What's in these Abandoned Barns??

[@tomtransport]

Thanks for taking me along Cliff. At 17:00 that gray tube like thing hanging down is a BLOWN fuse or was DISCONNECTED. When not blown it would be swung up to the above connection. I've seen where critters will short them out too and folks are left in the dark.

[@RSFred555]

Love these exploring videos, Thanks

[@farmerbill6855]

The two scraggly pines near the barns? That's where the house was, the front steps would've gone between them. The house would be close to the barns. The small building is the pump house for the well, you can see the pipe come through the wall. It would have contained the pump and the pressure tank. And maybe doubled as a milk house. The concrete structure is a loading dock. The thing on the pole next to the transformer is a fused circuit breaker/shutoff for the power line. Best regards from Indiana.

[@lynnmor2101]

You are right on. Often farms had a central electric pole that fed the pump house, barn and home. I would bet that the house was the missing leg in that triangle.

[@willmorrisusa]

Hey Uncle Cliff , Nice job ! I like your running commentary & how you really know your wildlife , plants & trees. Nice to hear the birds chirping & singing as you give us the lowdown. 😊 👍

[@ruthgoebel723]

Yes, that scrub gets majorly thick and impenetrable as spring moves toward summer. The mountain bike trails are located up the hill behind where we used to live, on the north side of the Swatara Creek, near where it makes a southerly turn to go through Swatara Gap. Our old property is best explored in the fall/winter when the foliage is gone (and the ticks are not so bad)! Nasty things. I am enjoying these views of my old stomping grounds.

[@karencharny1497]

Greetings from Johnstown.PENNSYLVANIA

[@kateclark7250]

I really enjoy exploring with you, Woodsman. You find the most interesting things. Thank you for the adventure!

[@jamesscheifley6607]

I was just at Wind Cave in Lancaster. It was awesome

[@nickmad887]

thank you

[@johncanetta6708]

Good job Cliff.

[@danielbrumbaugh9845]

That rope had eyes!

[@jayforkner2692]

8:06 He flashed on the screen about rope being a snake.

[@danielbrumbaugh9845]

@@jayforkner2692 I must have missed that.

[@hiworldstephensonultranate290]

Superb Locations Cliff ur nrg n enthusiasm up lift me dat ploughed field reminds when i was a kid my father r.i.p. bred into me love countryside farms n d sea Big Thanks Brian n his anniversary is coming early july Saving this wow peaceful walks

[@arlisssolano8288]

love exploring

[@lindamccaughey6669]

Really enjoyed that thanks. Think you could be right about the house with all those daffs they had to have been planted. Very pretty area. Thanks so much for taking me along. Please take care and stay safe

[@robertvirtue8070]

That first concrete wall look like a ramp built to load tractors and other equipment onto trucks for hauling.

[@aaronk534]

Especially with the pumphouse. Gota have a well next to the house

[@TimeForNature1]

When you were here just a couple of days prior, as I watched the video, I kept thinking that you probably were wishing you didn't have other things planned for that day and could just keep exploring where you were. I was actually wishing that as well so I'm glad you were able to go back so soon. Thanks for another interesting video. 💛

[@colleenunvarnished]

Thanks for the video. I agree with you about the house location. For me, it was the daffodils that signal intentional planting. Who would plant flowers around a barn? Looking forward to the next video.

[@my2cents945]

those interlocking concrete blocks are used as a retaining wall. I've seen them used by railroads also for raised rail beds. I suspect the little building was a spring house. Pipe sticking out from the back wall down in the pit? Only a couple of reasons for a building that size on a farm, a spring house, out house, or smoke house. On the power pole, that's an open knife switch. Still used today, you'll find them on poles all over the place, of course they'll be closed otherwise you'd be in the dark.

[@genelucky4002]

I agree on the concrete blocks. They form a little loading ramp Not tall but tall enough to load/unload a pickup truck. I agree on the water pump theory. That pipe appeared to be a frost proof water hydrant.

[@russelleckert8940]

Well pit we had one on farm pump was down in the hole before submerged pumps

[@dscobellusa]

Looked like a molting snake to me.

[@thehometownhistorian2398]

Most likely part of the village of Sand Siding.

[@jayforkner2692]

I had it pegged as Suedberg.

[@thehometownhistorian2398]

That's what I would have thought until doing research that last month. There were a whole bunch of small towns, now gone, from the buyout for the Swatara Dam.

[@jayforkner2692]

Looked again and my map reading was way out of wack. Now I am saying this was not a homestead. This was PENNDOT maintaince location. Located half way between Murray and Twin Grove Park on the old alignment of 443.

[@thehometownhistorian2398]

Not sure if this is the gone village of Sand Siding but it's right in the region where it would have been. Sand Siding may have been a little closer to Twin Grove Park. There also was a small town called Monkey Town in that region that was also removed.

[@joesecoges8396]

I recall hiking that location years ago. The pines you walked under had just been planted..had you kept going into the woods (downhill) there is a home dump area buried under the leaves.

[@esterherschkovich6499]

Enjoyed😊🌻💮

[@HD-J.R.]

Daffodils are very hardy and often get spread when earth is moved around during demolition. I think the house was likely near all the daffodils.

[@matthewschleicher9419]

One dead snake in less rope have eyeballs

[@user-David-Alan]

I think you were right in the ballpark where the daffodils were as pertaining to the location of the house. Cool find. Stay well and be safe.

[@aaronk534]

Power lines and the 2 big pines tell me the house was behind the pines at the entrance to the field. Pines were 5ft tall then and I bet on either side of the steps. Youll see the house before the barns as you come up the road

[@barryervin8536]

There are online sites where you can get historical aerial images of places. If you have the GPS coordinates of the old barns you may be able to find aerial photos from decades ago that would show the house. I love your exploration videos, especially since I'm in eastern PA and am familiar with some of the places you go. I just passed the old Funkite cemetery in Evansburg this morning and was tempted to go looking for it but there's no good place to park. Some day....

[@thirzapeevey2395]

That barn looks to me like it has been heavily modified. It has a concrete foundation, but the framing and walls look older than the concrete. It could be that there is stone that was covered up with concrete later, or maybe the foundation was replaced at some point. It looks like the top of a bank barn with two hay bays, what was later modified for use by the park with garage doors, one bay modified for parking equipment and the other modified for a locking tool storage. The hood over the door looks much older. The flooring and siding, roofing and snow guards look much older. The second building reminds me of the privies they used to put in rest areas back in the day. They were almost like a two story house where the basement was a seal cinderblock and concrete tank that could be pumped, and you could see through the "toilets" into that pit. I used to live in fear of falling through them into the pit. They often had an old hand pump where you could wash your hands and get a drink. The third building has a staircase to nowhere, and you know it didn't go "nowhere" when they built it. Given the windows in it, I almost wonder if it wasn't the house, and again, was heavily modified. It has double hung windows, which is pretty fancy for an outbuilding, especially for an outbuilding on a farm with a barn that small. I wonder if it wasn't a two room tarpaper shack with a bedroom loft above. It also might have been the house, and then they built a better one later.

[@chrishynes6091]

Always pack a flashlight.

[@thirzapeevey2395]

Yep. These days, you can get really good, functional flashlights that can't be turned on accidentally and will fit in your pocket easily. I have gotten several from Cabela's like that, that can only be turned on by screwing in one end. I keep one in my pocket at all times, unless I'm sleeping. Then I have one right next to my head in my bookcase headboard.

[@glennjudd2467]

House should be close to the barns ! - ruins ? Sad , so much is gone !

[@mgratk]

The videos at this park are always bittersweet. Great explorations, but always the reminder that incompetent and uncaring government will take all you worked all your life for, and do nothing with it. But then people will go and vote for MORE big government, because it wasn't THEIR OWN land, after all. Sure, let's let government run more of our lives.

[@R32R38]

The poured-concrete foundations on the barns means that they can't be much more than 100 years old. Prior to the invention of ready mix trucks around 1920 only the largest structures used concrete as it was necessary to build a concrete plant on site.

[@christopherholland3907]

What kind of bird is singing at the 15:45 mark? I've heard them before but haven't found out what they are yet. That's a very unique tune.

[@KenBurton0810]

Maybe abandoned cows?

[@sandramcglinchey7712]

Wow cool dead snake

[@glennjudd2467]

Hate snakes ! Interesting area !