@@bp5439 yes it's In salt lick township. It is named that because there is a natural salt lick in the area It's my home town and yes I used to wear flannel and ride dirt bikes it was fun. making fun of people for what they are wearing makes them look petty. I am now a war vet who has traveled around the world from the arctic circle to Asia Africa South America etc. I have met famous people, politicians and CEO's of large well known corporations I have received a citation from the white house for being a medical escort for a past vice-president. And speak a couple languages. Looks can be deceiving.
I really enjoyed the use of Jynweythek, some of those non-electronic pieces from Drukqs really give off that lonely, yet wondrous feel, and it really enhanced the story in this case.
What’s crazy is that people inhabit a lot of shawnee but walking through there it seems as if no one has been there for years. There’s a little historic theatre on that strip of buildings on Main Street a group of people has been trying to raise the money to restore for over 20 years it just seems any work these people try to do it falls through because of the terrible economy in the area since the coal fires. Being there is always unreal and baffles me. I’m from Cleveland but I visit family there often
Great job on this video...thank you. Believe it or not it makes me wanna move there. In this day & age a slower, less crowded, quieter life sounds almost too good to be true...
My family is from Piqua; basically attached to Shawnee and Piqua is a great bed-town and people alway's wave. It's a great place to raise a family. There is a lot of beautiful historical site's. The lineage of my Indian and African American family are established there in that great town. It's not very exciting but we love it there. I'm currently moving back myself in the week to come. I miss old fashioned slow town's as where you can actually enjoy bonfire's and meditate. There is a lot of other small country towns surrounding on the out skirt's of Piqua/Shawnee as well. I encourage anyone to relocate there. I can't wait to see my friend's there. :)
There is definitely a lot of history down here one thing I would like to get a picture of is the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad caboose that's sitting right next to State route 93 before you go up the hill in Shawnee Ohio across from Tecumseh Lake part of that it was the Rock run branch that used to go from Newark through Buckeye Lake and through Shawnee I'm glad they are preserving that caboose car once in a while they'll paint it up real good and make it nice look nice
The Baltimore and Ohio went to Shawnee but not through. The Columbus, Shawnee, and Hocking railroad which later became the Zanesville and Western Railway came in from the east and serviced the XX mine at Tecumseh Lake. My understanding is the two did not meet.
Wife and I went there a number of times. Got to know some of the folks working to restore the theatre and other structures soon there will be a restaurant where the laundromat is
Me and a small group of friends travelled here. It was WILD seeing an active small community here, like, there were legit apartments, a couple businesses and so on and so forth. Though its a bit depressing because quite literally everyone is cutoff. There is no PD, EMS, and fire so if someone dies or gets hurt, you better be resourceful. Truly a town frozen in time.
idiot , without the unions children would still be working in the mines , any adults worked for starvation wages. If mine owners were even slightly reasonable , there wouldn't be unions. Can you imagine how brave it was to strike. Mine owners paid thugs to kill and beat miners. @@richardmcvey1508
@@Tony-hx2fj tell me all about what you know about unions in general. I grew up around UMWA and saw them in action. Ran a communist organization, my way or no way. The early union years was the best for the miners. Later they only considered themselves, not the jobs or the miners. Why do you think mines closed and sometimes reopened with different owner, name and nonunion? Nobody makes money when you are on strike more than you work. I saw the dictatorship in WVa and it put many companies out of business. I wonder how many people wish they had worked instead of striking over foolishness? Too late now but you always face reality when you tell an organization how to run their company. The UMWA was great in the beginning but wasn't much in later years. Just like majority of unions. Damn joke.
Your videos haunt me....in a good way. Good art always stays with you. I often think of the images.... I grew up in the general area and long to revisit these areas.
I was in that carryout 2 years ago your referring to. Looked like the roof was going to cave in at any given moment. Friendly people there though but they looked rough from time living there. A local said most people there drive 1 hour to Zanesville for work.
I visited Shawnee , Oh in 1980. I drove through en route to a site that I needed to inspect. I was amazed at what I saw. There were many substantial 3 story brick buildings, mostly vacant. There was no internet then so little info was available . I did get the impression that this town must have been home to several thousand people with businesses that served the outlying area. I always wondered what happened. I never made the connection with the decline of coal mining. The topography of the area was not amenable to agriculture and I suspected that travel here might have been challenging during inclement weather. I am sure that population and buildings have been lost since 1980. I have often thought about how life in Shawnee must have been in its heyday..
The miners that caught the mine on fire did not quite think the whole process through. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. With that said I love visiting these old mining towns.
That Old Shawnee restaurant in Shawnee Ohio I used to go there alot many years ago when I was little and they had pretty good food that building is long gone and was replaced with something else
I live not far from shawnee, township road 226 my whole life bought property next to where i grew up. I used to ride dirt bikes to bnc carry out to fill up. I'll live out there till I die. It's the most peaceful area. I drive to Columbus for work.
Great video this is a amazing place my aunt and uncle live here and so do other members of my family that & they got that B&O caboose all repainted and back in the day the tracks used to go all the way through Shawnee Ohio into Corning Ohio known as The Rock Run branch and the Shawnee Branch it used to go all the way up into Newark Ohio and New straightsville Ohio and can you do a video in Mount Perry Ohio through East Fultonham Ohio and into Avondale Ohio in the future
I don't know what impact the chip plant in New Albany will have, but the average salary is going to be 130K, that would buy a LOT in that area. about an hour and ten minute drive though.
Pretty cool place . I bet I could buy some real estate there real cheap . Maybe open up a business downtown . I think I'm going to do some research on this place .
@@theVHSvlog I agree ... businesses that play into the history of the area . Check out videos of a town by me . Galena Illinois. Is a awesome old town. The businesses fit in well to the city .
I see this happening in many small forgotten places. Small communities will be the thing in the future for resourceful people. Especially after the financial system collapses and people will barter and develop local monetary systems.
I grew up in Shawnee in the 80s and it was a happy little town then I went to a ghost town after Walmart got into Nelsonville or whatever or somewhere over there but I loved it it was a party and happy in town and everybody got along with everybody there's a lot of people Corning Ohio
I stay in Cleveland and this life style to me is a whole new world like I couldn't imagine everyone in everyone business where I'm from its mind ur own
Sometimes, I wish I had all the money so I can restore some of these places so they can become "Living History" destinations for tourists and schools...
Yes! That interview is in a video on UA-cam by the channel Tales of Southeast Ohio called "New Straitsville Mine Fire." I can't post the link in the comments but if you search for it, it will come up
I remember doing deliveries in Shawnee and New Straitsville in the late 1980's. There was a Shell station and general store where the owner refused to sell me gas one day because it was "too dangerous". When I was back there two weeks later, I could buy all the gas I wanted.
I lived in Shawnee for a few months and in those short months I met several nice residents over there and yes it may be a small town but don't let that fool you there is plenty of things to do and events happening in that area!
@@blazedgamingkr interesting. I toured a school called Shawnee state and it's small but not to the point I'd call it abandoned at all. I guess there are 2 shawnees
Yeah, this Shawnee is pretty much that intersection. Most people going through it mainly see that intersection with the train. Drive up the hill and the town shows it's colors, or age for that matter. This Shawnee is very rundown. They closed the factory, Nicofibers and it all really went downhill from there.
@@astoriabeasley All of those buildings to the corner (3) have been torn down. The building on the other side of the street (left) has been torn down and the building next to it has been redone and is an ATV business. The Black Diamond Bar and Grill (center) is open.
Yes but that mine was set on accident when hot ambers fell into a mine shaft while burning trash at the local landfill.. Asshole union people in Ohio set the fire in their town.
Yea yea old mines.. if you ask around there was more than the mine. If you are over 60 a good chance you worked many years around shawnee and Straitsville. Boils, brick yard, shawnee coal, Seven chimneys and peabody's. Shame its nothing like that now.
Love the video and I had to look up what I O of R M was. Improved order of red men fraternity. Thank you for the video and I learned something new today ❤
Down around Logan Ohio, I ran into an old town made of bricks. the Road/ sidewalk/ even the houses were the same brick. I can't find the place again. Anyone ever heard of this place.
Paul, you could be thinking of Haydenville. It's just off of route 33 not too far from Logan. Mostly brick and clay tile structures. The main street is asphalt though.
@@Zoetropeification yes I've been through Haydenville a few times,there is an unusual little round house there built from glazed tile block same as most other buildings there,it looks a lot like a grain silo.
It's larger and deeper but affected less people over a longer period of time. Centralias fire breached the surface in many places almost killing a 12 year old. I visited centralia last month and the hottest coal vent I found was only 113 degrees which is much cooler than what they even 5 years ago. Both the fires are slowly being choked
@@scottdavidson526 how about we start holding corporations accountable, gradually stop using petroleum based plastics and kick corporate lobbyist out of D.C., corporations shouldn't be allowed to kill millions and make our like bandit's at the end of the day, greed in minute amounts is healthy, greed unchecked is just pure evil that leaves nothing but a wake of despair and destruction
@@t-dawg61221 Who do you think is going to own all the sunshine and butterflies to run the electric cars? Corporations. Wait until all those 300 foot wind turbines are left rusting in the fields and the used up solar panels are leaching contaminants out at the landfills because the U.S. has no recycle policy on them yet. I say produce all the fossil fuels and all the renewables you can and let the BEST energy win!!
That's pat Worley not worl I'm from Shawnee . thanks for doing a video of my hometown. I was watching this video to do some research and will probably make a video.
just when the town was seemingly recovering, the crises of 08 came and plunged it again to a decline. But it will recover again. You know why? cause it is a relatively youthful town. 40% of the population is under 30 based on 2020 statistics.
The guy in the flannel and his friends are probably worried about getting to their off-road motorcycle spot or, most likely since they are already covered in mud, back home before a cop sees them riding on a highway. I didn't see any license plates or lights. Those are just off-road bikes and no insurance. There is always a game in rural areas to try to figure out where the cops probably aren't and make a run for it with non-street legal equipment.
Lydia Halliday They were fighting for their rights, because they weren’t being treated fairly for their work. Working in the mines was already a disaster itself, many workers often died and where as I’m not sure if this was the case around here I’m sure you’ve heard of coal companies paying their employees in coupons that could only be used in stores where goods were over priced. So yes they might have put themselves out of work but they stopped the coal companies from abusing them and their children. They weren’t after “revenge” they were fighting for their rights
@@evanseurkamp76 @Lydia Halliday They set the mine on fire because the company hired Chinese workers to work the mine while the workers were on strike. They sent those burning mine carts into the mine while the Chinese workers were inside. I'd say that they were after revenge.
@@Hathorr1067 I have never heard of that before, but that makes sense. And you are right, there was probably some form of revenge involved in it. I don’t think they were trying to get revenge on the Chinese working in the mine though. It might not have been the best thing to do, but people fight back when they are oppressed and being treated unfairly. We’ve seen it happen in history time and time again. Big corporations are constantly a screwing over people and are mainly only focused on making a profit and this is exactly the case here. I do feel bad for anyone who was caught up in this situation, like any immigrant workers the coal company hired after their workers went on strike. But I can’t say I blame the workers for wanting to get back at the coal company for screwing them over and then hiring more immigrant workers to screw over as well.
@@Hathorr1067 The mines were set on fire in the night. There was nobody in the mines. The miners actually were sympathetic to the "scabs" as the pay and working conditions were so bad, no person could make a decent living. Wages had been cut from 70 cents a ton to 50 cents a ton. After the "syndicate" of mine owners broke the strike, the workers were reduced to 40 cents a ton.
❤😢 it was a beautiful little town in the 80s everybody got on for everybody and it was the best place ever then Corning Ohio is dislike it if you like your straight school go to Courtney Ohio😢
It used to be a very big and booming town with the brick plants and coal mines that presidents stayed there from time to time. Wish I could have seen the town back in its hay day.
Its so amazing to see how different rural towns are in Southern Ohio. Its like a whole different state almost.
Southern Ohio actually wants to secede from the rest of Ohio, FYI.
You're right, almost......but its ok, I'd take care of you, no matter what....youre gorgeous! Keep you smiling til your face hurts lol every day!
We have the beauty of Ohio down here 😍
Anything outside Cuyahoga County is like another state, heh.
I'm from Shawnee...raised there in in the 90s my whole family is from there...I loved it...that town I still visit from time to time
Shawnee is pretty neat, I grew up there so it is nice to see people like you appreciate it
Thanks for watching! I really enjoyed visiting
We have a Shawnee, Oklahoma.
It's in Perry County?
@@bp5439 Yes it is.
@@bp5439 yes it's In salt lick township. It is named that because there is a natural salt lick in the area
It's my home town and yes I used to wear flannel and ride dirt bikes it was fun. making fun of people for what they are wearing makes them look petty. I am now a war vet who has traveled around the world from the arctic circle to Asia Africa South America etc. I have met famous people, politicians and CEO's of large well known corporations I have received a citation from the white house for being a medical escort for a past vice-president. And speak a couple languages. Looks can be deceiving.
Great video, it was somewhat depressing, but small forgotten towns are always interesting.
I really enjoyed the use of Jynweythek, some of those non-electronic pieces from Drukqs really give off that lonely, yet wondrous feel, and it really enhanced the story in this case.
The funeral procession was fitting. You really do an amazing job on editing and narration.
Thank you! I got lucky filming on a Sunday
What’s crazy is that people inhabit a lot of shawnee but walking through there it seems as if no one has been there for years. There’s a little historic theatre on that strip of buildings on Main Street a group of people has been trying to raise the money to restore for over 20 years it just seems any work these people try to do it falls through because of the terrible economy in the area since the coal fires. Being there is always unreal and baffles me. I’m from Cleveland but I visit family there often
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Very well researched and excellently narrated.
Thank you!
its a neat old town i have been there many times
Great job on this video...thank you. Believe it or not it makes me wanna move there.
In this day & age a slower, less crowded, quieter life sounds almost too good to be true...
You don't wanna move here lol
@@clintcooper1467 why not?
It's a shit hole
My family is from Piqua; basically attached to Shawnee and Piqua is a great bed-town and people alway's wave. It's a great place to raise a family. There is a lot of beautiful historical site's. The lineage of my Indian and African American family are established there in that great town. It's not very exciting but we love it there. I'm currently moving back myself in the week to come. I miss old fashioned slow town's as where you can actually enjoy bonfire's and meditate. There is a lot of other small country towns surrounding on the out skirt's of Piqua/Shawnee as well. I encourage anyone to relocate there. I can't wait to see my friend's there. :)
Move to Piqua instead.
There is definitely a lot of history down here one thing I would like to get a picture of is the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad caboose that's sitting right next to State route 93 before you go up the hill in Shawnee Ohio across from Tecumseh Lake part of that it was the Rock run branch that used to go from Newark through Buckeye Lake and through Shawnee I'm glad they are preserving that caboose car once in a while they'll paint it up real good and make it nice look nice
They renovated the train station here in Newark and it looks great.
@@scottdavidson526 Yes it does it looks outstanding
The Baltimore and Ohio went to Shawnee but not through. The Columbus, Shawnee, and Hocking railroad which later became the Zanesville and Western Railway came in from the east and serviced the XX mine at Tecumseh Lake. My understanding is the two did not meet.
Nicely done video.
Wife and I went there a number of times. Got to know some of the folks working to restore the theatre and other structures soon there will be a restaurant where the laundromat is
Me and a small group of friends travelled here. It was WILD seeing an active small community here, like, there were legit apartments, a couple businesses and so on and so forth. Though its a bit depressing because quite literally everyone is cutoff. There is no PD, EMS, and fire so if someone dies or gets hurt, you better be resourceful. Truly a town frozen in time.
That is not true. The have a fire dept and even have a helicopter pad for medivac. Part time police in the village and Perry county Sherrif's dept.
Thanks for sharing... i livef in Corning in 1969....
Cool! I visited Corning too. Interesting little town
Great video. Very well put together.
JOEY_UNDERGROUND Thanks!
Sad, union workers upset about their jobs. Set mine on fire, making them out of a job. Now no job to be upset about.
This was before unions.
@@MrThenry1988 yeah but the unions didn't learn anything from previous actions. Went on strike for nothing and now still no jobs.
idiot , without the unions children would still be working in the mines , any adults worked for starvation wages. If mine owners were even slightly reasonable , there wouldn't be unions. Can you imagine how brave it was to strike. Mine owners paid thugs to kill and beat miners. @@richardmcvey1508
@@Tony-hx2fj You got a point. But I figure you have nothing else but democrat bullshit from here on out. Prove me wrong.
@@Tony-hx2fj tell me all about what you know about unions in general. I grew up around UMWA and saw them in action. Ran a communist organization, my way or no way. The early union years was the best for the miners. Later they only considered themselves, not the jobs or the miners. Why do you think mines closed and sometimes reopened with different owner, name and nonunion? Nobody makes money when you are on strike more than you work. I saw the dictatorship in WVa and it put many companies out of business. I wonder how many people wish they had worked instead of striking over foolishness? Too late now but you always face reality when you tell an organization how to run their company. The UMWA was great in the beginning but wasn't much in later years. Just like majority of unions. Damn joke.
I have driven the entire route of SR 93. Absolutely gorgeous and haunting at the same time.
Hey that's a goal of mine! How long did it take?
@@theVHSvlog if I remember correctly, it took about seven hours from Akron to Ironton.
@@theVHSvlog another beautiful and haunting SR to go post to post is 7, from Conneaut to Chesapeake. New Matamaras was a cool stop.
@@getlostyougoofball Did you stop off in Logan? Hocking Hills is a beautiful area.
Before 1962, it was signed as State Route 75.
Those front balconys on Main Street are interesting..never seen anything like that.
I'm sorry, as I mean no harm.....but you are absolutely gorgeous! May life treat you well, babygirl, bc I know that i would! 💋
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Most of them are gone now. The buildings became too unsafe.
Your videos haunt me....in a good way. Good art always stays with you.
I often think of the images.... I grew up in the general area and long to revisit these areas.
I was in that carryout 2 years ago your referring to. Looked like the roof was going to cave in at any given moment. Friendly people there though but they looked rough from time living there. A local said most people there drive 1 hour to Zanesville for work.
I visited Shawnee , Oh in 1980. I drove through en route to a site that I needed to inspect. I was amazed at what I saw. There were many substantial 3 story brick buildings, mostly vacant. There was no internet then so little info was available . I did get the impression that this town must have been home to several thousand people with businesses that served the outlying area. I always wondered what happened. I never made the connection with the decline of coal mining. The topography of the area was not amenable to agriculture and I suspected that travel here might have been challenging during inclement weather. I am sure that population and buildings have been lost since 1980. I have often thought about how life in Shawnee must have been in its heyday..
Well, that did not work out very well for the miners. They outsmarted themselves. They went from low pay, to no pay.
The miners that caught the mine on fire did not quite think the whole process through. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. With that said I love visiting these old mining towns.
That Old Shawnee restaurant in Shawnee Ohio I used to go there alot many years ago when I was little and they had pretty good food that building is long gone and was replaced with something else
I was confused for a minute, I was thinking of Fort Shawnee in Allen County, nice place
Ty Gehle me too. In Lima Ohio- There is Fort Shawnee and Shawnee High school. Very nice place!
Beautiful town.
shawnee is like 30 minutes from me, been awhile since i’ve been there. ohio is something.
I've lived in Ohio most of my life and had no idea.
I live not far from shawnee, township road 226 my whole life bought property next to where i grew up. I used to ride dirt bikes to bnc carry out to fill up. I'll live out there till I die. It's the most peaceful area. I drive to Columbus for work.
Great video this is a amazing place my aunt and uncle live here and so do other members of my family that & they got that B&O caboose all repainted and back in the day the tracks used to go all the way through Shawnee Ohio into Corning Ohio known as The Rock Run branch and the Shawnee Branch it used to go all the way up into Newark Ohio and New straightsville Ohio and can you do a video in Mount Perry Ohio through East Fultonham Ohio and into Avondale Ohio in the future
Best aphex twin song ever.
I don't know what impact the chip plant in New Albany will have, but the average salary is going to be 130K, that would buy a LOT in that area. about an hour and ten minute drive though.
Pretty cool place . I bet I could buy some real estate there real cheap . Maybe open up a business downtown . I think I'm going to do some research on this place .
That's the thing. What if a bunch of people got together and opened up businesses and made a town? Could be an opportunity
@@theVHSvlog I agree ... businesses that play into the history of the area . Check out videos of a town by me . Galena Illinois. Is a awesome old town. The businesses fit in well to the city .
I see this happening in many small forgotten places. Small communities will be the thing in the future for resourceful people. Especially after the financial system collapses and people will barter and develop local monetary systems.
I would totally live there
they want people to buy and restore the buildings there, you could
+the stig stigington If the cost of buying the properties are cheap enough.
it is a very quaint town. There is also New Straitsville, which is only a few miles from Shawnee that is actually alive and well.
I grew up in Shawnee in the 80s and it was a happy little town then I went to a ghost town after Walmart got into Nelsonville or whatever or somewhere over there but I loved it it was a party and happy in town and everybody got along with everybody there's a lot of people Corning Ohio
I stay in Cleveland and this life style to me is a whole new world like I couldn't imagine everyone in everyone business where I'm from its mind ur own
He's been robbed 40 times, the community is very tight knit lol
I'm sure they left a thank you note when the left lol
I know that was crazy.
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Drugs are baaad, mmmkay!
By members of the same family. A couple bad apples spoil the basket.
Sometimes, I wish I had all the money so I can restore some of these places so they can become "Living History" destinations for tourists and schools...
they are trying to restore some of the buildings there
Do you have a video of that interview with Joe Blosser I can watch somewhere? He is my great uncle.
Yes! That interview is in a video on UA-cam by the channel Tales of Southeast Ohio called "New Straitsville Mine Fire." I can't post the link in the comments but if you search for it, it will come up
I really like this channel! It reminds me of BSF a lot.
Is there a place to eat there? I haven't been there since I was a kid 60 years ago. Nice work with the video. Thank you.
Amazing doc
robbed 40 times? after the third time you're complicit
wear a side arm and have a shotgun under the counter
Right? Here's a link to the article talking about it kenyoncollegian.com/features/2016/11/shawnee-ohio-not-just-a-ghost-town/
Ohio has a huge heroin problem I'm guessing that's why he's getting robbed.
I lived in New straightsville for yrs would walk to Shawnee on occasion
I remember doing deliveries in Shawnee and New Straitsville in the late 1980's. There was a Shell station and general store where the owner refused to sell me gas one day because it was "too dangerous". When I was back there two weeks later, I could buy all the gas I wanted.
I grew in Philo, Ohio, it'd a great place with alot of history. To bad we don't hear anything about the old town if Santoy, Ohio
Their Are Lot's of Towns Like Shawnee In the Coal mining State's Ask About Centralia.
Well done.
My father was born in Shawnee, Ohio, in 1913.
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I lived in Shawnee for a few months and in those short months I met several nice residents over there and yes it may be a small town but don't let that fool you there is plenty of things to do and events happening in that area!
ahh Shawnee. i live right up the road in bristol. more bars than stores. place sucks. cant imagine anyone actually wanting to move there
Is this different than the Shawnee with the University?
@@katwilliams2950 definitely doesn't have a university. Has more bars than stores lol
@@blazedgamingkr interesting. I toured a school called Shawnee state and it's small but not to the point I'd call it abandoned at all. I guess there are 2 shawnees
Yeah, this Shawnee is pretty much that intersection. Most people going through it mainly see that intersection with the train. Drive up the hill and the town shows it's colors, or age for that matter. This Shawnee is very rundown. They closed the factory, Nicofibers and it all really went downhill from there.
@@katwilliams2950 Shawnee State is in Portsmouth Ohio.
I used to go there during my employment at Children's Services. Yes, this area is very unique.
Take any kids from poor folks n split up their families did ya?
to be honest. the first 15 seconds looked a lot like downtown Sandusky.
They are actually opening up old businesses in this town and redoing it!
That's great! I can't wait to see it revamped
Oh really?? I just visited there a few days ago.
That white building at 0:24 caught on fire and half of it is in ashes
@@astoriabeasley All of those buildings to the corner (3) have been torn down. The building on the other side of the street (left) has been torn down and the building next to it has been redone and is an ATV business. The Black Diamond Bar and Grill (center) is open.
You should do a video on Corning Ohio! Practically down the road
PA there is a mine fire centrellia
Yes but that mine was set on accident when hot ambers fell into a mine shaft while burning trash at the local landfill.. Asshole union people in Ohio set the fire in their town.
Intresting. I've been through the town. I live 60 miles from it.
Yea yea old mines.. if you ask around there was more than the mine. If you are over 60 a good chance you worked many years around shawnee and Straitsville. Boils, brick yard, shawnee coal, Seven chimneys and peabody's. Shame its nothing like that now.
This video is one of my favorites. I'd love to know the piano artist and song if you don't mind? It's incredible..
I want to visit Shawnee so badly.
Do it!
Likens PA. Still burning
Love the video and I had to look up what I O of R M was. Improved order of red men fraternity. Thank you for the video and I learned something new today ❤
Down around Logan Ohio, I ran into an old town made of bricks. the Road/ sidewalk/ even the houses were the same brick. I can't find the place again. Anyone ever heard of this place.
No but now I am determined to find out
Place called floodwood that's a abandoned city in the woods around there
Paul, you could be thinking of Haydenville. It's just off of route 33 not too far from Logan. Mostly brick and clay tile structures. The main street is asphalt though.
Yep, Haydenville. My grandmas maiden name was Hayden. She was born there.
@@Zoetropeification yes I've been through Haydenville a few times,there is an unusual little round house there built from glazed tile block same as most other buildings there,it looks a lot like a grain silo.
i noticed a couple of oil derricks in the backround
Is the fire worse than Centralia, PA?
It's larger and deeper but affected less people over a longer period of time. Centralias fire breached the surface in many places almost killing a 12 year old. I visited centralia last month and the hottest coal vent I found was only 113 degrees which is much cooler than what they even 5 years ago. Both the fires are slowly being choked
As coal died communities died. Progress stops for no one.
The smart ass remark killed it at the end.. thumb down!
Tough scene
Was kinda of an odd ending..
So there is a centralia, pa like location in ohio? Yet another fossil fuel related catastrophe.
Fossil fuels are about at the end cause of our climate change
I know we all need to go out and buy $65,000 electric cars.
@@scottdavidson526 how about we start holding corporations accountable, gradually stop using petroleum based plastics and kick corporate lobbyist out of D.C., corporations shouldn't be allowed to kill millions and make our like bandit's at the end of the day, greed in minute amounts is healthy, greed unchecked is just pure evil that leaves nothing but a wake of despair and destruction
@@t-dawg61221 how bout we kick the dumb a@$ currant president out of office
@@t-dawg61221 Who do you think is going to own all the sunshine and butterflies to run the electric cars? Corporations. Wait until all those 300 foot wind turbines are left rusting in the fields and the used up solar panels are leaching contaminants out at the landfills because the U.S. has no recycle policy on them yet. I say produce all the fossil fuels and all the renewables you can and let the BEST energy win!!
“Oh way to go, Ohio!” Chrissie Hynde, the Pretenders.
So many dirty tales, so little time. 😞
That's pat Worley not worl I'm from Shawnee . thanks for doing a video of my hometown. I was watching this video to do some research and will probably make a video.
Interesting!
just when the town was seemingly recovering, the crises of 08 came and plunged it again to a decline.
But it will recover again. You know why? cause it is a relatively youthful town. 40% of the population is under 30 based on 2020 statistics.
My grandpa also was born there hes now 80
I love that little town, I’d love to open a motorcycle/bicycle shop in town there, maybe bring some more people in to get her revived.👍🇺🇸
wow
isn't there a town in pennsylvania with the same problem. the whole town is vacant now.
For some reason I on I been there as a kid. Just don’t remember when
Love video
very interesting video.
My girlfriend took us there several years ago
Been there many times I live in Logan
That welcome to Shawnee sign costs more than the whole town is worth, period.....
Watch your girl the guy in the flannel is coming 😂. Excellent job with the history stranger.
😂 Its good to be back
The guy in the flannel and his friends are probably worried about getting to their off-road motorcycle spot or, most likely since they are already covered in mud, back home before a cop sees them riding on a highway. I didn't see any license plates or lights. Those are just off-road bikes and no insurance. There is always a game in rural areas to try to figure out where the cops probably aren't and make a run for it with non-street legal equipment.
I like those balconies on the old buildings. Too bad places like this become diserted.
Shawnee is close to my birth place Piqua, Ohio
Cool old town,
Who lives there did you talked to somebody?
That's crazy how some angry employees made such a disaster by trying to get revenge...what did they think would happen if they set a mine on fire
Lydia Halliday They were fighting for their rights, because they weren’t being treated fairly for their work. Working in the mines was already a disaster itself, many workers often died and where as I’m not sure if this was the case around here I’m sure you’ve heard of coal companies paying their employees in coupons that could only be used in stores where goods were over priced. So yes they might have put themselves out of work but they stopped the coal companies from abusing them and their children. They weren’t after “revenge” they were fighting for their rights
@@evanseurkamp76 i didn't know that info, makes total sense
@@evanseurkamp76 @Lydia Halliday They set the mine on fire because the company hired Chinese workers to work the mine while the workers were on strike. They sent those burning mine carts into the mine while the Chinese workers were inside. I'd say that they were after revenge.
@@Hathorr1067 I have never heard of that before, but that makes sense. And you are right, there was probably some form of revenge involved in it. I don’t think they were trying to get revenge on the Chinese working in the mine though. It might not have been the best thing to do, but people fight back when they are oppressed and being treated unfairly. We’ve seen it happen in history time and time again. Big corporations are constantly a screwing over people and are mainly only focused on making a profit and this is exactly the case here. I do feel bad for anyone who was caught up in this situation, like any immigrant workers the coal company hired after their workers went on strike. But I can’t say I blame the workers for wanting to get back at the coal company for screwing them over and then hiring more immigrant workers to screw over as well.
@@Hathorr1067 The mines were set on fire in the night. There was nobody in the mines. The miners actually were sympathetic to the "scabs" as the pay and working conditions were so bad, no person could make a decent living. Wages had been cut from 70 cents a ton to 50 cents a ton. After the "syndicate" of mine owners broke the strike, the workers were reduced to 40 cents a ton.
Erie...if not creepy.
Its really not ive lived there for 3 years.. great small town a lot of great party's lol...
I really like New StraitsVille
I miss it.
❤😢 it was a beautiful little town in the 80s everybody got on for everybody and it was the best place ever then Corning Ohio is dislike it if you like your straight school go to Courtney Ohio😢
My grandpa lived there.
Should have paid the workers
I bet there is a Walmart supercenter nearby. They literally kill small towns like this one.
load coal!!!!!!!!!!!!
This place is one corpse away from being a ghost town!
It used to be a very big and booming town with the brick plants and coal mines that presidents stayed there from time to time. Wish I could have seen the town back in its hay day.
I love my home