Camp Michaux - WW2 POW Camp in Pennsylvania

A short history on Camp Michaux with a focus on the World War II POW Camp named Pine Grove Prisoner of War Camp.
The first part of the video goes into Civil Conservation Corps. Then we visit it as a POW camp and learn a LOT of SECRETS. Both have LOTS of pictures.
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[@Adventure_Coffey]

Thank you for putting so much work into this video. It truly was an adventure.

[@ODDySEEy]

Thank you... I need to get back out there and take a look at some other things I learned about in the area directly related to the POWs. There are some more interesting potential facts regarding the captives of the time period and some other structures hidden just out of sight of the original camp plans.

[@eemarka]

Yes please! We would love all the local hslistory!

[@ODDySEEy]

I will soon be swinging back into that direction. So keep watching :D

[@shaypink40]

Hi, I don’t speak French, but Michaux is my Black American family Surname/last name here in North America 🇺🇸, I’ve just been Searching our family history my uncle Billy Michaux was a POW

[@getoutexplorewithjohn5512]

Absolutely unbelievable amount of information about this truly amazing site, presented in a very understandable manner. Thoroughly enjoyed the entire video and am definitely a new subscriber. Thank you for sharing this story.

[@sandyreinard7031]

Yes, please make more videos of this area. I always enjoy your videos. You have a lovely family.

[@ODDySEEy]

I am definitely going to do some... gotta research the stories and see if we have a location that is ODDySEEy worthy (as if I am in some position to bless a site as "worthy"). Thank you so much for the compliment on my family. I stopped by a modeling agency and hired them for the day :D (no really, thank you... my daughter is gonna take over my channel when I pass... and when that happens, I STRONGLY URGE YOU AND MY OTHER VIEWERS GET MY DEATH HEAVILY INVESTIGATED). The only think worse than being alone on these adventures is not having someone to share it with... hence the Channel AND why I take at least one member of the fam with me on EVERY video. Also... hit that SUBSCRIBE button... it helps keep the channel going and it costs you NOTHING. I promise!

[@Muzikteach61]

Excellent video. Very informative

[@ODDySEEy]

This was a fantastic site to visit and tell the story.

[@chrisk5566]

VERY interesting; thank you for all your videos!

[@ODDySEEy]

My pleasure!

[@jeffreybishop9478]

Thank you for sharing your adventures

[@ODDySEEy]

You bet!

[@Gretchenmomof7]

Great video! I just took my sons and their friends out to see the camp last week. All we had was a print out of the walking tour. The tall weeds hid so much, we had no idea! We had a lot of fun exploring, but I'm going to do some more research and take them back out. My 17 year old was the only one brave enough to go down into the equipment room under the pool!

[@ODDySEEy]

Hope your son took his SCUBA gear... LOL

[@brightskyfarm]

Excellent ! I own a small farm in the Michaux -- thanks for sharing this history .

[@ODDySEEy]

Although I hope my video increases traffic to the location, I hope it does not overburden your area with too many people (I appreciate the solitude of farm life and rural living)

[@Steel-ye5eg]

So I hope someone sees this and can maybe answer my question, I’m very fascinated with the CCC fountain, and I cannot find very much information about it but I’m just curious, was the fountain operating all the way until the church camp closed or was it not working by that time? I know there are lots of people in the area that would have gone to the church camp during the 50s and 60s and early 70s until it closed, and I’m hoping someone that went to the church camp will see my question and could tell me, I’m really interested in the ccc era of the camp, Scott, this is a great video, one of the best out there thanks for making it.

[@nkeel]

Great video. Live only a few miles from here and never knew it existed. Went today for a short time but plan on taking the walking tour map back soon.

[@ODDySEEy]

Great Site. I have heard there are some other secrets lying around in the woods of that area. Do some investigation of AT Hiker forums (AT=Appalachian Trail)

[@mattrizzo7821]

Fascinating.. great video 👍🏼 The hole😱

[@ODDySEEy]

I just get giddy about the holes. Every TV show and video I have ever watched, people put a flashlight in like they are poking a dead animal with a stick. I do a spot check for scat or hair and then make the decision... am I going in or NOT. Which usually means... LET'S GO IN THE HOLE. There is ALWAYS cool things in holes.

[@rekhavyas837]

I love your videos they are very Informative

[@ODDySEEy]

Glad you like them!

[@plymouth-hl20ton37]

I look forward to the possibility of more interesting videos from you well done

[@ODDySEEy]

Thank you Ed... you will NOT be disappointed (and if you are, give me another chance on the next video that comes after the one that disappoints you :) Also... hit that SUBSCRIBE button... it helps keep the channel going and it costs you NOTHING. I promise!

[@JanetH.215]

It surprises me that so many POW camps were established all over the country. I like how you intersperse images of how it used to look with nowadays. I'd like to hear more about those other places you mentioned at the end.😃

[@ODDySEEy]

Finding remains of sites is VERY difficult... but I do endeavor and will continue to endeavor to bring as many as I can to all of you.

[@ODDySEEy]

Hey everybody, remember to comment and ask questions or go out to www.schaeffersite.com/michaux/ for even more pictures, documents, and information. Thanks to Lee Schaeffer for providing me with soooo much more information that what I could find in the National and State Archives regarding this site. Watching this video before going out to the site will totally change what you see when you are wandering through the Forest.

[@ODDySEEy]

😀

[@craiglenhard-rvrguyd]

Explored this site in July with my grandson. As we walked south ( I believe) we crossed the foot bridge, crossing thru a small open field and the path took up to a big pile of tree mulch. Any idea where this trail goes? We turned around at this point as I guessed we were leaving the POW camp area.

[@ODDySEEy]

Yup... it is a "short cut" road that takes off about 2 miles of the Appalachian Trail and reconnects by Woodrow Rd. But... you can extend out a little further to Forest Rd. before getting back on the AT (Appalachian Trail). :)

[@Zona-dw9rp]

I live in Arizona and loved this video! Make more ... subscribed and liked.

[@ODDySEEy]

Thank you! Will do!

[@rogergarman]

Great job Scott!! This is the first time I have had ads pop up on your videos. Like 8 or 9 of them. Guess you are becoming popular so they added them 😉

[@ODDySEEy]

Popularity is part of the ego I need to feed. (not really) But, I will say there is an emotion that bubbles up, real deep down, when I see that my videos are watched and people are learning and interested in these types of sites :) As for the "ads", that is the KZbin price for gaining popularity on a "free" service site. (i.e. same as Google Ads, Facebook Ads, etc.) I think I minimized as much as I could (they let me have SOME control over the ads). You should be able to SkipAd on most, if not all of them.

[@rogergarman]

@@ODDySEEy you couldn't skip them all, but a few were only a few seconds long. Thought it was weird that I had never seen any before on your videos, and pow, 9. Not 1 or 2.

[@jaywarner3889]

The Hunting Lodge you speak of near the end of your video... Could you elaborate? Our family visits a large stone hunting cabin(Green Ridge Cabin) built in 1927 (engraved on the cornerstone) that at one time had a stone fountain that closely resembles the stone fountain at Camp Michaux! It is in the same area about 12 miles to the south near Orrtanna, Pa.

[@ODDySEEy]

It was called The Beam Hunting Lodge and was within Michaux.

[@ddeaae]

I truly in joyed the history lesson. You presented this video so well with in depth knowledge and a map with vintage pictures what else could a viewer ask for. I liked the idea that you carry in order to protect your family if the need should arise.I do have a request can you convey any reading materials that you personality found helpful. Thank you so much for posting this we are glad we found your site. Being children born to 3 WWII Officer's we love rich history that we never allow to , we understood the reason but their death bought many unanswered questions that we still. ponder . Although, our parents we assume may not of been associated with this video Historical War Accounts do.

[@ODDySEEy]

About 10% of what I found regarding this site was in the Library of Congress web archives. 80% came from the wonderful Lee Schaeffer and his unintentional "domain" of the Michaux site... nobody, and I mean NOBODY, has a more complete history or set of documents and photo's than Lee. All of them publicly available on his website: www.schaeffersite.com/michaux/

[@outdoorvideoswithbrad]

I go there all the time and camp around there too, I like riding my bike through their, I never new about the geo cash, but I’ve looked at a lot of the old foundations and found a bunker looking thing but it’s not a bunker

[@ODDySEEy]

Really cool stuff. The bunker looking thing is the swimming pool that existed between two barracks. It was put in by the Christian Camp. It looks like a bunker because the pumps and chlorinators were all in an underground concrete room.

[@outdoorvideoswithbrad]

@@ODDySEEy I see other comments of people saying to do more in that area, have you ever went to dead women’s hollow? it’s in Michaux forest too off the Appalachian trail,they burnt out a lot of the trees there you can get a good view of the valley from the top of the mountain and there’s a cabin called Michener cabin and there’s a spring there too for water it’s dryed up right now tho since we haven’t had rain in awhile, it’s called dead woman’s hollow because back in the day a random hiker got jealous of two lesbians out camping and raped and killed them, I’ve hiked a good bit of the michaux forest, and that’s a true story I’m not trying to be mean haha, that happened in like the 1980s or something before my time

[@ODDySEEy]

@@outdoorvideoswithbrad I didn't see Dead Womens Hollow until I was there at Michaux. Put it on my list right away.

[@jillbrantner9291]

This was fantastic! I had visited this before but didn’t realize just how big this was. Where did you find the map. My husband and I are going to go back!! Thank you for doing this. The videos are great!!

[@ODDySEEy]

The map was provided by Lee Schaffer of www.schaeffersite.com/

[@hwogrillo]

If you go into the parking lot across the road from the entrance, there's a little stand with some photos and history all the way to the right side of the parking area, and there's a box with maps right there

[@ODDySEEy]

There were NO MAPS at the time of my visit. The maps provided by other sources that were not done by Schaeffersite were inaccurate and "interpretive" (which is another word for inaccurate). If that has changed, that would be phenomenal. (send me a picture or a copy via my email that you can find under the ABOUT section of the channel).

[@hwogrillo]

@@ODDySEEy The map you had was a lot better than the ones provided. They only listed the stuff that was marked by the number posts with a small description of what they were during the CCC, POW, and Church eras. I don't have mine anymore or I definitely would get you a copy. Maybe a local can grab one for you at some point. Great video btw! Edit: it's actually the same map that's on the walking tour section of schaeffersite, but with the Today section and a bunch of the listed areas removed. I know for sure that the barber shop, ball court, and a lot of other things on there were not on the map I had. I was there about 3 weeks ago.

[@KateGoldauthoress]

Interested in the founding botanist and Appalachian trail!

[@ODDySEEy]

Pay a visit to www.schaeffersite.com/michaux/ he has compiled a large number of links

[@DDExplores]

Wow,,, that has deteriorated so much since I last visited,,,

[@ODDySEEy]

That is what I thought when I was going through pictures from 2006 and then from 2016 and then got on site and was What The Heck!

[@JasonRainbows]

Nice guy. Being a fellow (ex) Pennsylvanian I could imagine we would have been friends as kids. Subject matter; very interesting and beautiful. But I only believe about 80% of his "facts" (almost bailed at the contrail bit). The videos make me homesick. He has a nice hat, so that is worth one LIKE & SUBSCRIBE at least. Wonder if he'll ever do "The Powder Hole" in Hollenbeck Township (Hobby, PA - near Berwick) which features fantastic waterfalls and the beautiful, moss-covered ruins of a Dupont gunpowder factory that operated during the civil war and kept blowing up because whiskey.

[@ODDySEEy]

Thanks for sticking it through. All facts are what are available. It would be stupid to fluff them without letting you know that I am fluffing them... you can be right 100 times, but on the internet, you can only be wrong once. ;) Besides, it is not my story, I am just the one telling it. History wrote it and Historians dug it up :D I have the powder hole on my list and a few other sites along the Wapwallopen Creek... just a matter of time, but I think I have half a dozen things around Nescopeck.

[@katiefyock9607]

You look like my daughter's pediatric cardiologist Dr. Consevage who just retired.

[@ODDySEEy]

Then it goes without saying, your daughter's pediatric cardiologist MUST be one helluva damn good looking man.