Lived in Indiana my whole life and never heard of any of these. Now I’m going to have to go see them. Thank you Roger. Living in ft wayne I’ve never even knew we had a museum here
If you decide to make a 10 Museums of Northern Indiana #2 here are one you should consider for that 1) Fort Wayne Fire Museum ~ Fort Wayne 2) Auburn Cord Duesenburg ~ Auburn 3) The Vice Presidential Museum ~ Huntington 4) Monster Truck Mueseum & Hall of Fame ~ Butler 5) Mascot Museum & HOF ~ Whiting 6) The Studebaker National Museum ~ South Bend 7) Superhero Museum ~ Elkhart 8) Old Lighthouse Museum ~ Michigan City 9) Swiss Heritage Museum ~ Berne 10) World of Motorcycles Museum ~ Winnamac Awesome Video as usual Roger
@@thewannaberunner it’s all in the numbers! If people don’t like the first one, there won’t be a part two! 😂 I’ve already filmed Auburn Cord Duesenberg, Studebaker, Model T, and several others for a car segment, simply beautiful automobiles!
Thanks for your piece on Menno Hof as a Mennonite it's interesting to hear others prospectives on the Ana-Baptist movement from Europe to America and beyond. John Funk who started my church, Prairie Street Mennonite Church in 1871, did a number of things both for the history of the City of Elkhart and what is today Mennonite Church North America, etc.
@@GeraldMiller-mp8fc Growing up in Indiana, our folks took us to lots of Hoosier destinations. We still didn’t see half of these, as Dad was big on coming home to his own bed each night! I ended up staying three nights to capture all these places.
Hi Roger! Live in central Indiana and been watching for quite a while and have been missing out on all of the possibilities and wonders of Indiana! Road trips!! I pass Peru and Grissom AFB every time I go up to Michigan and have never stopped to see these wonderful museums. (FYI at 1:09 “Unusual” is misspelled). Keep up the great work!
Used to visit N. East Indiana lakes as a kid. We would visit Menno-Hoff in Shipshawana . And the Auburn, Cord, Dussenburg in Auburn , Indiana. Both were worth visiting. Edit to add: Gene Stratton-Porters home is also a nice visit, lots of beautiful land.
Would love to go see the RV museum! And the Amish museum, wow!! I work in healthcare and come into acquaintance with the Amish on occasion. I truly admire their way of life. I had never heard of their museum but it looks fascinating and is going on my travel list. Well done, thanks Roger. Always enjoy your work!
Thanks, Michelle! The Amish / Mennonite museum was a complete surprise! I expected maybe wall displays of clothes, buggies, something very plain. A lot of thought went into that museum, and went in a completely different direction!
Just came through Indiana today and of course, thought of you when I'd see a patch of dense forest, wondering if you explored it and wondered what was back there... 😊
@@AdventureswithRoger there's a veterans national memorial shrine and museum just outside Fort Wayne. It has one of the traveling Vietnam walls that was retired. Unless you're from here you'd never really know about it.
@@AdventureswithRoger there's a veterans national memorial shrine and museum just outside Fort Wayne. It has one of the traveling Vietnam walls that was retired. Unless you're from here you'd never really know about it.
@@chriscollins-bryson180 several people have told me about a burial mound at Fort Wayne, that’s in the middle of a roundabout, but I’ve never been able to locate it. Over where the fort recreation is located, was once a ton of mounds.
@@grnthumb30 I filmed Auburn Cord, Studebaker, Model T Museum, and a slew of other smaller museums for a car themed segment. The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum is my favorite: lots of memories. 🙂
Neat video Roger. Thank you for sharing your travels. Roger have you stopped in Vincennes Indiana at the military museum? George Roger’s Clark memorial is neat to. 😊
I enjoyed the tour but was surprised you left out the Auburn, Cord, Deusenburg museum and NATMUS to the west in Auburn , IN. Also, I'm not sure if it's still there. But in Waterloo, IN there's a bank that's also a museum dedicated to civil war artifacts. The manager stated the branch in Fremont, IN is dedicated to native American artifacts.
The segment was about unusual museums. I’m planning another segment about cars, I’ve already Filmed Auburn Cord Duesenberg / Studebaker. Will check out Waterloo and Fremont.
@@AdventureswithRoger I just looked it up and it seems the bank is now the town hall. I'm not sure if the artifacts are still there but a phone call would save a trip. I was there on a field trip with my niece and nephew in the mid 2000s. I found it interesting and never made it to Fremont but wanted to see the native American artifacts. I wonder if it still exists.
✨🙏🌊💙🌎💙🌊🙏✨...you should consider a show on the mound builder's....there are tons of sites scattered throughout the tristate Ohio valley etc...these people were actually real giants...
I did do several, but am working on a third. Indiana's Mysterious Mounds: Legends of Advanced Civilizations and Giants ua-cam.com/video/QyGyuXyG2mQ/v-deo.html X ON THE MAP: The Ancient Cities of Indiana ua-cam.com/video/0gW7zi0vNLM/v-deo.html
Two reflections: 1. Menno-Hof is wonderful and represents many facets of Anabaptist culture (speaking as a Mennonite). 2. I am completely freaked out by wind turbines because of their massive size and movement.
@@jamabrookmyergraber8684 Living in southern Indiana, I’ve seen the massive windmill blades being transported down the highway, but we don’t have wind turbines in this region. When I went to Northern Indiana, earlier this year, I couldn’t believe the miles of them, all over the landscape! The first one I saw was a novelty, based only on size. But miles and miles of them: ugly.
@AdventureswithRoger I live in Warsaw Indiana. Only odd things I can think of around here is the Barbee Hotel. Ben on those ghost shows. A historical marker that is next to high dollar lake homes. Telling how the Indians use to tie their dead to the trees in that area. The sheriff depth. Has the Tommy gun that dilanger stole from them displayed in the lobby.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't they winter their animals in Peru? My dad said that they had glazed tile barns, so the lions and Tigers couldn't claw through the walls
They wintered there along the Mississinewa in Peru. Many structures still stand beside the barns, it’s actually a national landmark now. At one time, they wintered at French Lick and gave shows before they hit the road. The museum in town has the world’s largest circus diorama.
@@jjj1951 Not the strangest museum I’ve ever seen, but I did film it and the Studebaker museum when I was up there. I’m writing a segment about cars and car memorabilia for this fall. 🙂
Funny but true story: I was doing a segment about historic places along the Ohio River, Lawrenceburg to Mount Vernon, Indiana. All of them dated back to the mid 1800s. Without a single exception, people told me they were haunted! I didn’t even ask, that came out in the first five or 10 minutes of conversation! 😂 I’m convinced that all these old places are spooked.
@@AdventureswithRoger I hear things like this myself. I grew up in Portage Indiana in Porter County. I lived on a road called Stagecoach Road. People would come from miles to see this road on Halloween because of the stories of hauntings. I've never seen anything growing up. A lot of car crashes and deaths have happened though. Look it up on Google maps. It's a curvy road with sand hills to the north and corn fields to the south. I grew up on the sand dunes and Lake Michigan. It was awesome!
@@AdventureswithRoger it’s been 25 years since I was in it last. My grandma took me when I was a kid. It was interesting for a preteen. Lots of Indian stuff and neat old items
@@98kouki123 I’ve been hitting all the old county museums. They seem to have the best old artifacts, seemingly unaffected by the repatriation act. In Kentucky, I was blown away by small statues, 1,000 years old and more. All of these, that used to be in Indiana museums, are gone.
@@AdventureswithRoger This is a great piece of information. I have visited multiple mound sites across the country only to find their museums now closed or empty due to the repatriation act. I will definitely start checking out some of the local/county museums.
@charcrow this last week, I went all the way over to Cahokia: museum is still closed. The St. Louis history museum, has absolutely nothing about the mounds, even though the entire waterfront was once made of mounds. However, Wickliffe, Kentucky has a museum with a lot of artifacts, the finest examples of Mississippian statues I’ve ever seen.
Enjoyed your humor! Thanks for the tour!
"If you build it, they will come " A museum for everything! Thank you, Roger. 🙂
Always thought it would be fun to have my own museum. Lots of work!
We love how you keep surprising us with what Indiana offers!
I’ve been documenting Indiana for over seven years, still have much to go! 🙂
Lived in Indiana my whole life and never heard of any of these. Now I’m going to have to go see them. Thank you Roger. Living in ft wayne I’ve never even knew we had a museum here
Lots of great museums up there!
Yessir!!! Always love a new adventure with Roger.
If you decide to make a 10 Museums of Northern Indiana #2 here are one you should consider for that
1) Fort Wayne Fire Museum ~ Fort Wayne
2) Auburn Cord Duesenburg ~ Auburn
3) The Vice Presidential Museum ~ Huntington
4) Monster Truck Mueseum & Hall of Fame ~ Butler
5) Mascot Museum & HOF ~ Whiting
6) The Studebaker National Museum ~ South Bend
7) Superhero Museum ~ Elkhart
8) Old Lighthouse Museum ~ Michigan City
9) Swiss Heritage Museum ~ Berne
10) World of Motorcycles Museum ~ Winnamac
Awesome Video as usual Roger
@@thewannaberunner it’s all in the numbers! If people don’t like the first one, there won’t be a part two! 😂 I’ve already filmed Auburn Cord Duesenberg, Studebaker, Model T, and several others for a car segment, simply beautiful automobiles!
I’m going to take a snapshot of your recommendations: extremely tempting road-trips!
Snowmobile museum in Morocco.
@edregan6391 HOW DID I MISS THIS ONE?!!! If only I knew about this one
Enticing me to travel to the northern parts, thanks for posting Roger!
Thanks for your piece on Menno Hof as a Mennonite it's interesting to hear others prospectives on the Ana-Baptist movement from Europe to America and beyond. John Funk who started my church, Prairie Street Mennonite Church in 1871, did a number of things both for the history of the City of Elkhart and what is today Mennonite Church North America, etc.
The museum was very enlightening, and I’d recommend it to anyone traveling through northern Indiana. 🙂
You're looking at a Delorian @4:00 but behind it sits a Tucker. There's a whole video just on that!
I grew up in this area and somehow missed so many of these.
@@GeraldMiller-mp8fc Growing up in Indiana, our folks took us to lots of Hoosier destinations. We still didn’t see half of these, as Dad was big on coming home to his own bed each night! I ended up staying three nights to capture all these places.
I had no idea all those museums were in northern Indiana!
Thanks for all the info.
Much love to ya~ from southern Indiana ❤️
That’s just the unusual ones. There’s a slew of county museums and terrific car museums
@@AdventureswithRoger thanks again for all the info 😊
Very interesting. I didn't know there was that much history near me. Thanks Roger
Hi Roger! Live in central Indiana and been watching for quite a while and have been missing out on all of the possibilities and wonders of Indiana! Road trips!! I pass Peru and Grissom AFB every time I go up to Michigan and have never stopped to see these wonderful museums. (FYI at 1:09 “Unusual” is misspelled). Keep up the great work!
@@sandraabshire4923 OH.MY.GOODNESS! I double checked every fact and cut, for two days, missed the misspelling! 😂
Cool to see "The Sunken Gardens" in the opening shots.
That park is fun to visit...I grew up there, in Huntington 🙂
@@duramax74 Same here. I used to not like it around here, but it's grown on me as I've gotten older
Just found your channel the other day. I'm definitely enjoying it.
@@Slvrfox86 welcome to the adventure! 🙂
Used to visit N. East Indiana lakes as a kid. We would visit Menno-Hoff in Shipshawana . And the Auburn, Cord, Dussenburg in Auburn , Indiana. Both were worth visiting. Edit to add: Gene Stratton-Porters home is also a nice visit, lots of beautiful land.
Filmed both houses, but I’d say the one on the lake is my favorite!
Intriguing content.
Love the humor in the commentary too.
Another great video, Roger! Keep up the good work!
Would love to go see the RV museum! And the Amish museum, wow!! I work in healthcare and come into acquaintance with the Amish on occasion. I truly admire their way of life. I had never heard of their museum but it looks fascinating and is going on my travel list. Well done, thanks Roger. Always enjoy your work!
Thanks, Michelle!
The Amish / Mennonite museum was a complete surprise! I expected maybe wall displays of clothes, buggies, something very plain. A lot of thought went into that museum, and went in a completely different direction!
Thanks very much Roger...most entertaining, with regular chuckles for good measure 😆😂🥳✌️
As a La Porte resident, I'm so glad to know you enjoyed our local museums. We truly have some treasures and oddities.
A truly wonderful collection!
One of your best and funniest Roger!
Thanks, Marcus!
Awesome checklist for me this winter. Thanks! I think ill start in my hometown, Valpo.
Great video and wonderful museums. Very interesting thank you for sharing.
I wish that I went to Indiana when I travelled in America in the 1980's!
I'm saving this one Roger ! I can use it as a guide , for a roadtrip . Thank you brother ❤
My pleasure Bart! Happy adventures! 🙂
Definitely gonna check some of these out! Great video as always Roger, thanks for sharing!
Been to the Amish museum in Shipshewanna - very well done and worth a visit!!
Fully agree!
What a wonderful video, thank you so much Roger.
You have a great voice for media and great ideas for comtent.
Love the dinosaur & rv museums! Pretty cool!
The RV museum was a joy! I went in every one that was open.
Man, I need to get up north sometime. A lot of cool stuff I didn’t know about. Thanks Roger!
My pleasure, Ryan!
Love it! Thanks Roger!
Fun one Roger, thank you!
What a fun video, Roger! ❤😂❤
Thank-you, Robin!
ty Roger
Hook & Eye Dutch. I grew up around Mennonites. Solid people, good neighbors, and masterful farmers.
Good video Roger interesting
Just came through Indiana today and of course, thought of you when I'd see a patch of dense forest, wondering if you explored it and wondered what was back there... 😊
@@StacyL. Over the last 45 plus years, I’ve been to lots of woods in Indiana. But for sure, there are some places even I won’t go! 😂
Rv hall of fame is just 5 minutes east of my house. Thanks for visiting up north.
A true pleasure! Weather was absolutely perfect
This was awesome. I live in Fort Wayne. I knew about some of these places but didn't know the ones in the northwest area.
Hope I can send some traffic to these worthy, yet hardly known places. 🙂
@@AdventureswithRoger there's a veterans national memorial shrine and museum just outside Fort Wayne. It has one of the traveling Vietnam walls that was retired. Unless you're from here you'd never really know about it.
@@AdventureswithRoger there's a veterans national memorial shrine and museum just outside Fort Wayne. It has one of the traveling Vietnam walls that was retired. Unless you're from here you'd never really know about it.
@@chriscollins-bryson180 several people have told me about a burial mound at Fort Wayne, that’s in the middle of a roundabout, but I’ve never been able to locate it. Over where the fort recreation is located, was once a ton of mounds.
@@AdventureswithRoger I've never heard anything about that before. I don't know how I sent that twice. Lol
Very nice! What about the Auburn Cord Dusenburg Museum? Guess it's not unusual, but it's a great visit.
@@grnthumb30 I filmed Auburn Cord, Studebaker, Model T Museum, and a slew of other smaller museums for a car themed segment. The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum is my favorite: lots of memories. 🙂
Neat video Roger. Thank you for sharing your travels. Roger have you stopped in Vincennes Indiana at the military museum? George Roger’s Clark memorial is neat to. 😊
I have! Vincennes has a lot of great memories for me. 🙂
Vincennes, Indiana: All the Hidden Places
ua-cam.com/video/RY_SsUCNErc/v-deo.html
I enjoyed the tour but was surprised you left out the Auburn, Cord, Deusenburg museum and NATMUS to the west in Auburn , IN. Also, I'm not sure if it's still there. But in Waterloo, IN there's a bank that's also a museum dedicated to civil war artifacts. The manager stated the branch in Fremont, IN is dedicated to native American artifacts.
The segment was about unusual museums. I’m planning another segment about cars, I’ve already Filmed Auburn Cord Duesenberg / Studebaker.
Will check out Waterloo and Fremont.
@@AdventureswithRoger I just looked it up and it seems the bank is now the town hall. I'm not sure if the artifacts are still there but a phone call would save a trip. I was there on a field trip with my niece and nephew in the mid 2000s. I found it interesting and never made it to Fremont but wanted to see the native American artifacts. I wonder if it still exists.
@transam790 Sadly, many of the small town museums are gone. What’s worse, is that they often had the best prehistoric artifacts!
Yay it's Friday with Roger
✨🙏🌊💙🌎💙🌊🙏✨...you should consider a show on the mound builder's....there are tons of sites scattered throughout the tristate Ohio valley etc...these people were actually real giants...
I did do several, but am working on a third.
Indiana's Mysterious Mounds: Legends of Advanced Civilizations and Giants
ua-cam.com/video/QyGyuXyG2mQ/v-deo.html
X ON THE MAP: The Ancient Cities of Indiana
ua-cam.com/video/0gW7zi0vNLM/v-deo.html
Two reflections:
1. Menno-Hof is wonderful and represents many facets of Anabaptist culture (speaking as a Mennonite).
2. I am completely freaked out by wind turbines because of their massive size and movement.
@@jamabrookmyergraber8684 Living in southern Indiana, I’ve seen the massive windmill blades being transported down the highway, but we don’t have wind turbines in this region. When I went to Northern Indiana, earlier this year, I couldn’t believe the miles of them, all over the landscape! The first one I saw was a novelty, based only on size. But miles and miles of them: ugly.
Very nice , and surprised by the quality of these places
Some really nice ones, especially great in bad weather!
Model T museum in Richmond Indiana
I’ve filmed it for a future segment about cars 🙂
Nice
Lots of museums in Northern Indiana.
@@casketdriver1 definitely! These are just the ones with unusual offerings, there are so much more!
@AdventureswithRoger I live in Warsaw Indiana. Only odd things I can think of around here is the Barbee Hotel. Ben on those ghost shows. A historical marker that is next to high dollar lake homes. Telling how the Indians use to tie their dead to the trees in that area. The sheriff depth. Has the Tommy gun that dilanger stole from them displayed in the lobby.
You forgot the Pleasureland Museum in Osceola, Indiana. It’s on Ash Rd between Elkhart and St Joe county.
A porn museum? 😂
@@AdventureswithRoger yup.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't they winter their animals in Peru? My dad said that they had glazed tile barns, so the lions and Tigers couldn't claw through the walls
They wintered there along the Mississinewa in Peru. Many structures still stand beside the barns, it’s actually a national landmark now.
At one time, they wintered at French Lick and gave shows before they hit the road. The museum in town has the world’s largest circus diorama.
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Great What do you think about the car companies and displays in Indiana? Millville has a jet, Henry county birth place of a Weight brother.
@@robertraymond7355 continually looking for stories as I see landmarks. Sometimes the landmark is the story!
On a side note, Orville Reddenbacher is not from Valparaiso, IN
Born in Brazil, lived most of his adult life in Valpo. Noted.
Belle Guiness was Stout.
Wouldn't the Auburn Cord Dusenberg museum meet the standard of an unusual museum?
@@jjj1951 Not the strangest museum I’ve ever seen, but I did film it and the Studebaker museum when I was up there. I’m writing a segment about cars and car memorabilia for this fall. 🙂
They say the Porter Museum is haunted. Great video as always!!!!!!!
Funny but true story: I was doing a segment about historic places along the Ohio River, Lawrenceburg to Mount Vernon, Indiana. All of them dated back to the mid 1800s. Without a single exception, people told me they were haunted! I didn’t even ask, that came out in the first five or 10 minutes of conversation! 😂 I’m convinced that all these old places are spooked.
@@AdventureswithRoger I hear things like this myself. I grew up in Portage Indiana in Porter County. I lived on a road called Stagecoach Road. People would come from miles to see this road on Halloween because of the stories of hauntings. I've never seen anything growing up. A lot of car crashes and deaths have happened though. Look it up on Google maps. It's a curvy road with sand hills to the north and corn fields to the south. I grew up on the sand dunes and Lake Michigan. It was awesome!
10/4 Roger that.
I live about 2 miles dinosaur museum
You forgot the marshal county museum lol
What’s in it?
@@AdventureswithRoger it’s been 25 years since I was in it last. My grandma took me when I was a kid. It was interesting for a preteen. Lots of Indian stuff and neat old items
@@98kouki123 I’ve been hitting all the old county museums. They seem to have the best old artifacts, seemingly unaffected by the repatriation act. In Kentucky, I was blown away by small statues, 1,000 years old and more. All of these, that used to be in Indiana museums, are gone.
@@AdventureswithRoger This is a great piece of information. I have visited multiple mound sites across the country only to find their museums now closed or empty due to the repatriation act. I will definitely start checking out some of the local/county museums.
@charcrow this last week, I went all the way over to Cahokia: museum is still closed. The St. Louis history museum, has absolutely nothing about the mounds, even though the entire waterfront was once made of mounds. However, Wickliffe, Kentucky has a museum with a lot of artifacts, the finest examples of Mississippian statues I’ve ever seen.
Amish and Mennonites are different from each other. They are not interchangable.
@@GeraldMiller-mp8fc Lots of differences, common origins going back to the Anabaptists. I believe Mennonites are behind the museums creation.
I’m am a big fan and Is It cool to email
@@thomaslewis9980 Sure! Do you have a trip suggestion?