Old World Pottsville, Pa (see description for clarification)
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2023
- This is a quick peek into small town Pennsylvania....coal mining country. I mistakenly referred to it as Pottstown when in fact it's Pottsville...about 100 miles away. Apologies for the confusion. These are pictures from Pottsville.
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I built with brick, block, stone, concrete, tile, steel and wood over 30 years. At time of their build dates it would have taken years just to dig for buildings to have full basements and multiple floors underground. They didn't have excavators and dozens. Nobody builds a basement with dirt filled to half and more height of building with windows. They had trouble repairing the wagon wheels quick enough to just get their shacks built. Those buildings were built by a more intelligent humanity and when they started repopulating after the reset the rulers wrote the histories. It's a cycle of reset when people start figuring out the lies
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They probably recycle the same books, movies and music as well.
Indigenous inhabitants of the americas had extensive underground tunnel systems that have been excavated for thousands of years also there are an abundance of “natural” cave systems
@@Sqsq909one of the Dept of Interiors primary taskings was cataloguing them all and closing them off to the public
Pottsville reminds me of my home town of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.....home of the historic Peterborough Lift Locks, Trent Severn Canal system (manmade with fishy backstories galore) big ole churches peppered throughout the "downtown", the historic Quaker Oats Factory (old world) that guess what? burned down and was rebuilt in late 1800's, not far out of town are warsaw caves and serpent mounds....so much to explore everywhere....wish I knew what I know now back then.
same "template" all over .....
thanks so much for another great episode of Old World Exploration
Hey Martha good to see you here...Frankie and I will have to zone in on Peterborough for a Canuckleheads episode..
Ooohh... you are so close to Pennhurst Asylum. That's an interesting place. Built in.. 1908. Lol.
My back yard!
Good find on boxcar rocks ! I'm from Boston and our greater area has some silly stories as well when it comes to "formations" , the same with all of our histories . Thank you bud . If you have time , try and check out the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston (Where I grew up and explored when I was younger) Tons and tons (pun intended) of stone walls , railway activity , many many many old world buildings and crazy stories that never made sense to me . God bless man
As a kid in the 50's I spent all my summers in Pottsville with my aunt and uncle. It was so different from my hometown, Valley Stream Long Island, which was very flat. The road trip to Pottsville was magical with all the mountains and hills and barns with the hex signs on them. I have very fond memories of this time... movies at the Capitol theater, and the Hollywood theater, and the worlds best chili dogs at the Coney Island restaurant on Centre Street.
All the towns that follow route 61 are like this.. Pottsville, Ashland, Shamokin, mt Carmel . The Edison hotel in sunbury was the first building to be lit with Edison’s 3 wire system. So much old money that has dried up
Great video. I grew up in this region and appreciated this one. I agree the small towns spread throughout the NE all contain so much. Nearby Danville has some interesting history. The basilica os Saints Cyril and Methodious there is now up for sale. There are so many remarkable asylums found throughout this region: Laurelton, Selinsgrove, Harrisburg, Danville just to name a few.
Love the new intro and background tunes! 🙌🏽
These towns, in this section of pa, seem to all ways be in a valley near by Doylestown has a castle with a wall and gate you can still walk through. Also a large "art" "project" rock that has been cut into a roughly 5 foot tall block that was bisected all the way through seperated and core drilled multiple times. None of the striations inside drill bores make any sence for rock drilling. Clearly according to the striations from these holes getting drilled the bit was advancing roughly 1 inch per rotation of the 6 inch bit. Obviously we can not drill rock or anything that fast that it wouldnt be faster to dig.
Howdy Chris. Great finds in this recommended little city. The wall is pretty mind-blowing! The theatre and the old school are crazy too, as well as the prison and court house. Excellent job, bud. Have a great weekend. Cheers!
Thank you for doing this exploration 😊🧱
Wonderfully done. Makes me want to live there.
I enjoyed this video. I noticed on the map that there’s a Pottsville northwest of Pottstown….not far away….I live in Southwest Pa. There’s many unique little towns with wonderful architecture. Thanks for showing us this!😊
Ya I made a mistake...these are pics from Pottsville not Pottstown... I had a couple viewers direct me to both locations and I confused the two..was gonna pull the video but I figured whatever.
Pottstown - Pottsville: Same family - different towns. Pottstown - shutdown Bethlehem Steel roller mills. Pottsville - Yeungling Beer @@oldworldex
Time stamp .56sec , I've located the same architecture building called the Molina Fine Jewelers in Phoenix Arizona where I live now.
Hi, I live in Reading. Pottstown and Pottsville are different towns.
Yes I discovered that thanks!
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I spent 3 years in a penitentiary that looked like that, but we named it a high school😊 we had more towers though😂
That tunnel in the brewery is where a water pipe came down from up on the mountain to be used to brew beer. From nearby. Been there many times. All the cities and towns around here have a few old world style buildings still hanging around
The buildings are very similar in other parts, like Pittsburgh but the low population of people with these buildings doesn’t make sense
How can the whole country e built from 1870 to 1920 ?
My approach has been to overwhelm the narrative with a large volume of visuals. I still have your Pittsburgh photos btw...will do a Pittsburgh sequel one of these days..
Time stamp 12:31 light fixture looks like what we call today a high pressure sodium / mercury vapor light bulb but now replaced by LED hex. lamps style street lighting.
@12:42 I'd love to see a look at Park City, Utah (where I recently honeymooned!) or Cripple Creek, Colorado -- great gold rush cities that have remained small and somewhat preserved in their 19th-century charm with loads of fancy brickwork. The Park City City Hall is an astounding brick (castle?) structure.
Definitely an ancient wall of some sort.
I Remember seeing some of those pics somewhere about a week ago 🤔 lol.
I'm from here (Sadly) Learned a lot I didn't know, we don't get taught about our history very much if at all.
The "state penitentiary" is definitely a jail in the modern day. The jail and courthouse are for the entire county rather than just Pottsville.
The armory is now a YMCA which is a bit of a weird juxtaposition, never knew it was an armory.
Interesting to hear about the Henry Clay statue. Everyone here seems to call him the "Dancing Man" He kinda looks like he's tap dancing from the street below but, he's certainly not. I don't think there's a standard way to walk up to the plaque anymore.
Not sure if it's true but I've definitely heard old people here talk about a time where the high school building wasn't there and they instead went to school in the building at 7:36 which certainly lends itself to being built in the 30s or 40s
A little research would have helped you avoid the blunder of mislabeling Pottsville as Pottstown. The City of
Pottsville is the county seat of Schuylkill County. I was born and raised there. It is also the heart of the once thriving anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania. It was that industry and the textile industry that brought money into the city. Unfortunately, that money was gain through the hard work and toil of the miners and factory workers who worked very demanding and dangerous jobs. These workers never realized the riches, though. It remained in the pockets of the mine and mill owners. The buildings came to serve the industry (the banks, railroad headquarters, mine offices, etc.). The schools served the growing population. The high school built in 1933 continues to serve the students in the Pottsville Area School District. I graduated from there. It’s a lovely building with great architecture. I also attended the grammar school that you featured. It’s now the county historical society. Unfortunately, like many towns and cities in Pennsylvania, Pottsville has suffered because of the demise of industry. Hopefully these amazing buildings you featured will remain the decades to come.
Some of the architecture in Scranton is amazing
@8:44 It would be fascinating to see a macro over view of construction of courthouses and capitols alone in any given 19th-century decade. You often say a single structure might be able to summon a feasible explanation, and then you look to the left or right of said feasible construction, and there are a dozen other structures left to explain! Great views of Pennsylvania, friend.
My uncle has a cabin by tidioute. Warren PA is a really interesting town. Also oil supposedly discovered there
Pottstown has The Hill School which is an interesting property, Trumps older son went there!
Both Donald, Jr and Eric graduated from The Hill School.
Reminds me of playing Cities: Skylines. So much from that game. Also so many red bricks it doesn't add up how people could produce them and put them there. Like people used telekinetic powers to move things. Using telekinesis moving things around like wizards or something like that is a possibility because this needs some explanation. It's mind boggling
I grew up in Pottsville and although I applaud you for making the video, I feel you did very little research on the town or the photos you have shown. (1:15) The "penitentiary" is not a federal prison, but Schuylkill County Prison or jail, 5:13 The tunnel is a tunnel used for storing beer before refrigeration and NOT a mining tunnel. Those tunnels were also used during the Civil War to transport slaves to freedom as part of the Underground Railroad. 5:50 This is NOT the capitol, I actually have no idea where this building would have been. In fact, the Capitol was demolished in the 1980's to make way for a parking lot. There was NEVER a Nineteenth St. or CivicTheater in the town. 7:59 It was built as a school, as were all of the schools you show. 10:45 There were several grammar schools in the town . 14:46 I believe the first Miner's Journal building was destroyed by fire and was rebuilt. Please don't take this as Gospel, but I think I am correct. What you have to understand is as coal mining came into this area, the money flowed in as well. Not to the miners, but to the companies and banks. The building were status symbols of the wealth they held.
You're right. I don't know anything about the area. Just trying to show the visuals. I appreciate the back story...thanks for watching!
I was just at boxcar wall! I was amazed by it. Quartz rocks and concrete, just posted a video of my visit there.
I am sorry to info you you , but it is not concrete. It's a natural formation of quartz stone . The box cars are a ancient river bed that was turned vertical when the mountains were thrust up . That area is a very old stone formation . Many miss identify it as concrete and man made , it is not . If you bothered to look it is found just off gold mine rd . As there was an old gold mine in the area . The ancient river bed is what they were mining . I live in the area and have visited it many times . I believe in much of what is presented in this video but you must be careful as all in videos are not as it may seem .
now I'm really interested in checking this out... I'm sure it'll be worth the trip... I'm in the Lehigh Valley.@@jeffreydove2036
Oh. My Gosh! That’s IT!!! Jean Val Jean! Look at Reading and PottsTown which is in Montgomery county. I think you are looking at the Ruscombe Manor from the original charter and Pottstown is closer to the Gilbert Manor and the Iron Center of Frick’s Lock. Look up the old PA Canal. Cross reference EVERYTHING eastern PA against another map, especially the waterways. There is a deviation regarding the rivers. The Delaware used to be the Lenapewihituck or something of the sort. The DuPonts were FoxCatchers and the Foxes are Quite sly. That said. Someone pulled a JeanValJean somewhere around the French Revolution timeframe, as they weren’t sent to debtors prison, and they possibly were not in England at all… but rather just west the old state Penn
there's also a canal in Freemansburg (outside of Bethlehem) - now I need to check that out since it's much closer
Wow! How beautifully gullible, aka, childlike we all were to believe the crap narrative after only 12 years of “free” education. Thanks Uncle Sam! Let freedom ring! Awesome vid Old!
Cheers Jason!
@3:46 Daaaaaaang what a sight.
🧱❤️🙏🏼grand structures we can’t replicate!
It is the County Jail, in Pottsville.
The Amish back then had to get up extra early to construct things like this.
Or other enslaved individuals
Neither Amish nor slaves built it. Just paid workers from the regular population and they were darned glad to have the jobs.
Thank you for the look at Boxcar Rocks. That will be cool to look at more. Henry Clay’s wife look’s absolutely miserable and I mean absolutely miserable. Treasures are waiting to be found in the small towns and city’s.
You should get with geomansee. He's done some of PA. ✌️
Another prison with another unique tower just like Fulton County in Atlanta.
Look into STAUNTON, VA...I think it has what you are looking for.
Imo the colonization process/program repurposes stone from Indigenous masonry because imo it would be difficult to explain elaborate pyramids and rock structures to the migrant inhabitants of the new world
Broken up pyramid called haycock mt in quakerstown PA..small Rosicrucian pyramid right down the street too
And yes, it’s free masonry haha
What I want to know is why is there a statue of Henry Clay? He lived most of his life here in Kentucky. His house is in Lexington and my town was named after his home Ashland.
They probably reuse hero figures and images, my lunch break channel has caught them doing that before with supposed architects or builders
From Pottsville. This monument was built because Henry Clay died a little while prior and he was a huge supporter of anthracite coal mining so he was extremely popular among skooks in the 1840s. I don't know if it's true or not but I've heard it was at the time the largest monument in America
im in West Chester Pa! you gotta see
It's Pottsville,not Pottstown.How do I get to the "Boxcar Rocks"?I'm a native of Pottsville,I've lived there all my life.
Looks like you go to tower city, hang a left on 325 then another left on gold mine rd. I've never been there either. If you go, send me some pics!
What a cool town. 👍🏻
cool name..
Pennsylvania is a very bland state and I used to live there. However it can be interesting. In recent times, I’ve been fascinated with rural Arkansas
I lived in Erie Pa. and was told about a tunnel or train tunnel that saved Black slaves from the South ?
That is true according to local history. I believe this is an access point maps.app.goo.gl/WhkEnHDZAiXvhnyv8?g_st=ic but I could be wrong. It’s probably easy enough to research
Ahhh...see i knew i knew you from meltology lol...my bad...im in williamsport/montgomery area😁
Those box car rock formations should be tested for a concrete mix?!
Certainly don't look natural do they..
Great video!
I think the east coast is a good place to look. Too much to cover up.
In my opinion a great east coast location is Newport Rhode Island. There’s lots of house like buildings built in the 1700s and other old housings so the history is rich and hardly nobody knows about it. It’s so overlooked
That first image, looks like some sort of traffic light system.
I think it is ya...very unique though...imitating an old world look.
Pits AND potts in PA!
South Orange, New Jersey. Entire place is old world
You should check out Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. You won’t be disappointed.
Sounds biblical..
@@oldworldex there’s also Damascus and Nazerath , probably more
Isn't it potts town wonderful life
Pottersville !
That’s Pottstville. What you are ACTUALLY covering is the most accurate thing your could be. IT is the original land charter which went from Pottsville to Philadelphia
Ants gone wild bro
Looks like my little city in Kansas. Where no one looks. Its everywhere and makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Brick roads, many paved over. But when they dig down for 'reasons' theres the brick.Stone bases on most every house in town, huge churches, no more than 50,ooo ppl in any recent years. Freemason emblems used to be on many buildings. Not so much anymore. Downtown is amazing old structure, all of it. Block long bldngs, cut up into shops. Its everywhere.
I found a pyramid doing a map study of western Kansas recently..also Michelle Gibson has some fascinating stuff in Kansas and large scale old world terraforming for agriculture exactly like what is found in north UK. There is a spot called spook hollow in that area with a curious stone structure and a red satanic sigil. Kansas has some overlooked curiosities for sure.
Rural Pennsylvania does have some similarities to the Midwest and some other rural parts of America
Stoney creek battle field Kingston brock monuments niagara on the lake forts etc
Pottsville and Pottstown are two different towns.
Most of these UA-camrs live very far away from the areas they talk about and never visited but will talk as if they have experienced it
Is this Pottstown or Pottsville they are two different places
Pottsville..sorry about the confusion.
Title says Pottsville…a different town.
i think thats part of the dragon so it may be "natural"
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Pottsville or Pottstown?
Pottsville. Sorry about the mix up.
You are mixing Pottstown & Pottsville two very towns.
Be aware that most of these UA-camrs live very far away and have actually never visited the areas they confidently talk about
Hamilton Ontario
It was founded - It was found dead
You keep saying pottstown, its pottsville. T he box cars ive been to.
My question is, why were the native Americans not using these buildings? If the buildings were from a previous civilization wouldn’t the natives just moved right into these abandoned cities?
How much of history can you trust?
@@oldworldex That is true, but I am just curious as to what you/ others think. I often think that there could have been some sort of ancient society. Particularly in Egypt. It makes more sense to me because if a more advanced society built the pyramids, then got eliminated somehow, I think the lesser advanced people in the years that followed would have gone right back to colonizing ancient Giza. However you don’t see any native people living in these “advanced” North American cities.
@@Novaks_Egypt became desertified therefore less inhabitable
Have yu seen American high schools football baseball fields. Not like canada
It is POTTSVILLE, PA. not Pottstown, Pa. Geographically, Pottstown, Pa. is not anywhere near our Anthracite Coal Region. Your video is very misleading to the public who does not live in the area and very insulting to those of us who do!! Next time you do something like this, double check you information and your script. By the way, you also butchered the names of the Yuengling Brewery and the Necho Allen Hotel. Definitely thumbs down!!
Yes! two different places.
This guy has no clue and is a clown.