The spot where you saw the fireplace, with the hole and square place in the back of the platform, was for a blacksmith shop. The hole was for air to be blown up to the fire to heat the coal to burn hotter. There was another hole, on the brick floor, where coal dust could be swept down into collection vats for easy removal. I've seen something similar to that at an old farm I worked at, as a kid.
At 25:48 that was a dam for a pond with a roadway on top that you walked over. Many features would have included a coal bunker, wine cellar, ice house, garage, pumphouse (and or, water reservoir further uphill). Looks like much of the home was dismantled and not just left in place to rot/burn away. The smaller foundation in the beginning perhaps was the gate house for the caretaker.
I loved when you said " by then I'm usually wrong" have faith in your instincts. I really wish someone would put some type of sign next to these ruins for people like us who are exploring.
And charges you a solid tax each and every year even though you've paid all the property taxes when you originally bought the land in the first place. So basically you never actually own your own bought n' paid for property. And it's wrong when a certain group of politicians take more of your earned worked for money. Property Taxes are legalized extortion IMHO!
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The restricted signs were put up after 9/11 there to keep you out of the watershed area and the treatment facility area. There's a reservoir way up in on the raccoon trail and at the top of the raccoon trail there is a mile marker Stone which is neat to see. Unfortunately a lot of the ruins are in the restricted area you can get to the aqueducts and the stone bridge and there's a really cool Vista way up in. It's neat to see
Loved this. It would be so nice to have lived there in that big house. Sometimes I wonder in 100 years what my street will look like...will people be hiking on trails and wondering about who lived in the ruins. I enjoyed this hike very much and hope you can get back someday. Safe travels as always ❤❤❤❤
My youngest daughter’s house is a 10O years old. It was a Sears house. Still has an interesting original window in the dining room. Very charming little place.
Lots of lumber barons in Williamsport over a hundred years ago. Millionaire Row is quite impressive in Williamsport. My family worked in lumber mills in Jersey Shore PA, following the Civil War.
That was in mid November? Wow! The Williamsport area really is different from down here in Cumberland and Dauphin. Thank you for sharing this beautiful hike!
What i just read it said that when the owners son aquired the property he rebuilt the (cottage) house for $50k. And he built a 20 room house with a bathroom on each floor. There was 2 floors.
Nice hike, thanks for sharing! The restricted area might be in regard to keeping the drainage clean and free from human trash and waste to prevent the drinking water from getting contaminated..?
You were leaning on the base to a huge chimney that most likely was at least 3 stories based on the size of that foundation. Wow. The brick floor was probably the kitchen then went up from there. My family has owned several rental properties that are that old and they always had huge chimney bases like that. The farm house on my 30 acres has log floor joists. I live in a log cabin I commissioned the Omish to build. I love old history!!
My neighbor has 1 of those trees in their front yard and those pods are always everywhere!!! I didn’t know about the clusters of thorns though!! Definitely will be taking a closer look ✌️🫶🤘
It amazes me the number of mansions, abandoned or long gone, that exist or existed. Places of grandure and expense that were realitivly short lived. Kind of examples of how short life and wealth can be.
I'm a native Californian 70 yrs old . Back n the 60s my dad took us to a mansion that was Remington the gun family. It was located below San Jose at a place called Morgan Hill, The Mansion was right up against where the valley touched the hills. It was large and beautiful and looked like a southern plantation mansion.It was a private property and no one was there.We drove down a dirt road through woods to get there. I will never forget when leaving looking up at the mansion there was a cow looking at us through the second story window. w When exploring in it we saw cow poop on the floor and we didn't go upstairs. There was a beautiful grand stairway going up.We weren't there long like i said it was private property. This my father was told was the guest mansion and we looked a little for the main mansion but never found it. It must of been super huge. I wonder what became of that beautiful place.
It's funny how in the northern Appalachians they call a break in the mountains a "notch", where down here in the southern Appalachians the same break is called a "gap". Also, I would've had to turned around and at the first sign, because where a dog ain't allowed I'm not allowed. Nice video and scenery.
Shocking how fast a mansion can deteriorate (just over a century). I wonder if what is today the wilder northern part of Pennsylvania was more heavily populated in the past.
That foundation where the floor slats only go part-way in... I suspect that was fuel storage for wood or coal and that the fireplace near it was a cross between a stove and a furnace or possibly a water heater, or some combination. It looks like it sat in the cellar to heat or be used by the rooms above it.
I think that big square box with the Square open and you said it was maybe a clean out might have been a coal burner and heated the whole house underneath the floor was vent pipes going up through the different levels of the house my grandfather in Montrose Colorado had a two-story house with a coal burner in the stove in the basement keep that house nice and warm
So all of this was built in a year? 1905, horse and buggy days. Rugged terrain, and 3 different types of stone masonry walls. That had to be 24" thick, with multi levels. Hmmm? That story reads like nonsense, but the tour was great! Thank you so much
I saw that the big honey locust tree thorns are for a big grazing animal that is extinct. To keep the leaves and small twigs from getting eaten a long time ago.
It's Williamsport Water Authority. No town of Williamsport either. I've hiked that area a lot. My fiance is famous is out there for his nature photography.
Honey locust and locust are two totality different species. Honny locust is a bush with sweet smelling flowers in the spring with berries that are not edable that are either oarnge or red. Locust are tree's with thorns it is absolutely hard used for fence rails or railroad ties. Its fruit also is not edible.
Hello I am at home in germany. There are no prohibition signs in our forests. We're just not allowed to drive into the forest by car and dogs have to stay on a leash. This is also very easy to understand because we don't want to disturb the animals in the forest. But if there is a prohibition sign i will ignore it because i am curious why and what is forbidden there. The forest belongs to people and if i behave there i can explore it.
It's kind of amazing how trees with the same name can be so different depending upon the state? That honey locust tree looks like a locust tree from hell! I have them on my property and they were named right. If you try to cut them down to get rid of them they come back faster than ever. The thorns on ours are different, we have a shorter but thicker thorn and always single thorns. The seed pods here aren't nearly as big. Another tree was that white oak?? We also have white oak here,, and I'd swear that is an Ironwood tree! That tree could easily be the oldest tree you and on your video! I also noticed some of your ash trees have been picked on by woodpeckers, trying to go after the emerald ash borer? 90% of our ash trees are dead in eastern Wisconsin!😢😢
He was there the day after the water authority had closed the area for deer hunting. They open it once a year for 2 weeks and only allow a fixed amount of hunters in there using a lottery. They put up restricted area signs in areas of water where they don't want hunters to be since that is one of the sources of water for the city.
I love sauerkraut but have never heard nor seen it made with red cabbage! I’m wondering why! I’d love to see some! I’m fro. York, PA originally and sauerkraut was a staple when I was young - had it over mashed potatoes! I’ve eaten it straight from the jar or can!
It's a shame near College Mansion rehab wasn't built as well as that Spring House that thing was bulletproof man look like a tank could almost run over the top of that thing I was one of the best spring houses I've ever seen not that I've seen that many butt
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Be a big deal if you were to mention the state, unless you have that “I know and you don’t, thing going.” All info would help others, unless it’s your special little secret
The spot where you saw the fireplace, with the hole and square place in the back of the platform, was for a blacksmith shop. The hole was for air to be blown up to the fire to heat the coal to burn hotter. There was another hole, on the brick floor, where coal dust could be swept down into collection vats for easy removal. I've seen something similar to that at an old farm I worked at, as a kid.
At 25:48 that was a dam for a pond with a roadway on top that you walked over. Many features would have included a coal bunker, wine cellar, ice house, garage, pumphouse (and or, water reservoir further uphill). Looks like much of the home was dismantled and not just left in place to rot/burn away. The smaller foundation in the beginning perhaps was the gate house for the caretaker.
That roadway was their driveway. The culverts were built into it. There is a dam and aqueduct beyond the spring house, however.
I loved when you said " by then I'm usually wrong" have faith in your instincts. I really wish someone would put some type of sign next to these ruins for people like us who are exploring.
And always trust it
There was a sign at the site of the house till a few yrs ago, it was getting bad so they took it.
Those ruins are awesome! The floorboard holes just stopping at that one foundation ruin is strange, I agree. That springhouse is solid! Neat explore!
Lots of history there. Nicely kept trail too.
Fancy spring house. Love it.
Sad when the Government makes you leave you home and land.
And charges you a solid tax each and every year even though you've paid all the property taxes when you originally bought the land in the first place. So basically you never actually own your own bought n' paid for property. And it's wrong when a certain group of politicians take more of your earned worked for money. Property Taxes are legalized extortion IMHO!
Tell that to the native Americans
They traded places too so that's just life. @YankeeFiddler13850
@YankeeFiddler13850 they sold it fair and square for a handful of beads. Not our fault they’re too dumb to negotiate.
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Love Hoodie weather, without the hood.....
ME LOVE IT TOO
Don’t trust a hoodie
Cold weather sucks it between the legs !!
Nice place for you to do up, a truly big place. What a gorgeous area to explore. Really loved that thanks Cliff. Please take care
The restricted signs were put up after 9/11 there to keep you out of the watershed area and the treatment facility area. There's a reservoir way up in on the raccoon trail and at the top of the raccoon trail there is a mile marker Stone which is neat to see. Unfortunately a lot of the ruins are in the restricted area you can get to the aqueducts and the stone bridge and there's a really cool Vista way up in. It's neat to see
Use LiDAR and check out the perfectly circular driveway in front of the house.
Loved this. It would be so nice to have lived there in that big house. Sometimes I wonder in 100 years what my street will look like...will people be hiking on trails and wondering about who lived in the ruins. I enjoyed this hike very much and hope you can get back someday. Safe travels as always ❤❤❤❤
I think about what my area liked like 100 years ago as well. It's so intriguing.
My youngest daughter’s house is a 10O years old. It was a Sears house. Still has an interesting original window in the dining room. Very charming little place.
If your house is newer construction they aren't built to last 50+ years much less 100.
@lac1776-qd5bd my house is 52 years old and in very good condition.
Cool place. The one little storage area looked like a coal bin. They probably heated the whole mansion with coal. Stay well and safe.
Loved the video! Used to hike the water authority area all the time!
Lots of lumber barons in Williamsport over a hundred years ago. Millionaire Row is quite impressive in Williamsport. My family worked in lumber mills in Jersey Shore PA, following the Civil War.
That was in mid November? Wow! The Williamsport area really is different from down here in Cumberland and Dauphin. Thank you for sharing this beautiful hike!
What i just read it said that when the owners son aquired the property he rebuilt the (cottage) house for $50k. And he built a 20 room house with a bathroom on each floor. There was 2 floors.
My daughter lives in Montgomery Pa. We are always looking for new places to hike. You just found one. Thanks 😊
Remington was versatile: they made typewriters, electric razors and weapons. Have had no luck finding era photos of it
Nice hike, thanks for sharing!
The restricted area might be in regard to keeping the drainage clean and free from human trash and waste to prevent the drinking water from getting contaminated..?
Sad that it became a ruin. It would be a great vacation spot if it was up kept
cool video, the spring was super cool!
Wish we could see the picture of the mansion better.
You were leaning on the base to a huge chimney that most likely was at least 3 stories based on the size of that foundation. Wow. The brick floor was probably the kitchen then went up from there. My family has owned several rental properties that are that old and they always had huge chimney bases like that. The farm house on my 30 acres has log floor joists. I live in a log cabin I commissioned the Omish to build. I love old history!!
Looks more like castle ruins to me, 😄 great video
Looks like good wild mushroom hunting territory. 💪😎 We only follow the trails of the central Pennsylvania Sasquatch... there are no others close.
I love the winds in the Pines!!
I hike on that trail all the time I have been up to the French settlement and all the trails are wonderful with ruins
Wow, those thrones on that tree!
They look like & remind me of those anti-submarine devices in WWII
Spring house is well made.
Metal detection country...👍🕴🇺🇸😃
They don't allow metal detecting there.
I enjoy your videos soooo much, I wish I could walk like I use to ,
Great video into history and seeing the ruins
My neighbor has 1 of those trees in their front yard and those pods are always everywhere!!! I didn’t know about the clusters of thorns though!! Definitely will be taking a closer look ✌️🫶🤘
It amazes me the number of mansions, abandoned or long gone, that exist or existed. Places of grandure and expense that were realitivly short lived. Kind of examples of how short life and wealth can be.
I'd rather be scolded by a squirrel than a bobcat. 😂
I'm a native Californian 70 yrs old . Back n the 60s my dad took us to a mansion that was Remington the gun family. It was located below San Jose at a place called Morgan Hill, The Mansion was right up against where the valley touched the hills. It was large and beautiful and looked like a southern plantation mansion.It was a private property and no one was there.We drove down a dirt road through woods to get there. I will never forget when leaving looking up at the mansion there was a cow looking at us through the second story window. w
When exploring in it we saw cow poop on the floor and we didn't go upstairs. There was a beautiful grand stairway going up.We weren't there long like i said it was private property. This my father was told was the guest mansion and we looked a little for the main mansion but never found it. It must of been super huge. I wonder what became of that beautiful place.
It's funny how in the northern Appalachians they call a break in the mountains a "notch", where down here in the southern Appalachians the same break is called a "gap". Also, I would've had to turned around and at the first sign, because where a dog ain't allowed I'm not allowed. Nice video and scenery.
I’m from southern Pa.and I’ve always called it a gap also.When calling something a notch to me means it was man made.
Gap or saddle in Oklahoma
@@ericbarkman4478Also in PA. I live in the Delaware Gap.
Black Locust tree. I got one in my back yard. I love the thorns but I hate the seed pods!!
I cannot thank you enough, such a beautiful day.. I hope you’re walking with a friend. Remember to Pray!
We never walk alone!
Shocking how fast a mansion can deteriorate (just over a century). I wonder if what is today the wilder northern part of Pennsylvania was more heavily populated in the past.
That foundation where the floor slats only go part-way in... I suspect that was fuel storage for wood or coal and that the fireplace near it was a cross between a stove and a furnace or possibly a water heater, or some combination. It looks like it sat in the cellar to heat or be used by the rooms above it.
This feels like an episode of This Old House,
No. It absolutely doesn’t. Please erase this comment and apologize
Are there any old pics of this place when it was being lived in?
I think that big square box with the Square open and you said it was maybe a clean out might have been a coal burner and heated the whole house underneath the floor was vent pipes going up through the different levels of the house my grandfather in Montrose Colorado had a two-story house with a coal burner in the stove in the basement keep that house nice and warm
Great video, I truly enjoyed it.
Art from Ohio
So all of this was built in a year? 1905, horse and buggy days. Rugged terrain, and 3 different types of stone masonry walls. That had to be 24" thick, with multi levels. Hmmm? That story reads like nonsense, but the tour was great! Thank you so much
Many great running trails there.
You probably should of put a few logs over the well. It would be very bad for someone to fall into a night.
You could go there yourself and clear up this oversight
That would be a cool place to ghost hunt
That well definitely should be filled in
I saw that the big honey locust tree thorns are for a big grazing animal that is extinct. To keep the leaves and small twigs from getting eaten a long time ago.
sad all these historic buildings are disappearing ...
It's Williamsport Water Authority. No town of Williamsport either.
I've hiked that area a lot. My fiance is famous is out there for his nature photography.
Thanks for sharing
You should check out the WW2 bunkers on the state game lands not far from there.
I've already been there.
Nice hike
That honey locust tree thorns looked very vicious
Locust Bean. Any photos of what it looked like before?
What did they tear down the Remington mansion? Why?
Damn wish you were here I would have went with you I live in Williamsport 😊
Guess this was over 200 years old....looking at the size of that big tree by the fire place.
200 year old trees are twice that size or more
Cool place to visit.
Honey locust and locust are two totality different species. Honny locust is a bush with sweet smelling flowers in the spring with berries that are not edable that are either oarnge or red. Locust are tree's with thorns it is absolutely hard used for fence rails or railroad ties. Its fruit also is not edible.
Hello
I am at home in germany. There are no prohibition signs in our forests.
We're just not allowed to drive into the forest by car and dogs have to stay on a leash. This is also very easy to understand because we don't want to disturb the animals in the forest. But if there is a prohibition sign i will ignore it because i am curious why and what is forbidden there. The forest belongs to people and if i behave there i can explore it.
Great video, what kind of backpack do you have? Ty
Honey locusts are dangerous. My Dad had to go to ER after running into one accidentally mowing grass. . Pods are cool.
Damn man you should have brought a metal detector! Prolly an awesome spot!
Don't care about the weather as long as it's not snow
Lots of history there
Google maps shows none of this except for the Williamsport Water Filtration
It's kind of amazing how trees with the same name can be so different depending upon the state? That honey locust tree looks like a locust tree from hell! I have them on my property and they were named right. If you try to cut them down to get rid of them they come back faster than ever. The thorns on ours are different, we have a shorter but thicker thorn and always single thorns. The seed pods here aren't nearly as big. Another tree was that white oak?? We also have white oak here,, and I'd swear that is an Ironwood tree! That tree could easily be the oldest tree you and on your video! I also noticed some of your ash trees have been picked on by woodpeckers, trying to go after the emerald ash borer? 90% of our ash trees are dead in eastern Wisconsin!😢😢
Remington didn't go up to in common but a Sayre did in cousinship database. Must be interesting story besides lumber guy.
pause the video and read the sign really cool
Do you have the precise direction?
Can you send it. We live fairly close.
Restricted area is probably a cemetery of burial plots
He was there the day after the water authority had closed the area for deer hunting. They open it once a year for 2 weeks and only allow a fixed amount of hunters in there using a lottery. They put up restricted area signs in areas of water where they don't want hunters to be since that is one of the sources of water for the city.
The birthplace of “bucket o bullets “
As kids we would smoke the locust bean pods
OK well this isn’t about the Remington gun family.… I feel like I was duped
Me too ........ Their plant was in NY State though ..
Mixing red and green cabbage for sauerkraut
I love sauerkraut but have never heard nor seen it made with red cabbage! I’m wondering why! I’d love to see some! I’m fro. York, PA originally and sauerkraut was a staple when I was young - had it over mashed potatoes! I’ve eaten it straight from the jar or can!
Is their any pictures of the mansion in it’s day.
Yes it is on the sign he showed and loosely read.
They make great electric razors!
What's with the sign that says "No Parking". . and there are several vehicles parked..??
It's a shame near College Mansion rehab wasn't built as well as that Spring House that thing was bulletproof man look like a tank could almost run over the top of that thing I was one of the best spring houses I've ever seen not that I've seen that many butt
some people say there's guns there to this day
You don't even understand why there would be a pile of rocks lol
There were no stairs because it was a wood shoot
You walked past the old schoolhouse on the left after the video ended.
the area was posted.
If you're REALLY CERTAIN that's a Honey Locust, the beans are edible.
No dogs !!??....
Metal detector😮
How old is this?
Thats definitely the home of Sasquatch & his immediate family!
Hills, those are hills 😅! Enjoy the video, for once it's on the internet spray paint is next. 😒
Set the camera down , walk away then edit it out. Brilliant
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You would think the government wouldn't use trees as signposts.
That's what you call mountains? Bro those are hills.
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Be a big deal if you were to mention the state, unless you have that “I know and you don’t, thing going.” All info would help others, unless it’s your special little secret
I mentioned the state in the very first sentence of the video....