200 year old ABANDONED FARMSTEAD in PA! Historical records investigation

[@paulcrescenzi4957]

Awesome! Having done research on several Historical locations, I know how much time/effort is needed to provide the in-depth information about this site! Excellent video incorporating present with past and providing the story about this awesome site.

[@walkingcam1]

Right, Paul. That's like a huge puzzle where most of pieces are missing and you need to recreate the big picture. In this video, I was lucky and Kiefer family reached me out showed some old photos. Those photos were a clue to start research. The wonderful people. Thank you for the compliment!

[@Jeff-sl8xz]

​@@walkingcam1thought you said that there was no graffiti in i saw the graffiti painting on the walls

[@leeturner1838]

your videos are by far the best on you tube!

[@walkingcam1]

Hi, Lee! Thank you! It was a good day exploring. Weather was perfect 🙂

[@francisdv]

Its very interesting that those records are entered manually. Its really quite amazingly that there wasn't more mistakes back in the day. Again, a wonderful piece of history you've brought us. Thank you!

[@walkingcam1]

Hello, Francis! Manually, yes. Btw, my birth certificate is filled up manually too. But people who could read it and upload on the internet just amaze me. Those handwritings are totally unreadable. Thank you! I just came back home from another farm. A cool historic place drowning in snow.

[@jeffbrosky4558]

@francisdv no computers back on the day and records are only as good as the person recording them

[@francisdv]

@@jeffbrosky4558 yes Jeff

[@curtstuhltrager4192]

I was raised in Bucks County in the 50s and love these historic sites as I spent my youth learning the local history.Thanks for your work showing this area and the surrounding history. I've often wondered at peoples lack of curiosity about the local history we they lived . Thanks!

[@walkingcam1]

Thank you, Curt! When i was as kid i hated history lessons, for some reason, but fell in love when got older. 🙂

[@davestrang8585]

Your videos leave me thankful for the effort you put into the history and speechless. 🎉🎉

[@walkingcam1]

hello, Dave! Thanks a lot! Historical research is a big part of explorations. So interesting to dig through years 🙂

[@my2cents945]

very cool explore and the back story is an added bonus. Thanks for sharing.

[@walkingcam1]

Hello! Thank you very much! I didn't expect at all to find anything interesting when was going to that gravel pit ruin. It surprised me 🙂

[@50calzone46]

Hi, Dariana! I just found your channel and I'm super excited I did! I'm going to binge watch😀. Your explorations are right up my alley but your field skills far surpass mine. Then again I'm about twice your age.... Anyway, I seldom comment on ANY videos but your content, skills, narration, filmwork, editing, etc....OUTSTANDING!!! I hope you get tons of subscribers and keep exploring. Appreciate you sharing your adventures and I will be closely following and sharing. Hope to spot an incongruency as well! 😉 Best, "C"

[@walkingcam1]

Thank you very much! I'm very touched by so kind words. I'll keep looking for new places to tell you their forgotten stories.

[@panzermike46]

Thank you very very much for the history of the place.

[@walkingcam1]

Thank you, Mike! It was a good day 🙂

[@georgesmith1759]

Holy crap, you are fantastic. I have watched a lot of your stuff recently and was always impressed with your 'research' that you superimpose on your explorations. This one is over the top.., how much time did you put into this? You are a total pro, I wish more people would find you. Thank you very much,.

[@walkingcam1]

Thank you, George. I actually blushed now reading this. This episode took almost a month. I work on the videos in the evenings and process is pretty slow. Collection of information takes time. Thank you one more time for so kind words.

[@robhelcopter6301]

This is an excellent investigation and documentary video ,your work is excellent and so interesting, please keep making them.

[@walkingcam1]

Thanks a lot, Rob! I will be trying 🙂

[@MaxChampagne69]

Wow. That was such a beautiful farm. It's such a shame to see a legacy like that founder. Another great video. I just subscribed.

[@walkingcam1]

Hello, Benjamin! Thank you! I'll try not to disappoint you

[@MaxChampagne69]

@walkingcam1 Im a bit of an explorer myself. I know Maryland like the back of my hand, but moved to PA a few years back.Your videos are all places I've never been. You couldn't possibly disappoint me. I like your style. Thanks for all the historical information as well.

[@walkingcam1]

Thank you! I'm trying to look for real abandoned places, without any graffiti and trash. Sad, we have not too many them

[@johndersham1]

The color picture you showed of the farm is a hand colored photograph using Marshall transparent Oils for hand coloring photographs before the invention of color film. You are doing some great video's including this one. I have some hand colored photographs if my Dersham family farms that are near where you are in this video. They were pioneers and homesteaded their Pennsylvania farm in 1790.

[@walkingcam1]

Thank you for the details and compliment, John! This fact is first for me.

[@owen4248]

Enjoyed this much interesting back story your the best .

[@walkingcam1]

Thank you)) That travel was engaging. So big property to explore 🙂

[@johnhow6971]

Great research and filming...

[@walkingcam1]

@@johnhow6971 Thank you, John!

[@richcain64]

Some what similar to how my place looked when I discovered it in 1999. Lots of work and $ turned it into the show place it is today.

[@walkingcam1]

Hi, Rich! Do you remember where that place was? May be it sill exist

[@richcain64]

@ MILFORD. NJ, my current residence

[@walkingcam1]

@@richcain64 i know 2 houses in that vicinity. Planning to explore this spring

[@losthubcap]

Thank you for the great video !

[@walkingcam1]

Thank you for watching! 🙂

[@remaras1]

Corn was stored in these circular structures still on the cob. I don't believe there was too much worry about critters getting to the corn.

[@walkingcam1]

Thank you, Ronald!

[@charlesmckinley29]

The loss to birds and mice to corn in the cribs are just part of that type of storage.

[@walkingcam1]

Thank you, Charles!

[@garyjones2582]

Very interesting, thx for sharing...

[@walkingcam1]

Thank you for watching, Gary! 🙂

[@Chaotic-Demise77]

I'm not far from Bucks County and never knew that was there. I'm only a few miles from the Delaware myself. Interesting.

[@walkingcam1]

Thank you 🙂

[@pazf4384]

Very interesting tnx ❤

[@walkingcam1]

Thank you for watching 🙂 That was a great day exploring

[@garis5319]

The large volume of corn, as far as I know, is the only protection it has from birds and mice. I live in pa and I have never seen a corn crib with any more than that. It needs the air circulation for sure. There is little that smells worse than rotting corn.

[@walkingcam1]

Thank you! So, it look like a huge bird feeder 🤔

[@garis5319]

@walkingcam1 exactly. The shape helps keep weather out. When I was little. I knew a farmer who would store corn cobs in an open bin. Just like a cradle but you could drive into it and scoop it up. No protection from mice. We used to jump in it like a plastic ball pit. Edit: the bin was inside his barn second floor with a trap door in the floor above his pigs.

[@deerhunter3014]

It's interesting how the Kiefer property included an island, almost described as an afterthought. Google Maps shows Kiefer Island as being about a half mile long...Some afterthought!!

[@walkingcam1]

Hello! According to papers, i found, Kiefer purchased a portion of the island from Alexander Mason sometime after 1784

[@dcimedic]

I’m assuming the home had a fire at some point seeing as the out buildings are not in that bad of shape for being abandoned

[@walkingcam1]

Hi! Yes. The barn burnt in 1973, the house 2007-2008

[@jeffbrosky4558]

Many farm cats kept the mice population down and occasionally buckshot for birds

[@robertporter6507]

Lots of cats! 😊

[@bonnieleelee9936]

Wow

[@lionsmother3888]

Always thought those corn houses would make great aviary’s

[@walkingcam1]

Definitely. And a mouse colony beneath

[@SGM97B]

Why do you use an AI voiceover?

[@walkingcam1]

@@SGM97B terrible siberian accent

[@SGM97B]

@walkingcam1 haha. Well, I lived all over the world and enjoy accents. But I do enjoy your videos. I'm a metal detectorist and salivate over some of your locations. The history I could save.

[@walkingcam1]

Thank you! i wouldn't care of it unless my accent doesn't force people translate My English into American English. 😁 I'm a beginner in the metal detecting. Started just last summer. Nothing cool found yet: tons of nails, metal scrap, shot gun shells. But i will be trying again once show is over 🙂

[@SGM97B]

@@walkingcam1 You are in eastern PA, vicinity of Allentown? I can help you out learning about detecting. I've been doing it since the 1970s. I'm also a genealogist so might be able to give some research tips, though it looks like you do that very well already.

[@walkingcam1]

I'm in Philadelphia. Thank for the suggestion, i'll think. Would be great. Did you watch "Detectorists" series? So love those kind two men and their adventures.

[@MiltonRothermel]

The corn was not protected at all from the birds and mice and deer. They ate what they wanted.

[@walkingcam1]

Thank you, Milton!

[@joshlaubach8166]

This is about 10 miles from my house.

[@dcw1540]

The birds and mice eat as much as they liked

[@walkingcam1]

Thank you! Believe, rodents and birds are happy to settle around farms 🙂

[@lisalapoint7022]

Who owns that land now?

[@walkingcam1]

i believe, private hands. At least, last deed i saw dated back 2003 when J. Kiefer sold the property

[@joshlaubach8166]

Damn kids ruined the house.

[@walkingcam1]

i still don't know what forces people grab paint and go vandalizing

[@larryberger9440]

My father In law had a large poultry farm in Trachsville, Pa. over in Carbon County. When he husked the corn the ears were placed in shelters in the field. During warm weather and summers the flock used these shelters at night. So the shelters were empty after corn harvesting. In the spring when the corn was dry we removed the corn and put the ears in the farm wagon to go to the grinder. As we were taking the ears of corn out of the shelters mice and rats would run in many directions. The critters had found a nice home with food over the winter. They did not do much damage to the thousands of ears of corn. Pappy had a Springer Spaniel - named Chips - who would chase after the rats and shake and kill them. Of course, many escaped the jaws of Chips. So these corn bins on this farm held millions of ears of corn and the damage mice and rats did was minimal. To answer your question. I am sad to see that this farm is abandoned and hope you tell us why. thanks for the video, I loved it.

[@walkingcam1]

Thank you for detailed answer, Larry! Now it's clear for me. The last Kiefer's owner sold it 2003. New one had plans to renovate it and make a sort of inn. But fire in 2007-2008 destroyed all plans and since the place stays deserted.

[@patriciayohn6136]

I would think if they can prove that it is Keifer land wait until they receive the huge back real estate taxes bill.

[@walkingcam1]

@@patriciayohn6136 they sold it in 2003 🙂

[@TammyKiefer-r5m]

Farm was sold twice after my family owned it.