1800s Miner's Cemetery At Abandoned Iron Mine Alone in the Woods

We came across an old miner's cemetery from the mid 1800s at one of the largest abandoned iron ore mining sites in New Jersey that operated from the early 1700s to the early 1900s and produced iron products for both the American Revolutionary War and Civil War. The site consisted of an entire village built up around a 2 mile long iron vein, one of the richest iron veins in the USA. Unfortunately the main mine is now sealed off, but we explore the entire area in a separate video.
#abandonedmines #cemetery #mininghistory

[@outdoorfr3ak]

Although I do think as someone who's laid fence and focused heavily on growing plants, they just used a very young tree as an anchor and the tree is just that old. The tree would have a really hard time absorbing those like that

[@gabrielv.4358]

Wow

[@fredwood1490]

Such a lonely place, a place where none come anymore, a place peopled by the forgotten, and only the stones speak to the wind. But no! Not so! There is a pebble on that stone, someone has read the name, it flies on the wind once more. Some one has remembered. Such a quiet place a place where families gathered for rest and peace, a place with the names of the first ones in this great land, a place where their sacrifice is noted on their speaking stones, a place of beginnings. And where stone has gone to dust wooden Crosses have sprung, so oblivion will be staved off a little while longer and memory renewed. Father of my Grandfather, Mother of all my line, you have honored me with my spark and my long past and I honor you by remembering you lie here in this lonely place.

[@ExplorersRR]

Thanks. I'm glad they were all buried here to keep the memories of thw mining past alive.

[@fredwood1490]

I think it's more about family. Such places reflect the new lives of emigrants and Workers in the new, industrial age. I see so many of them died around age 30, by any of the ten thousand things that can kill you in a mine. So young they died, most likely with families now without a Father, so Mother has to find a replacement, merge her family with another and the connection with that Father, that miner, that man is often lost along with his story. That people do visit that lonely place, do remember, read the names and place a pebble to show someone was actually here is wonderful. Oh, and the beer bottle might be a Hamm's from the 1960s, a shared libation maybe, is charming and not trash. Thanks again.@@ExplorersRR

[@Aztec73]

This is a nice video., the miners might have come from they spoke the language.Cornish Kernewek Kernowek and some spoke Gaelic.🙂🇺🇸 10:42

[@ExplorersRR]

Thanks. I've been wondering. Very interesting looking back and trying to understand the history of a site. Still have to post a full video, there was an entire village (now just ruins) about a half mile down the hill from the graveyard, including a mine that went down something like 27 levels (all closed off now.) There was also supposed to be a church near the cemetery but so far we've explored and have found no evidence of that structure (interestingly there's an active church built in 1869 across the street from the mining village ruins so I'm assuming the graveyard church would be older?)

[@Aztec73]

@@ExplorersRR Thank you for the information.I Really like this video. I love this kind of stuff. I have a few videos of some old. Left alone places. I'll post them as soon as I can. What I especially like is to know a little history about the place that I'm exploring. It looks like you like that too.That's really Nice. I have a suggestion., Take a close up photo of one of the gravestones. Then do a Google image search and translate on the writing. It may tell you as a certainty Where some of them the miners were fhowever it is likely that they were from several countries.,,,,,, By the way, you got a new subscriber..🙂🇺🇸

[@ExplorersRR]

​@@Aztec73 we'll try the Google thing the next time we go back to the area and let you know if we figure anything out

[@Aztec73]

@@ExplorersRR Thank you, You've really got my curiosity Is going,.🙂

[@jeffpotipco736]

West Virginia?

[@ExplorersRR]

No, this is in New Jersey.

[@rarrafunfitness6230]

kind of sad

[@ExplorersRR]

True, but interesting & amazing at the same time because all the forgotten people here and their forefathers played a role in shaping history (iron produced here was used in both the American Revolutionary & Civil Wars.)