Ocean State Drone

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@richardross7219 4 күн бұрын

Nice video. I haven't been there in about 35 years but, northeast of the mill was the dam. It was a beautiful stonewall dam. I was impressed that the wall capstones were stapled together. At that time the pond was almost full of sediment. Someone was proposing to put fish tanks in the mill and fish farm. I thought that it might weigh too much for the mill floors and I was concerned about the heating. Good Luck, Rick

@Michael-RI 4 күн бұрын

Never been to the dam and will have to check it out some time when I pass by there. Love the old mills and glad to see that it is at least still standing as many have been burned or been demolished over the years.

@richardross7219 4 күн бұрын

@@Michael-RI I find the remains of old mills to be very interesting. There are dozens of ruins along rivers and streams in the area. Many of the mills were standing until the flood of 1936. Good Luck, Rick

@tikyeshe Ай бұрын

Used to love going to this place unfortunately now demo’d

@Michael-RI Ай бұрын

Thanks for the update, I was not aware that it had been demolished. Another piece of history lost forever.

@Michael-RI 2 күн бұрын

@@kangerooman5558 That would be great!

@ИдаРодионова-в7с 2 ай бұрын

Здесь снимали фильм "Знакомьтесь, Джо Блэк"

@captfishsticks 5 ай бұрын

Awesome video. Was there in the 60's and 70's. Wonderful memories. Thank you so much for sharing this.

@Michael-RI 5 ай бұрын

Those were the days!

@MarthaT108 5 ай бұрын

Viewing your excellent video brings back a lot of good, and bad memories. I worked there in the education building, which is now part of the Job Corp campus. I was a program aide in the classrooms there from 1978 to1979. I never worked in the dorms, or the hospital, but often had to pick up students, and go into their dorms. I saw things ranging from great caring to outright abuse. I wonder how they ever got rid of the smell of urine in the Evergreen Building that now houses the Phoenix House rehab! Or the stone trough the residents were hosed down in! Some of the child residents at the center were getting prepared to move to the first group homes, as part of the de-institutionizing process, going on at that time. It was a great day when that place was finally closed. The article, about the center, in the Providence Journal, was correct when their headline read,"The Beast Is Dead." I wish that my dad, a reporter for the Providence Journal newspaper, was alive to read that article! He and another reporter had done an expose of the Ladd School back in 1956, called the "Forgotten Two Percent." Supposedly, the land is haunted even though most of the building are gone. it wouldn't surprise me in the least that it is!

@ronduval1142 10 ай бұрын

My family worked in the mill. many of the workers came from Quebec Canada during the late 1880's and had large families.

@Michael-RI 10 ай бұрын

They sure don't make mills like that anymore! Love the architecture of mills like that.

@shirley1413 11 ай бұрын

Hauntingly nostalgic,,, from days of my youth!❤

@Michael-RI 11 ай бұрын

Same here.....was a long, long time ago.

@traceydelehanty734 11 ай бұрын

Beautiful property now took building down Ladd school

@Michael-RI 11 ай бұрын

Wish I had gotten a chance to fly there before the buildings were torn down. It is a very nice property.

@RICorruptionBusters 11 ай бұрын

Hey have the mill been torn down yet?

@Michael-RI 11 ай бұрын

Last time I went by it was still up. Will have to make a point to go by and check again.

@Xplicit_fpv Жыл бұрын

Beautiful! Great job capturing this Old Mill

@Michael-RI Жыл бұрын

I love those old mills. Unfortunately most of them are disappearing.

@Xplicit_fpv Жыл бұрын

@Michael-RI myself and the fpv group I created try to get out to areas like this to fly them and show the world these beautiful buildings

@Michael-RI Жыл бұрын

@@Xplicit_fpv I have more old mill videos on my channel you may be interested in along with one on Rocky Point Park. Also, you may want to check out Jason Allard's channel of many abandoned places which has inspired me to check out with my drone; www.youtube.com/@JasonAllard

@geneland Жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting this. I was 16 in 1966 and we lived on Lake Tiogue I believe in the Grey two story house at 12:36 in this video. My Mother Lucy and her friend Faye worked at the Showboat restaurant. I remember fishing every day in the summer, caught a pike one time, and ice skating on the lake in the winter. I hope the water has come up since you made this video.

@Michael-RI Жыл бұрын

I miss the old Showboat too. Shame it was never rebuilt as it was a very unique building and they had great food. My brother had his wedding reception there. I go by the lake often either on Tiogue Ave or Arnold Road and the level has been up where it should be for quite some time now.

@geneland Жыл бұрын

Great news that the lake level is up now. @@Michael-RI

@Phuong.Nguyen- Жыл бұрын

Enjoyed

@downvan77 Жыл бұрын

Nice job thanks for the post! This was the absolute best place you could go growing up in RI back in the 70's and 80's. So many memories. Weird to see it like this now. I can still picture everything as it was. The rides, the noise, the clam cakes and chowder and all the people just having a blast! Great fun for kids and adults. Lots of great concerts over the years in the Palladium and outside next to the Flume. Saw some cool shows in the late 80's on a packed Friday night! Place was rockin! Was the best. Will always miss those days.

@Michael-RI Жыл бұрын

Totally agree!

@raymondmckenna2307 Жыл бұрын

Great visuals on this Mike. Amazing, as recently as 20 years ago there were trucks in and out of this mill after they left Arkwright. It will all be scraped clean again for its next use. I think I’ll go fishing again across the street.

@Michael-RI Жыл бұрын

Not sure if it will every be reused now since it has deteriorated so much over the years. Was supposed to be developed but it appears that the deal may have fallen through.

@RICorruptionBusters Жыл бұрын

Awesome video!! Is there any way to get a closer look at the Pawtuxet river after the bridge and goes around the mill area?

@Michael-RI Жыл бұрын

A lot of vegetation and tree cover right now but perhaps in the fall when leaves are down. Here is a video of the river further down at the Arkwright mill: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZuUc3mJmcmql6M

@RICorruptionBusters 11 ай бұрын

Hey I was wondering if you could do a video of the west Warwick river walk at the dog park near Bradford soap or the river walk across from newco?

@deanmaker.4916 Жыл бұрын

I miss Rocky point park let's do the right thing and bring it back I had a lots of fun back then my family own kids Blair show boat in Coventry Rhode island my uncle took me there on my birthday and I had a lots of fun.

@Michael-RI Жыл бұрын

Great thought, but don't think it will happen, at least at the old site since now it is a state park: riparks.ri.gov/parks/rocky-point-state-park

@anthonyb7132 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for showing us the condition of this historic mill.

@akaassassin192 Жыл бұрын

you should fly the drone into the mill

@legaldesign Жыл бұрын

This is extraordinary, for ALL the wrong reasons. Thank you for sharing it, even/especially at this late date. Didn’t someone just pay a lot to prevent a “tax sale?” And doesn’t have to mean a plan to claw this nightmare back from the brink is still in the works? Are the forces of inertia in Scituate really that powerful? In the absence of affordable housing in our town what is actually the driving force that has prevented any meaningful progress in this critical area. So many questions with no rational answers, so little time…

@Michael-RI Жыл бұрын

This was what I was able to find about its current status: www.valleybreeze.com/news/owners-construction-on-hope-mill-condos-to-begin-in-december/article_c4f2cdd0-d577-11ec-aba9-e7538a30352f.html

@pldevries Жыл бұрын

Sad that Hope Mill has been allowed to deteriorate like this. It didn't have to end this way.

@Michael-RI Жыл бұрын

Yes, very sad indeed. The architecture and materials used back then is unequaled to what is built today. I do hope that it can be developed as planned to restore the original stone building to original condition so this piece of our history will not be lost. Another sad mill in Westerly I think may have been demolished by now but at least I was able to capture it before it was lost forever: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ipy2fn6gYpmoack

@pldevries Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your wonderful video. I suspect that the mill buildings are too far gone for the current developer to proceed with his original plan. The developer's original plan called for 175 apartments. At this point, the frame of the original mill buildings have largely collapsed. What's left of the existing buildings' wood frame has rotted. The collapsed interiors of the buildings are filled with lead paint and asbestos. All that can be safely salvaged are the facades of the main buildings. To clean out the contaminated debris from the exosting building install new building frames, align the new frames with the existing window openings, create a proper foundation to support the new frame and to tie the new frame into the remaining facade would be enormously expensive. @@Michael-RI

@Michael-RI Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this update. Very disappointed that there may be no chance for reviving and repurposing at least the stonework part of the mill. No doubt about all the contaminates being a very costly undertaking for anyone interested in that property. Please keep us all posted should any new information about the mill that may arise.😥@@pldevries

@pldevries Жыл бұрын

On August 10, 2023, the Scituate Building Official ordered the mill buildings (those with with partially or totally collapsed roofs) demolished immediately citing the state building code. He also revoked an existing building permit which the mill owners had not acted on in over a year. He declared the mill buildings to be unsafe. He cited likely movement of exterior walls and the partial or total collapse of the buildings. On Aug 31st., engineers from a Providence engineering firm were seen inspecting the mill buildings presumably called in on behalf of the building owners. Over the past decade, there has been no effort made to repair or maintain the Hope Mill buildings. It's been a decade of demolition by neglect.@@Michael-RI

@dimcguy Жыл бұрын

Excellent video! Would you also be able to get any views of the peninsula to show if it and the boundaries have been protected with hay bales as required? Thank you for doing this remarkable video!

@Michael-RI Жыл бұрын

Since no demolition or construction has started, there may not be any hay bales in place yet not to mention that the town and DEM would be monitoring work underway. Also, I cannot easily see what is below the current tree cover to view it. Once the leaves fall, it may be possible to get a better view of the peninsula.

@RICorruptionBusters Жыл бұрын

Hello I was wondering if there could be a video shot closer to the boiler room? If possible

@Michael-RI Жыл бұрын

Will gladly do that should I get back there for some more video and snapshots.

@roddangerson2046 Жыл бұрын

This is the lower Taunton river

@piratemogwai178 Жыл бұрын

Lawyers reaction.

@poliyrew Жыл бұрын

Th lol

@charlesstepinski9327 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the great aerial footage. This is a awesome place to take remote control cars

@Michael-RI Жыл бұрын

Was a fun place to fly and video tape.

@RobertSmith-km6gi Жыл бұрын

It seems like nobody has much interest in RI but I grew up there and spent summers at Matunuck. I used to walk the shoreline to Jerusalem and out to the end of the west jetty. My father would take us to Galilee to go clamming, and to the annual tuna tournament, and to enjoy the fantastic seafood at George’s. This is the third RI vid I’ve responded to today because of the dearth of other posts. It must be a nostalgia thing.

@Michael-RI Жыл бұрын

East Matunuck was the beach I visited the most as well as Galilee and often walked the jetty watching the boats and fishermen. Loved George's the way it was back then and remember when George himself was there running the place. Was a simple business and not the upscale version it has evolved to. We used to go in there with sandy feed and wet bathing suits and sit on the stools for some clam cakes and chowder or get them at the takeout window. Nice to hear you have similar memories of the area. It is certainly a nostalgia thing for me as well. 😊😊😊👍👍👍

@angelasullivan1532 Жыл бұрын

Can ride here or do cops give you shit

@TruthLayden Жыл бұрын

I use to live on Blain Road in the old Victorian House up above this Mill till 1991

@Michael-RI Жыл бұрын

I really love old mills.

@newenglandsolidarity9784 Жыл бұрын

Is this place haunted?

@Ilikebourbonalot Жыл бұрын

Back in the 80's and 90's I was riding here every single weekend. This was the place to be if you had an atv or 4x4. Ps F Barbra Walters for taking 3 wheelers away from us.

@cristianandres8743 Жыл бұрын

Conoces a joe black

@barryflanagan6665 Жыл бұрын

It's amazing how our city leaders did nothing to save rocky point! But bent over backwards go get the western hotel and the now falling providence place mall built. Owners of those projects were able to as we call it give our city officials fat brown envelopes. State of Rhode Island could easily taken over Rocky Point instead they spent millions building Kennedy Plaza over three times. And now again in 2023 there coming up with plans to revitalize Kennedy Plaza. But as a resident of the State of Rhode Island I'm pretty sure me or anybody else that lives here is surprised hell we let the Pawtucket Red Sox walk away so we can build a soccer stadium

@Michael-RI Жыл бұрын

That may be true perhaps, however, large developers were foaming at the mouth to get that land and build condos on it but the state DID step in and took over the property making it a park for the public. It would not be realistic for the state to run an amusement park as a business which is what it was, a privately owned business.

@barryflanagan6665 Жыл бұрын

@@Michael-RI you're absolutely right about the state stepping in taking over the land but there was a reason behind that and as someone with inside knowledge! if you remember going back to when buddy Cianci was mayor of Providence he had a dream of building the Renaissance city which was basically buying up all the land on the port of Providence and turn it into hotels and condos but there was two owners that refused to sell which was the cohens who formerly owned promat Marine Service which is now Sims Metal Management and Dave Collins which is the person that owns the building where Pete's Tire Barn as they said that they would sell but they would sell for ten billion dollars because they knew that developers wouldn't pay that much so they had no choice but to renege on the plan which left the city wondering what they were going to do with Rocky Point which gave them no opportunity but to take over the land so the state of Rhode Island in the city of Providence had no choice but to take over the land where no one can develop on Rocky Point. Just a little inside information

@Michael-RI Жыл бұрын

@@barryflanagan6665 Good information! Did not know, or do not remember those details way back then. You have a better memory than I do!😀

@barryflanagan6665 Жыл бұрын

As a resident and a homeowner in the small town of Hope it is and was a beautiful building with a dark history behind it! Many tunnels ran underneath it so the slaves that were used to run that Mill weren't seen coming and going and the house that at least one tunnel went to still stands today.

@Michael-RI Жыл бұрын

Knew there was at least one tunnel that ran under the road in front to one of the houses. My understanding was that the mill owner wanted to be able to get to the mill easily despite what the weather was like. Did not know there were other tunnels used for slaves.

@barryflanagan6665 Жыл бұрын

@@Michael-RI yes there's a path behind the mill that leads up to the gazebo on rt 115 it's filled in now but there was a opening leading to a tunnel.

@kufukatorust3840 Жыл бұрын

My house is in this video lmao

@Michael-RI Жыл бұрын

I love Dudley, MA. Drive thru there on my way to Charleton to get to Tree House Brewing. 🍺

@fhp2024 Жыл бұрын

I live in Dudley too!!

@Michael-RI Жыл бұрын

Great area to fly being so high up you get a great view of the beautiful country below.

@leftylou6070 2 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid Tiogue Lake was polluted, seems quite a few sewer pipes emptied into it. I noticed the Big Gyp or as it was originally called The Big G grocery store, Del's Lemonade, but I didn't see the Showboat. I heard it burned down long ago, (Jewish Lightening). I was fortunate, my family moved out of state in '65', I didn't have to grow up in that Hell hole.

@peterbloomquist9931 2 жыл бұрын

NICE

@msroseydaniel777 2 жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas ❤️

@Michael-RI 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Same to you.

@msroseydaniel777 2 жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas ❤️

@williambranigan2485 2 жыл бұрын

I HATE THE WINTER MONTHS ESPECIALLY IN RI. Now down south in SW NM it does get cold but beautiful. ONLY S N O W is in the higher elivations on the mountains. Beautifyl when it is say 2-3 thousand feet higher than we are (Like we are just a littleb over 4000 feet). So, like I say, I do not cut grass or shovel SNOW he he Nice flight, will get my Mavic 2 Pro Platnum out this spring and show you all how the DESERT can be beautiful. Man I have ALL KINDS OF GOODIES and signed up for Pilots Institute vidio classes. 😀🐴🐴🐕🐕🐱🐱🐱🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓 🐱 forgot one hen and a 💩ot of 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩

@raymondmckenna2307 2 жыл бұрын

Great views Mike. This is giving me the itch for next spring.😊

@Michael-RI 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ray! One of my favorite places to fly. Hopefully winter will fly by and spring will be come early.