Abandoned Glen White Coke Ovens

Abandoned Glen White Coke Ovens - Just above the Horseshoe Curve. Invisible except during late fall.
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[@brucesheehe6305]

There is some talk about cleaning the acid mine drainage into Glen White Run and returning it to a trout habitat.

[@ODDySEEy]

They already have the settling ponds up and running above the ovens.

[@ExploringwithWade]

Nice video. Very Informative and well done. 👍

[@ODDySEEy]

👍🏼Right back at you. Your channel makes me feel like a slacker. LOL

[@tattooedtactical6667]

Great video!! I find myself now checking for notifications that u uploaded a new vid!! Keep it up!

[@ODDySEEy]

Good Deal... I will give you a secret... although Monday is my "technical" deadline (personally set by me) I normally have it posted by 10am Sunday. If something goes wrong with rendering of if there is a mega screw up in my video after I have rendered it... I usually have it out by 3pm Sunday. When and IF, I do a Premiere, it is at 5:30pm (these are all EST). ;)

[@kyleharrold5749]

Did you visit the Gallitzin pa ovens just up the road? There's many many more up there.

[@ODDySEEy]

Not yet. It seems like an ovens video is coming up for this year because there have been a good number of requests to see different ones at different sites.

[@SleeTheSloth]

Great video as always, but I have to ask .... Did that poor inch worm ever make it home? :)

[@ODDySEEy]

I actually have about 30 mins of the inch worm. He made it to the top of the post and then just kinda hung out there before we left him.

[@jasonhoffman7903]

I look forward to your new videos. History can be lost by just one generation of not passing it on. I'm a explorer myself. If you ever want to chat I've been to alot of local places and have alot of knowledge. My other specialty is engineering failures. I always like to meet with the locals and get the real story. Some are welcoming. Others have been not so much. Met one older fellow on his porch with a gun. Lol

[@ODDySEEy]

Jason... hit me up over my email (found in the ABOUT section) or over Facebook. The combination of exploring sites, especially ones with engineering failures is sooooo much fun for me (looking forward to eventually making it up to the Kinzua). My professional background by degree is Aerospace Engineering and Information Technology. So my eye is always looking for Man Made, Abandoned, or Failed... or anything that does not look kosher to its location. :)

Do you have any information on the Taylor trading company which may have been purchased from glen White?

[@ODDySEEy]

Unfortunately, no. I came across their name in the US Directory of Forges for that decade and it gave no information beyond their name and the transfer to Glen White Co. This is the horrors of history when doing stories on these older companies. Many of them were overnight and many of them were shell companies.

[@meihyify]

I heard these ovens are located in Gillitizan, PA. Are you going to be doing more videos about Cambria County?

[@ODDySEEy]

THESE ovens are "Glen White" in Blair just above the Horseshoe Curve. I did one in Gallitzin a couple of weeks ago... those are the "Bennington Coke Ovens". I will be hitting more of Cambria as time and weather and sites permit. I am saddened that I missed out on the opportunity to do one on the Abandoned Park Forest Amusement site (nothing left but a few buildings in the "enchanted forest")

[@meihyify]

@@ODDySEEy everything that I read about the Glenn Coke Ovens we're said to be in Gallitizan, PA

[@inhaleingsmoke]

Perfect time of year too the foliage is not covering the ovens and you can see all of what's left I bet this was a sight when the ovens were still up and running I'm sure most kids see this as a party sight I'm glad I didn't see a ton of spray paint all over the place but I'm sure you probably seen a few ovens with it inside

[@ODDySEEy]

@@inhaleingsmoke when I see some of the really old tin types... there was NOTHINGNESS as far as the eye could see, when it came to nature or trees. Absolute barren wastelands. Almost apocalyptic. I have a few pictures in the Trough Creek videos when talking about Paradise Furnace. They consumed an Acre per Day.

[@meihyify]

@@inhaleingsmoke Sorry never partied up there and most ovens are in pretty bad shape to be around.

[@kimberlynvandine8412]

Not history related per say, but when my oldest daughter was about 5, we were train watching at the curve, and decided to explore around the coke ovens. We ended up finding a deer antler, and she still has it to this day (she’s now 10). I love that area, and I can’t wait to go back! Altoona is about a 5 hour drive from where we live in Ohio. I’m loving your videos on the areas I’ve been considering my home away from home for the last 8 years, I’ve become a huge history buff as I’ve gotten older

[@ODDySEEy]

History is important. It is how we grow as individuals and a people. Without knowing it and remembering who we once were, we are doomed to repeat the same ills and misconceptions as those before us.

[@erinmarie5154]

My grandmother was from Glenn white pa, she was a cooper and her mother was a eichenlaub (spell check) first name Gertrude my grand mother was myrtle. I’ve always been interested but never knew much.

[@ODDySEEy]

There seems to be a lot of conflicting information regarding the town and I couldn't find remnants. But I have been assured they are there and we all know SOMEBODY had the historical documents in some drawer somewhere. Eventually more will come out and I will be waiting to go hit the site again :D

[@jamesburley2854]

The ponds above were established by the Altoona Water Authority to treat AMD

[@ODDySEEy]

I meant to reply to this earlier, but as I have been doing more digging into other sites, I am finding these Trailings (AMD Water Treatment Ponds) EVERYWHERE throughout Blair and Huntingdon Counties.

[@jerrydunn3260]

By the way, at 1:49 "Kittanning" is pronounced "Kit tan ing." Interesting video as I've been there many times. The other thing that is remaining in the area is the legacy of the coal industry: pollution in the form of acid mine drainage. Kittanning Run, which comes down a hollow at the historic Horseshoe Curve, is dead from AMD and has to be diverted around the three reservoirs located there.

[@ODDySEEy]

Thank you, Jerry. I caught that on my fifth review of the video. Unfortunately it was prepped for the wild and I have been waiting in order to address it here.

[@ODDySEEy]

You can see on Google Earth the trailings trying to stop the leeching. I do not know how bad that AMD is, but it cannot be good.

[@jerrydunn3260]

@@ODDySEEy The Altoona Water Authority is currently trying to buy over 2,000 acres of mostly coal-stripped land in the Kittanning Run watershed. Their plan is to have passive AMD treatment ponds built to hopefully improve Kittanning Run to the point where it doesn't have to be diverted around the reservoirs.

[@billconserva1461]

The pronouncing of Kittanning is, sounds like this ..........KIT-Tan-Ing and not Kit- a -Tanning

[@ODDySEEy]

Yup... it was an error. It was addressed. Thanks for watching.