If you cant afford maybe reach out to a college or tradeschool and people can come as school /trade credit for restoration.

It has a fossil inside

Enslaved people. That’s how they moved things back then. This was a plantation. They owned people who did all these things around the place.

Great collection! The chair in the garage is a nursing chair, low with no arms so a mother could nurse a baby comfortably because of all the clothing they wore.

By western standards the bedrooms are Sooooooo Huuuge!!!! I mean the western states Oregon California and Washington.

What a beautiful place

I can't begin to tell you how much I enjoyed this video. I absolutely love that you know so much about your family history. Thank you for sharing all of the wonderful things with us that you have collected over the years.

Awesome house, I'd like to dig the trash pile there, just imagine. Thanks 4 the great tour

7:29- could that be a warming stone? They used to heat them up and put in the bed to warm it at night.

4:36- i believe those things hanging on the wall are meant to hold matches. I could be wrong since im not there to aee them all up close, but i have one and it holds matches. My mom also had one that was very old, also held matches.

Easy to destroy things.

Nothing of value lasts forever. I’m sure the family thought their lives would be like this forever.

THANK YOU FOR SHOWING US YOUR MEANINGFUL THINGS ..THEY GRABBED AT MY HEART ..❤

THANK YOU FORE THE TOUR ...WEST VIRGINIA HOUSE ...❤

Loved everything about this interesting and entertaining. Thank you.

These big old houses unfortunately are just to expensive to maintain

O.k. im looking for the extended version. APPRECIATE YOU TREMENDOUSLY ❤

Are they working to restore this?

A husking peg, is the the corn shucker. May have been called other names in different areas.

In the 60's/70's, people would have a NC mountain shack, or home, and go there on weekends/vacations, family functions. The boxes on the wall, are for storing matches. You have to light the woodstove, and you wanted dry matches kept safe. The round rock, can be used for making bread, and stretching the bread. Put bread on top, then push down. then later fill, or top with your choice of toping, like ravioli, or a pizza. The bread is pushed down from the top down. My birth father was from NC, my adoptive mom was from NC, my adoptive father was from NC, and his father, was 85 years old in the 70's, so, he could tell you what any piece of nonsense was used as. Some of the wooden bats, you have, might have been doppers, used for planting seads. The only realtive I can find associated with the civil war, fought for the Union, and was a union general, and there is a quote from him about the war :"I'm not doing that again", and he was a one time general at Antietam. The wooden piece you cannot identify, is a shuttle cock. It's used in a loom, operated by hand, to make blankets. You presss one of two peddles, which moves the loom, then you throw the shuttlecock to the other side. then do it again, about who knows how many times. What you call a brush axe, is also used to cut roots. And we were using these 20 years ago.

I am actually a part of a small archaeology team working on analyzing a bunch of artifacts at Appalachian State University that were collected along the New in 1976 as a part of the effort to get the river recognized as culturally important and preserved! Hippies, local farmers, ecologists and archaeologists all working together to preserve this beautiful landscape. In the wake of Helene it is heartbreaking to see all of the damage and devastation along the banks, months and months after the disaster. Yet, i find solace in the fact it's a special place for so many people, and that this landscape is timeless and will come out right in the end... Thanks so much for sharing this documentary!!!

I have done a lot of work on 1870-1880s houses in the Midwest. Often a house's front would be bricked up with higher quality, expensive brick and the lesser expensive brick on the sides and back. The more expensive brick had a uniform color as opposed to the multi-colored brick. It was also much more square and precise of a shape. Perhaps on this house this was the case and they later wanted that back side to be uniform to the front; So they did the faux brick to accomplish this. (Seeings how they stained the front to achieve that look) The metal S's on the side (*Stars were also common) (Called Star or S bolts)Are attached to a structural reinforcing bolt that runs through the house and out the other side.

Hi, I really enjoyed the video and his wonderful collection of family things. When he was in the garage showing his tools I noticed in the background a tall chest of drawers with Queen Anne cabriole legs. It appeared to me it may be a period peice meaning it could possibly date to the mid to late 1700's but I also could be wrong. Is this chest of drawers from his family?

This was wonderful!

I've been there! Such a good experience for a 20 minute drive from me!

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I bet they have a couple ghosts in this house 😂

Bed warming stone?

My husband and I collected and I’ve spent the last 15 years downsizing. It’s been extremely difficult. Nobody wants these sorts of things anymore , since I’ve been trying to rehome. Im trying to finish up this year. I hope I can. I appreciated it all and we enjoyed it, but since my husbands been gone, I don’t want to leave it for my kids to deal with. I wish I could find someone like this gentleman to take the rest of it off my hands.quite a bit of NC antiques from here. It’s beautiful how he has it all arranged. I just can’t keep a big old house up anymore. It was fun seeing everything

So much fascinating history here! I absolutely loved this home and everything in it! I could be wrong, but the item at 43:06 looks a bit like a shuttle for a loom, perhaps?

Awesome tour. Thank you.

Not Siamese, conjoined twins. Siam no longer exists. And they lived in the same county that Andy Griffith was from. There is an ancestor in Manteo, NC, that I've found on both my grandmother and grandfather's (2x) side of the family. My line doesn't fork, either. I'm related to Johnny Cash and Thomas Jefferson.

I really enjoyed watching this video. Can remember traveling all over East Tennessee and Western N.C. with my parents looking for heirlooms. My father was born in Johnson County Tn and most of his ancestors were from Wilkes and Ashe Co. N.C. and heard several names you mentioned that "rang a bell". My main line is Greer and Wilcoxson, with a little Boone thrown in there. Am sure we could find a match. Keep on with your gathering things you love and for sharing with us. (My maiden name was Jordan and I will be 94 yrs old next month)

Enjoyed so much !! My GG grandfather Charles Pinkney Henson 1853-1942 is connected to this line of Hensons from Watauga NC. Terry did a book on his Henson family yrs ago that I have. Thank you

Wow. What a fantastic collection of artifacts, antiques and memorabilia! I'm so envious, but oh my goodness, I cannot imagine what it must take to keep all of it so well organized and meticulously clean. I watched your video with rapt attention this morning, and immediately crafted a reply; however, much to my disappointment, I see it somehow disappeared, so my apologies for the late response. It would be next to impossible to comment on all the items which fascinated me in this gentleman's home, but the birch toothbrush made me remember being taught in survival techniques years ago that chewing a birch twig can clean and freshen your mouth as well as providing antibacterial properties. Also, the coffee can and broomstick "duster" was quite creative. My yard is fraught with chiggers each year; they take great joy in chomping on my flesh and creating misery. I belong to a local Appalachian ladies' homesteaders group, one of the many things we do is share gardening tips and advice, and one of the members allowed as how sulfur repels those little chigger monsters, and to apply it by placing some in a sock or leg of pantyhose and dusting clothing, shoes and the yard. My Grandmother, who would have been 129 this year, worked at the Chicago Hilton in its heyday during the time Al Capone and gangsters were active. When the hotel closed or was sold, the furnishings, Persian carpets, china and silver were offered to the employees. Grandma received some of each, which I inherited. Two Queen Anne wingback chairs were recovered several years ago...the original stuffing was horsehair! I love antiques, collectibles and the history associated with them, so this video was very interesting and informative. Thank you very much, once again for your efforts, they were very much appreciated.

I'm pretty sure that pink rose is a Seven Sisters. My great aunt had one just like it.

Thanks Kelley! That birch "toothbrush" that Terry had, was for dipping snuff. Both of my Grannies kept and used them. By the way, do you know what the snuff pocket is? If you extend your hand palm down and with the thumb out at a 90- degree angle you will notice a significant dimple will appear. The English would sprinkle their snuff in this little area and then snuff [sniff] it up their nostrils. Nasty bunch of fellers they were. lol!

What a view from the front porch!!!

I would absolutely love to get my hands on an old home like this. Also they historical society needs to protect every home like this from people that destroy them by tearing out original walls and floors and so called updating it. That needs to stop because these houses are a beautiful part of history and need to be kept that way all original!!

Enjoyed the tour. Terry is my distant cousin. My brother Greg and I had the pleasure of traveling down to Watauga County/Sugar Grove in July 2021 and Terry took us up in the hills around Sugar Grove where we visited the two Harmon Cemeteries (upper and lower). My branch of Harmon's lived in what is now Watauga County from about 1780 until they left in about 1910, but I still call it home. Thanks for opening up your house Terry.

Around 7 minutes and 40 secs I have one of those (the stone looking object) but a little bit smaller and we have never been able to figure out what it is. We even took it to a geology professor and he was even unsure! I will be interested to see if anyone else knows what it is!