The people who threw the bottles away would have probably considered them useless trash and assumed they’d just stay where they threw them and never see the light of day again. Little did they know that around 100 years or so later someone will find that bottles they threw away and consider them a treasure.
The bottles, although fairly common, are extremely old! Most are 1870s era- the crockery jar is especially fascinating! The three bottles at the end you had trouble identifying are as follows: The small aqua rectangular bottle is definitely medicinal, and was most likely a patent medicine with a paper label. The larger rectangular bottle is also is spice bottle, like the smaller variants. Probably Folger and Co from San Francisco, considering you’re in California. And lastly, the round aqua bottle most likely held cherries or olives, and originally had a wax seal. Many similar types of bottles from this era have been recovered from steamer ships that wrecked on the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico.
I just stumbled into bottle hunting. Honestly, I don't even know what I'm doing. While kayaking, I came upon an old dump. There are tons of old bottles there! Unlike the gentleman in this video, I want to sell the bottles I find while helping clean up the river while I'm at it. It seems you are very knowledgeable on this subject. Are there any books/channels that you recommend? Any information would be greatly appreciated.
@Vortex, the original poster is talking about when the guy was talking about his finds, the kittens were sniffing at the bottles on the cat scratch post. I expected the kittens to knock over the bottles
The kittens would be thwarted by their natural enemy - *_closed doors_* including the closed glass display case doors. Unless they can find something above the glass cases they could knock over, breaking into the cases... Maybe even just walking around on the roof would cause pieces of the ceiling itself to fall in, they're pretty crafty like that.
You should explore parts of the land with a metal detector! Maybe you’ll find little valuable thing people lost (rings old pennies, jewelry) not necessarily in the mines but around the different buildings and paths people walked on to get to different places in the town! Also an other supply run video could be cool! Maybe filmed in vlog style and we see what’s inside the stores where you get your supplies, the people you know and talk with “down there” . You could also do a video message to your future self so in 5 years you can see all the progress that has been made and see if you accomplished everything you had said in the video.
And he will find a million nails, rusted tin by the ton & lots of rusted horsehoes. Belt buckles & press stud pieces are other favorites. I used to live in an abandoned farming town & had my own bottle tip an back yards of where over three hundred people once lived. The bottle pit had not been touched since it was buried long ago & I found over a hundred intact specimens that I still have.
@@jimsteen911 in fact, no, most his profits are off youtube and donations, he literally "wasted" all his life savings for an abandoned town that was going to be used for profit, and thats what the ex owner didnt want, he looked upon someone like brent to take care and love Cerro gordo, you can see, he aint quite the rich guy, in fact, he's way more humble than anyone of us lets be honest And last but not least, no he's not rich, basically every penny he gets its either for his personal life (food, water, etc) , his pets (the goats, llamas, cats) OR to bring life to cerro gordo (the american hotel and many more)
+100000 on that idea! Maybe he could get some investors to help fund the rebuild with that intention in mind? They wouldn't be able to have too many people in the town because of its size, but they could definitely broadcast it live and have some of the biggest names in professional poker there, no doubt many would jump at the chance to wear clothes, smoke cigars and drink whiskey all period correct to that time and play in a saloon in such a historic real life ghost town! Could even joke around and have them do pretend gunfights with each other afterwards!
I love how your life is like the dream of every 10 year old. Meaning if you asked an 10 year old what they wanted to do in the future, you would get some answer like, "Well, I want to be an explorer, and a treasure hunter, and I'll make a museum for my treasures I find, and I want to stay up as late as I want, and eat whatever I want, and do whatever I want with no rules!" Congrats man, I'm jealous, but 10 year old me is also very jealous!
After you clean up the pottery and china fragments, you could create a mosaic table top or backsplash in a bathroom/kitchen. These little historical fragments would be repurposed and could be seen by anyone who visits.
so rad ... my family owns a hundred year old ranch on the other side of the sierras from you ... i find things on the property all the time . i was told people hid their money jewelry etc behind the outhouses also ... where did they wash their clothes at cg? maybe that’s where you’ll find jeans 😁so cool . hope to visit or volunteer in the future . 🤘🏻
I wonder if you could still put those pants on. Can you imagine putting on the same pants as someone who lived 150 years ago? They'd probably disintegrate as soon as you put them on 💗🌵
I'm a zooarchaeologist so seeing you find all those bones makes me so excited! I wish I could examine them for you, I'd happily do it if I didn't live in Sweden haha! Looks to be mostly cattle from what I can see in the video. It'd be interesting to look for butchery marks and patterns to establish whether live cattle was kept there or meat was bought pre-cut from outside the community. Exciting!
@@92RedRevolver Only a septic tank (Yank) would have the audacity to tell and Englishman how something English is pronounced in England, they would know lol
@@rangersasc as someone with no real allegiance to either side, the winner usually gets to write history. Since the English lost the Yanks would be the ones who have the real say on the language.
I’d advise adding metal bars to the museum to prevent any looters from coming through and trying to take anything. It does happen and if someone knows there’s valuables there could become a problem in the future as cerro gordo gets more traction
@@marcusbordeaux7548 even if you think that something being stolen is worth a life, if you dont see the problem with saying 'at least you can hide the body easily' you are the problem. only reason you would hide the body is if killing someone for stealing whatevers in the museum would get you in trouble... which, big shocker, it probably would.
One thing I would love to see is a video dedicated to the history of Cerro Gordo. That would be interesting to learn the key points of its history in one video 😀
What a great discovery! We're treasure hunters here in the UK and understand the connection you feel with the history of the place. It's wonderful that someone like you, who cares about the history of the place, bought it. Great stuff! xx
Brent , I've been digging bottles for over 40 years , and believe it or not , the best place to dig (for whiskey's) is in the old outhouses , "privvy digging" . Imagine going out on a freezing winter night & taking along a bottle to keep you warm while you take care of business. Some of my best finds have come from this source .
One thing I admire about this guy is that he's not after about monetary value of the things he found but values more the history behind it and preserving it for future generations. Man you're a legend. 🙏
Hi Brent, you should get yourself a decent metal detector like the Garrett AT Pro metal detector which is amazing, you would fond so many more artefacts and have fun doing it. You pronounce Worcestershire Sauce - wuh ster sheer xx
depends where you're from and background. I'm working class from Yorkshire and everyone I know says shuh in stead of sheer. Like we say York-shuh not York-sheer.
I've spent a lot of time searching ghost towns for old bottle. Here's a trip.... Find the out house! Dig it up... That's where they dropped them while being drunk. Just be careful, it's a dirty job..... LOL
The sort of thing you're building Cerro Gordo into is the exact sort of thing I spent the early years of my life vising on family trips. While other families went to six flags or disney land, MY family went to old obscure historic sites in the ozarks and the like. This is both soothing and fascinating to watch. You've got my subscription and likes:)
@@OdysseyABMS Not sure why you think I was throwing shade. I simply said that my family did something else. We also went to Disney World and Land and Six Flags etc.....
Ya know, those were my mother's dying words, but when you're covered in 3rd degree burns and got your foot caught in a bear trap you're bound to start talking crazy.
@Smug Smugly Crazy? So what your comment really says is that you have less sense than a person covered in 3rd degree burns who's foot is in a bear trap.
This is quickly becoming one of my favorite channels. It’s just so different then anything else out there, and it’s a great escape from my day to day. Thank you so much for sharing this with us !!!
I believe in a few different types of integrity. I would say you are practicing "stewardship" by not selling the town relics you find, and really everything else you are doing there. Since you have a set of rules, even if you only applied them to yourself, this falls into what I would categorize as lawful integrity. I am also of the mind that integrity is not only largely lost in current society, but sorely missed. Thank you sir, for being a steward of integrity.
"hey look at these antique bottles I found! Let me just set them on top of a scratching post with multiple kittens running around!" I don't think this guy has ever owned a cat before lol.
When I was a kid I found dozens of old bottles from the early 1900s in a dump that was on our property from the 20s 30s or 40s, and I threw every single one of them up against rocks to break them. SMH 🤦🏼♂️
At our old family farm in PA, same exact thing. Many were probably from the 1800s and yet we would throw them as high in the air as we could to see them shatter on the rocks below. That was many years ago. I miss those times.
Brent, Nothing can replace the original hotel and ice house, but you found the silver lining, no pun intended, in that dark cloud. Your integrity in keeping everything from Cerro Gordo there and intact is admirable. God Works All Things Together For Good... As Always, May God Bless you and yours!
I’m from Worcester, Worcestershire and I actually worked for a number of years at Lea & Perrins (now Heinz owned) it’s pronounced “ wusta sauce or “war””ster””sher”
I’m from Saskatchewan Canada and worked with two guys from Newcastle. They told me about the “wusta” pronunciation. So glad to see someone mention it here! Cheers
I took them all down. They're all safely in the hotel. I had just brought them in from the site to film the bit with the cats. After that they were off that thing!
"Mmm ... Let's put the expensive, historic, what-I-have-left-of-Cerro-Gordo-after-the-fire, BREAKABLE bottles on a narrow pillar, next to a playful cat." Maybe it will bring me luck.
It's so weird to me how some people's brains just don't have that automatic accident prevention instinct! It drives me absolutely up the wall to watch people do stuff like set things in precarious places without even thinking about it. It's impossible for me to understand how anybody can function without that common sense...
@@Lindseyisloony next week in Cerro Gordo: "OOOh I found a cool oil lamp. I bought oil so I could light it. Here let me put it next to the cat's flammable scratch post."
@@n1c3s43 lol y'all... he just didn't grow up with grandparents like this. I think of all people this way...y'all newbies. But Brent tries and learns in the process, on video, i love that and helps relate to miscommunications from the past or online. You were all new to something at some point... he'll be an expert once he gets all the facts. Not everyone grows up around mining districts 🙄
Have you thought about cataloging this stuff, maybe digitizing the documents and making an online "museum" of sorts so everyone can look at them closely? Scanners are pretty cheap and if you have a website about your town that would be a great place to put it all, if not just for observing then also as an information resource for historians or history buffs.
Brent those last three bottles you had a question about the small square aqua was either a vanilla extract or a medicine bottle the other two with wide openings were olive jars usually anything pickled food jars . This was a fun video love it I love bottle digging watch your sludge hammer you dont want to break a bottle you need to scope out more by the cabins .!!
Suggestion: It would be cool if you timestamped some of the clips in your videos, so it's clear when they were recorded. Those of us watching your series religiously from the start would undoubtedly appreciate the added detail. (You mentioned in this video that some of what you showed took place over months; it would be cool to see at least the date in the corner, when appropriate.) Thank you for being so welcoming and open to comment!
Get a bottle probe, it will help you find bottles without breaking them, one thing to keep in mind, back in the day they never dumped the garbage at just one spot, they would dump their garbage at multiple locations and in the out house pits as well and once the out house pits are full, they would move the out house to another location and cover up the full pit, embossed bottles are the older ones you want to find. www.oldwestbottles.com/probes.php
Found this by accident, Love the series, watched everyone of them. I'm glad I found it. Its actually better done than most stuff on tv. Bought me a sweatshirt to help with funds.
I hope this doesn’t get lost in the comments, so like this comment and help me relay a little history about Cerro Gordo. I’m reviewing some notes I took in a college history course, and there’s a mention of Cerro Gordo in them. Apparently in the Mexican-American War, Mexican Army General Santa Anna wanted to bottleneck Winfield Scott’s Campaign at Cerro Gordo, and there was a battle that occurred there in April of 1847. If that’s true, you’d probably be able to find all kinds of mid-1800s war artifacts buried throughout the area! I hope you get to see this comment and maybe dig up some history of the old town! Edit: Wrong Cerro Gordo, thanks @Will Long
Sorry to burst your bubble, but that's a different Cerro Gordo. The one of the battle is in Mexico: Location near Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico 19.429°N 96.688°W
Ah! Just catching this. I’ll have to watch the replay! We are finding this so interesting. We are involved in a California preservation organization and my husband is a state historian so this is very cool for us to watch.
I just was thinking Brent, with all of the pieces of old china and glass you could make like a mosaic table top out of it. Lay the pieces in a wooden frame and poor epoxy over them, then just add wooden legs and you got some pretty neat and historical tables. You could put some in the new American Hotel.
Would definitely be cool the problem with that would be that once set in the epoxy they would not be able to be removed and if there was a reason or need to remove them/ put them on display this would be impossible to remove without breaking the bottles. Definitely would be a cool project though. My guess is he’s wanting to keep bottles intact for being put on display.
Great idea but here is a twist... place one in each guest room to add the special, personal touch only when staying in that room. May boost some return guests to try different rooms
You know I just stumbled onto this channel. Just the cool factor alone keeps me coming back. Watching someone live out what they want to do is just awesome but the wholesomeness to the channel really brightens my day. Thank you for this content.
I live in Worcester Uk (pronounced Wuss-Ter-Sher) -and live a few miles from the Lea and Perrins factory so it’s so cool to see you found a bottle at Cerro Gordo!! Love your channel keep up the incredible work
As a Masshole, having a city named "Worcester" (named after the city in England) taught me how to pronounce the sauce correctly. So to other Americans confused about it, get the "h" out; it's not Worc(h)estershire.
That was popular in Hawaii too. I've dug tooled Worcrstershire sauces in two sizes, hand finished. There were a lot of imitators, and my last dig in 1893 found a near equal number of Stephen's Sons, Gloucestershire sauce. "Yesss!" Was a chutney/pickle bottle. Belong to our bottle club here. I do most digging of late in the "WWII ghetto" here. Found a "57" stopper, Heinz 57 steak sauce, still in stores.
I got to admit when the hotel burned down it broke my heart. But out of the ashes comes positivity 🙂 its so interesting what you may find . I look forward to your next video.
Also Brent. Please keep mentioning in your videos that GoFundMe for the American hotel is still active. Keep bringing awareness. I'm sure a lot of people would donate if they knew about GoFundMe page
@@supergreatairgunreviews ya sure 🙄 if that was true where are all the high paid crews and machinery? Why is the progress so slow and you only see him and hear no other sounds? Are they all hiding?
@KURDNESS GAMING okay, i am sorry. I was saying something like 'Good evenig from Erfurt', which is a rather small city in Thuringia, Germany, compared to Berlin. Gute Nacht :D
Brent, most miners didn't collect trash and haul it to a dump. They just opened the back door and pitched it out. I suspect there are lots of things buried in the ground near where the old cabins stood. I think you found some when you were grading the old road south of the main road.
Possibly an idea but keep hold of the old broken glass and have it turned into glass beads and made up into jewellery which you could sell to help fund the projects
I dont know if anybody has suggested this, but all the old bottlenecks would make some really sought after guitar slides. A wet grinder to take the sharp bottoms off and your'e in business.
14:06 I'm no bottle expert, but I think the item at the very end is from an old company known as "Fol-Gers". You can tell by the red tint of the exterior, and the somewhat familiar feeling that it is indeed the best part of waking up, at least if the product is located within your cup. You may quote me.
He actually finds an antique Folgers tin in one of the mines in a later video. It had baking powder in it, though. I always thought they were a solely coffee-based company but, in days of yore, apparently not.
I’m a Plumber from Canada and think what your doing is amazing and will be thinking of you in my prayers. Strangely you helped me in a hard time I’m going through. Watching your series and channel has reminded me of just how strong someone can be. So many examples! Thank you 🙏🏼
i love history and artifacts !!but i watch this channel because of you. you are a good man and you deserve all the good that is happening to your channel ..stay safe !!
I cannot remember how I found this channel anymore, but man I’m glad I did. Brent is just so genuine. I cannot stand UA-camrs who overreact and pretend to every discovery, etc. Keep up the fantastic footage, and thank you for sharing. 😊
Maybe create a bar-sized frame, lay out the broken bottles and what not in the frame, and then take some resin and pour it over the bottles, and through it you can create a bar top with the broken bottles/ceramics. Maybe you could use it as the bar top for the Great American Hotel!
Making some head way I see. Love digging for old things, I used to do that when I lived in Oklahoma. Many old houses back there falling apart, built in the 1800s. Those two bottles of similar size, {aqua} look like medicine bottles. I found one just like those , and it still had part of the paper label on it, and it was medicine. Just a thought. Loving your videos, see you next time.
Been going through some tough times. Came across Brent's channel and he has the ability to always put a smile on my face even during the garbage. Thank you Brent, you are the best!
I’ve been watching for over a month now and this is still one of the most interesting and relaxing channels to watch. Make the air b n b happen, would love to visit
Brit here - loving the series Brent. So good to see someone so fascinated with everything around them with a true sense of wonder for 'simple' items and nature. Still using good old Lea and Perrins, and the phonetic pronunciation is "whoosh-ter-sheer"
I realise I would love to work there now, and be a small part in history and discover all of those stories and re live the history and wonder what incredible or un incredible events were linked with those objects, its all amazing
Okay but seriously, how much of this broken glass and porcelain in this dump was broken during shootouts and drunken brawls? As a history major who works in a “remotish” mining town, I am living vicariously through your channel. Working nights makes me sometimes feel like I almost have these places to myself, but you’re really living that. I love it.
Looking well hunni the museum is coming on lovely with all your amazing treasures. Look after yourself and mind your step. Not only are you rebuild a whole town you have made a lovely community on this channel and we are all rooting for you 💖💖
I know it's too late, but you could have gotten a lot of help by coordinating with one of the local universities and gotten all the archaeology students to help out. I think this might be a good idea for the future, as I'm sure you have not even scratched the surface with all the sites available there to dig up.
Watching this guy is so damn inspiring. The respect he has for our history and legacy is almost moving. We should show this video to the morons that right now are tearing down monuments.
These items, lost, disregarded and forgotten about have now become alive again with the time, care and love being shown to them by Brent...even inanimate objects have a type of conscious awareness if we pay attention...good stuff 🔥
Thanks for watching another step of my journey up here! Let me know what you'd like to see more of in the comments.
You made my day. All people hear is crazy right now. Thank you.
Keep up the great content and editing
Someone with bottle digging experience would be able to find other privies and pits . There is likely more to find
I love your videos they are so much more interesting than anything else
Whister- sauce
anyone just find this series randomly and is hooked ? absolutely loving it
Yep that's what happened to me 😂
Pretty much
Tiktok brought me here
'randomly' = improved UA-cam algorithm directed towards your brain. But yes, me too.
@@MrMilarepa108 do you feel smarter now after commenting that ?
Some guy 100 years ago: *throws away bottle
Some guy 100 years later: *finds bottle* “Yesss!! Yesssss!!!”
The people who threw the bottles away would have probably considered them useless trash and assumed they’d just stay where they threw them and never see the light of day again. Little did they know that around 100 years or so later someone will find that bottles they threw away and consider them a treasure.
@@silh3345 i like your interpretation better 😁
It's always been said "One man's trash, is another man's treasure." He just proved it. :O)
Some people in the future are going to be Like that wondering what we did.
@@theshadow7205 👍
you should take the broken ceramic and bottle pieces and make a mosaic backdrop for the bar
Katty wampass that’s an awesome idea!
Smart !!!
Or a mosaic bar top for the bar.
that's not a bad idea
Was thinking very similar, mosaic glass windows would be lovely too 😍
The bottles, although fairly common, are extremely old! Most are 1870s era- the crockery jar is especially fascinating! The three bottles at the end you had trouble identifying are as follows: The small aqua rectangular bottle is definitely medicinal, and was most likely a patent medicine with a paper label. The larger rectangular bottle is also is spice bottle, like the smaller variants. Probably Folger and Co from San Francisco, considering you’re in California. And lastly, the round aqua bottle most likely held cherries or olives, and originally had a wax seal. Many similar types of bottles from this era have been recovered from steamer ships that wrecked on the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico.
I just stumbled into bottle hunting. Honestly, I don't even know what I'm doing. While kayaking, I came upon an old dump. There are tons of old bottles there! Unlike the gentleman in this video, I want to sell the bottles I find while helping clean up the river while I'm at it. It seems you are very knowledgeable on this subject. Are there any books/channels that you recommend? Any information would be greatly appreciated.
I was just waiting for those kittens to knock over those priceless bottles 😂
Me too !
@Vortex, the original poster is talking about when the guy was talking about his finds, the kittens were sniffing at the bottles on the cat scratch post. I expected the kittens to knock over the bottles
@Truthbearslight those are priceless because of the history they behold, not the actual price of a bottle....
Sounds like cat
The kittens would be thwarted by their natural enemy - *_closed doors_* including the closed glass display case doors. Unless they can find something above the glass cases they could knock over, breaking into the cases... Maybe even just walking around on the roof would cause pieces of the ceiling itself to fall in, they're pretty crafty like that.
You should explore parts of the land with a metal detector! Maybe you’ll find little valuable thing people lost (rings old pennies, jewelry) not necessarily in the mines but around the different buildings and paths people walked on to get to different places in the town! Also an other supply run video could be cool! Maybe filmed in vlog style and we see what’s inside the stores where you get your supplies, the people you know and talk with “down there” . You could also do a video message to your future self so in 5 years you can see all the progress that has been made and see if you accomplished everything you had said in the video.
Er. He’s done a trip into town video. And isn’t this whole channel a 5 years down the line video diary. Isn’t this the whole point? 🤣
Great recommendations
Love these ideas!
And he will find a million nails, rusted tin by the ton & lots of rusted horsehoes. Belt buckles & press stud pieces are other favorites. I used to live in an abandoned farming town & had my own bottle tip an back yards of where over three hundred people once lived. The bottle pit had not been touched since it was buried long ago & I found over a hundred intact specimens that I still have.
@@the66hobgoblin.45 thats so cool!
New cat owner: Let me put the precious glass bottles on top of the kitties scratching post. I'm sure they'll be fine up there. XD
seriously
I cringed watching him place the bottles and then talk about the scratching post there sat on top of
Definitely need to be careful. I was thinking Gordo was planning how to destroy some historic bottles
Yeah that part was a little nerve racking but so glad he had more shots with the bottles afterward meaning he moved them off the scratching post.
We only have the pleasure of this UA-cam channel due to a long series of poor decisions.
I respect this man. He’s not out here looking for things to make money off of, he just wants to keep the place alive.
He's not a brain washed piece of shit mindset people like us lol he's just on his own for the adventure.
@@zanebryan that’s why I respect him. He’s just genuinely trying to do something awesome
He's also already loaded dude.
Takes money to not worry about money
@@jimsteen911 in fact, no, most his profits are off youtube and donations, he literally "wasted" all his life savings for an abandoned town that was going to be used for profit, and thats what the ex owner didnt want, he looked upon someone like brent to take care and love Cerro gordo, you can see, he aint quite the rich guy, in fact, he's way more humble than anyone of us lets be honest
And last but not least, no he's not rich, basically every penny he gets its either for his personal life (food, water, etc) , his pets (the goats, llamas, cats) OR to bring life to cerro gordo (the american hotel and many more)
@@tjrex9458 what a waste of money. Jesus.
Poker tournaments at the rebuild American Hotel would be so sick! Full immersion, old saloon music, cigars and a dress code! haha
Someone needs to get shot for this to be the same.
Ya that would be so cool
@@ifnhuosrs2876 I volunteer! 🤣
And no mask.
+100000 on that idea! Maybe he could get some investors to help fund the rebuild with that intention in mind? They wouldn't be able to have too many people in the town because of its size, but they could definitely broadcast it live and have some of the biggest names in professional poker there, no doubt many would jump at the chance to wear clothes, smoke cigars and drink whiskey all period correct to that time and play in a saloon in such a historic real life ghost town! Could even joke around and have them do pretend gunfights with each other afterwards!
“Smells Like History “ should go on a T-shirt for you to sell in the future gift shop.
yes
This could be misunderstood as "I haven't showered in a while" hehe
That certainly beats "smells like seven cats."
I definitely buy one of those!
I love how your life is like the dream of every 10 year old. Meaning if you asked an 10 year old what they wanted to do in the future, you would get some answer like, "Well, I want to be an explorer, and a treasure hunter, and I'll make a museum for my treasures I find, and I want to stay up as late as I want, and eat whatever I want, and do whatever I want with no rules!"
Congrats man, I'm jealous, but 10 year old me is also very jealous!
Spot on! He reminds me of a kid lol and I think he's bringing out the kid in all of us, I just Love that part!!
Could not agree more, i miss those old days now it's all about paying bills and stuff. life just seem boring when you reach adulthood.
@@SouravskpXD For sure... responsiblity sucks!! lol
@@shellyscott6447 well yeah.
Worstershire sauce bottles found on my mine in 🇦🇺mate as we’ll,same lee perrins
After you clean up the pottery and china fragments, you could create a mosaic table top or backsplash in a bathroom/kitchen. These little historical fragments would be repurposed and could be seen by anyone who visits.
Or table
Such a great idea
Like the check-in countertop at the hotel!
That's an excellent idea!
Mosaic tables or countertops for the hotel would be amazing!
Your SOUL is that of a historian navigating a quest. You were born for this.
True - he's the best guy for the job.
I wouldn't leave those bottles up there with all those cats around.
Especially when the cat bark !
My first thought.
Being a cat owner I honestly felt like... secondhand nervousness when he was just putting the bottles on the scratching post like AH.. THEYRE CATS!!!!
Agreed
paused it during the cat post segment abouta comment on the same concern
so rad ... my family owns a hundred year old ranch on the other side of the sierras from you ... i find things on the property all the time . i was told people hid their money jewelry etc behind the outhouses
also ... where did they wash their clothes at cg? maybe that’s where you’ll find jeans 😁so cool . hope to visit or volunteer in the future . 🤘🏻
I hope he sees this!!
👍 👍
great idea to look where they washed their clothes!!
I wonder if you could still put those pants on. Can you imagine putting on the same pants as someone who lived 150 years ago? They'd probably disintegrate as soon as you put them on 💗🌵
@@MsZoedog66 levi’s has an archive of their earliest jeans... it’s insane
What do you call a man who lives alone in an abandoned mining town?
An unaccompanied miner
very good
Rim shot
Nice one!
LMAO . nice one . I would of said one happy man
Ba Dum Tisss
Your defiantly the only person who just made bottles interesting for me.
Check out Adventure archeology he has some really good videos on bottles
@Italian Pills - Psicologia Politica Uh, no need for political bots here.
I'm a zooarchaeologist so seeing you find all those bones makes me so excited! I wish I could examine them for you, I'd happily do it if I didn't live in Sweden haha! Looks to be mostly cattle from what I can see in the video. It'd be interesting to look for butchery marks and patterns to establish whether live cattle was kept there or meat was bought pre-cut from outside the community. Exciting!
@@glennwall552 what
What is a zooarchaeologist
@@luciussatchell9709 Exactly what it sounds like, an archaeologist that focuses on zoological artifacts.
These bottles are so cool! They may only be worth about $30 to $50 but they're Cerro Gordo's history
30-50 $ is a good amount for a bottle judging most or only a buck or two
Hell yeah! We only get 10c here 😂😁🌵💗
Yeah, he said that already in the intro and repeatedly throughout the video. Nothing gets past you, genius.
@@avidadolares He's only reiterating and engaging with the content. What's wrong with you
Also, as a British person, that Lea and Perrins bottle is such an amazing find, shows how global even those unconnected days were.
Wooster-sheer-sauce is how it's pronounced BTW.
@@92RedRevolver Id go for Wusster-shurr-sauce to be honest
@@92RedRevolver Only a septic tank (Yank) would have the audacity to tell and Englishman how something English is pronounced in England, they would know lol
@@danieljamesmead certainly in Derbyshire 😄
@@rangersasc as someone with no real allegiance to either side, the winner usually gets to write history. Since the English lost the Yanks would be the ones who have the real say on the language.
I’d advise adding metal bars to the museum to prevent any looters from coming through and trying to take anything. It does happen and if someone knows there’s valuables there could become a problem in the future as cerro gordo gets more traction
guns solve problems like that..... 300 acres also solves the second issue after issue one is solved. he has an advantage tho he ha mines :O)
@@ttss5726 you are unhinged
@@ttss5726 Te other might’ve guns as well and what if he has been inspecting the area before
@@tavrosnitram unhinged for wanting people to protect their property?
@@marcusbordeaux7548 even if you think that something being stolen is worth a life, if you dont see the problem with saying 'at least you can hide the body easily' you are the problem. only reason you would hide the body is if killing someone for stealing whatevers in the museum would get you in trouble... which, big shocker, it probably would.
The music you use is haunting and beautiful. Perfect soundtrack for the channel on every video.
What is the music @ 1:27?
3:35 who knows this one?
The music he uses really reminds me of RDR2's sountrack
@@michi-fv2mf hey, thanks! I’ll check it out.
One thing I would love to see is a video dedicated to the history of Cerro Gordo. That would be interesting to learn the key points of its history in one video 😀
What a great discovery! We're treasure hunters here in the UK and understand the connection you feel with the history of the place. It's wonderful that someone like you, who cares about the history of the place, bought it. Great stuff! xx
I don’t honestly think this place could of ended up in better hands
Couldnt or could have
@@torsken7301 what
I am confused.
Same guy who burnt down the hotel.
@@Meme-zc4cw i think they just read it too fast and thought they were just saying could without a negative somewhere in the sentence
Brent , I've been digging bottles for over 40 years , and believe it or not , the best place to dig (for whiskey's) is in the old outhouses , "privvy digging" . Imagine going out on a freezing winter night & taking along a bottle to keep you warm while you take care of business. Some of my best finds have come from this source .
I am from the east coast of the US and privy excavations are a real thing. They find amazing things!
Why do I feel like Cerro Gordo is a home away from home when I have never been there 😂
I get that feeling too
I’ve heard that if you feel some sort of “home feeling” to something it’s probably because you have been here in your past life
Same here, and I’m in Wales, UK🇻🇺Maybe because it’s also a mining country 🤗
One thing I admire about this guy is that he's not after about monetary value of the things he found but values more the history behind it and preserving it for future generations. Man you're a legend. 🙏
Hi Brent, you should get yourself a decent metal detector like the Garrett AT Pro metal detector which is amazing, you would fond so many more artefacts and have fun doing it. You pronounce Worcestershire Sauce - wuh ster sheer xx
Worcestershire sauce has quite a story, how it came into being.
Wuh ster shuh sauce
@Ryan Conners Trust me it's definitely sheer 😉
YES!!!!! Metal detector, do it!
depends where you're from and background. I'm working class from Yorkshire and everyone I know says shuh in stead of sheer. Like we say York-shuh not York-sheer.
I think you have to darken up your windows in the museum, the sunlight could damage your findings ! ;-)
Yes. And you can get frames with museum glass. Be sure to store the papers in a dark place for now.
I've spent a lot of time searching ghost towns for old bottle. Here's a trip.... Find the out house! Dig it up... That's where they dropped them while being drunk. Just be careful, it's a dirty job..... LOL
That sounds very clever
The sort of thing you're building Cerro Gordo into is the exact sort of thing I spent the early years of my life vising on family trips. While other families went to six flags or disney land, MY family went to old obscure historic sites in the ozarks and the like. This is both soothing and fascinating to watch. You've got my subscription and likes:)
y u throwin shade to people who like theme parks
@@OdysseyABMS Not sure why you think I was throwing shade. I simply said that my family did something else. We also went to Disney World and Land and Six Flags etc.....
The fact that this stuff has remained undisturbed in the ground for over a hundred years is honestly super fascinating to me.
you should by a metal detector then :D
Literally “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.”
One mans bottle is another man's down payment on another ghost town.
one man's garbage is another man's person good ungarbage
Ya know, those were my mother's dying words, but when you're covered in 3rd degree burns and got your foot caught in a bear trap you're bound to start talking crazy.
That's how it's always been and how it always will be.
@Smug Smugly Crazy? So what your comment really says is that you have less sense than a person covered in 3rd degree burns who's foot is in a bear trap.
I discovered your channel a few days ago, I've started watching every episode from the start. I freaking love it
"I wanted to be delicate...'
*So I took a sledgehammer to it* "
😂
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This is quickly becoming one of my favorite channels. It’s just so different then anything else out there, and it’s a great escape from my day to day. Thank you so much for sharing this with us !!!
I believe in a few different types of integrity. I would say you are practicing "stewardship" by not selling the town relics you find, and really everything else you are doing there. Since you have a set of rules, even if you only applied them to yourself, this falls into what I would categorize as lawful integrity. I am also of the mind that integrity is not only largely lost in current society, but sorely missed. Thank you sir, for being a steward of integrity.
"hey look at these antique bottles I found! Let me just set them on top of a scratching post with multiple kittens running around!"
I don't think this guy has ever owned a cat before lol.
When I was a kid I found dozens of old bottles from the early 1900s in a dump that was on our property from the 20s 30s or 40s, and I threw every single one of them up against rocks to break them. SMH 🤦🏼♂️
It's kids like you that make existing / surviving bottles more valuable.
Lest be honest tho, that was probably a blast. Especially if you still recall such a moment from your childhood. I know I would of done the same.
Oh man that one has to hurt, you win some you lose some 😂.
The aqua such as an old coca cola bottle was the natural color of glass. Clear ones need chemicals added to make them clear.
At our old family farm in PA, same exact thing. Many were probably from the 1800s and yet we would throw them as high in the air as we could to see them shatter on the rocks below. That was many years ago. I miss those times.
I’m actually from Worcester in Worcestershire. Cool to see!
Oh and Worcestershire is pronounced: ‘wus-ster-shur’
@@MT-hd2es,, Thank you for pointing it out, I used to live in Hereford!
I Live Just Up The Road (A449) Near Kidderminster........ Cool To See This Stuff, & How It Found It's Way Over There....
I live in south Manchester #TeamUK #Lockdown2
We always call it Worcester sauce in South Wales.
I do love hearing Americans pronounce it as wor-sester-shire sauce though
Brent, Nothing can replace the original hotel and ice house, but you found the silver lining, no pun intended, in that dark cloud. Your integrity in keeping everything from Cerro Gordo there and intact is admirable. God Works All Things Together For Good... As Always, May God Bless you and yours!
If slab of concrete is getting harder as time goes on why not leave it and build some kind of structure on top of it
He had a mission to find treasure in that one spot
@@anthonyp2312 Amen.
I’m from Worcester, Worcestershire and I actually worked for a number of years at Lea & Perrins (now Heinz owned) it’s pronounced “ wusta sauce or “war””ster””sher”
I’m from Saskatchewan Canada and worked with two guys from Newcastle. They told me about the “wusta” pronunciation. So glad to see someone mention it here! Cheers
Bottles on top of the scratch post!!
Dude...those cats are going to smash everything lol
I took them all down. They're all safely in the hotel. I had just brought them in from the site to film the bit with the cats. After that they were off that thing!
I was nervous watching this scene as well LOL. Imagine doing all that work digging them out only for a cat-astrophe to strike!
@@pfizz8347 hahaha me too!!! I was like, no way, take them away, not there!
"Mmm ... Let's put the expensive, historic, what-I-have-left-of-Cerro-Gordo-after-the-fire, BREAKABLE bottles on a narrow pillar, next to a playful cat."
Maybe it will bring me luck.
It's so weird to me how some people's brains just don't have that automatic accident prevention instinct! It drives me absolutely up the wall to watch people do stuff like set things in precarious places without even thinking about it. It's impossible for me to understand how anybody can function without that common sense...
@@Lindseyisloony next week in Cerro Gordo:
"OOOh I found a cool oil lamp. I bought oil so I could light it. Here let me put it next to the cat's flammable scratch post."
meaning no offense, but he does seem kinda foolish at times lol
@@n1c3s43 lol y'all... he just didn't grow up with grandparents like this. I think of all people this way...y'all newbies.
But Brent tries and learns in the process, on video, i love that and helps relate to miscommunications from the past or online.
You were all new to something at some point... he'll be an expert once he gets all the facts. Not everyone grows up around mining districts 🙄
@@Lindseyisloony these people are the happiest I believe. Caring about stuff has NOTHING to do with common sense.
Have you thought about cataloging this stuff, maybe digitizing the documents and making an online "museum" of sorts so everyone can look at them closely? Scanners are pretty cheap and if you have a website about your town that would be a great place to put it all, if not just for observing then also as an information resource for historians or history buffs.
Great idea!
Brent those last three bottles you had a question about the small square aqua was either a vanilla extract or a medicine bottle the other two with wide openings were olive jars usually anything pickled food jars . This was a fun video love it I love bottle digging watch your sludge hammer you dont want to break a bottle you need to scope out more by the cabins .!!
Suggestion: It would be cool if you timestamped some of the clips in your videos, so it's clear when they were recorded. Those of us watching your series religiously from the start would undoubtedly appreciate the added detail. (You mentioned in this video that some of what you showed took place over months; it would be cool to see at least the date in the corner, when appropriate.) Thank you for being so welcoming and open to comment!
Get a bottle probe, it will help you find bottles without breaking them, one thing to keep in mind, back in the day they never dumped the garbage at just one spot, they would dump their garbage at multiple locations and in the out house pits as well and once the out house pits are full, they would move the out house to another location and cover up the full pit, embossed bottles are the older ones you want to find.
www.oldwestbottles.com/probes.php
Kind of surreal we get content like this for free
Netflix should have been all over this months ago. In 6 months time they’ll have caught up and will be funding this guy to just do what he’s doing.
Found this by accident, Love the series, watched everyone of them. I'm glad I found it. Its actually better done than most stuff on tv. Bought me a sweatshirt to help with funds.
The definition of “one mans trash is another mans treasure”
I hope this doesn’t get lost in the comments, so like this comment and help me relay a little history about Cerro Gordo.
I’m reviewing some notes I took in a college history course, and there’s a mention of Cerro Gordo in them. Apparently in the Mexican-American War, Mexican Army General Santa Anna wanted to bottleneck Winfield Scott’s Campaign at Cerro Gordo, and there was a battle that occurred there in April of 1847. If that’s true, you’d probably be able to find all kinds of mid-1800s war artifacts buried throughout the area! I hope you get to see this comment and maybe dig up some history of the old town!
Edit: Wrong Cerro Gordo, thanks @Will Long
Interesting.
Very cool information to add to the history!! Thanks for sharing! 🤠👍🏻
Sorry to burst your bubble, but that's a different Cerro Gordo.
The one of the battle is in Mexico:
Location near Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
19.429°N 96.688°W
Thats cool
Ah! Just catching this. I’ll have to watch the replay! We are finding this so interesting. We are involved in a California preservation organization and my husband is a state historian so this is very cool for us to watch.
What's the name of the organization?
@@LatinaCreamQueen Native Sons of the Golden West
Finding this channel was like finding a treasure at Cerro Gordo... great content!
I'm hooked
I just was thinking Brent, with all of the pieces of old china and glass you could make like a mosaic table top out of it. Lay the pieces in a wooden frame and poor epoxy over them, then just add wooden legs and you got some pretty neat and historical tables. You could put some in the new American Hotel.
that's an awesome idea! love this
Would definitely be cool the problem with that would be that once set in the epoxy they would not be able to be removed and if there was a reason or need to remove them/ put them on display this would be impossible to remove without breaking the bottles. Definitely would be a cool project though. My guess is he’s wanting to keep bottles intact for being put on display.
Great idea but here is a twist...
place one in each guest room to add the special, personal touch only when staying in that room. May boost some return guests to try different rooms
I can't explain why but really love this place. Makes me feel sad and lonely "Cerro Gordo"
Agreed
You know I just stumbled onto this channel. Just the cool factor alone keeps me coming back. Watching someone live out what they want to do is just awesome but the wholesomeness to the channel really brightens my day. Thank you for this content.
I live in Worcester Uk (pronounced Wuss-Ter-Sher) -and live a few miles from the Lea and Perrins factory so it’s so cool to see you found a bottle at Cerro Gordo!! Love your channel keep up the incredible work
I'm from Worcester, I used to live near Nunnery Wood. I remember you could smell the sauce sometimes when you drove past the factory. Lovely!
Hello, a Brit here, Worcestershire sauce is pronounced "wooster-sheer" you said it correctly when you first found the bottle! I love your channel!
As a Masshole, having a city named "Worcester" (named after the city in England) taught me how to pronounce the sauce correctly. So to other Americans confused about it, get the "h" out; it's not Worc(h)estershire.
That was popular in Hawaii too. I've dug tooled Worcrstershire sauces in two sizes, hand finished. There were a lot of imitators, and my last dig in 1893 found a near equal number of Stephen's Sons, Gloucestershire sauce. "Yesss!" Was a chutney/pickle bottle. Belong to our bottle club here. I do most digging of late in the "WWII ghetto" here. Found a "57" stopper, Heinz 57 steak sauce, still in stores.
Depending where you’re from it’s “sheer” or “shur”, I’m from Manchester so we say it like “Wooster-shur”
@@suitcasebanana5523 Good point, :)
No, that is not correct. After he looked it up he said it correctly.
I got to admit when the hotel burned down it broke my heart. But out of the ashes comes positivity 🙂 its so interesting what you may find . I look forward to your next video.
idiots should have checked all the knob and tube wiring
Here now and again after 10 year when youtube recommended it again :D
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I love how passionate you are about this place... you are literally digging up American history for future generations.
Also Brent. Please keep mentioning in your videos that GoFundMe for the American hotel is still active. Keep bringing awareness. I'm sure a lot of people would donate if they knew about GoFundMe page
this
Nobody should give this guy money, he's got investors in this project that include millionaire netflix executives
@@supergreatairgunreviews how about you keep your opinion to yourself
@@supergreatairgunreviews ya sure 🙄 if that was true where are all the high paid crews and machinery? Why is the progress so slow and you only see him and hear no other sounds? Are they all hiding?
@@lagatitabruja So suckers like you will give him more money for free. Google cerro gordo investors if you don't believe me
I live near Cerro Gordo so maby one day when the hotels open I'll visit
Where is this place
@@ptlasvegas it's in California about 3 hours away from L.A
@@ptlasvegas lmao you litteraly have the name of the place in the title
@@foxbmx61 The name does not give the location.
@Weenie Hut Jr's he has plans to rebuild it using original floor plans.
Being in lockdown for almost the entire year I suddenly have the strong urge to fly from Germany to CA and spend my days as you do.
You get another month of Lockdown now! Joe Biden will lock everything down for sure now
I feel the same...
Guten Abend aus Erfurt :)
@KURDNESS GAMING okay, i am sorry. I was saying something like 'Good evenig from Erfurt', which is a rather small city in Thuringia, Germany, compared to Berlin. Gute Nacht :D
@Januarys First Yes, i really would like to go and visit cerro gordo, and if there is any way to help with a bit of my "men" power :D
Brent, most miners didn't collect trash and haul it to a dump. They just opened the back door and pitched it out. I suspect there are lots of things buried in the ground near where the old cabins stood. I think you found some when you were grading the old road south of the main road.
Possibly an idea but keep hold of the old broken glass and have it turned into glass beads and made up into jewellery which you could sell to help fund the projects
You should have a metal detector, may find coins, buttons, etc.
I would be in absolute heaven just digging for treasures for hours on end... What an exciting time!
Some people live there whole lives without finding their passion, stay safe enjoy your passion. Much love from Australia
Putting those old bottles on top of the scratch post gave me such anxiety. Was just waiting for one of the kittens to knock'em over and break them.
Me too 😿💔
Me 3
X4 on that comment!😱
Me X5 😱 Also sitting on the desk wobbling when researching the bottles value. Bless him though.
Ill take that for 6 please? Do I hear a 7?
I dont know if anybody has suggested this, but all the old bottlenecks would make some really sought after guitar slides. A wet grinder to take the sharp bottoms off and your'e in business.
a Cerro Gordo guitar slide would absolutely be Peak Western. If he ever has a guitar player there it would be worth it to keep a few!
You are good. 😊
@@johndoeing Omg right? I would love to have one. It would be a prized piece in my collection.
14:06 I'm no bottle expert, but I think the item at the very end is from an old company known as "Fol-Gers". You can tell by the red tint of the exterior, and the somewhat familiar feeling that it is indeed the best part of waking up, at least if the product is located within your cup. You may quote me.
I laughed waay too hard at this
🤣🤣
He actually finds an antique Folgers tin in one of the mines in a later video. It had baking powder in it, though. I always thought they were a solely coffee-based company but, in days of yore, apparently not.
I’m a Plumber from Canada and think what your doing is amazing and will be thinking of you in my prayers. Strangely you helped me in a hard time I’m going through.
Watching your series and channel has reminded me of just how strong someone can be. So many examples!
Thank you 🙏🏼
i love history and artifacts !!but i watch this channel because of you. you are a good man and you deserve all the good that is happening to your channel ..stay safe !!
I cannot remember how I found this channel anymore, but man I’m glad I did. Brent is just so genuine. I cannot stand UA-camrs who overreact and pretend to every discovery, etc. Keep up the fantastic footage, and thank you for sharing. 😊
Maybe create a bar-sized frame, lay out the broken bottles and what not in the frame, and then take some resin and pour it over the bottles, and through it you can create a bar top with the broken bottles/ceramics. Maybe you could use it as the bar top for the Great American Hotel!
If you have a tile cutter you can cut the bottles that are damaged into candle holders etc
Hi, that bottle of Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce is British.
It’s pronounced : wusstersha sauce. I’m a Brit. Love the channel!
Making some head way I see. Love digging for old things, I used to do that when I lived in Oklahoma. Many old houses back there falling apart, built in the 1800s. Those two bottles of similar size, {aqua} look like medicine bottles. I found one just like those , and it still had part of the paper label on it, and it was medicine. Just a thought. Loving your videos, see you next time.
Been going through some tough times. Came across Brent's channel and he has the ability to always put a smile on my face even during the garbage. Thank you Brent, you are the best!
you are a hero. Keeping American history alive. Thank you
I’ve been watching for over a month now and this is still one of the most interesting and relaxing channels to watch. Make the air b n b happen, would love to visit
Having sledgehammered some concrete recently, it is definitely a workout.
I used to move houses, and it was me and my hammer that took out the foundations 😂😂
Especially where there is a loader just feet away.....
Much respect for you I love the way you think.. You care and that's amazing we need more people like you
Brit here - loving the series Brent. So good to see someone so fascinated with everything around them with a true sense of wonder for 'simple' items and nature. Still using good old Lea and Perrins, and the phonetic pronunciation is "whoosh-ter-sheer"
I needed this in my life.. These videos are helping me get through the week. Thanks for posting them and keep up the amazing work!
Make some wind chimes with the pieces for the buildings! That would be cool.
I realise I would love to work there now, and be a small part in history and discover all of those stories and re live the history and wonder what incredible or un incredible events were linked with those objects, its all amazing
Okay but seriously, how much of this broken glass and porcelain in this dump was broken during shootouts and drunken brawls?
As a history major who works in a “remotish” mining town, I am living vicariously through your channel. Working nights makes me sometimes feel like I almost have these places to myself, but you’re really living that. I love it.
Love this stuff man! You're one of a kind and preserving and discovering pieces of history to show future generations what it was like!!!!
This is a type of mining that Cerro Gordo probably hasn't seen before.
It always amazes me to see how many clothes are in those mines. Like, were the miners just running around naked all the time? 😂
Someone found a pair of original Levis from the day, in not bad condition and sold for many thousands, years ago
I heard that miners would change out of their work clothes within the mines and leave them there.
@@pex3 probably the case, seen this on construction sites many times as well.
I can’t get enough of your adventures n findings your a great storyteller..you are giving the past a voice. Thank you
Looking well hunni the museum is coming on lovely with all your amazing treasures. Look after yourself and mind your step. Not only are you rebuild a whole town you have made a lovely community on this channel and we are all rooting for you 💖💖
I know it's too late, but you could have gotten a lot of help by coordinating with one of the local universities and gotten all the archaeology students to help out. I think this might be a good idea for the future, as I'm sure you have not even scratched the surface with all the sites available there to dig up.
those universities archaelogists are the REAL scammers !
What a great idea!
That defeat the purpose of doing it alone.
@@tomquinn3068 Such a powerfully negative comment. What is it based on?
Watching this guy is so damn inspiring. The respect he has for our history and legacy is almost moving. We should show this video to the morons that right now are tearing down monuments.
These items, lost, disregarded and forgotten about have now become alive again with the time, care and love being shown to them by Brent...even inanimate objects have a type of conscious awareness if we pay attention...good stuff 🔥