Spooky Abandoned House and MILL RUINS FOUND! Exploring A Ghost Town - Cleola Georgia
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- Опубліковано 25 січ 2025
- Take a journey into the past as we explore the ruins of the once-impressive Oak Mountain Mill and the abandoned Milner house, a historic "Miller's" home tied to the vanished town of Cleola. Joined by Dan and Joy, with Roger Milner sharing fascinating local history, we delve into the legacy of this remarkable area.
Cleola, established in 1887 as a station on the Southern Railroad, was once a thriving town with its own post office and stores, including those owned by members of the Milner family. Known for its three-story mill, Cleola was a hub of activity, producing flour and meal for the community. Advertisements boasted same-day service and even covered one-way freight costs for railway customers. Though the town faded into history by 1929 traces of its past remain.
The house and mill are poignant reminders of the area's vibrant past, offering a glimpse into a once-bustling community that now lives on in memory.
Come along as we uncover the remnants of Cleola, honoring its history and the stories passed down through generations.
Make sure you go back and watch Part 1 of our Cleola visit!
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Mr.Dan is a walking history book..just love listening to Mr.Dan talk.
Exactly!!
Every time Dan is asked a question he replies, "Well......" as if he may not know the answer, but then he proceeds to tell the whole history of a place. You are a treasure, sir
That mill; the dam and engineering feats...And all with NO PERMITS, or inspections, or government specifications... just pure American determination and ingenuity !
It's a 1948 Ford Super Deluxe. Those rear hinged doors are called suicide doors because the passenger would have to lean way out of the car to close it. If the car was moving you would have to fight the wind to pull it shut and in the days before seat belts that could be problematic. Also if the passenger was leaning way out and another car struck the door while he/she was attempting to close it they would get mashed by the door.
Yep, explained nicely!
I love Robert’s “ Yukon Cornelius” moment with that piece of chrome!😄
My dad restored a red 1947 Ford Super Deluxe coupe a few decades ago. It was fun riding in it and we were even a parade out in California. Beautiful car…
And I just wonder why the designers didn't make the car doors safe.
I'm happy that Joy got presented with the wheel. Very fitting as her family was thew last to be connected to it. It's always great hearing about Dan's vast knowledge of the area and getting to see what remains of this site. Beautiful area with the rapids, no wonder the first owner wanted his mill there. Thank you, Robert, Dan, and Joy for showing us the history of this place,
Joy was so thrilled! ❤
Thanks for another great video, Great to see and hear from Dan, a man of history! He would have made a great professor, no one would ever miss class
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟!! Once again Dan and his vast knowledge and Joy and her knowledge of family and the places certainly weave together a picture of the past and a legacy. Amazing history, an amazing place! Wonderful tour and details to an impressive history of engineering, unbelievable amount of hard labor and the lives behind establishing the mill. The excitement of the visit is definitely shared and amplified by the personal connection and discovery of the initials, writing and the wonderful door latch, treasures, all. Joy, how cool, you get the wooden wheel and that Dan saved it! The ruins while marvelous in story telling is also a stark reminder of how quickly time and nature reclaim the human path. This is why documentation, video, photographs and story telling, both oral and written is so very important, and why Robert does what he does. The car, suicide doors had unreliable latches that when at higher speeds, the wind could suddenly open the doors and the passengers were in danger of failing out. I can't tell the year, but 1933-39 is the most prevalent years, Ford to my knowledge. Outstanding sharing, Joy, Dan, and Robert. The hours and hours spent behind the editing of this is detailed and skillful, Robert. I truly appreciate you all. Enjoyed!!❣👍❣👍❣
Very well written!😊
@cindys.9688 thank you, your's is as well! 😊
@@SondraD7676 ~ Thank you!🥰
So, so happy to see Mr. Dan back. It's not the same without his stories.
Believe this to be the very best of Robert's AdventuresIntoHistory series. Suicide Doors were hinged on the rear side of the door, if they became unlatched, the wind could blow them open. The Ford is probably 1947 or 48. Super nice of Dan to gift Joy with the cog wheel from the mill. All of the scenery is excellent. Thank you all.
Always love these times in history vlogs, thanks Robert, Dan and Joy!
When Dan gifted the wheel to Joy I got choked up. It was a very special moment. Overall this was a great episode.
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Those initials!! What an amazing find for Joy!❤
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Dan ALWAYS cracks me up with his dry wit... "Bottles and jars "... 😆
Yeah I thought that was super funny
I laughed at that too. Good stuff
I LOVE the longer videos!! Especially the extra extra longer ones.
I do too !!!
@@PennyPigs-pm2yf ~ Same here! Love the historical information. ❤️
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Sitting down to watch the videos always start out so nonchalantly for me, but I *always* end up traveling down 2 or 3 or 100+ of history’s never ending research fueled rabbit holes while watching….
The longer videos are so relaxing. More info is covered, so by the video’s end, I don’t have the typical 25+ open browser tabs with the 25+ things I now *must* know. 😬
Mr. Dan, you amaze me. You are a walking history book. I’m so glad this and other locations and information is being filmed.
You gave us the grand tour today! 😊
Mr. Dan has a wealth of information! So impressive. Love that you got him sharing about so much.
So happy for Joy that she was gifted with the wooden wheel from Dan. She was touched.💜
I'm so happy for her as she got to see relics of the mill. Including the initials! Dan had a ton of information about it. I could picture in my mind's eye what he was saying. The mill was absolutely massive! The labor that went into getting it built (a huge task in itself), up, and running was A LOT.
I was thinking that if I'd have been Joy I would've been feeling sad about the house. I'm sure she felt it. She'd spent a lot of time there, has wonderful memories of the place, and remembered how things looked. To see it now...😢 The trash especially saddens me. The aging of the house is going to happen, but people shouldn't be leaving their trash there.
The old car looked...old!😄 Boy, it's seen better days. I wonder if cars can be haunted. If so, this one would be a likely candidate. I always wonder about their stories. Who owned them. Did they belong to families. Why was it left out in a field? Maybe it was a get-away car for a bank heist!🤑
Thanks for this super interesting tour of these great historical sites. I'm glad you get the stories on video. Such an important way to document. Transcripts of these spoken stories are great, too.😊
History is much more interesting when you are taken on a virtual tour and see the remnants that are left and have narrators showing providing the story. So cool that this history involved Joy’s family and she has the latch to the door and the wheel from the mill gifted to her from Dan and his mother. Being able to see his initials carved in the stone was amazing. Thank you three!
Fantastic video! Thanks to all of you!
amazing to find old homesteads with house still intacted. my great grandparents home is being lived to this day, northern minnesota
That's great. Keep it in the family.
@suzanneflowers2230 sadly it's no longer within my family but I can go visit it anytime I want.
Please tell Joy, Mr. Dan how nice of them to do this with you. Also how blessed Joy is to see family history up close.
I count myself very lucky!
Awesome day thank you for sharing this amazing story!❤️🙏👩🏻🦳
I so appreciate the video, I've seen mills in operation in my life, one a flour mill and the other used to produce wool skeins in new Brunswick, Canada. Mills fascinate me as to their operation and use of water to generate "power". The backstory provided is equally as fascinating, a treasure of memories. Thanks to all involved!
Joy should dress in overalls, pose just like her aunt in same place where the picture was taken. I think it will be a sweet picture. What a wonderful tour!
I do love a recreation photo!
@ I enjoyed the upload yesterday and seeing the mill.
Beautiful documentary ! At moments reminds me of Aztec ruins. Magical place for sure.
That was awesome. Thanks for taking us along!
Love to see Dan the Man again. Love all the history.
Absolutely AMAZING place! The rock work is truly a masterpiece! Were slaves used to build these rockworks or did the families build them. They are a work of art! Special place!!! Thank you for sharing with us!!! You historians are wonderfully keeping history alive!❤❤❤
I always enjoy these walks back in time with you and your friends.
I love this man knowledge of the history of his area.
What a great video! So much history between the mill and the house, and the store in the previous video. Must be so cool for Joy to have such close ties to these places! And thanks for taking one for the team by venturing inside the house and across that sketchy floor! Those were cool refrigerators, and so neat to see the numbers on the wall from where the phone used to be! 😊
@@bridgetmuehlberger5141 ~ I saw that, too. The phone numbers on the wall add an artistic element to the wall. I hope they never get covered over.
Nice hat Robert!Cool history of the mill. Wonderful tour of the old mill and dam.
Love watching your adventures and also love listing to Dans history on everything. Keeping doing what you do. From Iowa here
Dan put me on the floor! "Bottles-n-Jars" (When he was in the house looking at all the stuff in the floor:, I could feel his mind thinking: "Mercy, I never" ... what a mess. ... Ask him. ... but, Boxes, Trash Bags, and some good work gloves.)
Priceless, dry witt.
Absolutely phenomenal experience watching this video! Thank you Robert, Dan and Joy!
Great job, Robert, Mr. Dan, and Joy. I really enjoyed it. 😁
Loved the historical walk through of the old mill and the people doing the presentation! Thank you everyone.
Awesome video. Kewl to see the photos from when the Mill was still standing!
To Dan Joy and Robert. This was a great piece you-all did. It was amazing. Love Robert and the old car. You made me laugh. You do love the old vehicles. Take care.All of you.
What a story. So much History.
Fascinating history. Always appreciate the before and after pics !
Thank you for posting the video, this history UA-camr will say, “history they deserves to be remembered”
Another ruin that you wish they had the foresight to take care of for history sake. Thank you for sharing I love this stuff.
That mill and house are both awesome. Great video. On Saturday we stumbled upon the foundations of an old mill here in Virginia. It was out in the middle of nowhere in Dinwiddie County alongside the Brunswick County line. I'll have to post my pictures to the fan group. Oh, and the mill was still there in 2009, when the Google Street Views were taken.
Hello Robert Dan and Joy like to thank all of you that share the history of that land take care love from upstate New York❤😊
Great to see everyone great v, thanks.
When I saw Mr. Dan and Joy, I knew it would be a great video!
Absolutely fascinating!!! The imagination can go wild! Every since I was a kid I have been fascinated by sights like these, but I was usually just left wondering what they story was. The sights and sounds of Mike Buckner's (not sure of the last name) operating mill helps one picture in their mind what this place must have been like in its heyday. Loved this video!
Amazing engineering feat!
@@theresavolland4264 ~ It is! I think the Masons and the builders were the skill behind that. Just incredible!
Thats so cool that the initials of her Grandpa are still there in the stonework. 👍
This is the type of ezplore I love about this channel
Loved it guys ❤
Joy, you did a great job talking about the area.
Thank you kindly!
Truly awesome video
I’m telling ya, Mr. Dan is getting a huge following, along with the channel. I’d love to had a childhood like Mr. Dans growing up in Waverly Hall, meeting all those people from the past that just wanted to have someone to tell the history too so it wouldn’t be forgotten. I envy Robert being able to do what he does with who he does it with. I’m so glad for y’all, with the success with the channel Robert, and the old Byrd farm, I wish you all many more successful years. Mr. Dan, I love to listen to him. He should have something like a Vlog or Live segment where people can send him questions or he can talk about anything, cause we would listen. He could do it at his shop and call it something like “Jot it Down Time”. Sort of a spin off from The Lub and Abner Show. For that matter, Robert and Dan could do a show in the shop like Lub and Abner. I’m just joshin. But I would like to see more of Mr. Dans store. Maybe you all could do a video showing what’s in the shop and I’m still waiting to hear if Joy is single. I’m a old country boy that loves the south and has 4x4 full size Chevy and I love the outdoors 😊
No, she is not single. She is married with kids.
@ lucky man, I’ll quit nagging then
Wow that was awesome you 3 are awesome ❤
So fascinating. Love it.
Love history even if's not from Eastern North Carolina. Great video, the old pictures, the remain of old mill, the old store, old house great, l too love exploring. I do wonder if the old timber remaining from the old mill in the video could not be salvaged and preserved. It would be great! Thanks for sharing!
This is so amazing! I believe this is one of the most interesting videos you've guys have done. I read Joy's aritacle online too. Very amazing your family had such an connection to this plaace, JOy. NOw you'll will have to venture to Lockhart AL. It looks almost like a ghost town. I think the way the mill was set up is amazing and what a work of art that house is.
That could be a neat excursion.
@@beretta1342000 where is Joy’s article posted? Thanks
That was sweet of Dan
I agree! 😊
I’m intrigued😮again from your history and ways of presenting your story. Thank you all for taking me along ! ❤
Good stuff for sure. Great to see everyone, especially Miss Joy, and Dan's historical perspectives are always understandable and easy on the ears. Robert, you can jump in there every now and then unless you was just having a bad hair day? Glad Miss Joy got the family gear! Woot! Woot! Good job guys, God bless you one and all...
Thank you, Alvan! You’re always so generous with your comments 😊
@@joyfisher2128 You, Robert, and Dan all represent this part of the country so well. Personable, gracious, informed, well spoken and agreeable, traits not common in our age today. I just want you all to know they are appreciated and to never let them go.
Another fantastic video
Dan never ceases to amaze with his knowledge and history of central Georgia. My ancestry is from the Laurens county area near Dublin Ga.
Thank y'all for sharing,I loved every minute! ❤
What fun it was to hear this history lesson
Thank you so very much
So interesting... Love the family connections
Thanks guys! Always so interesting!!
Thank you, that was great guys. You have a wealth of knowledge between you. It is such a beautiful, peaceful area. The water was so nice. So many lives lived and worked there. The stone walls are mind blowing. Just imagine the effort it took, to build them. Thanks Robert, Joy and Dan.
Great video, lots of fascinating history.
The bones of the house look good. If possible, it would be a good family project to restore it. I wish I had my Granny's house.
This is another great video of the past history, sad to see everything return to the dust
Great video 😊
Love the wheel was saved and passed to a descendant ❤
What a fantastic historical location! That was an engineering feat in its day!
If the taillight lens are still on car, they are normally stamped with the year.
Awesome history!
Would love to see this in person, but since I can’t this is the next best thing! Good job yall 🫶🏼
That's great Joy got a piece of family history. It's fun to get something you think no longer exists. That rock wall is impressive....damn. Joy should talk to a guy named Robert who's restoring an old house ha ha. She should get advice from him on how to restore old houses ha ha.
Love and enjoy your videos. May the lord bless and protect you bringing out old history and the past.
I enjoy watching you guys ! Beautiful old house......
50:15 Cats must not be fed dog food! Cat food has specific additives that cats need. Loved the exploring!
That was an incredible trip! Joy seems to have a link to just about every place you visit. It's wonderful. And of course Dan has the history covered. I knew you had to go see what that old car was. Brakes are definitely overrated! Thank you! (I was really surprised you knew the song lyric "she came in through the bathroom window"....doesn't seem like your cup of tea!)
Central of Georgia had a railroad line to Covington County Alabama where the flooring mill was located.
So interesting! I don't live anywhere near Georgia, but this is amazing!
What a wonderful history
I wonder if the wheel was replaced in the early 1900's since those brackets (?) were patented in 1904. Maybe it was a wooden wheel before and switched to metal then? The millstone is a great find - our county has millstones rescued from the river from both our historic mills; they are on display in the town. Such wonderful history and even more special to have two people so closely connected to it. What a shame about that house - I would've loved to have seen it restored, but that tree just caused devastating damage. And Joy in the bathtub - wondered which one of you would get in that! Beautifully done video.
Love this video
Lockhart is located in Covington County,Alabama, near the Florida line. Lockhart was founded around the turn of the twentieth century by the Jackson Lumber Company, which was attracted to the thousands of acres of longleaf pine used for turpentine, resin, and lumber. Many of the investors were from Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., and the venture attracted many workers from eastern North Carolina who were familiar with processing turpentine and resin.
The company built a mill and a town named for Pittsburgh financier Charles Lockhart that included a general store, a multi-denominational church, and an electricity-generating plant. The town was laid out in a grid and modeled after a typical northern industrial town; many of the streets are named for Indian tribes of North America. By 1907, the town had expanded to 1,220 residents and by about 1912, the mill was one of the largest in the United States, boasting about 1,000 workers who reportedly ran the mill day and night. Indeed, the Jackson Lumber Company provided flooring for many notable buildings in New York, Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.
Thank you for that history!
Very interesting. Great video. You need that fragment of millstone preserved at The Old Byrd Farm! Seriously tho
Very interesting 🥰
It would be awesome that the gentleman that owns the property would give Joy that piece of mill stone to put in her yard for a memorial to the place and family
Yeah, but getting it home might take some doing since she lives across the country.
That would be neat but it’s a massive stone!
Great video today y’all! Definitely loved the old house, and the old Ford was really cool too. They were called suicide doors for a couple reasons, one they could come open while driving, but also because if you parked on a busy street and opened the back door to get out, a car could come along and slam the door back closed with you standing in it.
Cool 😎 old fridges, Cold Spot and Kelvinator..
Good one!
Robert, that Ford has potential resale value. Of course, it would have to be fixed or repaired daily, but hey, this is winter, and you've got a bit of time. Aeration will not be a problem. I say, go for it.
I am 70 years old and I remember falling out of my parents car in Alabama that had suicide doors.
I'd love to know if there are any photographs of the interior back in the day? There could even be daguerrotypes #1850's. Gorgeous camera work ! Beautiful place
Love this video and the last one. So much history, just like the town of Saratoga near where I live. My family and I still care for the Saratoga Cemetery which has been in use since the Civil war, the land it is on was part of the camp for General Sterling Price & over 6000 Confederate troops. Can't wait till you have videos of your cemetery restoration projects. I know someday you are gonna get bit by a brown recluse spider. Please wear gloves!! Watching from Southwest City Missouri!
Good gravey! I graduated high school in 1980.
I am starting to resemble that there Mill. It is beautiful so I suppose that I am too. Like it, a bit cracking!
Wonderful video, thank you and God Bless 🙏🏽
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