Love Notes Over 200 Years Old Discovered on School Campus

[@thepeachyplace]

Finding old handwritten documents is always so sentimental and nostalgic!

[@DEADisBEAUTIFUL]

“My love for you shall be everlasting” has never been more true.

[@Angie-v4r]

Most intriguing story I've heard in some time. Just itching to read the kids' notes from 200 years ago.

[@世界は崩壊した]

R.I.P to the rejected love notes 😢

[@BrokenBonesRBLX]

Imagine writing love notes that survive centuries, but my texts can’t even survive 'seen' status! 😂

[@StepAwayVro]

Quit stealing comments

[@quickbrick6810]

@@StepAwayVrois bro on something, the other 16 comments don’t say anything like the one bro typed

[@salomesparkle9666]

😂😂😂

[@user-pn9db8sm5w]

I can imagine a child recieving a note, reading it, then pushing it under a floorboard.

[@grumpyvet7670]

I wrote my first "love note" in the 70's in 3rd grade. I got caught, and Mrs Wray read it to the class. I don't remember what I wrote, but I was embarrassed. The other kids made fun of me the rest of the day. Lol

[@hermenutic]

What a sweet story. I lived in a home that had been a school house previously. I found old school books in the walls, but no love notes.

[@wadedevinney9681]

Good on Lee for saving the notes

[@Hollergirlohio]

Please find the decendants of those letters maybe just to view. So precious

[@Punisher6791]

imagine that, back then if you loved someone you took the time to write it on paper in a heartfelt note, now all we do is send empty conversations back and forth on our phones.

[@BrooklynBaby100]

I still send hand written notes to people I love… and if a man in my life doesn’t see the beauty and value in that, I feel sorry for them and they can leave. 😌

[@Smile200-z4y]

Ok boomer.

[@Punisher6791]

@@BrooklynBaby100 my kind of lady😍

[@catherineerwin8269]

@@Smile200-z4y childish & a dated cliche!

[@headbounce22]

Awe… I’d love for them to get a hold of the family lines & be able to show these to them!

[@bowie5434]

Imagine finding your great great grandparents first ever love notes ❤

[@kingdoc3262]

Great idea 🎉

[@alyssaj.2659]

I love New England history!

[@GreedyOrange]

so sweet to see that kids never change,reminds me of a stick figure drawing and some scribbles of a child on some birch bark found in a bog,a couple thousand years old,makes me happy just to know that

[@Lexie.4u]

This guy is so cool, big respect.

[@daowonimdee]

My 1800s love note: "On this splendid day did I witness quite the most beautiful maiden. Whom you ask? Why, it is you, Tabitha, and I would quite like to meet you this afternoon at the time of half past three. I shall be prompt and not tarry."

[@fabigrossi2976]

You will never find whatsapp messages in an attic in 200 years.

[@saries54]

Sad, isn't it.

[@amycunningham1732]

I love 'darling' ,sounds so 1800's! 😚

[@sallyannsmith9929]

Time capsule for sure. So sweet

[@jmh6016]

A view to a simpler time. Maybe not super simpler, but definitely worth more than what humanity is today.

[@normanbrown9225]

No Wonder My GIRL FRIEND Never Showed up for my DATE.😂

[@IsabellaMusgrove-o2e]

lol

[@debrajohnson6473]

Aw so sweet.

[@LifesWorldwideAdventures]

Awesome

[@jackalopewright5343]

Just think how this will never happen again. No archaeologist will stumble across a box of Instagrams or Tweets.

[@cicirosehannigan]

That's so sweet thou!

[@MerynMTG]

I found four pages from the 1920s of an (unalive) note a man wrote to his wife.

[@arfinjalal4563]

So suicide was taboo even in 1920s America

[@geigertec5921]

I found some love notes hidden behind the drawers of an old vanity, they were from kids in the 1970's and had words like groovy in them. There was alot of drama and gossip in them so I think that's why they were hidden behind the drawer instead of in it.

[@jackiecastillo2484]

Dang! 200 y/o love notes. Real❤️ 💌

[@vary1143]

Dy want me to write to one lol

[@Greg7791]

I bet these were all the notes that were caught and confiscated by the teacher.

[@KGTKK]

You might be actually onto something😂

[@roxyj3182]

Yesss!! Same thing I was thinking

[@random22026]

Exactly. Passing notes in class was always 'dangerous'--and many sharp-eyed teachers were responsible for stopping the communication flow. ('Crib notes' during tests were also a dicey business!) Can't imagine a child wouldn't want to keep a love note as a keepsake.

[@OhJodi69]

I think the kids dropped them through the floor because they couldn't throw them away, without someone possibly finding them in the trash.

[@vlmellody51]

I was restoring an old school desk about 40 years ago. When I took it apart, I found a love letter hidden in a crack. Once I finished my work, I returned it to its place.

[@tamarakonczal6350]

How incredible you did that!!!

[@sonofhibbs4425]

Fun!

[@KINSL3YM]

That’s cool

[@MrMegatron85]

Man, i got a tin packed full of love letters from HS 20 years ago. I dont dare read them because the cringe might be too much

[@sameaston9587]

A few years ago I found a box full of letters my mom written to dad. I read a few of them, and it felt like I got tooth decay. They were very sappy, full of longing resulting from their long-distance relationship.

[@sandyfung2535]

They have nice handwriting 😊

[@JohnMcGlothlin-l7j]

Those don't look even close to 200 years old. The paper types, the penmanship, the use of pencil, the reference to swings, the vocabulary; just not right. I'd say they're likely more like 125 years old.

[@theOlLineRebel]

I think it’s over a long period of time. The earliest might be as old as the building itself. They didn’t say how long the school endured but did indicate multiple time periods. The swing referred to would be the literal porch/yard/child item, BTW, and not some kind of music.

[@JohnMcGlothlin-l7j]

@@theOlLineRebel I understand what type of swing was referred to. Those weren't at all common until the late 1800s, houses or otherwise. If they really thought they had anything close to 200 years old I think they'd have shown such in the video. What they do show aren't 200 years old. Interesting find and article but simply mistitled.

[@mrfester42]

Get grip! First of all they didn't show all of them but there were a few shown with old style quill pen writing.

[@theOlLineRebel]

@@mrfester42 you’re correct, it wasn’t a thorough sample of everything, this is just a clip for a short news story.

[@theOlLineRebel]

@@JohnMcGlothlin-l7j actually, a “swing” doesn’t have to be an official piece. Just anything people made into it. Ropes to creeks can be “swings”. So I’d disagree that it means something late 1800s. I’m sure people were making their own fun swings before any serious attempt was made to have a manufactured and purchased product.

[@turtlewolf8107]

Surprised mice didn’t get to them. A miracle in itself.

[@kingdoc3262]

How Cool No doubt this was done to be found in the future. Now 🎉

[@anastasiabeaverhausen8220]

So many things change, but manage to stay the same, except language..."swinging" definitely had a more innocent connotation then.

[@illuminatibody3439]

That's beautiful

[@tamarakonczal6350]

I love this!

[@Macsrus5]

Wow? That paper held up👏

[@MariaVogel-rf4mf]

They remained because they were hand made. This present generation with digitalization will not leave traces of life if it gets blowed out from existence. Can you see also the way kids did write? Compare with now days, it is shameful how handwriting has been denigrated, degenerated, and desecrated even in schools. It is a disgrace.

[@eduardovaldivia5572]

I wonder when todays love notes will be discovered in the future.

[@theload5853]

But the real question is if any of them is an end of the world prediction?

[@sophiaW9]

dont say this bruh

[@21kDaddy]

Nicolas cage will save us

[@bobertjones2300]

These predate the Second Coming craze of the 1840s.

[@mrsaasmrsaas2742]

Lovely

[@ajfit365movinkilos3]

Look cursive writing! Something they don't teach anymore😂😂

[@Short_one41]

Yeah really sad 😔

[@GrandMasterLynx]

I can read it but don’t remember on how to write it 😂

[@C_In_Outlaw3817]

I’m GenZ. But I only write in script / cursive. I’m a rare breed., sad it’s a dying art

[@aurora6920]

yeah it's not taught any more, people just learn themselves for fun

[@ajfit365movinkilos3]

@@C_In_Outlaw3817 I'm Gen X it was required shame they have chosen to fall back on education

[@LucasSCarcavilla]

Me and my fiancée still change notes in class ❤ it's so romantic

[@Astet88]

Wow

[@Lemuel928]

TWO HUNDRED YEARS!?!😨

[@1matsg]

I like to think those mocking drawings of the teachers got saved from the teacher slamming their pointing stick on them when the kids drawing them got caught and the teacher would crush it up and then punishment. For every drawing that was saved is a kid that was spared of the rod.

[@journeymansmitty8283]

Well this is interesting that it actually how do people love each other even 200 years ago not like now😂😂😂😂

[@Churchprayer_]

Wow that’s interesting and cool 😎

[@joshuapurugganan7314]

They should have at least a 4-month 1 semester college course for this

[@sonicgalaxy27]

Love notes?

[@rosannadigiovine9982]

Create a book with notes very beautiful❤❤❤

[@grandmaoldschool7011]

Yes! A compilation in a book!

[@MissLalove123]

Very interesting…

[@TommyCarbone]

I discovered old 'love' letters written home to Maine from Civil War soldier, David Stone Libbey - at an unlikely place - a university library down south. How did letters he mailed home to Sunkhaze, Maine get transported back down south? And who was David Stone Libbey? His journals, letters and writings tell the story in the book "David Stone Libbey - He was Penobscot." Having those old documents is living history.

[@ge2623]

When I wrote these, I never imagined anybody, but my fair maiden Lady Gertrude would see them.

[@Ann963]

“I know what would make this perfect, adorable story even better! Loud, dramatic ‘background’ music!” 💀

[@kevingibbons6215]

Nope,.. these were all likely old files or confiscated papers that were used for insulation when they remodeled many years ago.

[@Gigrunt887]

Thats interesting

[@WatchfulWRollercoaster]

I never saw these "love notes" when I was a kid at school....

[@kingpetra6886]

Kids haven't changed a bit.

[@debrajohnson6473]

Stick figures tie us back to our humanity no matter how long ago...how cheesy and beautiful too.

[@autumnishotterthansummer]

No Snapchat? No instagram? Really?! I had no idea.

[@missladyanonymity]

I have something snarky to say, but I'll keep it to myself.

[@riverbilly64]

Geez, what a click bait title. ☹️

[@xxlullbabyyxx5075]

So cutee

[@MyWalk3296]

💞

[@bizzyizzy9526]

L, o, l, this was what kids did up before tiktok 😂 This could even be concerned, the tiktok of the 1800s 🤔

[@kuuzbl]

damn

[@KentWav]

Those kids should be punished, that’s unacceptable 😡

[@Louis1059]

😂

[@kimbermichelle3922]

The kids from 200 yrs ago?

[@furcorn9804]

They’re dead….

[@landoflogic107]

Did you have to use an AI voiceover on a story about a more simpler time of communication, before all of this technology?

[@SummerUnderhill]

They were passing notesin class & they got confiscated by the teachers because it's against school rules! Most likely!

[@christianward-nisbet8833]

I❤it

[@vlogsnstufflikethat]

this is awesome but clear your throat woman!

[@unionbey3382]

😂😂😂

[@quicksilvermaximoff5346]

First 🎉

[@世界は崩壊した]

your second

[@ZheartEdits]

First ez

[@世界は崩壊した]

not ez your fourth check newest first

[@Reyn333]

Lol