For being an introvert - it must be a bit hard to even do this channel & want to say thank you for overcoming things to take us with you! I have been watching your channel for quite awhile just took forever to even make the first comment about how much I appreciate your vids - introvert here also. lol. A very big CONGRATULATIONS on reaching 10k subs!! You are moving along great ! Once again - thank you !!!
Wanderer Glad you don't disclose the locations to just anyone. I used to go exploring with my brother to old sites like the ones you do. I'm from north east ga myself and we always hiked back in those mountains. We came across one homestead where there was only remnants of sn old log cabin with a small burial site with two graves that had home made markers on them with their names and dates still intact. The dates were in early 1820s of their deaths. No birthdates just death dates. Man and wife. I got such a peaceful feeling with the gentle breezes caught and a feeling of holiness I had never felt before. There was a very nice spring in front of where the cabin was and I happened to find a few blue stone beads beside the spring where we dug to open up the spring a little more.Guess the lands owned by the state, as a lot of it there is. I dont get to a lot of the places often any more after losing my brother ten years ago but still go alone occasionally for the peace. Being female, I have to take a few more precautions going now. I miss it terribly and not many other females are inclined to hike with me to the locations as sometimes I like to camp . But still make the treks and as long as I am young enough and in good enough shape, will continue to do so. Good luck.
Hi, that is such a stunning location with the small natural spring and creek, it's gorgeous. Thanks for giving us a colourful glimpse of a bygone era. x
A hole in the foundation was meant for a purpose regarding heatiing and ventilation. As a 'Viking' descendant, I live in a large home with a hole in the foundation. All repairmen try to seal it up, not knowing that's unhealthy.
They had what they called a "root cellar" and it was used to store potatoes, and other root vegetables during the winter. They also stored their canned goods in those root cellars. most of the cooking was done over the fireplace in the house with hanging pots and some had earthen ovens.
I really enjoyed your video.. You was very nice you didn't use no bad words or cussing in your video.. It's nice to watch something without bad words or cussing.. Thank you for that..
Love it, keep it coming.Antiquties act is a law where your not allowed to take any thing from old areas.We don't agree entirely with this law. There were some old railroad cars, narrow gauge here in the northern Sierras out in the deep woods. We restore old railroad equipment and wanted to restore them for museum display. Government said no, (antiquities act), 2 yrs later they bulldozed them over and buried them. Most museum displays are from private collectors who donate there collections to them. If this law was around centuries ago there wouldn't be museums and we wouldn't know nearly as much history, just saying.
I can imagine how some of people that lived in the village may have never left the place their entire lives and now the place is almost gone ! The drame between the people that seemed important at the time is now long forgotten
I'm familiar with that area and as always if I'm in the woods I'm armed. One reason moonshine is still popular and they don't like people who stumble in on their works. Best not get in a shoot out because most likely you will lose. So step lightly and run quickly.
Found your channel a week ago and have been binge watching your videos. I enjoy your attention to detail and the interesting places you take us. Thanks for taking the time to video your treks into the woods.
I love all your videos. They can never be too long. Very interesting content. I've yet to come across a boring video and I don't think I will. Looking forward to the next trip!
Thank you for sharing your passion for exploring and discovery. You bring so many sites to life, help to remember those who are forgotten but are such an important part of our history. Please, continue your work. It is extremely valuable.
Thank you for making this long video. I enjoyed every minute of it. I read the closed captions to keep up with where you are and what you have to say about things. I felt truly immersed in their life. So hard. I knew my grandparents, which would be great great grandparents to people of your age. They had a windmill and a water tank on top of a truck frame. Water came into their home by gravity. While it was really slow, it beat the heck out of carrying water from a stream, like the people in your video had to do. I love all your videos. I usually do not comment, but I wanted you to know that I did enjoy this long video. Keep it up! And the closed captions!
Thanks for sharing.i live in /on stony creek.found so many relics and fossils in my yard.then hiking up here so much to learn.youve helped alot thank you.
Oh you should certainly metal detect. You would be amazed! I watch a few channels dedicated to metal detection and they are respectful and in search of history. They also find a lot of buried historical items. Again, another amazing find! Thank You for documenting and sharing!
Absolutely beautiful footage. Thank you for taking us here. I "feel" the vibes, the energy there through this video. It is melancholic, yet positive. Somehow it even feels"familiar". I'm an introverted hexagenarian and your videos take me where my body can no longer travel. Thank you and God bless you.
I came across your videos because of JPvideos. I decided to check you out and after watching a copy of videos I really enjoy your adventures. I used to live in Ohio and I miss the green and going thru the woods. Not much of that in Southern California. lol Keep up the good work. I really like when you go out with JP and share the experience with us. It is like being there following along.
Love your videos. I grew up in Centre Co. Pa and found a home site such as this as a kid and used to go there and just sit and wonder who lived there and what life must have been like. Have not lived in Pa in 30+ years but knew this landscape had to be Pa before you even mentioned the location. Keep them coming!
I think the best Part of your videos is when you ramble.....the things you talk about are interesting and refreshing and sometimes gives me a good chuckle....I to ramble on about things that I find interesting and exciting....love your videos and I’m glad I found your channel...keep up the great job ❤️
Just the sound of the wind in the trees, the sounds of rushing brooks,etc. once in a while. A bit too much repetition and over clarifying. Sorry, jus sayin.
Thank u greatly for keeping it as private as it can be that's awesome I live on the west branch of the Susquehanna river and so many spots up here history to me is amazing love learning thanks for having absolutely amazing content
Hello I come across your channel just wanted to tell you I really the exploration type videos also a big thank you for sharing your experience with all of us I did subscribe God bless be careful
I enjoy your videos; I grew up in the woods of PA....living back here now but I'm not in great physical health so I can't really get out there anymore...but spent my childhood exploring the old coal mining town called Cardiff, we could see where my Grandparents lived and it was awesome!! It's been stripped over the years for any remaining coal and it's completely gone now...but anyway.....I just pretend I'm walking along with you so Thank you so much!!!
I can't help but wonder if the 'smaller stoned areas' were root cellars. To us it seems it's in the woods, but in their day it was most likely an open space. If you listen, you can hear kids laughing ;-) Not really, but I like to visualize their antics and appreciate the hard work these folks did to carve out a life. Thank you for sharing your explorations to places some of us are unable to explore. Pioneer Club was also a challenge and it's always nice to hear yourself think and appreciate the world around you.
There’s a corner of an old log cabin or shack where I grew up at. Only about 3’ of one corner was still standing. Found all sorts of old stuff there. Found an old knife, old Ford truck running board and misc metal stuff. Pretty neat
we use to call those days 'mental health days' ...recovering from stressful events amazing stone walls i think that they did a better job creating/building things years ago because they seem to with stand time thanks for bringing me along
I just want to say thank you for all that you do,you not only show us really cool stuff but you are willing to go out of your way hike 2 hours up a mountain and show us things in Pennsylvania many of usthat live in the state might never have seen or heard of, but because of you we get to know some history and also beautiful scenery. I used to live in Mechanicsburg, Palmyra, New Cumberland, enola, and lemoyne right across from triple r guitar.... That is if it's still there???. Anyways, I have been to poles steeple on many occasions even in the dead of winter... That was one of my favorite places to go... I even took a girl up there for a first date.... I had no idea she was scared of heights???... However all went well....we were on one side of the lookout and there was a group of people on the other side and we were all lying on our backs....they asked us if we've ever been up there and I told them why we were there and they sang us the Bob Marley song " Is this Love?.".... It was by far one of the most magical nights of my life.... I was with that girl for quite a few years..... However I moved back to the Pittsburgh area.... There is nothing like Central PA.... I know there's a lot further north and all around, the state, but there is just something about Central PA that is magical?!.. so again I want to thank you for allowing me to hike with you vicariously, and see some sights that I hope to visit someday.... With Metta Ikarus
Just like me....love people, but after a shift at work, I'm ready to go home to the solitude! Love watching your videos, extremely interesting, easy voice to listen to......nature photography is one of my hobbies.
Me an a buddy found a basement home in upstate N.Y. easily 2 to 3 hundred yrs old, in the middle of a state park, really neat an perfectly squared stone work to boot.
It looks like the piece of steel you found "spike" is an old splitting wedge which would have been used to split logs for split rail fencing or to split firewood
Just be careful with those holes. In the winter, you may come across a hibernating bear! I'm sure bats also roost in there as well! GREAT WORK! I just came across your page a few days ago and find it FASCINATING! Keep up the GREAT exploring! It's AMAZING how they laid the foundation that it lasted all these years!
Given the size of that village, there is no doubt there is a cemetery nearby. Might be interesting to try and locate it. Thank you for respecting the site, and leaving things in place. The ruins are a reminder to us of the hard lives our ancestors led.
Small square foundations... outhouses?? Pit dug under, rock foundation to hold plank floor and a bench with a hole in it? The wood's all gone, pit filled in, just stacked stone left?
I lived in East Smithfield PA for part of my life now live in Elmira NY. In Centerville PA there is an old abandoned coal mine . I can't recall where exactly it is n Centerville PA it has been a long time since I lived in PA sincerely fan of exploring abandoned places Robert Gildea
You should check out a town named "Silverton" which was a mining town that my mom grew up in. It is a little further away from Llewellyn, Pa. in Schuylkill County! Rt. #209 west runs through Llewellyn.
Slate and/or shale as coal waste. My dad told me years ago they had "Slate" pickers, young boys that worked in the mine collieries picking the slate out of the coal.
Very interesting video. Our forefathers were amazing. What a hard life. Truly out into the wilderness making an entire life from earth, fire and water.
I read once that the anthracite coal in Pennsylvania is only found in one other place, Wales! The article said it was the same vein of coal. It was a long time ago that I read about this, maybe my memory is off a little.
I just now found your channel. well done. I have some thoughts on the process of getting the coal down the mountain to the RR grade located at the confluence of Rattling Run and Stony Run. I believe you are right that the clean coal would have left the breaker being gravity fed down an iron trough to a landing area located just below the lowest stone support pier. From there the coal would have been loaded on to gondolas (small open cars) and rolled down the ramp to Stony Run. If my guess is right, that ramp was a narrow gauge gravity railroad. On the way down the mountain the cars would have been controlled by on-board brakes and cables, with cable drums fixed at the landing, at Stony Run, and perhaps at several locations along the route depending on the grade. The cars would have been hauled up the mountain to the landing by a stationary steam engine situated at the landing. Again, cables would have been used to pull the cars up the grade. All of this equipment would have been pulled up when the coal ran out and moved by the mining company to the next mine location. The workers would have followed. These are just some thoughts. I'm neither an historian or an engineer but I've lived in PA all my life and my parents and grandparents and their people were all born and raised in coal country. Many of them worked in coal mining and railroading, so there was lots of talk about this sort of thing back in the day.
Maybe the little rock foundations were for a root cellar or maybe a place to smoke fish? Hmmm. That's my idea! Thanks for the cool videos! I love watching your videos!
For being an introvert - it must be a bit hard to even do this channel & want to say thank you for overcoming things to take us with you! I have been watching your channel for quite awhile just took forever to even make the first comment about how much I appreciate your vids - introvert here also. lol. A very big CONGRATULATIONS on reaching 10k subs!! You are moving along great ! Once again - thank you !!!
In times of so much hate on YT, I see this. Your kindness is inspiring. God bless you and greetings from Brazil, ma'am!
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Glad you don't disclose the locations to just anyone. I used to go exploring with my brother to old sites like the ones you do. I'm from north east ga myself and we always hiked back in those mountains. We came across one homestead where there was only remnants of sn old log cabin with a small burial site with two graves that had home made markers on them with their names and dates still intact. The dates were in early 1820s of their deaths. No birthdates just death dates. Man and wife. I got such a peaceful feeling with the gentle breezes caught and a feeling of holiness I had never felt before. There was a very nice spring in front of where the cabin was and I happened to find a few blue stone beads beside the spring where we dug to open up the spring a little more.Guess the lands owned by the state, as a lot of it there is. I dont get to a lot of the places often any more after losing my brother ten years ago but still go alone occasionally for the peace. Being female, I have to take a few more precautions going now. I miss it terribly and not many other females are inclined to hike with me to the locations as sometimes I like to camp . But still make the treks and as long as I am young enough and in good enough shape, will continue to do so. Good luck.
In Scotland we refer to a ‘culm pile’ as a ‘bing’. If anyone is interested...
I’ve never heard that before and I’m from Scotland
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thank you for sharing....I like history now that I am old...in school not so much...lol
Hi, that is such a stunning location with the small natural spring and creek, it's gorgeous. Thanks for giving us a colourful glimpse of a bygone era. x
A hole in the foundation was meant for a purpose regarding heatiing and ventilation. As a 'Viking' descendant, I live in a large home with a hole in the foundation. All repairmen try to seal it up, not knowing that's unhealthy.
I’m an introvert as well and all I could think was that location is a perfect place for a home.
They had what they called a "root cellar" and it was used to store potatoes, and other root vegetables during the winter. They also stored their canned goods in those root cellars. most of the cooking was done over the fireplace in the house with hanging pots and some had earthen ovens.
I really enjoyed your video.. You was very nice you didn't use no bad words or cussing in your video.. It's nice to watch something without bad words or cussing.. Thank you for that..
Crazy. So many left behind things in PA... You're brave, I would not be able to ever go into a forest by myself. Nice to watch from home lol!
Love it, keep it coming.Antiquties act is a law where your not allowed to take any thing from old areas.We don't agree entirely with this law. There were some old railroad cars, narrow gauge here in the northern Sierras out in the deep woods. We restore old railroad equipment and wanted to restore them for museum display. Government said no, (antiquities act), 2 yrs later they bulldozed them over and buried them. Most museum displays are from private collectors who donate there collections to them. If this law was around centuries ago there wouldn't be museums and we wouldn't know nearly as much history, just saying.
You mite know the goverment stepping in on a good thing. Like America white came to make it better RIGHT.
I think the governments are suppressing knowledge... this probably is part of it.
Thank you for sharing your journey...
That was a great walk . Thank you for the video .
Wonderful explore Cliff!!! I enjoyed this video very much!!! Thank you so much for what you do to document these places and for sharing!!!
Great video. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Cliff I enjoy your videos very much. Thanks so much!!
I can imagine how some of people that lived in the village may have never left the place their entire lives and now the place is almost gone ! The drame between the people that seemed important at the time is now long forgotten
I'm familiar with that area and as always if I'm in the woods I'm armed. One reason moonshine is still popular and they don't like people who stumble in on their works. Best not get in a shoot out because most likely you will lose. So step lightly and run quickly.
What a fascinating piece of history..loved the creek/brook area..so pretty..love that sound. Great explore Cliff..thanks so much!😊👍
Found your channel a week ago and have been binge watching your videos. I enjoy your attention to detail and the interesting places you take us. Thanks for taking the time to video your treks into the woods.
That's a beautiful place. The foundations of the houses were pretty neat. I loved the stonework.
That was fabulous as usual. Please keep making long videos they are just great. Loved the stonework. Thanks so much for taking me with you
I love all your videos. They can never be too long. Very interesting content. I've yet to come across a boring video and I don't think I will. Looking forward to the next trip!
I love to take notice of the largest trees and of course guide trees. Thanks for bringing me along :)
What a peaceful looking spot
keep up the good work
hope to see more soon !
Thank you for another great adventure!!!
Just stumbled across your channel and I love it!
Thank you for sharing your passion for exploring and discovery. You bring so many sites to life, help to remember those who are forgotten but are such an important part of our history. Please, continue your work. It is extremely valuable.
This video was fascinating. Thank you!
I'm a new subscriber and find your videos very interesting! This one certainly held my attention! Thank you so much!
Thank you for making this long video. I enjoyed every minute of it. I read the closed captions to keep up with where you are and what you have to say about things. I felt truly immersed in their life. So hard. I knew my grandparents, which would be great great grandparents to people of your age. They had a windmill and a water tank on top of a truck frame. Water came into their home by gravity. While it was really slow, it beat the heck out of carrying water from a stream, like the people in your video had to do. I love all your videos. I usually do not comment, but I wanted you to know that I did enjoy this long video. Keep it up! And the closed captions!
I must have missed this video. Thank you for this explore and history lesson.
I used to live in New Cumberland! I live in Corsicana TX now, but thank you so much for helping me visit home
Thanks for sharing.i live in /on stony creek.found so many relics and fossils in my yard.then hiking up here so much to learn.youve helped alot thank you.
Oh you should certainly metal detect. You would be amazed! I watch a few channels dedicated to metal detection and they are respectful and in search of history. They also find a lot of buried historical items.
Again, another amazing find! Thank You for documenting and sharing!
Great walk thanks
another great video! thanks!
Cliff, Those Villages get better each time you share them with us . You put us right there at home which I thank you .
That's awesome! I live in Harrisburg! Maybe ill.see you around the trails sometime!
I love the old places and forests. I haven't commented much but I really enjoy your videos.
thank you so much for showing the old foundations. i think the stonework is really beautiful. have a great week & God bless :) :) nancy in ga usa
Absolutely beautiful footage. Thank you for taking us here. I "feel" the vibes, the energy there through this video. It is melancholic, yet positive. Somehow it even feels"familiar". I'm an introverted hexagenarian and your videos take me where my body can no longer travel. Thank you and God bless you.
Great stuff. I love your channel!
I love your videos!I love history in general!New subscriber,cant wait for new videos!Good luck,and God bless!
The thing I find amazing about these sites is the fact, at the time, this area was all open. At the time people lived here, there was no woods.
Why do you think there were no woods?
@@kathycarter3420 They wouldn't have built a town in the middle of the woods.
Love seeing all the ruins...stonework ...the stream and seeing how people lived before the ratrace.
Amazing find a lot of hard work and dedication on building out of heavy stone
I came across your videos because of JPvideos. I decided to check you out and after watching a copy of videos I really enjoy your adventures. I used to live in Ohio and I miss the green and going thru the woods. Not much of that in Southern California. lol Keep up the good work. I really like when you go out with JP and share the experience with us. It is like being there following along.
Thanks Cliff, caught up on another older one. Oldie but goodie. LOL
Love your videos. I grew up in Centre Co. Pa and found a home site such as this as a kid and used to go there and just sit and wonder who lived there and what life must have been like. Have not lived in Pa in 30+ years but knew this landscape had to be Pa before you even mentioned the location. Keep them coming!
I think the best Part of your videos is when you ramble.....the things you talk about are interesting and refreshing and sometimes gives me a good chuckle....I to ramble on about things that I find interesting and exciting....love your videos and I’m glad I found your channel...keep up the great job ❤️
Just the sound of the wind in the trees, the sounds of rushing brooks,etc. once in a while. A bit too much repetition and over clarifying. Sorry, jus sayin.
Good job ! I always enjoy !
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Thank u greatly for keeping it as private as it can be that's awesome I live on the west branch of the Susquehanna river and so many spots up here history to me is amazing love learning thanks for having absolutely amazing content
Your channel is absolutely brilliant and so interesting well done 😊 thank you for giving us so much information b safe 😊from Sharon in Nottingham UK 😊
Hello I come across your channel just wanted to tell you I really the exploration type videos also a big thank you for sharing your experience with all of us I did subscribe God bless be careful
I enjoy your videos; I grew up in the woods of PA....living back here now but I'm not in great physical health so I can't really get out there anymore...but spent my childhood exploring the old coal mining town called Cardiff, we could see where my Grandparents lived and it was awesome!! It's been stripped over the years for any remaining coal and it's completely gone now...but anyway.....I just pretend I'm walking along with you so Thank you so much!!!
I can't help but wonder if the 'smaller stoned areas' were root cellars. To us it seems it's in the woods, but in their day it was most likely an open space. If you listen, you can hear kids laughing ;-) Not really, but I like to visualize their antics and appreciate the hard work these folks did to carve out a life. Thank you for sharing your explorations to places some of us are unable to explore. Pioneer Club was also a challenge and it's always nice to hear yourself think and appreciate the world around you.
Another cool video! Liked and subscribed!
I like your videos very informative and how you explain things, I like history that way
An interesting place I visited while on a job in Pueblo is Mesa Verde. Well worth the trip.
There’s a corner of an old log cabin or shack where I grew up at. Only about 3’ of one corner was still standing. Found all sorts of old stuff there. Found an old knife, old Ford truck running board and misc metal stuff. Pretty neat
we use to call those days 'mental health days' ...recovering from stressful events amazing stone walls i think that they did a better job creating/building things years ago because they seem to with stand time thanks for bringing me along
Somewhat new sub here. Your videos are fascinating.
I just want to say thank you for all that you do,you not only show us really cool stuff but you are willing to go out of your way hike 2 hours up a mountain and show us things in Pennsylvania many of usthat live in the state might never have seen or heard of, but because of you we get to know some history and also beautiful scenery. I used to live in Mechanicsburg, Palmyra, New Cumberland, enola, and lemoyne right across from triple r guitar.... That is if it's still there???. Anyways, I have been to poles steeple on many occasions even in the dead of winter... That was one of my favorite places to go... I even took a girl up there for a first date.... I had no idea she was scared of heights???... However all went well....we were on one side of the lookout and there was a group of people on the other side and we were all lying on our backs....they asked us if we've ever been up there and I told them why we were there and they sang us the Bob Marley song " Is this Love?.".... It was by far one of the most magical nights of my life.... I was with that girl for quite a few years..... However I moved back to the Pittsburgh area.... There is nothing like Central PA.... I know there's a lot further north and all around, the state, but there is just something about Central PA that is magical?!.. so again I want to thank you for allowing me to hike with you vicariously, and see some sights that I hope to visit someday.... With Metta Ikarus
Just like me....love people, but after a shift at work, I'm ready to go home to the solitude! Love watching your videos, extremely interesting, easy voice to listen to......nature photography is one of my hobbies.
Hard to believe people lived there. Just very nice stone.
I walked down the dirt road to go there once.. wow what a hike back up! Totally worth it tho. The story of that place is very interesting
Yes it does. It looks very cool down there.
Me an a buddy found a basement home in upstate N.Y. easily 2 to 3 hundred yrs old, in the middle of a state park, really neat an perfectly squared stone work to boot.
Rouch Gap and coldsprings area is really nice. Coldsprings was a rich vacation place.
There is quite a lot of ruins of old villages in Scotland 🏴
Thats so cool man! I live at London but would so want to respecfuly explore that place
Amazing stone houses.
It looks like the piece of steel you found "spike" is an old splitting wedge which would have been used to split logs for split rail fencing or to split firewood
great tube keep it going
Just be careful with those holes. In the winter, you may come across a hibernating bear! I'm sure bats also roost in there as well! GREAT WORK! I just came across your page a few days ago and find it FASCINATING! Keep up the GREAT exploring! It's AMAZING how they laid the foundation that it lasted all these years!
yo - WW. another neat one. thanks.
Given the size of that village, there is no doubt there is a cemetery nearby. Might be interesting to try and locate it.
Thank you for respecting the site, and leaving things in place. The ruins are a reminder to us of the hard lives our ancestors led.
Thanks for the cool video. Do you know if all the timber was cut down during the mining days, or were the mines and homes in and among the forest?
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Small square foundations... outhouses?? Pit dug under, rock foundation to hold plank floor and a bench with a hole in it? The wood's all gone, pit filled in, just stacked stone left?
Maybe the house stone latrine. Nice vide thx for sharing.
Wow a lot of stuff out there.
Brill, love these types of posts very interesting. 👍 cheers mate.
I lived in East Smithfield PA for part of my life now live in Elmira NY. In Centerville PA there is an old abandoned coal mine . I can't recall where exactly it is n Centerville PA it has been a long time since I lived in PA sincerely fan of exploring abandoned places Robert Gildea
I lived in Adams County for ten years, you must encounter many snakes in those Rocky areas.
You should check out a town named "Silverton" which was a mining town that my mom grew up in. It is a little further away from Llewellyn, Pa. in Schuylkill County! Rt. #209 west runs through Llewellyn.
There are ancient walls just like that on Crow Mountain in Russellville AR. Natives say they were there before them.
Wish you did this in Virginia 😁. I love old stuff!
Found a place kinda like this in central Maine. Just cellar holes, and rock walls in the middle of the woods
You have a Good Life.💗
O my goodness that sound is more than music. How far is it to the next town. Tnx
Awesome!
Slate and/or shale as coal waste. My dad told me years ago they had "Slate" pickers, young boys that worked in the mine collieries picking the slate out of the coal.
Very interesting video. Our forefathers were amazing. What a hard life. Truly out into the wilderness making an entire life from earth, fire and water.
I read once that the anthracite coal in Pennsylvania is only found in one other place, Wales! The article said it was the same vein of coal. It was a long time ago that I read about this, maybe my memory is off a little.
I just now found your channel. well done. I have some thoughts on the process of getting the coal down the mountain to the RR grade located at the confluence of Rattling Run and Stony Run. I believe you are right that the clean coal would have left the breaker being gravity fed down an iron trough to a landing area located just below the lowest stone support pier. From there the coal would have been loaded on to gondolas (small open cars) and rolled down the ramp to Stony Run. If my guess is right, that ramp was a narrow gauge gravity railroad. On the way down the mountain the cars would have been controlled by on-board brakes and cables, with cable drums fixed at the landing, at Stony Run, and perhaps at several locations along the route depending on the grade. The cars would have been hauled up the mountain to the landing by a stationary steam engine situated at the landing. Again, cables would have been used to pull the cars up the grade. All of this equipment would have been pulled up when the coal ran out and moved by the mining company to the next mine location. The workers would have followed. These are just some thoughts. I'm neither an historian or an engineer but I've lived in PA all my life and my parents and grandparents and their people were all born and raised in coal country. Many of them worked in coal mining and railroading, so there was lots of talk about this sort of thing back in the day.
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Maybe the little rock foundations were for a root cellar or maybe a place to smoke fish? Hmmm. That's my idea! Thanks for the cool videos! I love watching your videos!
or a outhouse
I was thinking they were outhouses. Enjoy, Kurt in Santa Rosa, Ca.