. The buildings in your video have been closed before I was even born and I have heard older people say that they were everything from a lawyer's office to a pharmacy. Super cool video though! I just went by yesterday and wanted to stop and go in but didn't want to get caught!!
+mrskingdavis when I stopped there were guys cutting grass at the house across the street. I talked to them and told them what I was doing and they were fine with it. I found some info about the old stores online...so if you google the name of the town I think there's a PDF of a book that has a little of info in it. Such a cool little strip of places though, it's just a shame nobody is taking care of the property.
Wow-How many abandoned towns is there in Virginia. Brian, i live in Ireland were maybe jus less than quarter of the country is mountains which could never be built on and the surrounding countryside has very few ppl living there.Small country towns, but in the city's like here in Dublin, the only old buildings are historic, or still in use. I live beside an 11th century Catholic Church. My home is on ground's of what was a 4th century monastery were the missionaries were instructed in the Catholic faith, like a collage were they left from to go evangelise the world. Its amazing
I'm not sure WHY the whole town was abandoned. Some of the building structure still looks strong; I'd go in and rebuild. There are far too many people here without homes; leaving a half-town like this go seems wasteful. Keep the structures that can be kept; perhaps even rebuild in the original manner to keep the history. There is nothing there that many hands cannot clean and repair.
It needs to rain in the Southwest as much as it rains in Virginia apparently. Then I could have a nice shady concealing forest instead of a scrub desert. People need to go to Amazon and buy up my "Impact" a James Grider ebook that I talk about on my Dusty Female Cat channel so I can accumulate enough money to afford to move out of the desert into a forested area.
+PrairieDodgers Thank you! This goes down as one of my favorite places that I've been. I was glad that my friend came along - she's a wonderful photographer!
I'm always struck by these abandoned places that were once thriving with people's hopes and dreams, joys and sadness, laughter and tears, and wonder what became of them, the memories they have of their time here and what they would think if they saw it now (for those who are still living).
Awesome video, Brian! That place looks like no one's been in there for decades. I love that old Canada Dry Orange Soda bottle. I didn't even know they ever made that.
+Will Krupinsky Thanks Will! It was definitely one of the more interesting places that I've ever checked out. The Canada Dry Orange was news to me as well. I'm thinking maybe it was a regional drink, kind of like Sun Drop.
Unfortunately this is what happens to small towns. My mom lives in a small town and a few businesses have closed and the school I think is closed. Not enough young people staying
The town I lived in when I was a child? There are NO children there now. It is all the elderly that have lived there all their lives, but almost NONE of the kids that were born there returned to live there. Gradually, they are closing schools and businesses. It was born around a steel mill, as many towns were. When the steel mills died; the exodus began. There were suddenly no jobs. I went to school to be a steel detailer; intent on following the "working at the plant" plan. Months after I graduated the steel mills closed. I never went home. Drove through there a couple of years ago, and noticed the closed businesses and boarded-up houses. I fear it's going in the same direction. The nearest big city is over an hour away....too far to commute. It makes me wonder how many towns disappeared when the steel mills...or local industry....closed.
Not only does this place looks awesome, it also looks creepy as well. This would be a truly great place to explore + to go camping. And the other thing is. I probably would love to visit just out of curiosity.+I definitely have to say this also reminds me of that movie Silent Hill. This is totally an awesome and the coolest video of abandoned places I have ever seen. Great job doing this.
wow, that is crazy!!! right out of a scarey movie! like a " wrong turn" town.... creepy Location! definetly spirit Activity going on there im sure!!! 💀🌙💀 Kool as hell. Thanx 4 Sharing
@@BrianSterowski I'm from Northumberland County, Heathsville, VA . 14 miles West of the Chesapeake Bay...2 hrs East of Richmond. I have lived here all of my 53 yrs ... Glad I found you 😉
Is this town supposed to be " closed to the public" or can anyone drive thru to view it? There's a couple great ones in New Hampshire but the old roads are gone to get to em so they are ATV accessable. Cool old creepy logging towns. This reminds me of them big-time. Just a fun hobby 2 find new spots? Me and my sis head out every chance we get. Creepy, old & haunted..... right up our alley! Thanx for sharing this hun. It's awesome!! 💀
I've been watching your videos some places look fine some whole floor fell in and I've come down to one conclusion. once the roof has a leak the water does the place in. it's the water and the vandals too. good video!
Charles Duby water is 1 culprit. either from above or below. rising damp, flooding, or roof damage animals are another. hooves or claws damage wooden structures allowing access to termites and woodrot. but by far the worst is vandals
Yes and the properties with some of these rural places are gorgeous! With so many people needing a home there must be a better way than to leave them and their contents to rot.
Union Level Is No Longer Standing. Recently they took it down 😓 I'm 75, lived there a little out of town, in the 60s. Beautiful town, people, and memories. We lived in a big old two story house, in the middle of tobacco fields. There was a tobacco house beside our house. Sometimes after school I'd walk around there and talk to the people inside, working, sitting in their old high back chair stringing up bunches of tobacco to dry in the old tobacco house. Great schools, Churches and Good Folks.
Sad to hear they demolished the old buildings. This was one of my favorite places that I’d filmed and really love seeing / hearing about how it once was. Thank you for sharing!
@@BrianSterowski I understand. A friend of mine still lives close by. I think its bittersweet for many. I remember when everything was open and running. It looked like a great old ghost town to see and explore but it was just falling in in many places and they were afraid someone was going to get badly Hurt. I saw a video of the bulldozing 😥
In 1980/1981 ,my elementary school bus would stop at the train tracks right there, and I, or another designated child, would get out and run across the tracks with a flag, and come back to the bus before we could cross the tracks. My school was a couple of miles from there. Now, the tracks are long gone too.
1:08 Those shoes, 2:18 this chair, & 3:28 this discontinued soda tell me the house was furnished in the 70 or early 80s. The Schlitz beer cans with the wide-mouth tabs suggest someone broke in & threw a party within the last 15 years.
Follow the old RR ROW to the SW and you will come to Baskerville,Va. couple of abandoned buildings there one of them being the old train station , if still there.
That is soooo creepy, its as if the people just disappeared because they left so much of their belongings. I would be the friend that say nooooo Brian don't go in there LOL
@@ywhoy6567 It was mainly a railroad village. Most of the residents around the village were tobacco farmers. It had a pharmacy, grocer, bank as well as a hardware store and I believe the red building at the end served as a pool hall or recreation center.
What a fantastic find! I loved this place. Full of so much character, and the items definitely telling us a story. Thanks for sharing.
+FireCracker3240 Thank you!
Thanks so much for posting this, Brian. I really enjoyed this video, lots of stuff left behind.
+kokonutfreaks Thanks Mason!
VIRGINIA BEAUTIFUL PLACE WITH BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE SO MUCH HISTORY THANK YOU FOR THE VIDEO 💞
Great location! The interior still looks somewhat intact in the state it was abandoned in, around 1991. I always get a kick out of seeing these time capsules.
Where in Virginia is this & why was it abandoned
Awesome find ! Great video .
Another great video Brian! thank you for sharing.
+Veronica Morgan Thank you :-)
Realy nice Brian !!! Thanks
Thanks for adding another location to my bucket list! Pretty freaking cool!! :)
Hey Brian!! I live about 5 minutes from this ghost town!! When I was 5, back in the 90's, there was a building across the street that was a little general store but it closed down and eventually was torn down years later. The buildings in your video have been closed before I was even born and I have heard older people say that they were everything from a lawyer's office to a pharmacy. Super cool video though! I just went by yesterday and wanted to stop and go in but didn't want to get caught!!
+mrskingdavis when I stopped there were guys cutting grass at the house across the street. I talked to them and told them what I was doing and they were fine with it. I found some info about the old stores online...so if you google the name of the town I think there's a PDF of a book that has a little of info in it. Such a cool little strip of places though, it's just a shame nobody is taking care of the property.
mrskingdavis hi i live im sterling va.but where is this place wich part of va.
Where in Virginia is this ghost town located?
R productions....in Mecklenburg County, rural outskirts of South Hill, Va.
Why do people have to state they have been there or seen it before ? Good great no one cares
Wow-How many abandoned towns is there in Virginia. Brian, i live in Ireland were maybe jus less than quarter of the country is mountains which could never be built on and the surrounding countryside has very few ppl living there.Small country towns, but in the city's like here in Dublin, the only old buildings are historic, or still in use. I live beside an 11th century Catholic Church. My home is on ground's of what was a 4th century monastery were the missionaries were instructed in the Catholic faith, like a collage were they left from to go evangelise the world. Its amazing
I used to live in Rathfarnham(spelling) when I was a young child. Now live in Virginia
Hi from UK
I'm not sure WHY the whole town was abandoned. Some of the building structure still looks strong; I'd go in and rebuild. There are far too many people here without homes; leaving a half-town like this go seems wasteful. Keep the structures that can be kept; perhaps even rebuild in the original manner to keep the history. There is nothing there that many hands cannot clean and repair.
Thanks for sharing, A lot of old relics in there. The last time I saw Fab was in 1984 lol.
+Robert Jones Thanks for watching!
Thanks for another entertaining and interesting video! Keep 'em coming!
+Kathy Stidham Thank you Kathy!
Great camera control and thoughtfully done for the viewer!
+HappyQuails Thank you!
This place looks awesome!
you should know. your video of this place was awsome.
+Josh Deskin different town!
+Brian Sterowski my bad. Great video by the way.
Okie so I came here by googling Abandoned Town in google images. Nice vid, subbed.
It needs to rain in the Southwest as much as it rains in Virginia apparently. Then I could have a nice shady concealing forest instead of a scrub desert. People need to go to Amazon and buy up my "Impact" a James Grider ebook that I talk about on my Dusty Female Cat channel so I can accumulate enough money to afford to move out of the desert into a forested area.
Love the abandoned va segments. I love here and keep hoping I'll recognize a location you're at:)
+thequietaccount Thank you!
Another great video! Very interesting!
+Kevin Turner Thanks Kevin!
That town was going back a ways. You must have been pretty excited to see that. Nice to see you got company. Great find!
+PrairieDodgers Thank you! This goes down as one of my favorite places that I've been. I was glad that my friend came along - she's a wonderful photographer!
I'm always struck by these abandoned places that were once thriving with people's hopes and dreams, joys and sadness, laughter and tears, and wonder what became of them, the memories they have of their time here and what they would think if they saw it now (for those who are still living).
THANK YOU GUYS I WILL CHECK OUT SOME MORE WHEN I HAVE TIME TY FOR THE UPLOAD !
Another great video!
+Jamie Hastings Thanks Jamie!
Terrific find. Looks so awesome
Awesome video, Brian! That place looks like no one's been in there for decades. I love that old Canada Dry Orange Soda bottle. I didn't even know they ever made that.
+Will Krupinsky Thanks Will! It was definitely one of the more interesting places that I've ever checked out. The Canada Dry Orange was news to me as well. I'm thinking maybe it was a regional drink, kind of like Sun Drop.
Great find Brian !
+Philippines - Darrell Cheeks Thanks!
What a very cool place! Thanks!
Got a few of these here in the Carolinas. These are always fun to see. Great video. Thanks for sharing it.
+AbandonedSC Thank you :-)
Unfortunately this is what happens to small towns. My mom lives in a small town and a few businesses have closed and the school I think is closed. Not enough young people staying
The town I lived in when I was a child? There are NO children there now. It is all the elderly that have lived there all their lives, but almost NONE of the kids that were born there returned to live there. Gradually, they are closing schools and businesses. It was born around a steel mill, as many towns were. When the steel mills died; the exodus began. There were suddenly no jobs. I went to school to be a steel detailer; intent on following the "working at the plant" plan. Months after I graduated the steel mills closed. I never went home. Drove through there a couple of years ago, and noticed the closed businesses and boarded-up houses. I fear it's going in the same direction. The nearest big city is over an hour away....too far to commute. It makes me wonder how many towns disappeared when the steel mills...or local industry....closed.
Nice find this seems like a great place to explore.
+Evolve Comedy Thanks!
Oh,MAN! Goooood one! more,please!
Not only does this place looks awesome, it also looks creepy as well. This would be a truly great place to explore + to go camping. And the other thing is. I probably would love to visit just out of curiosity.+I definitely have to say this also reminds me of that movie Silent Hill. This is totally an awesome and the coolest video of abandoned places I have ever seen. Great job doing this.
This place was great !! Thanks for sharing this !! :))
this is so Awesome..love it..
So sad for such a beautiful place to just end up abandoned
Great find! Amazing video bro!
+Curacao Life [Urban Explorations] Thanks!
***** your welcome :)
i like the respect you show putting things back but giving us a look see
whew that was one hell of a party, beuatiful buildings and furnishings minus the beer cans
very interesting, thanks for sharing.
putting this on my bucket list!
the wood furniture is so cool -sad to see it wasting away
wow, that is crazy!!! right out of a scarey movie! like a " wrong turn" town.... creepy Location! definetly spirit Activity going on there im sure!!! 💀🌙💀 Kool as hell. Thanx 4 Sharing
Thanks Kelli!
Wow this is so cool!!! I really wanna go here. Nice video
yeah man, I want to go here also!
+Parker Production Thanks Parker!
Nothing like rain on a tin roof.
I love that sound!
Melody Goodman
Brian Sterowski nice sound that puts me to sleep calming
You got that right
Erotic.
I'm a new subscriber to your Channel 💚 Thanks for sharing !! ✌🏼
Thank you! I really appreciate the sub!
@@BrianSterowski I'm from Northumberland County, Heathsville, VA . 14 miles West of the Chesapeake Bay...2 hrs East of Richmond. I have lived here all of my 53 yrs ... Glad I found you 😉
This is really cool! :D There's a lot here! :3
Good shots!
this is a great video for halloween. I glad I stumbled upon this video.
Great video
Wow the place is so cool and great video
+ExploringWithJakub&Oliver Thank you!
That one house may not be abandoned, the owner might be passed out drunk in the basement.
Great historic buildings!
That room with the bed and beer cans is depressing as shit
Stewie Poohie--Flat out creepy as hell too!!!
Interesting snapshot of a time not so long ago. Some of the stuff there is very well preserved.
That rain just makes even more sad 😪
HOW COULD SOMEBODY GIVE THUMBS DOWN ~~NO REASON ITS A VIDEO ~~~
People do it all the time. For whatever reason! Thank you for watching!
awsome vid
+Rosemurie Leon Thank you :-)
Is this town supposed to be " closed to the public" or can anyone drive thru to view it? There's a couple great ones in New Hampshire but the old roads are gone to get to em so they are ATV accessable. Cool old creepy logging towns. This reminds me of them big-time. Just a fun hobby 2 find new spots? Me and my sis head out every chance we get. Creepy, old & haunted..... right up our alley! Thanx for sharing this hun. It's awesome!! 💀
I used to love those old jelly jar glasses!
+Valarie Stewart me too! I remember getting those when I was a kid.
Now that's the way to recycle lol
Valarie Stewart my boys and I use them all the time-Wal-Mart even sold special lid/straw set just for jars!
I had seen places in W VA like that...will never go back!
I so agree with you. I was raised overseas as an army brat and I only see these empty buildings here in the states mostly
I've been watching your videos some places look fine some whole floor fell in and I've come down to one conclusion. once the roof has a leak the water does the place in. it's the water and the vandals too. good video!
+Charles Duby Thanks!
Charles Duby water is 1 culprit. either from above or below. rising damp, flooding, or roof damage
animals are another. hooves or claws damage wooden structures allowing access to termites and woodrot.
but by far the worst is vandals
What a cool spot! Did you happen to get any contact info from the people that own it? I'd love to visit
So sad. Such a shame to let places just rot away.
Yes and the properties with some of these rural places are gorgeous! With so many people needing a home there must be a better way than to leave them and their contents to rot.
This stuff is so creepy but its so entertaining to watch
Awsome
Great place to restore and use for period movies.
So cool. :)
+Andromeda Star :-)
***** :)
Id love to explore here!
Union Level Is No Longer Standing. Recently they took it down 😓 I'm 75, lived there a little out of town, in the 60s. Beautiful town, people, and memories. We lived in a big old two story house, in the middle of tobacco fields. There was a tobacco house beside our house. Sometimes after school I'd walk around there and talk to the people inside, working, sitting in their old high back chair stringing up bunches of tobacco to dry in the old tobacco house. Great schools, Churches and Good Folks.
Sad to hear they demolished the old buildings. This was one of my favorite places that I’d filmed and really love seeing / hearing about how it once was. Thank you for sharing!
@@BrianSterowski
I understand. A friend of mine still lives close by. I think its bittersweet for many. I remember when everything was open and running. It looked like a great old ghost town to see and explore but it was just falling in in many places and they were afraid someone was going to get badly Hurt. I saw a video of the bulldozing 😥
Nice.
Video!✌👍
I was just down in the Danville Va area camping last month.
Where in Virginia is this? I'm in the Roanoke Valley. Love your videos 🎈
In 1980/1981 ,my elementary school bus would stop at the train tracks right there, and I, or another designated child, would get out and run across the tracks with a flag, and come back to the bus before we could cross the tracks. My school was a couple of miles from there. Now, the tracks are long gone too.
Why this town abandoned?
Hey, who said you guys could film in my house??
If you still tour these places around Virginia please LMK. I would love to have a buddy to hit these places with!
If renovated these would make cute little town houses
yanice goodman wtf is wrong with you fuck off
Duz u bezz a niga?
Yo shine bezz de shine sho nuff it duzz
Raymondsma Jinkins... ya and make them brothels.
soyboy
1:08 Those shoes, 2:18 this chair, & 3:28 this discontinued soda tell me the house was furnished in the 70 or early 80s.
The Schlitz beer cans with the wide-mouth tabs suggest someone broke in & threw a party within the last 15 years.
+Jill Sandwich Hey Jill! Thanks for watching!!!
Some people did live in one of the buildings in the late 70's.
History was my favorite subject in school. It's so sad that this was never taught.
Watching on Halloween night...why do I torture myself like this!
This looks like Pamplin City in central Virginia.
Follow the old RR ROW to the SW and you will come to Baskerville,Va. couple of abandoned buildings there one of them being the old train station , if still there.
*Cool treasure hideout. No pun intended. lol*
I would be finding bottle dumps and metal detecting those sites.
Barry Wainwright I already did and dug all the good bottles out and found around $650,000 in gold, silver and antiques. Awesome finds!
I would have liked to hear history and what happened to the village.
Hell you want to see abandoned go to Detroit
Cleveland too.
Nobody wants to go to Deeeeeeeeeeeeeetroit
@@smug8567 I do, but I'm crazy.
Difference isDetropit's a shit hole.
SORRY I PASS....
That is soooo creepy, its as if the people just disappeared because they left so much of their belongings. I would be the friend that say nooooo Brian don't go in there LOL
+lydia green Thanks for watching :-)
lydia green
agree the entire USA literally dissapearing .
Could Angel prayer " I wish all disappear " next thing we know all dissapear ?
👸
Great find!! Do you know this has since been demolished? I can’t tell whether or not it’s still abandoned on Google Earth.
It's still there
I would have loved to have heard about the history of this place and the location. What happened here? Have you researched this?
One site says the rail line brought prosperity to the town and when the rail line went, so did the people.
NewHampshireBoy was just telling Brian about a couple abandoned towns in N.H. ... 💜💀💜
All those cans hand opened! why wasn't this longer??
Shame - my home town. Mom worked at the hardware store.
Jean White shame on u for leaving.
Why did everyone leave??
Looks like squatters have had their fun there
them abandoned houses looks creepy
Would buy!
Where I’m at we have crumbling cities like Eight, Eckman, and Mohegan,
Would be a cool paintball field
someone drank good but ate poorly in the vid
The name of this village is Union Level. I remember when these buildings were occupied.
can you tell what did they do in this town
I'm 3 hrs away, thanks for the info!!!
@@ywhoy6567 It once served as a horse & buggy stop.
@@ywhoy6567 It was mainly a railroad village. Most of the residents around the village were tobacco farmers. It had a pharmacy, grocer, bank as well as a hardware store and I believe the red building at the end served as a pool hall or recreation center.
Wondering what city this is in. I'm a photographer from Virginia and this is so beautiful
Union Level
Could/would you tell us where this town is in VA? Thanx in advance.
Union Level , Va.
Do you have any abandoned videos of anything in California?
SCOTT STEWART there’s a few on here. Not much to see out here when it comes to abandoned places.
What is the background noise? Sounds like traffic or something.