Lost Settlements of the Appalachian Mountains Part 1: 3 part series

Wilderness Outfitters of the Appalachian History travels back in to see lost places in the Appalachian mountains. Look for part 2 & 3 also!

[@shadowmink888]

VERY WELL DONE. THESE OLD FOLKS BUILT HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL LIVES WITH LITTLE OR NO MONEY AND NO OUTSIDE HELP. FOLKS TODAY COULD LEARN MUCH FROM THEM. THANKS FOR KEEPING THEIR MEMORY ALIVE.

[@davidphillips5840]

This younger generation needs a little hard work and the medication wouldn't be necessary

[@Otmduk]

shadowmink888 theres were cherokee and other native american people

[@LarryVickery]

A lot of misery, suffering and privation as well. And the abundance of child graves attest to the mortality rate of infants and youth. I have seen old cemeteries where most of the family died before they had a chance. The most poignant epitaph that I ever saw, read "So soon done for; what was I begun for."

[@ciarandevaney385]

very well said

[@lesb_socal]

Interesting, but solid caps makes it hard to read.

[@decaturkenfolk]

My blood is Appalachia...I'm so proud of my Irish Cherokee roots....not to mention Scottish

[@derekowenjr3599]

Look up the Vann house Scottish Cherokee King! Your an Israelite of the Old Testament! Tribe of Judah which Christ. Jerusalem. City of Peace Jeremiah took 2 princesses from Egypt to Socta land. This is Mew Jerusalem brother the land Yahweh promised our people Israel. Not that litter box in the Middle East the hats now ran by devils!

[@barry5356]

The Irish are Sectarian,The Scots-irish,Ulster-Scots are Not,That's the difference.You have Scot-irish Cherokee Ancestors,And you have Every Right to be Very Proud.

[@barry5356]

Ulster-Scots or Scots-irish,Not Irish,Looking back on Our History,Ulster-Scots and Irish Roman Catholics will always be Enemies.

[@tracicomstock6525]

I am Cherokee on my mother's side, my granny's ppl. They are from Appalachian Mountains (South Carolina). They hid in mountains to avoid The Trail Of Tears...My daddy's ppl are from Alabama, and so I am Scottish and Presbyterian on daddy's side. Both sides of family are Protestant.

[@SkyWlkr864]

@@derekowenjr3599 cool story, you should tell it again

[@thechroniclesofmaintenance4192]

I love the statement, "Only the rocks live forever".

[@suzannestallard3283]

Being born and raised in Wise County, VA, in extreme southwestern Virginia, I am blessed to live in such a beautiful place. I am a local historian, if you're ever in Wise, VA, maybe I can show you or give you directions to lots of old forgotten places. Thank you for sharing this!

[@thekingsservant1104]

I'll take a few directions to those forgotten places! I live in Cranesnest and love to learn about the local history of the area and would I love to see those forgotten places before they are covered over by time. So many people today don't care about where they came from, only where they are going and its a shame. To me, you cant have much of a future if you allow your past to be forgotten and destroyed.

[@randymusick3645]

+Scott Morgan Wow like you said it's interesting to run across anyone from that area. I spent 3yrs. in wise at the airport. We started Appalachian Airlines and lived there from April 1977 till April 1980. We met and got to know a lot of wonderful people

[@randyadkins3084]

Suzanne Stallard I was born there too haven't been back in a long time I miss it

[@moondrops9445]

hi are you still in wise? I would like to make contacts in Appalachia for research and visiting... hopefully forming a survival center, I wonder if you have any ideas. Many thanks

[@ByzantineCalvinist]

Suzanne Stallard, my grandmother was born on Big Stone Gap in 1904. My wife and I visited the town on our honeymoon. Beautiful part of the world.

[@KentuckySunset]

Thank you. Daddy is from eastern,Ky. and he and my uncles used to tell me caving stories.They loved exploring when they were boys.

[@doberman1ism]

This reminds me of the Appalachian mountains and hollers of West Virginia. My kin are from Panther, West Virginia. We are descendants of the Scott Irish and the Cherokee Indians.

[@cabbott85va]

Interesting

[@thedunwichhorror4334]

Aidah Di Leoni you live in what we call God's country lol.. I travel thru places like War and Williamson quiet a bit. Beautiful land..only complaint is you can't get cell service for squat.

[@glinda9243]

My family all over West "By God" West Virginia, family of Parsons and towns named after them like my great grandfather Romance Parsons- Romance, WV, Parsons, WV, and his grandfather was in the Revolutionary War, settled Ripley, WV and 1st mayor. Things you really don't understand and appreciate until you're older

[@stevestringham1095]

thats nice. do you eat with that mouth?

[@cookie101000]

born and raised in Iaeger. love the county

[@ginawellman5208]

Thank You my maternal grandmothers family from WNC she was born at Wayah Bald. Her people were Sawyer,Crisp,Chambers,Welch, Walkers,Moy Toy,Leatherwoods.etc...Her people lived at Proctor,Judson, Japan, Hazel Creek, Sawyer Creek, Yellow Creek,Murphy,Stecoah, Robbinsville, Tellico , Qualla Boundry I appreciate this information.

[@DcaCo123]

Thanks for sharing, very nice. Greetings from North Michigan USA.

[@hankfrankly7240]

Very interesting. Very well done. I think the Appalachian mountains hold more history than a lot of people realize. Thanks for sharing.

[@michelleearl8063]

Yep, it's where it all began, the garden of eden!

[@rebeccamd7903]

Eastern Kentucky? My forefathers settled that land. Most of them were mixed European & Native American. They moved west to avoid racial segregation & stayed in Eastern Kentucky & West Virginia to this day. My kids were the first generation in about 200 years not born in those hills. You’d be surprised how many people lived like it was the 1800’s during the 1980’s. I spent summers with some living in a small 1 room hand built log cabin, chopping wood, bathing in a washtub, using the outhouse. It’s a hard life but they lived a long time. My great great grandmother died from heat stroke @ 98 chopping wood.

[@usmc-veteran73-77]

I grew up in West Virginia in the Appalachian Mountains. As a little boy I loved to play in the woods. There's nothing like the beautiful Mountains in West Virginia......State Moto "Mountaineers are Always Free'

[@licksnkicks]

Wow this was so cool That old cemetery was beautiful. It's amazing what the headstones can tell you. You are great at this. I loved the fact that you talked about the historical background of this area. I had the honor of travelling through these mountains on my way to Georgia. It was magical. One of the prettiest areas of the USA. Just awesome!

[@mattheaps1138]

Great video! I live in California, in the gold country and enjoy the lot and forgotten history too. You inspire me to explore the eastern states sometime, your history is so vast and rich.

[@rthinde]

The masonry on this old house is very intriguing, and why not I am an old retired stone mason: Thank you very much for letting me Robert Todd Hinde have a look:

[@notsosilentmajority1]

Awesome video. It's great to see our history. People have no idea just how tough and hard working the people that lived in those areas were. Thanks very much, well done.

[@johnholbrook6042]

Would be interesting to see what a metal detector could find there.

[@bjellison905]

that's not an old tunnel that's an ore mine the track bed was for transportation of ore

[@GooglFascists]

Some old graveyards I know of you can't get a 4WD up into 'em unless its an old Army jeep because the road is too narrow. They were made for horse & wagon back in the day just wide enough to carry a casket & stone. One of my "chores" as a young man was to caretake the family cemetery up in Old Fields, WV. My great-grandad cleared the land for the graveyard back in the 1800s but its still well-kept with a decent road for family & visitors. My brother and I still got room for both our families in there- nice because the graves are free and everybody's there waitin' for Jesus!

[@MIGHTYRIVERS19]

what a blessing it will be to be with your family, Shalom Lucy

[@BarbaraEverettHeintz]

Thank you for the great walk. In Franklin County where I grew up--If you keep following the main road past Mason Everett Road, get off in the Hollow where the woods are still thick, on what used to be the hill in front of Hannah's House, my old friend Joan Mason and I stumbled up on a cemetery with knocked over stones, cows stopping to cool themselves, But there were Revolutionary War graves there. We were young girls then, and it did not mean what it would now. My book, "Pinkhoneysuckle," is about our generation, and 1960s girls who were needed in Washington, D.C.. I would love to hear from any of you, and I thank you for these beautiful U-Tube programs. Barbara Everett Heintz

[@wildernessfreak81]

Barbara Everett Heintz Thanks for commenting. I appreciate you watching my videos, sounds like you got a really good book. I checked it out on Amazon, I'm going to have to read that. Congratulations!

[@BarbaraEverettHeintz]

+wildernessfreak81 Gracious Soul, Just call me Barbara, and, "Yes," most of my mother's valley land was flooded, so her family moved several years before Mama and Daddy went on to Tennessee--A move we'd suffer from for a quarter of a century--1952--For Mom's children and my Daddy were supposed to be servants to the Hood family//My book is written to crack open this theory that we lived on moonshine and hand outs. Our folks on the mountain gave daddy his brother's to work with, and his mother had some influence over the Everett boys to seek to have the be a little kinder to wives and children. but Granny Everett died far too soon. My book tells it the way it was back there, from my birth through my being the first to graduate from college. Oh Lord! There was such joy when we got up on Sunday and set out for the mountain taking the froad up from Section, and every other home was our family--But I treasured the smile Daddy would get on his face when the Sand Mountain churches started to broadcast. He wasn't religious then, but he came from a Baptist and Holiness background, and we'd often get the mountain in time for dinner. This past year took my cousin and her 92 yr. old mother, the last of the generation to be buried in that section of Freewill Baptist. The Everetts have died off pretty much as far as men out there.// You see that when I was young all of those glorious houses on the ridge between Sewanee and Alabama were not there--We took the old way through Paint Rock. My mother never forgot a name, and she would have known any of the singers, so she would have loved this news. Franklin County took my book out of their library, for I wrote the good and the bad in the words and the ways they happened--And it opened some doors my elderly aunts did not wish told such has my pedophile Grandaddy Hood.//I tell them not to get in to a Bible argument with Bible Belt people, for you'll lose. I also told about how people closed their eyes to their own kin but came down from town for us to load them up from our garden. That did not go over well in Franklin County--The truth. My book would be a 17 yr. old with guidance book to understand, for I tell how it was for husbands and wives with no bed of their own. I'd gladly send you a copy of my book, for I rat out what was precious about the Bible Belt as well as scripture which was over-looked. I'm fed up with this nation's conversations about the White Trash and Rednecks who were the first to volunteer in every war--But I'm a nurse, so I use real language for body parts and the maturing of young women. I love your term, "Hidden Places," for a theme running through my book are, "The Hidden Girls," those who wound up with children.// The Alabama church sound is joyful--And one day soon we are apt to take my brother, Ira Neil Everett out there. He graduated from Pisgah High School as the valedictorian around 1950 or so. We had a lot more love on the mountain. I have met very few people who know the places we speak of. The Lord be with you. Barbara

[@wildernessfreak81]

Thanks for watching!

[@BarbaraEverettHeintz]

+wildernessfreak81 My Friend, Thanks are due to you, for you shed light on what one can find, that where once our fathers came to the absolute wilderness, asking for nothing, living off the land or being without, and desiring their freedom of religion--They used what was available to exist. We were a proud people and still are. My mother saw her sisters move in to towns and depression would almost kill her. She could not see that she had the power to make us gloves or a coat we could pass on, and no one in her family would help her to knit or to sew, and Daddy just felt like a failure until he got a state job to go from school to school and fix anything and everything--But our Mama would always be that little girl back in Raccoon Creek. For all of those who say--You should have done this, or those trash people should have done some other simplistic non sense--My folks would find a way eventually, but you tell those kids shamed at school then shamed by the vile words of outsiders to go and live without one month, and they will not get through a week. I wrote, "Pinkhoneysuckle," for the same reason you did your post--I wanted to shed some light on just how beautiful the place of our youth--And to tell America just how hard it is for so many of my people to break generations of hopelessness. I'm not kidding, for give the folks the Glad trash bags, give them a section of road to clean up for crisp dollars---and give them flowers to plant, job titles, and help people learn to find the gensing and the sasafras once more, and see how fast the trash gets cleaned up. People's jaws will drop at how fast our Appalachian regions will rise up. Just leave the drug dealers alone except for those going after kids. Welfare has become the enemy, and that is the sad truth. Some pride and hope has to rise up within. Gloves, coats, scarves and decent shoes will keep a lot of kids in school. The USA cannot afford this some might say; Rephrase that--"America cannot afford not to help--We are losing our country's heartiest and most resiliant people. I love your post and thank you. Barbara Everett Heintz, Author of, "Pinkhoneysuckle." Amazon, Kindle, and Create Space

[@dorascott8286]

Enjoyed reading every thing you wrote....So much truth....B: Cabin Creek Kanawha Co WVa 1948...I should have wrote a book, but have not...My GF was the same....Thanks again....

[@nangonzalez6846]

Thank you very much for a most interesting history lesson. Your commentary is very well done.

[@swann548]

Hi Mr. Silk, enjoy your videos. My ancestors were from that area also. Take a metal detector and hunt those old homesteads, you will find a lot of metal buttons and coins. good luck.

[@1957jmhiser1]

Nice. Thank you. Be careful out there, a lot of smelting and other furnaces were built into hillsides, with chimneys poking out of the top. It's been so long ago that the chimneys have fallen, but the holes remain. You could fall in to one quite easily. If you go in to caves, go with a partner and follow carving practices, and take a pony bottle, as most of the caves have little oxygen or have deadly gases.

[@johntstanley1]

You're doing well. Keep the flow of information coming.

[@karencawthorn3173]

lost settlement...how cool is that. what fun? I love looking around ghost towns. thanx for sharing.

[@lifecloud2]

Thank you for doing this. I have family roots in this area that I'd love to know more about. When you're in a cemetery, it would be great to know the names on the gravestones and not just the dates. Closeups would be great too ... and linger a bit on these things you find. I'd love to be able to look at them a little longer.

[@chucklehead2000]

Beautiful. I grew up in the mountains. I'm in Chicago now. This gives me warm fuzzies

[@garyminick1050]

Great video please keep them coming . I really liked the explanations of the things you found . We may need some of this knowledge for the future .

[@marlborored100s]

Thank you for filming this. This will be very important to historians. Professional and amateur!!!

[@michaelratliff905]

I was born in the Mountain's of Va., I live in the Hills of Ky.no matter where I my roam my Heart is in the sweet fresh air of the Hills, and Mountain's of the South.......almost Heaven

[@17188431569]

WOW! I am from New York city and watching this video make me think of my teen years homeless I loved going into abandoned train stations and finding abandoned houses to sleep in.. At that ahe and till this day at age 31 every time i see videos like this it makes me happy to see that other people have my same heart mind and soul..May Jesus bless you and keep you safe during your adventures..

[@sherrynelson1935]

The old chimneys ..... I've seen them so many places in the Forrest. And it always touches me and leaves me wondering what happend to the people who lived there.

[@thomasvosburg6926]

Great job young fella, enjoyed this vedio

[@angelartistic3056]

This is awesome ! Thank you for showing us these hidden places ! Please make us more videos your are an excellent field guide. This is a side of the world we may have not ever seen but thanks to you we did! Much appreciated !

[@darylphipps3848]

Sure would like to explore those places in this video.........Great job!

[@hml3672]

We had what we called a jack rig on our pump. It was run by an electric motor and pulled the pull rods up and down using the pump so we had removed the handle from the pump and attached the electrically driven rig. The old pump was still there. We added a tank and switch to turn the pump off years later. Until then you just flipped on the switch on a pole when you wanted water. We always had running water, if you wanted water you just run out to the pump to get it.

[@D10RC]

Would love to visit the apalachain trail and see and hear the stories and music especially.

[@barry5356]

Scots-irish,Ulster-Scots call the Land God's Country,Very Beautiful And Historic.

[@petemcpherson2259]

love these types of videos, I also love walking through the woods and coming upon an old cabin or fire place foundation and wondering who the people were and what their life was like, it's amazing, I subscribed, thanks for the experience.

[@davidoverman3753]

I will never ever ever leave these beautiful mountains

[@MrSIXGUNZ]

Super duper cool 😎

[@lindamoye9417]

I grew up in southern wv between princeton and beckley loved seeing g places that look like where used to go to get away from everyone to walk through woods and think and have some time to myself

[@oldtimerlee8820]

Here -NC- we have similar situations. When I see remains of an old fireplace in the woods, often wonder about the folk who gathered around that hearth. Their joy, their sorrow. Know of a couple of places where all that remains is some broken bits of pottery and such. Stones removed to clear land for planting, for example. For a few years, watched an old farm house, probably late 1800's. Wondered about the folks as it began to lean. Fell couple of years ago. Slowly disappearing - fading away..

[@RustyNail5856]

I really enjoyed the video very much. thanks

[@diannaskare7829]

I did that here in the Flathead Valley! the Northern Trap line and railroad brought many folks, my ancestors too, and used to find cabins all over around here! its much more rare here in the valley hugging the mountains but still a few in the hills and mountains you find the rocks and maybe some pots !

[@BarbaraEverettHeintz]

Oh, these pictures remind me of the little cemetery which was in the cow pastures. I do wish there was some sort of Appalachian Trust where all of these with tombstones knocked over by cattle could be mapped and refurbished, for these were the earliest inhabitants of Appalachia. I remember my friend, Joan Mason and me just looking at Revolutionary war stones in the cow pasture, and no one had helped us to understand these people made it that far out in the wilderness. I think we Scot/Irish, English speaking folks have been neglected in the history books. You'll get the story of the coal miners, but the farmers became America's source of humor. We had deep roots in The Bible Belt, and southern woods often harbor signs that once a family or two lived off the land. I do feel shame for how Andrew Jackson did to the Indians, and every school child should have to read, "Trail of Tears," for the evil of his decisions would abolish any notion that American Indians were treated fairly. I am so thankful to see this site--For America thinks southern ways were what you see in Savannah and Charleston. No, we lived way in land as well. Please, let's tell our stories now. Bless you for this wonderful site.

[@savamndelaplaine770]

🌲🌲🌲 I appreciate your post so very much. All of it's so good too see. Make ones. ❤ heart wish to walk with you. God bless

[@camerrill]

Please note the latitude/longitude or get a setting from your GPS. These grave sites are a gold mine of information for people looking for their roots. My family tree dead ends at one grandmother, but if her grave was in that graveyard it might open up our knowledge of that part of our past. Can you notify someone of exactly where this was? Or better yet, two entities? Thank you!

[@ArmyStinger150]

Very cool stuff you found out there. I love old historical sites like those you visited in this video. Thanks for sharing.

[@LarryVickery]

Neat! I love exploring old places In winter, without ticks sweat and snakes. You have found a jewel. Imagine the hardships; the good times and the bad. "They lived what we dream. We live what they dreamed." T.K. Whipple, Study Out The Land.

[@Craichel04]

Very well done, thanks for posting!

[@chrisgwyn2387]

great video, but looking at the barn it appears to have a copper roof instead of wood shingles. If you look at the edge you can see were it was bent over.

[@antiochianorthodox1]

This is a fascinating video! My Hall and Herring ancestors came from Greene, Orange and Albemarle Counties in Virginia.

[@joannelwatson5066]

Carolyn Clark ohh that's my neck of the woods too. Wards, Wood's, Sprouse, Norris, Thomas, Etc.

[@antiochianorthodox1]

Are you related to Henry Clay Wood (1880--1970) who married Nettie Gertrude Herring (1885--1981)? They had 10 children.

[@user-wm4je4ct8y]

This was fascinating. I loved the scenery around there too.

[@user-xz2se6bj4u]

I love the outdoors and Wilderness.. I hope to hike the wilderness trail .

[@asiftoru9671]

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[@harpguy1]

Thanx for posting a slice of history of the area

[@gregruland1934]

Nice job. Very interesting. Thank you.

[@milnutjob5095]

Good job, Brandon. :)

[@nobeldane1]

Pretty cool sites. Thanks.

[@cletusspucklerstablejeaniu1059]

Great bit of history, Thanks.

[@stangrout4805]

Thank you for this close up, personal tour!!!

[@ScrambledO]

That's cool man. just watched a special about how states got their shapes, i gotta get out to the mountain range asap!

[@jimksa67]

Good video Brandon! Lot of them folk were Bible believers and Christ helped them overcome the many pioneer obstacles as He does for many today in our changing world ! shalom

[@jimchumley6568]

J Moore Amen! I received Christ as my Lord & Savior at the age of 24 on 12-26-83. Yes in Christ we are indeed Overcomers. Shalom to you!

[@rebekahmcfatridge6691]

yes this reminds me of my great great great grandparents place in the hills of Missouri and the only thing left is the rocks of the chimney and floor

[@marcoamedrano]

Great job Brandon. Make some more if you can.

[@Darwinsmom]

As an amateur genealogist, one of my favourite things is to visit and record old, abandoned cemeteries. I have some great ideas for a trip thanks to this video. Hopefully I can locate at least one abandoned cemetery where I can record the burials and photograph the headstones. I have located the graves of some of my ancestors thanks to others who have done this. Wouldn't it be lovely to have a local guide tell you the history of an abandoned community?

[@opalprestonshirley1700]

Great finds. Lots of lost history. Thanks for sharing.

[@jockellis]

It isn't a railroad but a tramway. That's what mine's used to remove ore.

[@JackalopeTrackin]

wow i really like this one! lets see the follow up rail tunnel (weather permiting) of course. our country has so much forgotten history!

[@OakhillSailor]

Good work. May I suggest you hold the camera yourself and veer right and left so we can see the surroundings as well. That would have been enabled the viewer to thoroughly see what you are seeing instead of fixed pile of rocks with you explaining in the middle. Thanks for your efforts however. Keep up the good work.

[@vivelafrance7968]

Really fun video. Thanks for sharing.

[@SKILLET210]

Well, you definatly got our attention. now to catch up on the other vids.great job on giving us a tour of times gone by.keep up the great vid's, & we just sub'd your channel. Happy Trails Ter & Mel In The Maritimes In Canada

[@lbbradley55]

Thank you for this, VIDEO. we found a couple of old house places. 1 my son & I in Greenville Al. Outside Fort Deposit Al. & 1 on top of Scott Mountain Al. Old stone Pillars & fire place & two children graves. Also have Photos of a settlement Graveyard besides I-59 in N Al.

[@TheSWolfe]

Pandemonium, yes indeedy! We've some catchy-titled settlements here in WV, too (well, I'm not exactly IN WV anymore, but that's where I was sprouted from)! That old barn was magnificently humungous, and still standing proud! The bldgs. that spring up left & right today are crap in comparison and will prob crumble before u know it. Things were built to last then, had to be. We've since established a throwaway consumerist culture for ourselves that ensures endless spending to continually replace necessary goods created via purposely shoddy workmanship by grunts paid a humiliating wage which prompts them to not have pride in their work, but nevertheless, takes all their time just to make enough cash to eek by, so they won't have any time to think creatively, thereby short-circuiting their ability to follow their muse toward solid craftsmanship & inspired artisan wares, which would result in a higher degree of self-worth & self-satisfaction in the workforce. So, as a result of this creative growth-stunting, what doesn't go toward getting by from one day to the next, most likely goes toward the tab at the local tavern. Furthermore, this one-off cultural system purposely foregoes the creation & stockpiling of universal spare parts for the majority of these cheap manufactured goods, so that, if one little piece wears out, the entire device must be replaced. Remember back when repairman was a profession? TV's, refrigerators, shoes, vacuum-cleaners, clocks/watches, radios, microwaves, etc. Now, if you put a quarter-inch dent in your car's bumper, you'll be replacing the entire quarter panel if you're lucky, the entire bumper if you're not. Admittedly, I enjoy indoor plumbing, electricity, and refrigeration; I use them daily, but there's much also to be said for that "simpler time," prior to pre-fab, when people took pride in their professions & accomplishments; knowing how to trade & barter services, how to build quality functional homes for their families, how to farm animals & crops, how to shoe a horse & change a wagon wheel (or even a car tire these days), how to cook & bake & sew & knit & quilt & manufacture soap & candles & can fall fruits & veggies against winter's chill. They could look at a tree or shrub or flowering plant and tell you it's name & medicinal purposes. At day's end, they hit the sack content, or at least worn out from a job well done, and suffered not the ennui of the city-slicker who was bored w/existence because he'd/she'd lost their self-reliance, and therefore their self-respect. So yeah, thanx for the video/history lesson/time-trip. Evidently, it awakened some dormant longings, & prompted some soul-searching, resulting in this epic response! Sorry bout that, but thanx just the same!

[@mothertree]

Everything you said is true...I miss the days of the farm and all the work that made everything a success.I hope you have a really good day and thank you for sharing your viewpoint .

[@defuse56]

Great stuff! Really interesting. For the old pump jack, it might have been a steam engine in early days. But after 1910 or so it would have been an old one-lunger gas engine :-)

[@dannyisham9071]

One cylinder.

[@defuse56]

Correct. They're easy to spot, with their huge external flywheels. Today they would be banned as a huge safety hazard, lol.

[@ericday604]

Thank you for sharing and preserving that history. my wifes family comes from poor valley and lick creek over the mountain from Marion VA. I love going back in there to visit. Where are you at there? Beautiful land.

[@randymusick3645]

+Eric Day I have several relatives that live in Poor Valley.

[@Automedon2]

Very interesting video - I really enjoyed it. Thanks.

[@Godzillaslovechild]

very much enjoyed...looking forward to more!!!

[@cwb0051]

Thank You For this history lessen...

[@Galaxyngc7331]

Supercool video. Thanks

[@curtishenderson2247]

Just saw this ,thanks for your time!

[@Starlababy]

Very interesting. Nice walk.

[@blueridger28]

born, raised and reside in Ashe county NC. family goes back there since before the civil war

[@carmenpeters728]

blueridger28 yep, yer so cuntry you dont need a full sentince.

[@flfun1684]

railroad stuff is really interesting.. Good video..

[@dorascott8286]

A great walk for sure....Thank you....

[@JennyMae-fu6kb]

Isn't this in the Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area?

[@gregchaney2004]

Great video, thank you.

[@Dc328]

What an amazing find(s)!

[@Karsbackup]

looks like Cades Cove area

[@sirdukeusa3289]

What part of Appalachia are you in? I bet, if those rocks could talk what a story they would tell. That cave would be ideal when SHTF. Love that old hand pump. If you think about it, the old timers were geniuses in their time. Freat video.

[@michaelciccone2194]

Very interesting! I have family history in North Carolina.

[@Jindy2]

Fascinating - well done!

[@jeffmedina43]

Even today,Id be careful walking into the real remote places.Some people still distill beverages today.A person could walk up to a person cooking a batch

[@mustangmadd3172]

So it's not that big of a deal anymore to be honest. I wouldn't be scared of it if I walked up on it

[@johnjude2677]

Great that someone left it be for others to see some day.

[@howardfreeland5595]

The rock structure in the old mine is called an anticline. It's like an upside down bowl of folded rock layers.

[@outdoorcastironcook]

You have such informative videos, especially the how to ones. This one struck a chord with me cuz I always visit old cemeteries as they are so full of historical memories. "Only the rocks live forever"....the oldest cemetery I visited was up in Mass. where I found a stone dated back to 1769. Thanks for showing me your find, especially the cave. Joanie OCIC

[@scottfay9971]

that's pretty cool you found a grave that old

[@outdoorcastironcook]

Yes, it was, and the fact that erosion hadn't removed all of the writing.

[@trevorfuson715]

We found a cemetery where they had used big rocks for grave markers. It was out a good way from Deep Creek in N.C. . Probably about three days hike west. It had a small portion of rock they had used to prop the church up. The church was long gone as was the small settlement. I tried talking to some folks but could not find anyone who knew about it. If anyone knows please let me know. I've seen plenty of old places being a surveyor and exploring the Smokies while backpacking but this place was far different from any place I had seen before. If I was to say anything I'd say it was deserted before the twentieth century.

[@GardeningWithPuppies]

Very interesting. Thank you for sharing it.

[@randyhutchinson9910]

Gardening With Puppies nice

[@stinkycatz]

Thanks for the trip . fun .

[@brianhearon1930]

My family was removed by the park service in 1934.There is a very old cemetary in the woods off 129 highway in Tallassee Tn.

[@getredytagetredy]

They also made Coke.Coke burns about 5 times longer than Coal....Thanks for the guided tour ...Good Video.

[@margaretleehightower3073]

Awesome...thank you so much😊👍

[@meltcmelinda4012]

Please please note the county and area by name. Also, gravestones are gold to people looking to locate their family for long ago. Names, dates will open doors to the past. So we can find our people. I can’t make out the sir names on the Headstone. Great video, Tks so much for sharing