Kansas Ghost Towns Part 4 - Arrington, Kennekuk, Padonia, White Cloud

[@robertyoung7284]

Lived in Horton, by Kennekuck many years and White Cloud for a time on the Reservation. Know all of those places from fishing and hunting all around that area. Miss it.

[@robertyoung7284]

Ex wifes grandparents had a house in Padonia

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Beautiful area to live! I really enjoyed my visit there!

[@terrycook477]

I love Kansas (born and raised) nice people and great food. A few small towns wiped out by tornados over the years and they just did not rebuild.

[@willhorting5317]

I agree. Lived here all of my six decades of life. Wouldn't want to live anywhere else.😎

[@sharonhart3735]

Great U-Tube video's I've lived in ks. for 28yrs.love these older ghost towns.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thank you very much! I have fun doing it!

[@scottf-m2c]

My mother grew up in Padonia . I visited my grandparents many times in my younger years.

[@farmallpaul4518]

Thanks for the tribute! My father, grand father and great grand father enjoyed the mineral springs at Arrington. My family still owns some land north of Kennekuk. You can see it in the drone footage! I was born just west of Padonia. Thanks!

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

That’s awesome! I really enjoyed making this video - beautiful areas and communities!

[@MsTugg]

my ex-wifes family is from whitecloud. Stephen Fry actually visited Whitecloud on his American tour and had a convo with Wolf River Bob, a local legend in the area

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

I really enjoyed visiting White Cloud. Very beautiful area!

[@dianeleatherman9557]

Again another one of great videos of Wonderful State Kansas . Born and raised in History and have many family members throughout Kansas. Thanks for your hard work and sharing your knowledge

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thank you! This was a lot of fun - beautiful area of Kansas!

[@alanwoods2010]

The trip from Atchison north to the Nebraska border along Kansas Highway 7 goes past White Cloud. I always enjoy going that way. I used to go through Kennekuk traveling from my grandather's house to his farm. A family that lived there had peacocks, which is something I remember. Great video that brings back memories.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thank you. Very beautiful drive indeed!

[@brianwindmeyer1825]

Nice video, I grew up in the White Cloud area.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

That’s great! I really enjoyed my visit - beautiful area!

[@brianwindmeyer1825]

@@TravelwithaWiseguy for sure, one of the prettiest parts of the state.

[@ssphoto66]

Some years ago, I stayed at a BnB not far, at a farm, and the host was involved with the historic aspect of White Cloud. He took me into that brick, squarish building you briefly show at 8:30 on this video. I was able to get inside and look around a bit. Great spot. One bit of trivia, this town was featured in my favorite movie Paper Moon.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Nice! Yeah I’ve seen that part of the movie and you can tell it’s White Cloud!

[@chiefamylee]

How neat to be able to see 4 states from the look-out.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

It was a pretty cool site in a fun little town!

[@Lagjax269]

I used to live there it’s basically a bunch of crack heads now

[@jmurry6695]

Sir, u have a real gift for this, many talents. Truly grateful for sharing your art and skills.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Oh wow thank you very much! I’m very much an amateur, but I enjoy doing these videos. I’ve had some great advice by a couple mentors during these videos. Thanks again!

[@maricris653]

The thing I noticed about Kansas is you can be in the middle of a ghost town and the freeways or highways that lead you there are well maintained and i don't see potholes not like here in California. One reason why I moved to Kansas. Love the Prairies, the best sunset ive seen. Loved loved loved every vlogs on Kansas. Thank you!

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

It might be because they aren’t traveled as much, but I agree about the roads. And the sunsets! I’m from Ohio and the sunsets here are always among the best. Thanks for watching! Appreciate it!

[@MissouriTigerTV]

You do a great job with these videos but I could have helped you with a ton of great history on the town of White Cloud. My great-grandfather's family owned a couple of hundred acres just around the corner and north of Main Street. It was a booming town in the late 1800s and the site of one of the largest flea markets in the US for many years.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thank you! Yeah I had heard about the big flea market, and probably should’ve mentioned it. This was one of my early videos and was still trying to figure out the format. I basically wanted to give people a little bit of info about the town and show more of it (and less of me haha).

[@jeraldbennett9289]

I have been thinking of checking out the casino over by White Cloud and in my research I saw the 4 state lookout deal. I was thinking I would make that a part of my visit. I just kinda like the quiet, remote and historic stuff. Thanks for the little tour.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

In my opinion, I would definitely do that! White Cloud is a great little spot to stop and explore. Thanks for watching!

[@JB-wd5rw]

Part of the movie Paper Moon was filmed in White Cloud. I'm not sure which building was used. JB

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Nice! Great town to explore!

[@lancemumford3106]

It would be nice to see the Arrington Spring.

[@thatonekansasguy]

This is a fantastic series my friend

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

I appreciate that! It’s been a fun series to do!

[@bencbaumann]

Thanks for creating this. My uncle says, my great grandparents ran a general store in Arrington. My uncle seems to think the thumbnail photo was the general store in Arrington. My great grandmother was the post mistress. Can you confirm if the general store is still standing in Arrington?

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thank you for watching! The thumbnail is actually from White Cloud, not Arrington. I don't remember seeing any kind of general store in Arrington. There was a very rough looking building on the main road I was standing in front of on the video and across the street was a residence that could have been a gas station previously. Other than that I think there were only houses remaining. I enjoyed exploring it!

[@colingeorgeh]

Excellent video. Thanks for sharing.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thank you! It was fun to visit these towns, especially Kennekuk and White Cloud!

[@edinop4205]

My family settled just west of White Cloud. Lots of interesting history there pertaining to the westward expansion of the country. It has a few claims to fame, one the inventor of the piggy bank was from White Cloud, a Wilbur Chapman and there is a National Historic Monument commemorating it. When I was a kid, one of the hottest stars in Hollywood at the time, Ryan O'Neal, shot of few scenes in White Cloud, for a movie he was in "Paper Moon". White Cloud was chosen in the early 1970's as a town that clearly looked like a "Depression Type" town. There was also a scene shot in nearby Highland just south of Iowa Point. The town was a major supplier of timber from the Missouri bottoms in the mid 1860's. Thank you for taking a moment to visit my home town. Thought I'd share this youtube video that shows one of those scenes. Anything look familiar? kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3yUeZ94h7J6rc0

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thank you for all that info! Great movie scene and yeah the town looks great in it!

[@Lagjax269]

@@TravelwithaWiseguyI used to live there to I have a picture of my playing basketball with my dad at the basketball court I lived on the res though so I only went there for the four state lookout

[@mathewhephill8686]

Great work, thanks

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thank you!

[@zachjenson1046]

That wagon is a part of my front yard.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Nice touch!

[@willhorting5317]

Thirty years ago, I had reason to go to White Cloud a few times over the course of a little more than a year. Ex-wife and our kids temporarily moved there during our divorce.

[@ytubepuppy]

Nice music selection.

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thanks! It’s a fun part of the process of editing!

[@bengabrielson9381]

great youtube series and great shirt

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

Thank you for watching! And thanks for noticing the shirt haha. One of my favorites 😊

[@justnerdystuff]

Exposing my dark humor here...at 3:52 in the video, since you are a history buff, I think you should make a T-shirt of that advertisement where the last line says "Orphan's preferred" I honestly believe that would be good seller. I'd buy it for my daughter's father-in-law, he's a history buff.

[@bdavisk]

Great stuff! Only saw 2 ghosts

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

😂😂

[@travis303]

Any idea what happened to the springs in Arrington?

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

I’m not sure. It’s possible that the water source dried up. Plenty of that kind of thing has happened around Kansas.

[@travis303]

@@TravelwithaWiseguy I grew up in Kansas. In fact, I grew up in Wichita. I currently live in Iowa. I had never heard of Arrington before your video or any springs. I have heard of the town of Baxter Springs but never heard of any actual springs that are around there. I am visiting my mom next week and we plan on going to Wamego to see the Wizard of Oz stuff there. I was looking up videos of Wamego here and just stumbled upon your videos.

[@travis303]

@@TravelwithaWiseguy By the way, I'm a KU grad, Rock Chalk Big 12 Tournament Championship :)

[@TravelwithaWiseguy]

I’ve been to Wamego but never to the museum. Definitely somewhere I’d like to go! Have fun and congrats on the Big 12 title!

[@travis303]

@@TravelwithaWiseguy I love small towns. They always have the coolest stuff to me. You can keep places like NYC, Miami, LA, I'd rather spend my times exploring the uniqueness of places like Wamego. If I had one bit of small criticism, it's the use of ghost town. I think of ghost towns as places completely abandoned, all that is left is the remains, only ghosts living there. I wouldn't call White Cloud a ghost town for sure. But otherwise I appreciate seeing some of these places. I look forward to seeing more

[@skipcalvert4310]

@skipcalvert4310 @skipcalvert4310 0 seconds ago Try Geuda Springs, KS next time you are in the area. Great old heath resort.