I photographed this town back a few months ago..It was a town on the Old Federal Rd...Most of the land is now owned by the JFB Lowery estate I believe. The buildings are 1.two story white building -masonic lodge,general store and post office 2.Barber shop 3.The building, 3 doors-Casket Warehouse(not a house..lol) 4.The building with Coke sign -store (guessed right on that one) 5.Building with low roof and two posts -gas station from 1930's 6.Yellow building you looked under -Doctors office 7. Red building-Hardware store 8.Building behind yellow building _Mcmillian Boarding house 9.Last building - house
post office officially approved 1818 and closed 1997 it was in the Lowery store and the upstairs served as the masonic lodge for a time the store closed around 2007
Please please do Old Salem, Al?! It is nearby Burnt Corn. My ancestors lived there for many many decades. Look on old census,the people who lived there had money. Most I. Area today couldn't match ancestors dollar for dollar. Let alone adjusting for inflation.
Enjoyed your video. I love old houses, old furniture and old towns! Today most people are in too big of a hurry,for those slower times and miss the opportunity to hear the voices that whisper in the gentle breeze. If only walls could talk. Thanks for taking me back.
This is truly amazing. Made me think of the movie "Fried Green Tomatoes" and the Whistle Stop Cafe. Thank you for sharing this slice of Americana with us. Beautiful!!
I have a ghost town for you to check out. Allen, Al. My great great grandmother lived there until the late 60s.. She lived across from the sawmill. The town had a store, post office and gas station I one building. The bridge to get to Allen was two planks. In 66 there was a bridge built and the road was paved. My great grandmothers house had a pump on the porch and no running water. She lived there until around 65 when she moved to a nursing home in Selma. I would love to see pictures of the town. I am sure my great grandmother's has fallen down by now. I just have my memories.
The broken windows in that old dilapidated house reminded me of a line in Neil Young's song "Alabama" it goes" Banjos playing through the broken glass". Great video. You and your team do an awesome job.
I was born just down the road from there in Hartselle 57 yrs ago. We never lived there though. I also worked as a young apprentice carpenter while building the "then new" future waste water treatment plant for Decatur back around 1980. It was a huge site, back then anyway. ( possibly been out-dated & a bigger one built sine then ) All of my Dad's family has been living in and around Cullman ( I did too, for several years until I moved back to Florida in 1984.......I was raised in Florida, but we always vacationed back home in Alabama to be with family. ) and Guntersville going back generations, and still do. I love it up there, and plan to return, hopefully within the next 5 to 10 yrs. ..........Central Florida is getting "too city" for this ole country boy, lol. The only thing I'll miss here is the bass fishing & mild winters. Take care and God Bless.
Stacy is a great addition I already enjoy the videos where you get to tell us some history Brian but she would be great with yall in some vids 2 thumbs up
My guess is that the red building at about 7:45 was once an old time gas station with two pumps. That's why the long extended roof sticking out in front of it. Seen a lot like that, some still open, but with a paved drive through and new pumps.
Someone obviously takes care of it the grass has been mowed recently and everything is nice and tidy.. It reminds me of the town I think it was whistle stop in the movie fried green tomatoes when they've go back and show the town in it's hay day and then they will show it nowadays where was abandoned. The wood is amazing just amazing I love old wood
Thank you for the tour of Burnt Corn, Alabama Brian. Awesome looking buildings, with boardwalks. The run down house with beautiful fireplaces. The giant coke sign was nice. I bet you wish coca-cola was still 5 cents.
I am pushing 69 and remember each bottle was like 15 cent in the early 60s and you could get 2 cents back with the glass bottle returned. Also cold drinks were priced higher than warm. They were in a big freezer with chunks of ice and cold water. The taste was so so much better than today. Being in NOLA they were sweeten with cane sugar. Living in a port town we would get bottles from all over the world. I one got one from Saudis Arabia with one side having Coke written in Arabic letters.
I worked in that town about forty years ago planting pine trees for Saint Regis paper company back then the town was called burnt corn creek the post office was located in the old general store I remember seeing a wanted poster for Jesse James they sold cloth on rolls they had mule collars for sale horse drawn plows you name it and they had it when you walked in the door it looked like you stepped back in time to the 18 hundreds
This town was shown on one of the ancestry research shows. Jerome Bettis of the Pittsburgh Steelers has ancestors going back to the early 1800's in Burnt Corn, Alabama.
Some of the best times of my life has been in burnt corn Alabama. My family has had a hunting camp there for years. I remember going in that general store in the early 90s. Love that place burnt corn. Thanks for the vid
So excited to see y'all went to Burnt Corn. I've never been there but have come across many ancestors that lived and are buried in the area. (Betts Family). Great video!! So glad I came across it!
I didn"t know that you're a musician Brian. Awesome songs on reverbnation. I am a musician as well rhythm guitar, keyboards, blues harp and vocals. Keep on rock'n Brian.
I have been through Burnt Corn many times on my way to Peterman, Al. I have been in that store several times when it was open and also remember the post office when it was still in operation. This was around 1976 to 1978.
Near Burnt Corn stood an old timey general store which was owned by Hank Williams Sr. Mother and Father. The place stood on Hwy 5 south named McWilliams.
The house at the end makes me think how it must have once been someone’s home. That someone loved it, was proud to call it home, lived a life inside it’s now crumbling walls. 😔
Thanks Brian fot the tour, and list of attractions. And thank your lovely wife for pestering you to go there. LOL As all your ventures are it was very interesting.
Come check out Mora, Georgia. Its just a bump in the road but it's awesome. I would lov to see insode some of those old buildings. I moved near by about 12 years ago and sometimes I drive a little bit out of my way just to drive through this nostalgic town- Mora, Georgia. Mora, GA - Mora, Georgia Map & Directions - MapQuest
havent been here in a while. good to know its till in good shape. my grandpa James Day was born here, in a cabin just down the road a couple miles. i live about an hour west, in Jackson.
Wow... I just found out that I have family members that reside here... One of my Great Grandmother's was the oldest living residents when she passed away at 112 many years ago... I hope to visit Burnt Corn and Purdido Alabama one day to learn more about my family's history 🤗
The early 1800's was a period of civel war in the Creek Tribes, and influenced other local tribes. The main contention was how best to contend with the white settlers and their culture. Whether to fight it or accept it. The rest is history, and mostly misinterpreted history. LOL Family stories and text books collide greately. My family was Creek, Choctauw , German, and Irish, living in that region during that era. Thanks for your post Lia.
Wow I really enjoyed the video, when I saw Burntcorn, Alabama I had to watch it, I think anybody knew about that place lol, that where my dad's family is from! Too bad u didn't have anyone to tell u about those building bc I have a cousin who pretty much knows the history of Burntcorn & I'm almost sure she could've told u what those buildings were smh, that's where we had our family reunion a few yrs ago & she traced our family history back to the 1700s! And Burntcorn & Greenstreet, Alabama is where they mostly settled, so if u ever go back... jus ask someone, ppl r friendly there 😊!!!
I just live a few miles from there. So much history all around the area. My material roots go back to surrounding areas since before the1800's. My ancestors lived all around that area and into Conecuh County, Alabama.
My very distant grandfather, John Green, lived there until his death in 1882. Apparently he was a schoolteacher for some time and educated folks regardless of race. My aunt and many other family members restored the family cemetery there a number of years ago.
Have you ever been through Ryolite Nevada? It's in the Death Valley National Park, which covers two states, California and Nevada. I've heard that Death Valley National Park is the largest national park in the US.
Most, if not all of those tin roofs were badly rusted; except for the one house, the few windows you were able to look through didn't appear to have fallen ceilings so they must still be keeping the rain out. All the buildings (except for those lived in) have severely rotting wood all over. I guess it's a race to see what happens first: the rotting wood not being able to support the roof and everything crashing down or the roofs developing leaks and rotting the wood inside bringing the ceilings down. I would have expected to see a church building in a little village that old. Did see one building with the narrow shape and a single front door right in the middle, but couldn't tell how deep it was, so don't know if it might have been large enough. Could have been the town beauty parlor. Wiki gives a couple of origins for the name; both having to do with the Creek Nation. It also includes a picture of the old Methodist church, which has a steeple on one side, so not the one I saw here. The only census that ever included it was 1880 when 33 people lived there. I find that perplexing since it apparently existed for more decades and should have been noted. Lots of snakes in those Alabama woods, y'all were lucky. Thanks for the tour.
The old Methodist church is still there..it is to the right of the white 2 story house shown in the video at 12:53 you can see it as the video fades out...it has a steeple it is just blocked by the trees
If there was a invester interested in that little ghost town ...you could make the smaller building a little cottage and that bigger building a store / restraunt you could make pretty good money ...just an ideal !?!?
The land was former Creek Nations land before the Native Americans were force to sign over the lands east of the Mississippi, before they were removed to Oklahoma.
I photographed this town back a few months ago..It was a town on the Old Federal Rd...Most of the land is now owned by the JFB Lowery estate I believe.
The buildings are
1.two story white building -masonic lodge,general store and post office
2.Barber shop
3.The building, 3 doors-Casket Warehouse(not a house..lol)
4.The building with Coke sign -store (guessed right on that one)
5.Building with low roof and two posts -gas station from 1930's
6.Yellow building you looked under -Doctors office
7. Red building-Hardware store
8.Building behind yellow building _Mcmillian Boarding house
9.Last building - house
Thanks for the great information! This place looked super cool. I only got to see it on video myself. -Robert
post office officially approved 1818 and closed 1997 it was in the Lowery store and the upstairs served as the masonic lodge for a time the store closed around 2007
more can be found on burnt corn in the echoes new letter
Please please do Old Salem, Al?! It is nearby Burnt Corn. My ancestors lived there for many many decades. Look on old census,the people who lived there had money. Most I. Area today couldn't match ancestors dollar for dollar. Let alone adjusting for inflation.
Pete Staples I’ll check it out!
Enjoyed your video. I love old houses, old furniture and old towns! Today most people are in too big of a hurry,for those slower times and miss the opportunity to hear the voices that whisper in the gentle breeze. If only walls could talk. Thanks for taking me back.
This is truly amazing. Made me think of the movie "Fried Green Tomatoes" and the Whistle Stop Cafe.
Thank you for sharing this slice of Americana with us. Beautiful!!
I have a ghost town for you to check out. Allen, Al. My great great grandmother lived there until the late 60s.. She lived across from the sawmill. The town had a store, post office and gas station I one building. The bridge to get to Allen was two planks. In 66 there was a bridge built and the road was paved. My great grandmothers house had a pump on the porch and no running water. She lived there until around 65 when she moved to a nursing home in Selma. I would love to see pictures of the town. I am sure my great grandmother's has fallen down by now. I just have my memories.
You did a great job with getting the camera inside some of the buildings. Really enjoyed this video. 👍
Thanks. I taught him everything he knows. -Robert
@@AdventuresIntoHistory LOL
Very cool ol town. great video
The broken windows in that old dilapidated house reminded me of a line in Neil Young's song "Alabama" it goes" Banjos playing through the broken glass". Great video. You and your team do an awesome job.
I was listening to Neil Young, specifically the album with that song on it, this past weekend while I was out exploring.
Born and raised in Flint Alabama, now considered Decatur.. Really miss the small towns.. Thanks for sharing
I was born just down the road from there in Hartselle 57 yrs ago. We never lived there though. I also worked as a young apprentice carpenter while building the "then new" future waste water treatment plant for Decatur back around 1980. It was a huge site, back then anyway. ( possibly been out-dated & a bigger one built sine then ) All of my Dad's family has been living in and around Cullman ( I did too, for several years until I moved back to Florida in 1984.......I was raised in Florida, but we always vacationed back home in Alabama to be with family. ) and Guntersville going back generations, and still do. I love it up there, and plan to return, hopefully within the next 5 to 10 yrs. ..........Central Florida is getting "too city" for this ole country boy, lol. The only thing I'll miss here is the bass fishing & mild winters. Take care and God Bless.
Well, hello neighbor's! I'm between Danville, Hartselle, and Flint/Decatur. Spent my childhood in Danville.
Stacy is a great addition I already enjoy the videos where you get to tell us some history Brian but she would be great with yall in some vids 2 thumbs up
My guess is that the red building at about 7:45 was once an old time gas station with two pumps. That's why the long extended roof sticking out in front of it. Seen a lot like that, some still open, but with a paved drive through and new pumps.
Yes, I definitely agree on gas station there... -Robert
Someone obviously takes care of it the grass has been mowed recently and everything is nice and tidy.. It reminds me of the town I think it was whistle stop in the movie fried green tomatoes when they've go back and show the town in it's hay day and then they will show it nowadays where was abandoned. The wood is amazing just amazing I love old wood
My grandmother was born there in 1919. Thanks for such a wonderful tour. I’ve always wanted to see it.
I spent many hours in Burnt Corn, Beatrice and Monroeville as a child growing up in "Alabama the Beautiful"...
Thank you for all you guy's do...enjoy the videos
That chimney was absolutely beautiful. Graduated going up
I heard about burnt corn alabama a few years ago..knew nothing about it! Thank you for taking me there!!
Wow those were some beautiful houses, I can imagine them in their hey day, too bad they were not preserved
Thank you for the tour of Burnt Corn, Alabama Brian. Awesome looking buildings, with boardwalks. The run down house with beautiful fireplaces. The giant coke sign was nice. I bet you wish coca-cola was still 5 cents.
That was a super cool place! Wish I could’ve seen it with my own eyes!
I am pushing 69 and remember each bottle was like 15 cent in the early 60s and you could get 2 cents back with the glass bottle returned. Also cold drinks were priced higher than warm. They were in a big freezer with chunks of ice and cold water. The taste was so so much better than today. Being in NOLA they were sweeten with cane sugar. Living in a port town we would get bottles from all over the world. I one got one from Saudis Arabia with one side having Coke written in Arabic letters.
Very nice Very interesting !!! Thanks for the tour!!!
Brothers I just love your videos!
Thanks!!
Very nice. Very interesting!!! Thanks for the tour!!!
I worked in that town about forty years ago planting pine trees for Saint Regis paper company back then the town was called burnt corn creek the post office was located in the old general store I remember seeing a wanted poster for Jesse James they sold cloth on rolls they had mule collars for sale horse drawn plows you name it and they had it when you walked in the door it looked like you stepped back in time to the 18 hundreds
love this town.
This town was shown on one of the ancestry research shows. Jerome Bettis of the Pittsburgh Steelers has ancestors going back to the early 1800's in Burnt Corn, Alabama.
Oh cool
It's not Jerome bettis...its Emmitt Smith
The padlocked weathered barn with three steps to go in is an old smokehouse.
Wonderful old town . So glad it has not been torn down . Left for people to enjoy . Thank you for showing it to us.
Some of the best times of my life has been in burnt corn Alabama. My family has had a hunting camp there for years. I remember going in that general store in the early 90s. Love that place burnt corn. Thanks for the vid
I get an old Acadia Parish, LA vibe from this. That's where my mother's people grew up and lived
Hope Sidestep does another if this place with my historical info and maybe local cemetary view. Gorgeous place, just wanted more info.
Good Find
So excited to see y'all went to Burnt Corn. I've never been there but have come across many ancestors that lived and are buried in the area. (Betts Family). Great video!! So glad I came across it!
I want to go back and see it myself and explore the area. Brian shot and gave me this video on his way back from a trip elsewhere.
my mother's people are from this area, Hetherington and Broughton families, they moved to Texas after the War Between the States.
She has a pretty and welcoming smile. Just sayin. Made it pleasant to watch! Thanks!
Thanks you. I’ll make sure she sees this.
Love this town, nice video 👍👍
Thanks for sharing
I didn"t know that you're a musician Brian. Awesome songs on reverbnation. I am a musician as well rhythm guitar, keyboards, blues harp and vocals. Keep on rock'n Brian.
Nice! Brian and I both play, although I do not play much any more. I do record some guitar stuff for SSA though.
Awesome Robert on your sound track for SSA
I Have two video's on Facebook. An amature on keyboard. "Turn the page" and "nights in White Satin"
I have been through Burnt Corn many times on my way to Peterman, Al. I have been in that store several times when it was open and also remember the post office when it was still in operation. This was around 1976 to 1978.
Loved seeing the old one and two story wooden buildings.
Breaks my heart to see old houses like this. So sad.
Loving the videos man. You should got to the encyclopedia of Alabama website for a lot more information.
OLD CHURCH OR SCHOOL . LOVE THOSE HOUSES IN THE WOODS.
Near Burnt Corn stood an old timey general store which was owned by Hank Williams Sr. Mother and Father. The place stood on Hwy 5 south named McWilliams.
That's awesome!
My 2nd ggf,Sheldrake Kendrick 1808-1879, lived in the Hank Williams house. It was his general store in his lifetime. According to ancestry.com
Wow that is so cool and w where are the old grave sites be? Hank Williams Sr would have been carried where in burnt corn?
@@AdventuresIntoHistory Wow that is so cool and w where are the old grave sites be? Hank Williams Sr would have been carried where in burnt corn?
considering my grandpa was born here, and his mom was a williams(looked scarily like hank sr.), that sounds about right.
The house at the end makes me think how it must have once been someone’s home. That someone loved it, was proud to call it home, lived a life inside it’s now crumbling walls. 😔
Thank you! I love Alabama having lived 10 in there and graduated from JSU. 👏👏❤️
Thanks Brian fot the tour, and list of attractions. And thank your lovely wife for pestering you to go there. LOL As all your ventures are it was very interesting.
Cool town! Thank you!
I'd love to see the place restored and preserved
nice job
Love it..
Sure enjoy ur videos and adventures!!
Brian, it's always good to see your smiling face. Hello to your wife!
looks so good..would be cool if the houses been fix again,i sure would love to live there!
I love old small towns like this
awesome ty for sharing
Come check out Mora, Georgia. Its just a bump in the road but it's awesome. I would lov to see insode some of those old buildings. I moved near by about 12 years ago and sometimes I drive a little bit out of my way just to drive through this nostalgic town- Mora, Georgia. Mora, GA - Mora, Georgia Map & Directions - MapQuest
Cool, I’ll check it out
It's such a beautiful place wish all of us could have walked thru the stores and houses. Bless 🙏🙏 you
havent been here in a while. good to know its till in good shape. my grandpa James Day was born here, in a cabin just down the road a couple miles. i live about an hour west, in Jackson.
this kind of place reminds me of a song "Nobody Home" and "If These Walls Could Speak" by Amy Grant
Wow... I just found out that I have family members that reside here... One of my Great Grandmother's was the oldest living residents when she passed away at 112 many years ago... I hope to visit Burnt Corn and Purdido Alabama one day to learn more about my family's history 🤗
Love Burnt Corn...
Wow I could do live there. What any awesome place ❤️
Fantastic thank you JUST beautiful
Legend says--according to my cousin--the Indians were angry and burned up all the corn...
The early 1800's was a period of civel war in the Creek Tribes, and influenced other local tribes. The main contention was how best to contend with the white settlers and their culture. Whether to fight it or accept it. The rest is history, and mostly misinterpreted history. LOL Family stories and text books collide greately. My family was Creek, Choctauw , German, and Irish, living in that region during that era. Thanks for your post Lia.
Nice old town. That one building looked like an old gas station.
Wow I really enjoyed the video, when I saw Burntcorn, Alabama I had to watch it, I think anybody knew about that place lol, that where my dad's family is from! Too bad u didn't have anyone to tell u about those building bc I have a cousin who pretty much knows the history of Burntcorn & I'm almost sure she could've told u what those buildings were smh, that's where we had our family reunion a few yrs ago & she traced our family history back to the 1700s! And Burntcorn & Greenstreet, Alabama is where they mostly settled, so if u ever go back... jus ask someone, ppl r friendly there 😊!!!
This was a Brian video, but find out if your cousin wants to give me the tour and I’ll make a trip back out there! -Robert
@@AdventuresIntoHistory will do
its where my dads side of the family is from as well. i love monroe county. feels like its still 1890 there.
I just live a few miles from there. So much history all around the area. My material roots go back to surrounding areas since before the1800's. My ancestors lived all around that area and into Conecuh County, Alabama.
same here. my grandpa was born in burnt corn, and my grandma in scratch ankle.
Dashing through the slow on a one horse open way over the hills we go stacking piles of trays
My very distant grandfather, John Green, lived there until his death in 1882. Apparently he was a schoolteacher for some time and educated folks regardless of race. My aunt and many other family members restored the family cemetery there a number of years ago.
Have you ever been through Ryolite Nevada? It's in the Death Valley National Park, which covers two states, California and Nevada. I've heard that Death Valley National Park is the largest national park in the US.
Been thru there many times
Does people live there still??
I was there for my family reunion!!! My ancestors formed this town!!!!! Booker and Southern kin family reunion!!!
It would be cool if y’all came to New Market Alabama!!!!
I just looked it up! Looks like a cool place. I’ll have to add that to the list.
Sidestep Adventures that would be amazing so much history here! It would be cool to see what you all may discover!
Y’all need to visit Jones Alabama ❣️
The lawns are well kept, someone is caring for it.
That would make a great movie set.
You can research the battle of burnt corn creek
Wow, very cool.
I enjoyed that it's a shame that house is falling down. Was there a cemetery?
I googled the place and it said that it had 300 residents. Wonder if that's true
I have always wanted to know more about that town with one of the strangest names I have ever heard.
What town is this near?? Looks familiar but I’m not sure
That coca cola sign is probably worth a thousand dollars.
I live in Alabama and I've never heard of this town!
Someone keeps the grass mowed...
Yep.
Most, if not all of those tin roofs were badly rusted; except for the one house, the few windows you were able to look through didn't appear to have fallen ceilings so they must still be keeping the rain out. All the buildings (except for those lived in) have severely rotting wood all over. I guess it's a race to see what happens first: the rotting wood not being able to support the roof and everything crashing down or the roofs developing leaks and rotting the wood inside bringing the ceilings down. I would have expected to see a church building in a little village that old. Did see one building with the narrow shape and a single front door right in the middle, but couldn't tell how deep it was, so don't know if it might have been large enough. Could have been the town beauty parlor. Wiki gives a couple of origins for the name; both having to do with the Creek Nation. It also includes a picture of the old Methodist church, which has a steeple on one side, so not the one I saw here. The only census that ever included it was 1880 when 33 people lived there. I find that perplexing since it apparently existed for more decades and should have been noted. Lots of snakes in those Alabama woods, y'all were lucky. Thanks for the tour.
The old Methodist church is still there..it is to the right of the white 2 story house shown in the video at 12:53 you can see it as the video fades out...it has a steeple it is just blocked by the trees
Too bad people don't stop and smell the flowers. These old buildings are great for photo shoots. I'd love to have framed pictures of this area.
Just wondering if burnt corn had a cemetery
People still live there? Is it tourist friendly?
and too bad these places are not listed on the national registry for historic places
Merchandise to meet and greet and roadrunner comes through day
I love that old coca cola sign on the barn
If there was a invester interested in that little ghost town ...you could make the smaller building a little cottage and that bigger building a store / restraunt you could make pretty good money ...just an ideal !?!?
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They have to restore this town.
We have family land we hunt about 20 minutes from there we pass it every time we go up there
And the old stagecoach road goes straight through our property
The land was former Creek Nations land before the Native Americans were force to sign over the lands east of the Mississippi, before they were removed to Oklahoma.
they were not forced to sign it over. they sold it. stop peddling b.s....
You can tell it is a tourist destination by the long line of people buying memorabilia. Lol. Those buildings are falling apart.
Done with Filmora, I see.
my family is from burnt corn Alabama
Burnt Corn before Watermelon
Like the video..your wife is beautiful!