I don’t think I’ve ever had a KZbin video title call to me so much.
@jaclynstarkey94945 ай бұрын
Hah! Same… immediately clicked when I saw this title lol.
@PinInTheAtlas6 ай бұрын
Fresh air, beautiful scenery and a history lesson. Perfect
@2007cgarza6 ай бұрын
Thank you. People in general don't seem to care to learn about history anymore, doesn't engage them.
@michaelmcenery75155 ай бұрын
So true all people care about now are thier phones &social media
@tracysmith30766 ай бұрын
I loved this video. Thank you Chris. Their workmanship was incredible.
@MobileInstinct26 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@moparedtn5 ай бұрын
I've always been fascinated with history, which was supported in the schools I attended in young years (60s-70s). I wish more younger folks were as fascinated today - and that our education system still emphasized history as much as when I was a kid. Forgetting or being ignorant of history is often how humans get into trouble, after all. Thanks as always for the efforts Chris! - Ed on the Ridge
@daughtershouse5 ай бұрын
Not sure if I qualify as “younger folks” but I’m 33 and have been obsessed with history since I was a little girl! Didn’t help that I was born where US Grant lived so the Civil War fascination started young! 😂
@The_Dudester6 ай бұрын
6:20 "She turned me into a newt......I got better." IYKYK
@AGhostintheHouse5 ай бұрын
That's how we know she's a witch!
@jasonblanchard98596 ай бұрын
Once again, Chris… you bring us a quality historical video. I appreciate your content.
@sherir44625 ай бұрын
Thank you for taking us on a journey! We thoroughly enjoyed this!
@GoodJobBuddy5 ай бұрын
Long time subscriber here. I'm from the Charlotte area. Just for future reference Catabwa is pronounced kuh-tah-bah. Round these parts anyway lol😅
@bennetts-revenge_26 ай бұрын
What a beautiful and fascinating place. Canals and locks fascinate me. You picked a great place to check out Chris, Thanks for taking us along
@TheSwissChalet6 ай бұрын
Ca-TAW-ba River
@thepikachuoftexas38716 ай бұрын
They have these I think in Georgetown, D.C. Really cool to see! 👍😊
@BlueEyedColonizer6 ай бұрын
Thanks for what you do Sir. Truly enjoy it
@Corgis1756 ай бұрын
The last part of the canals where you were was spectacular. I've been to the canals in New Hope, PA (long ago) but don't remember anything like this.
@Jerry-ok8gj6 ай бұрын
What a beautiful and tranquil walk!!! Thank you for posting another great video! I always enjoy your videos! 😊
@jrosnov5 ай бұрын
Hi Chris,watching here from Maine ❤Thanks for taking me along!
@pollyanna35916 ай бұрын
Another great video!
@Michael666CA6 ай бұрын
Wow that place is amazing.
@timothyryan72346 ай бұрын
Hello mobile instincts, I enjoyed your videos plus the one with the canals and yes you were right how the wax work I watch, narrow boating and the UK and if you take a look at the videos, they still have that going which is awesome. Take care and God bless.
@gmanandhislady6 ай бұрын
I live a couple hours away from Charlotte and have never heard of this place. The Catawba River is the main river around these parts. It's always interesting to hear people not here pronounce it, just like with the word Appalachian...App-a-latch-an is how we say it.
@anaburkhardt54345 ай бұрын
Those Spider Lily's were in full bloom when I was there on Mother's day. They really are beautiful. So is the eagle in the nest you see on the way back.
@karenlynn68606 ай бұрын
Once again, thank you for covering fascinating and informatative subjects. Love learning something new, while enjoying it!❤
@lucidrain94695 ай бұрын
Another slam-dunk Chris!! 💯💣
@Chaotic-Demise776 ай бұрын
I used live very close to that! You're about 45 minutes from where I used to live. I used to hike that to do photography/ video! There's a very old cemetery adjacent to the canal where the Pattons' are buried.
@stamford705 ай бұрын
I now a lot of people here in England take our canals for granted. because we have so many. whether still in use or like the one you have just visited. Most were built between 1759 - 1770. The oldest one in our country was built in AD50 and is still in use today! The were such great feats of engineering .
@Corinthians-kjv5 ай бұрын
Thank you for that tour of that beautiful place.
@trishagail3536 ай бұрын
Awesome find, Chris!!❤ There's so much history to see in the Carolinas. Pronounced Ca - TAW - ba. That's how locals pronounce it.
@GoodPersonTestWebsite6 ай бұрын
Yes, that's how we pronounced it growing up in New Jersey, too. Had a road nearby with the name.
@jasoncameron65016 ай бұрын
Love this park!
@alexistrebexis31956 ай бұрын
These are good to fall asleep to! Relaxing, informative, and interesting.
@bobwitter73195 ай бұрын
Fantastic history journey. Great work 👍
@georgequinones65995 ай бұрын
Good afternoon Chris thank you for sharing all your videos. Just be careful out there in these wooded Area with Big Foot. Be safe and careful out there. Have a Blessed Day and Weekend.
@Hobotraveler825 ай бұрын
Just amazing piece of history. Thanks for sharing. This is going on my list of thing's to see. 😊
@stepps5115 ай бұрын
Chris, your passion and dedication to history is "catching". Thank you for this wonderful video. The canal and lock system is a testament to human ingenuity and ability to harness nature (to a degree) to suit a need. Well done,Sir!
@johnniebravo59856 ай бұрын
Cool video Chris! You always show things we've never seen or heard about before!
@Liz-cmc3136 ай бұрын
This was great Chris. Love old canals. Great Falls, Virginia has old canals and water falls. It's beautiful. That was a caterpillar you were holding, we have those in Virginia.
@jodysales23626 ай бұрын
Woolly boogers here in northern Georgia. 😆
@brandyjean70156 ай бұрын
Thanks for taking us along.
@TheFinnMcGovern5 ай бұрын
Neat video. Akron Ohio had 24 locks at one time to help boats from the Erie Canal. They now have walking paths around many of them downtown and even a park called Lock 3 where they hold concerts etc.
@01FozzyS6 ай бұрын
Such cool hidden gems in that area,Chris!
@deeb53925 ай бұрын
Hi Chris, i love your videos and especially this one as I’m a lock keepers daughter in Dublin, it’s quite technical how the gates use to work back then, the gates actually had small doors near the bottom of each gate, these were lowered or raised by a special key on the actual gate which would lower or raise the water but now here in Dublin one of our main gates to the Grand Canal is electric so now lock gates are being upgraded unfortunately 😢
@TJ-id6ee5 ай бұрын
Beautiful and quiet, just how I like it! Thanks for making such quality videos. I found you when I watched your trip to Mount St.Helen's. It's so interesting to compare it now to how it Looked in 1983 when I came back to Olympia after college.
@mikebruce77236 ай бұрын
I live in Charlotte and didn't know about this. Thanks. Also Catawba is pronounced with the accent on the middle syllable.
@jburnett81526 ай бұрын
Such a awesome place. Amazing stone work.
@kathycagg65316 ай бұрын
Beautiful! Thanks, Chris!
@janwarriner65546 ай бұрын
Always enjoy the journey with you.
@Ganiscol6 ай бұрын
History or generally showing interesting places is what brought me to your channels 5 or so years ago. So, its just back to the roots from my perspective. 😎
@Les2056 ай бұрын
So much history in the East. Great video. Thank you.
@Qugar6665 ай бұрын
Yet another great video. Thanks for sharing.
@Carolbearce6 ай бұрын
Absolutely beautiful. We have some remnants of many old locks in Pennsylvania. Awesome to see.
@MobileInstinct26 ай бұрын
Definitely lots of them there!
@utubehanna6 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for sharing this with us! I would’ve never gotten to see it otherwise. I lived in North Carolina for three years. Beautiful state.
@andreajohnson17966 ай бұрын
Fascinating, all the green trees are just wonderful Thanks for sharing
@andytaylor54766 ай бұрын
I love history such as this. Amazing craftsmanship and engineering for it's time that still remains. So impressive. Thank you!
@BCaldwell6 ай бұрын
Nice work Chris.... So cool man 👍
@tamarawalker89735 ай бұрын
That was awesome!! Thanks.
@sueelliott32065 ай бұрын
This is so cool. Thanks for sharing.
@makeupwithmichelle93986 ай бұрын
Always so interesting thank you
@deloradeabel84875 ай бұрын
What a beautiful piece of history!Thanks Chris!
@rayrae2046 ай бұрын
Love your content. Thanks
@bunnymaurer51645 ай бұрын
I enjoy your history. Keep it up.
@LyonessQueen6 ай бұрын
I love history ❤. Thanks for sharing 🥰
@micahkaplan93036 ай бұрын
If you don't know your history you will be doomed to repeat it
@ghostlyimageoffear62105 ай бұрын
Or have others appropriate it from you.
@Kimberly-dt4ko6 ай бұрын
I enjoy history videos. This was a nice look at an old canal. It was hard to tell where it connects to the river in the second part. Have they blocked it from the river to keep the locks dry? Good video.
@nikkigardiner94266 ай бұрын
Thank you , Chris! ❤
@jamesholt76126 ай бұрын
Awesome video Chris. I'm a huge history nerd just like you are. We have so many historical sites and places all over the southeast even here in Georgia.
@scottrider6416 ай бұрын
So interesting and so beautiful. Such a great video. Thanks for taking us along on the tour, Chris
@lakotawise37206 ай бұрын
I Love These Shows From Chris. Thank You Chris,🥰
@johnelliott01015 ай бұрын
Very fascinating, thanks for posting
@reneerollins44336 ай бұрын
Thanks for this interesting video. Those rock walls were meant to last! I wish I could have some like that around my house 😊
@zipshed5 ай бұрын
The sone work is amazing...I love it! For the most part this whole locks system is a small version of the Sault Ste. Marie locks we have here in Michigan in our upper peninsula. They are worth checking out because you can watch giant freighters go through and you are right close too. Its an awesome experience! They have a platform you can stand on and literally shake hands with a guy on the ship as they go through...that close!
@paulapirpignani48026 ай бұрын
Chris you had me at hello...watch this if you love history...great story once again! Thank you
@foxtrott996 ай бұрын
This is soooo cool ! 😊
@danweiss13716 ай бұрын
I love history bigger small. And for 200 whatever you said 10 years ago, that’s some amazing high-quality rock walls. People took such pride in quality jobs trait that’s almost completely gone.
@ToneeKeating5 ай бұрын
There are some locks left from the Ohio & Erie canal near where I grew up. One is in a park, one is just randomly along side a road, and one is in a random backyard. I wish at least the two publicly available ones were this well kept.
@RobsNeighbor6 ай бұрын
Love it, thank you
@glennjudd24675 ай бұрын
Interesting stuff ! Just amazing !
@sfbadboy5 ай бұрын
Those bottom blocks look just like the Erie Canal's and such precise masonry
@kathycasey91535 ай бұрын
Newts are adorable. I call them Efts as well. Thanks for this awesome history lesson!
@FuRpLe745 ай бұрын
Such a beautiful place 😁👍
@rickhill886 ай бұрын
GREAT EXPLORE , thank you
@fatimaali86455 ай бұрын
Really l❤ved this video… history is so interesting and important… I loved the stone work it was cool 😎
@tashasmith61795 ай бұрын
Great video!! Thanks
@TheBamaChad-W4CHD5 ай бұрын
Its always so cool seeing this type of historical stuff. We tend to look back at our great, great grandparents and see them being so primitive compared to us today. But the engineering our forefathers used to create incredible feats. Like locks. To be able to master something as powerful as running water is just crazy. Especially hundreds of years ago. Of course, this lock is only approaching 200 years old but they were in use long before this one was built. Human beings are incredibly resourceful!
@NaomisAdventures6 ай бұрын
Old canal locks are really cool. Sidecut Meteopark in Toledo Ohio has cool locks
@larryshipley7645Ай бұрын
That is some craftsmanship for 200years ago ball busting work back in the day
@JohnHowlett5 ай бұрын
I live on a canal boat full time in the UK ...awsome to see the similarities
@DouglasMosley7596 ай бұрын
They usually pulled the boats down the canal by way of horses walking along the adjacent path that’s always present wherever the canals go. By the way, those canals were already here in the early 1800s.
@itneverwasme5 ай бұрын
Always fascinated by these. Driving on the NY Thruway and seeing the old Erie canal runnign alongside, then here in MA following the Middlesex Canal from Rt 128 up to Lowell. So strange to see the remants still there amongst the changing environment and neighborhoods.
@joycebowen89585 ай бұрын
The engineering and the level of water manipulation is astonishing and incredibly creative in order for the people living there to engage in commerce it must've been something during its heyday. We are only now beginning to understand and reintroduce these methods once lost to control flooding,drought and other byproducts of the damage brought on by the "progression" the railroad boom. Thank you for another exciting and interesting video taking us along for a trip through the time machine and letting us learn history our school didn't teach.❤
@nancytestani14706 ай бұрын
Found the body yet..something decomposing has a totally distinct smell.
@andregould-2876 ай бұрын
VERY INTERESTING..TY
@cjromecki50865 ай бұрын
Great video!
@tonypike57856 ай бұрын
That is a very Interesting place Chris you always find the best places, how wide would you say that water way is 12’ ? Thanks for taking us along with you.
@rikspector6 ай бұрын
Your videos always fascinating, I look forward to them. In the same vein, The youtuber, The Wandering Woodsman, walked the old Pennsylvania Union Canal, as much as he could, following the towpath, sometimes. It's from the same period as this one, but not many locks remain intact. Check him out, he did a whole series on it. Cheers, Rik Spector
@barbarathompson86046 ай бұрын
If you are ever near Paw Paw , West Virginia, you need to visit the Paw Paw Tunnel on the C & O Canal, really interesting.
@SucatSus5 ай бұрын
I live right across the street from a maumee river working dam and canal. You can still ride the boat
@JedCurrie5 ай бұрын
Good video thanks 👍
@rogerhare78865 ай бұрын
I do love history and I’m glad I watched.
@FrankieG356 ай бұрын
Im from New Jersey but would travel for work and we worked at the pulp mill on that river
@mona20466 ай бұрын
Great explore!!! Hard to imagine those were lochs, wow. Why would someone leave their kayak? Thank you!!!
@jermindygent.25265 ай бұрын
(Another)Excellent video ❤
@looneytunes78785 ай бұрын
I often don't understand what you're explaining but I very much enjoy your enthusiasm, (I had to look that word up to get the spelling right.) Do you usually travel alone?