GHOST Town of Wehrum
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- This is a series of videos that will chronicle the Pennsylvania Ghost Town Trail
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So happy this channel was recommended to me. What a little gem.
Thanks for watching :D
NICE REVIEW SCOTT ~! MY WIFE,S FAMILY LIVED ON THE BLACKLICK VALLEY FARM THEY ATTENDED THAT SCHOOL AND SHE LATER GRADUATED FROM UNITED HIGH IN 1965 , WE VISITED THE ABANDONED SCHOOL IN THE EARLY 70,S I WAS SURPRISED TO FIND FOR A RATHER LARGE BUILDING THAT IT HAD A HOT AIR HEATING SYSTEM WITH HEAVY DUTY DUCT WORK !....////
We often believe that people from back then lived like cowboys and that the word pioneer meant "lived in primitive log cabin or shack"... the reality was, they lived almost exactly as we do now, just with less cell phone and internet technology.
Thanks for the great video. I would like to see you do video's of other towns in Indiana County. Like the villages of Tide, Waterman, Luciusboro, Lucerne Mines, Coral, Graceton and Miko.
More to come!
Thank you for your excellent video. I just found an envelope postmarked Wehrum, PA dated September 17, 1906, and I watched your video to find out about the town. The envelope was sent to an address in Cross Fork, PA. The return address on the envelope reads,” After 5 days return to Wehrum Supply Co. Wehrum, Indiana Co., Pa.
WOW... to hold a piece of that history in your hands... knowing what those people went through just to survive.
Yes! Eliza furnace in vintondale, , you should check out the Mack road cemetery, Russian Orthodox i believe. It was very much over grown and unkempt til two or three years ago. Cornfield directly behind it. Its still pretty neat
I believe that is the cemetery I was at in the end of the video... will recheck, and if not, will add to the list. :D
I went to wehrum school 1947-1953. Across the road was a mine shaft
My ancestors 🙏🏼
The jail is still there to its covered by weeds and bushes now but if you drive slow you can see it and there was a school and the foundation on the curve was the hotel i think and my dad went to elementary school in wehrum then when wehrum shit down my dad went to United high school and graduated in 1972 and i graduated from United in 2005 so i know exactlybwhere this is at i grew up around this area......i think i made a mistake moving to town
Oh... that would be cool to go back just to see that jail. I did catch pictures of the foundation, but everything was so heavily "posted" and "no trespass" that I essentially just decided to cut that stuff out and not have people complain too loudly.
@@ODDySEEy you can see it from the road as far as i know nobody lives in those houses people do live in the ones across the road though
They mine sell for out of that river when I was going to school there
Hey Scott. So the algorithm led me too new videos that do not show up on your channel page to me. I was just perusing your main page and was certain I hadn't seen this and if I'm remembering correctly there are also a few more here. I will indicate them with a 🎯as I come across them. Hope all is well mate. Always checking for new ones.
I will reply with a ✅ to let you know I have added it for investigation.
Too bad about the microphone. Would have liked to of heard what you were pointing out on the tombstone.
I also just learned how local you are to me. I am from Williamsburg.
I now carry TWO microphones and double check before recording. Sometimes, things just happen on these adventures.
Scott, how soon are you going to do another story on a community in Indiana County?
Not sure... what suggestions might you have?
@@ODDySEEy Scott any old mining town from Indiana County.
That was a excellent video. Being a local my family has ties to wehrum.
Thank you, Jason. I think I will be doing another sub-video for it because, believe it or not, I cut out over 7 minutes of actual history that took place due to the audio drop out. Maybe I should podcast the audio portion of these videos for situations like this. Where we get a nice "tour" with a "touch" on the history followed by an optional "audio" of the full researched history. That would keep videos in the 10 min mark and give the opportunity for others to listen to the 20-30 or even 40 minute original scripts.
Very cool.. excellent drone footage.. ghost towns are so eerie, no lack of them in PA.. never knew Scranton was a family name
It will be interesting when I start hitting the NEPA (Northeastern Pennsylvania). There is a lot of old secrets and oddities that people overlook out that way.
Sulfur
Great video Scott, I know Wehrum well, I grew up very nearby there. I don't know about the condition of the creek now near the Wehrum location but I do know that as of 2018 there are stocked trout in the creek to the east near a town called Nanty Glo.
Stock trout are probably fine... and the water probably is not too poisoned, just the substrate. Kinda like when you drink water from a well, don't drink from the bottom and don't drink from the top... drink from the middle.
Hey Scott, great video. We live about a mile from wehrum, and walk the Ghost town trail quite often. Its fascinating to get more of the history. Like you said we found your channel by accident, but now we are liked and subcribed. We have been to quite a few of the places you've spotlighted but never knew the full depth of what we were seeing. Thank you for filling in a few of the holes in history, and we look forward as you continue your ODDySEEy. Jesse and Yvonne L.
Thank You!
Though these places are almost 10k miles away from me. Still these videos makes me feel like these are my neighborhood and I need to know more about these places. Keep it up.
Thank you @Sayan Chakraborty... WOW, 10k miles. India? If I get big enough I will most definitely be coming out that way. So many things all over the subcontinent that I want to see (and above it, and next to it, and all over the place). Anyway, keep watching as I attempt to continue uncovering and pulling all this remote sites back into each other. I am glad you enjoy it. In a lot of ways, my history in PA aligns with the history of your area when it comes to trains, tunnels, mining, and the ovens and dams.
@@ODDySEEy , looking forward to more of your videos.
Why the blurred face at 3:00 mark?
That's for a different episode ;)
Another great video Scott! It's shame Blacklick Creek is so polluted. Perhaps one day they will be able to clean it up. The creeks in the Horseshoe Curve are are coming along, so there's hope for BC as well.
Did the ones up by Horseshoe Curve look like that? And those mining pools just above the Glenn White Coke Ovens?
@@ODDySEEy Yes, when I was young Glen White run was a mess. The ponds are the filter system for the mine drainage installed by the Altoona Water Authority. They built the settling ponds in the 90's I believe and they have worked wonderfully. Kittanning Run that emerges from the mountain draw at the Horseshoe Curve park will start getting attention in the near future. From what I was told by a AWA employee, the entrance to the Glen White mine still exists, but it is submerged under the water that flooded the mine. I never bothered to look for it because it doesn't sound all that impressive.
Hey Scott, do a video on the Kecksburg, PA UFO.😁
YOU KNOW IT! It is on the list and will be a LOT of fun to do. The reason I became an aerospace engineer had nothing to do with liking math, but everything to do with 'I want to believe!"
Nice job Scott. It's a shame about the new microphone. On the plus side I was having a flashback to my younger years of watching on Kung Fu movies. 😜
Hey... Kung Fu Theater is what it is like to watch my computer while MAKING these videos, LOL. It was my fault for not triple checking things. The first two 3 minute clips had audio and so I assumed it was working correctly or as intended. Lesson: Never ASSuME.
@@ODDySEEy It's always good that you can laugh at your mistakes. Too many people take things way too serious.