Exploring a 200 Year old Abandoned Plantation Mansion | Most Haunted in the State
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- In today’s episode we take a look at an abandoned plantation mansion in the south. Built in 1824 by a Methodist minister and planter from Virginia. Originally part of a 1000 acre property that was sold several times over the years. From what we could find online it seems that this home was actually occupied up until about 5-6 years ago. The house was in the process of being renovated but became way too much work and the family moved out leaving the home abandoned. And in today’s episode we are taking a look at another abandoned plantation mansion once owned by the governor! So join me today and let’s see what’s left.
This 1835 brick mansion was once owned by the governor of this state and is known to be one of the most haunted places in the state. This entire property was once over 4000 acres of land including and entire family cemetery with graves dating back the 1700s, now with this place being known as a haunted mansion A&Es paranormal state featured this place on an episode where people said they would see the body of the governor roaming the rooms and land of the mansion. After entering the home we didn’t feel any sort of strange presence but I am not knocking the idea of this place possibly being haunted. So join me and let’s see what this place is like.
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I just wanted to say thank the for the Bible verse an the beginning of each video. It’s just so uplifting for me
Hopefully, next time you can cover the Slave Homes. I really wanted to see them.
There is a Wikipedia on this home. it states that the home is owned by the Mauldin family since the 1940s when they purchased the 1,000-acre (400 ha) farm property that the house sits on. It also says that they have never resided there because of its remote nature. This family needs to step up and do something.
Why must they "step up and do something"???!!!
@@drips1030 because it’s a part of history
@@ItsJustJayla Well you go and fund it then if it's that important? Or get a fund raiser going.
Its their home, they can do whatever they want with it. If anything they should bulldoze it then build a beautiful farm on it and work the land instead of letting it rot. What a waste of the land.
That blue is hideous! But the fact that there are still shackles in the house from the slaves is incredible. There's so much history. It should be restored as a museum and the slaves who lived and died there should be remembered and deeply honored. I'm sure there must be records in the county of the enslaved with their names, ages and occupations. These old plantations are important to American history, but only because of what my people went through on these properties. They must never be forgotten.
No chance that those were shackles of slaves.
😆
You funny
What shackles? I saw nothing looking like shackles. I don't think people should keep putting ideas into others heads about mistreatment of slaves that cannot be proven with facts. All you're hearing is talk so don't hold onto such things, please
@@godslisaru How do you think the people in bondage were treated?
@@godslisaru wait what lol
It's unbelievable seeing all those dresses in that old plantation house. It's just something that you don't expect to come across. I personally love old farm houses and plantation houses. It's a darn shame that so many of them are abandoned and go to waste instead of being renovated. If walls could talk.
Hello Melinda how are you doing today
they arent old dresses. they look like new ones from a fee years ago:)) def not from that time
Not me cutely snatching the dresses
Pls forgive me, it looks old/evil 😮🎉.
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I went on a tour of this house in 2013 with the actual family that stayed there and it was definitely interesting! It’s in Town Creek Alabama it used to be a Plantation and they said sometimes they heard cries from the basement!!
These two houses should be on a register of historic land marks and saved. I just hate to see these beautiful old houses lost to decay. Lots of history here.
This house is creepy to me. I don't see the beauty in it
its great to see a house of horrors be ruined@@manofreedom
I thought it looked familiar. I live not far from Town Creek.
@@manofreedomand what was the house beautiful for? you so weird
It's hard to believe that people with kids lived in that first house recently enough to have Frozen stickers on the wall. The second house with all the prom dresses was wild. The statue you found was creepy.
Those people living there were basically homeless. Never say never you never now what a day can bring. I agree it's sad but anyone of us could be homeless
Where is this? There’s a house very similar to this 1 in huger, sc gives me the willies
@@JohnnyEla that first one is in Alabama
@@sandraoliver3929 I agree and I am sad for them but it would be better than being on the street. I have no illusions that homelessness couldn't happen to me.
@@chanaplotke6218 I didn't mean to come off as mean spirited. I'm sorry. It's sad in this economy people have lost so much especially during covid. Merry Christmas to you and your family
I always find it sad that these beautiful homes stand abandoned and falling apart. But I realize it costs a lot to maintain them. I always tell my husband if we had endless amounts of money I would buy as many older homes as I could and bring them back to their former glory.
I don’t see much glory in homes that held slaves. Do you?
@@busayoajayi2949it’s still a beautiful house regardless of what occurred there.
@@genesis8550 it’s fucking history, get over yourself!
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I think they got it and decided it was too badly damaged to fix it to make it livable. That’s what it looks like to me.
Fascinating - but I worry about you and your team entering these places without protective masks. There are all kinds of molds and dusts you don't want to be breathing into your lungs. But yes, this is hands-on history!
these guys are about as dumb as it gets. you can't protect them from themselves.
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I. Thought I was the only one thinking that!! My sinuses would go crazy 😂
They deserve what they get for invading sacred slave grounds
I felt sad watching it. Knowing it was a plantation took its glory away for me. I do thank you for your hard work.Usually love the buildings.Imagination brings horrors to mind.
Thank you! At least someone on here has sense!
This one made me sad, too.
The basement room with the fireplace was almost certainly the kitchen. This was common practice in old southern homes due to the heat. There were also outside summer kitchens for canning season. Most probably the laundry, sewing and ironing was in the basement too.
It was. It had a brick floor I couldn’t tell if it was still there or if mud and dirt had covered it
I agree
@@celestepaces8021 Yes, and that room on the first floor that's been converted into a (hideously painted) red & white kitchen was originally the dining room.
My grandma had an oven in her basement and that is where she did her canning. But it was in Buffalo, NY.
Hello Diane how are you doing today
I like the video but I wish you would show more about the plantation itself including the slave quarters.
I can tell u that house is full of spirits...😳😳😳😳😳😳
Yeah good god fearing spirits
I was thinking the same thing. Spirits many .
There would be some very Angry one's as well
Interesting video. I just don't see beauty in a place that was hell on earth to some people at one time. I would never call Auschwitz beautiful. Too many deaths and heartache like this place. Way too insensitive of a comment. Just my two cents.
Don't watch
That tile ceiling in the dining room is actually a 40's post war era "alternative" material that is more like painted pressed cardboard. I have it in a lot of my house that was built in 1926 and had a second story added in the 40s to accommodate their growing family.
They used that through the 80's.
and they more than likely dropped the high ceiling and put in that tile to save on heat!
@@christylawrence1268 its not all that insulating
@@PixiePrincessBrat my parents had it forever in their house my entire childhood. it was a good option for dropping a ceiling that didn't cost a fortune.
@@ShandeleReynolds you can still buy it today. I had some in my home that was falling down and it was replaced last year. My dad put it in our home that he built in the 70’s. He called it ceilitex Not sure if that was a brand name or just a general term for it
You can look at this house until it was built in stages overtime. She’s a true beauty. There’s a lot of history in her walls. Hopefully someone will step in and save this wonderful building!
A friend of mine done some work for a guy who lived in an old plantation ! He said there were still chain in the basement on the walls for the slaves ! That's creepy as hell ! 😳😥
The scariest thing I’ve ever seen in an abandoned building was a old rotting ouija board that hard grave coordinates carved in the back of it. Idk how i would react to find chains and l shackles.
Uh I doubt there was shackles that old still there
Why would anyone want to live on a plantation? So much traumatic history… the only benefit I see is turning plantation’s into museums so people can see the history of this country.
The second house is Sweetwater Mansion in my home town Florence, AL. I've been in
it and the cemetery at night. I have orb pics.
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We are DYING to know more about about those evening gowns & why SO MANY were abandoned in that home! So much incredible history there, and what feels like a real mystery!
I bet some vintage clothing stores would love to get their hands on all that!!
It’s hard to believe they left all this clothes! What was the reason? We’re they the family of the Governor’s clothes.
Many of those clothes were abandoned from a local theatre in that town and brought to the Mansion. I did a reenactment there so I know that’s the truth. Many of the period costumes were used for the event I was a part of, but those dresses are new!
Me too !
@@leigh310 lol they are obviously newer clothes !! LMAO
Just the building holds a lot of history. stuff that shouldn’t have happened fuck slavery 💯
Fuack slavery! we all or most of us r slaves.. freedom is an illusion
Clothes gives me the Movie Prop feel. Very Strange
I wish there was more empathy when exploring a house filled with so much horror. Proper recognition and respect should be given to honor the lives of the people who suffered at the hands of the owners.
Exactly. The shackles should not have been some cool highlight. It should have been treated with reverence.
Girl to each they're own.
Slavery is a part of history, nobody glorifies it, but we learn from it. You need to move on and not use the past as excuses.
For some reason blacks think they were the only slaves. Every race has been.
@@tayaluvsballet145so I’m 2024 why don’t whit e ppl like blacks ?😂afraid to even walk pass us explain
I live like 10 minutes from the first house the change and shackles were taken out in the early 80s by tourist. The room where he went upstairs the first time where the walls are unfinished that's the way they've always been as long as I can remember. I've actually stayed in this house a lot back in the day. And the other upstairs room where the little red bed frame was. The door that's on the south side of the room you can actually walk in the walls through that door.
Who owns it now? Are there any plans to restore it?
@@lbelton8886 I'm not for sure now.
I went by there and they have put up a fence all around the house.
Really sad when you think about the horrific things that were done inside and outside of that house.
No because not everyone has a victim hood mentality like most people nowadays
@@TRUMP.FOREVER what a dolt
@@TRUMP.FOREVER are you slow?? There’s nothing wrong with people having empathy when reflecting on chattel slavery 🤡
@BIGPINKMAN It's not having a victimhood. Mentality, it's an old Plantation's house that had slaves. So yeah, there are gonna be bad vibes some negativity and very hateful spirits on that land
The small of stairs would have led to servants quarters. They would come down those, passed through what is now a bathroom, which was probably a pantry at one time, straight into the kitchen, without being seen by the guests. That's how a lot of these old Southern mansions were laid out, to keep the servants, mostly hidden. Really nice place, shame to see a piece of history go to ruin
most secret passages are not secret passages but stairs for servants etc
slave...... not servants
@seinmaestro5815 no duh, Einstein, but we're trying to be decent, but if you want to be a jackass, I can play that game. Trust me, it won't end well for you pissant
@@umwaht😂
@@umwahtYou mean like the white Slavic slaves that black people had first?? OK, got you.
I wouldn't go down in that basement for a million dollars!! Beautiful house but seriously creepy!!
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On the first house, the basement with the two fireplaces was most likely used as a kitchen during the winter months. Usually a second building was near the main house would be a summer kitchen. Which there might had been with the governor house.
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@@NelsonAnthony-xs7fdHi🤪
When he said "shackles down stairs" my heart dropped.
And oddly, he didn't seem bothered at all. Just like a lot of people in this comment section. I also noticed he said there were slave cabins on the property. But he didn't even bother to show those from the outside, despite that being a major historical thing that most people never have the opportunity to see in person. This video really changed my opinion of him. Made me stop supporting the channel.
😂 yeah I'm sure it did
@@aintnothingliketheoldskoolNot everyone is all emotional and sensitive about things like you all are nor is everyone stuck in the past like you all are
@@TRUMP.FOREVER👍👍👍👍
@@aintnothingliketheoldskoolso true I won’t watch another video. It was as if saying there’s shackles was just a regular normal thing. Sad.
Beautiful home. Whoever had it recently had no idea about traditional colors of the Home. The red is a nightmare. Such a shame this home has fell into disrepair.
I thought that too! he was like "i like this color scheme" i was like dude they painted over wood wainscoting to do that ugly red and white!!!!
Lovely home. Hi Sabrenia how are you doing today i do hope you’re safe from the Covid?
Looks like someone handed the kids paint brushes and filled the squares. I hope no one thought this is original to the home.😆
@@paulaeitzenhefer5580 hi do you mind we text through via email so we can get to know each other’s as friends?
The red is hideous - yuk I agree
I loved both of these I am in texas and a contractor who restores older homes, the last one was 120 years old in Bonham tx I would love either of these for restoration - I love the outside of the first one but the second one would be such a classic style I could see stone mantels on the fireplaces and new windows strip the plaster on the walls insulate replaster (no sheetrock) new roofs on both, new modern kitchen central HVAC systems Both have basements and attic space so very easy to add central HVAC systems real hardwood floor new molding with crown molding - both need a lot of landscaping
Do more of this style but also the bigger ones you normally do I love these but love the normal explores you do
You should always keep the old windows in historic buildings. Glass is actually a liquid moving slowly, hence old windows have wavy glass.
@@lbelton8886 agreed, we're restoring/ preserving our home that is 100yrs old and a house is worth more with the original windows; our house also has the original roof and construction. In homes that old, the second you start removing walls and remodeling it will cause so much more work because the construction has settled over the decades...if you want a modern home-then buy one.
The first house is actually called The Goode-Hall, Saunders Hall in Town Creek Alabama. It was beautiful. We lived in that house for one summer but he (AH) grew up there his parents lived there on and off for many years. We even hosted several tours back then. It has really wasted away. I can tell you so much about this place. The shackles were there when we lived there in 1999 (I believe)
Was it haunted?
Wow the picture on wiki from 2006 looked so much better 😳
That house was in liveable condition in the 90s?
@@justinspeegle4668 I never seen anything but others say they did.
@@LilSarahDarling that house was beautiful back then. It’s really been let go
WOW what a beautiful home, I would purchase that and restore it. Just finished the restoration on the home we are in now.
Restore a plantation where humans were raped murdered and tortured by white people it should be burned to the ground
@@queenoftenthousandmoons8864 whatever good grief it was in the past it’s an ornate object a building. Just keep on destroying history till we have no more, that’s definitely right thing to do. NOT
The most frightening thing about this home is that blue paint in the stairwell.
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and that horrid yellow and pink bathroom! those colors were awful all through that first house...
I liked my own comment
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😮 which is 🤔🤔🤔
Haha😂 that's okay haha
I don’t see the beauty in place where my ancestors were beaten, raped, killed, tortured and sold. If only the trees could talk.
Those plantations are beautiful places. You can’t change the past but you can make the future better for all.
@@73beetle19 you’re entitled to your opinion, but I stand by mine.
My opinion is if you hurt your slaves or beat them or torcher them they can’t produce. So why would they spend the money to kill their workers? Actually they were their money makers. Why would you hurt your slave?
Workers get paid, slaves didn’t. Why don’t you take a trip to DC to National Museums of African American History or The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Alabama. I’m sure you’d learn a lot.
Then don’t watch the video if you are so upset. And if you are going to bring up ancestors. I have news for you your ancestors were not the only ones who were beaten, raped and murdered and sold throughout history. Slavery existed all throughout history and so did mistreatment of many different ethnicities and religions. It is sadly still going on today. You can either keep harping on about the past or realize you can’t change the past. Alot of people in the past did bad things and that cannot be changed. The best thing to do is try and make a difference to what is happening now.
If you can't produce the shackles you really should edit. Your comments does nothing but, produce more division and is reckless. Use better judgment!
Whoever stole those shackles, there’s probably a ghost attached to them
Who would want something that has such a gruesome story with it? Someone with no emotion, detached . The chains carry a curse surely.
I was thinking the same thing! Either ghosts or curses…neither pleasant.
Agreed
Items hold energy. Can't imagine the energy on those shackles
He’s got a group of ghost now.
It doesn't look like they were remodeling. It looks like they were just occupying.
Very true considering the quality of the paint work. Did they let the kids select the colors and do the painting?🤪
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i wish there were trespass videos where anyone knew something about anything and just didn't go around saying, 'wow, that's beautiful, look at that.' no one in these things knows the first thing about history, renovation, architecture, construction, decoration, design, function, materials. stumbling around dangerous places they shouldn't be in, unmasked from whatever molds, focusing on stupid shit because they wouldn't know antebellum from colonial or an old typewriter from a cash register.
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To the ones that made this video thank you for being respectful there's been a lot of people over the years go in and tear that house up that's why it's in the shape it's in people just went in and just spray painted everything tore s*** down. Thank you for being respectful.
They should torn down there’s nothing beautiful about what happened to my people
@@SuperLEOLADY1Give it a rest!
@@SuperLEOLADY1 It is a horrible thing what Muslims and Democrats did to your ancestors. This is true. But the house did nothing to them. The inhuman atrocities committed by Democrats and Muslims were insane. However, blacks were not the first to be enslaved. More white people have been enslaved than blacks. The European Transatlantic slave trade- 1526 - 1867. lasting less than 350 years.
Arabic slave trade from Africa Began in the early 7th century. lasting more than 13 centuries.
Arab slave trade lasted until the 1960s. Mauritania finally outlawed Slavery in 2007.
The Arabic word for black people is Abeeb, It means "servant" or "slave".
The word "slave" comes from the Latin word sclava, which means "Slavonic captive"(white people)
The word slave first appeared in English around 1290, spelled sclave. The spelling is based on Old French esclave from Medieval Latin sclavus, "Slav, slave," first recorded around 800. Sclavus comes from Byzantine Greek sklabos (pronounced sklävōs) "Slav," which appeared around 580.
@@SuperLEOLADY1 These old plantations need to be preserved. They show how far we have come. American states began outlawing and abolishing slavery just one year after we officially became a nation in 1776. America is the only nation where a Civil War was fought by mostly white men to free black slaves. Yes, it took until the Civil War to end slavery in the US. Yes, it took more than a century of fighting Democrats in a war, fighting against Democrat racism like the KKK, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Democrats fighting to stop desegregation. More Democrats voted against the '64 Civil Rights Act than Republicans did, in fact, Democrats voted against every single bill for equality and rights for women and blacks before '64 too. But, I am proud to say in today's America women and minorities have the same rights as I do.
@@SuperLEOLADY1 Estimates vary on the total number of African slaves sold through the Arab slave trade routes to the Middle East, but most historians agree it was a staggering figure in the millions. Most place the figure between 8 and 10 million.
Muslims castrated most black African slaves during the Arab slave trade to Muslim nations. Why did they do this?
To prevent reproduction and the creation of a new generation of slaves. Castrated male slaves could not reproduce, ensuring a constant demand for more slaves from Africa.
To prevent black males from having intercourse with Arab women.
Castration was a way to dehumanize and subjugate African slaves, stripping them of their masculinity and ability to reproduce. It was an act of domination and control.
About 388,000 Africans were shipped directly to North America (the present-day United States and Canada). They were not castrated...
I’ve visited The good Hall Saunders Hall when the last residents lived there. The property is overrun with ghost from past owners to slaves to surrounding area ghosts that are there! When I was there, the shackles were still there! In the basement room with the dirt floor. Was the several times and each time was more difficult because of the spirit activity that wanted to interact with me. I find it disturbing to even drive past the property. But, a beautiful, grand plantation home.
Get A grip on reality! AINT NO GHOSTS < DEAMONS NO ANGELS NONE ! I have had $500 reward for my first supernatural experience >>>>NO takers... NONE IN 50+ years not a sausage! all in the mind! NOT in reality Grow up children ...GET a HAIRCUT (& shave) loose the necklace , study a few facts & present more professionally, detail of architecture, are the columns brick, marble or WOOD? roof tiles slate or tin? type of bricks details of the great ol cemetery ..you took a time to get there & SHOWED US NOTHING!! waste of my time yet you were there with good gear , STOP blocking with your hand ! get professional! its not rocket science! You have a LOT to learn get too it!
How many shackles were there at the time?
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Old cemeteries are very historic. Please show more family cemetery videos in the South.
I love going up to the great Smoky mountain national park and seeing all the old cemeteries in there. Finding gravestones all the way back to the 1800s.
I hate these ignorant old house tours. Where is it? Who built the house? What's the history of the house? What were the rooms used for originally? Why walk us through the obvious? Anyone could walk through this house with this commentary, with no insight into what we're seeing.
I would bet that the second house was used for storage for a theatre group at some point. A lot of the stuff downstairs could have been stage props. Other racks of clothing were different costumes. Looks like a lot of it may have been donated from other theatre groups and patrons. Be surprised what will be given to theatre groups. Both these houses are beautiful. Would love to restore either.
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@@NelsonAnthony-xs7fdbot?
Probably a graveyard of old slaves nearby unmarked from decay
Sadly .. you're likely on point. Looks like the family members all had grave stones but what about the slave's?
Couldn't see past the hurt, pain and pure evil that I'm sure human beings once endured here for God knows how long. "Beautiful" my foot.
@Abe No thanks Abe, I'm good👌🏾
Horrific things happen somewhere doesn’t mean something can’t be beautiful to look at. It’s just not beautiful as a whole because of it’s history. Flanders fields covered in poppies are beautiful. It doesn’t change the amount of blood that was shed there in world war 1.
@Doing My Time I don't think they're hating if expressing one's feeling about a historical past is triggering for them , then that's their opinion... But honestly I wouldn't call it a plantation kind of like ignoring the trauma and the pain that happened inside of it...I understand it's beautiful, but I can't even get those words out of my mouth because of the history I know it held.
@@genesis8550 I feel sorry for the people who own this place and I don’t feel sorry for the way I asked to decay like that
Oh for fuck’s sake….. most of the enslaved were happy. It’s not a damn holocaust it was a plantation. This idea that slavery in the south was just daily beatings and death is complete bullshit
Sadly, a lot of people will get sucked into the dream of a big diy antique home and don't think about how much money and work it's going to take and get overwhelmed and lose everything.
It would take millions to restore those homes to their original glory.
Hii Danielle by name, nice meeting you here 🤝
And where are you from
What's the point of it being on the historical registry if they're not going to keep it up and honor the fact that it's historical?
Hi there. I think the lady bugs would actually be Asian lady beetles...you can tell the difference by the color which is an orange or a tan color. I live in Tennessee and they are everywhere. I can't believe someone lived in the first house with kids...it seems a little dangerous, but maybe it was cheap or free...prices the way they are now. Good work in the videos.
I thought the same about the bugs. Those Asian lady beetles are very intrusive.
@@serenade71 Yes they are! They get in everything!
You're correct, those are Asian beetles and they will bite. I live here in Tennessee, as well. I know in the fall they will start to try to get in the houses to try to find warmth.
Yes, those ladybeetles bite, and they have an odor! The bad thing is, we hardly ever see real ladybugs for years and years since they came . That first house is way too far gone to renovate. It still stands well, as do so mant decades old homes, as they were framed with real lumber. The cost and work in renovation is unbelievable. We did our 1883 farmhouse over many years. It was a very pleasant home that withstood very bad storms, but the work and cost, really are prohibitive.
FYI, "Plantation Style" is not a thing. Plantation houses came in many styles, from Greek Revival (most popular) to Italianate to Steamboat Gothic. The first house shown is in the Jeffersonian Palladio style. The exterior is in an advanced state of decay, and all those loose joints are letting water in. It's going to take some deep pockets to save it.
Interesting.
Are you into architecture? Or art history?
@@mattl8774 I am in the architecture profession, and have restored/renovated many historic structures.
Interesting! Thanks for sharing.
That one clothing item is from a Paris design shop … Cottonade….!
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He’s doing a good job, I like his videos. How are you doing?
Didn't appear to be any signs of rennovation what it did look like was squatters that had taken up residence in an old abandoned derelict house- the grime on the walls in the kitchen looked like it came from filthy hands a VERY long time ago
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I appreciate Southern history, even though a lot of people are trying their best to erase it. I'm not one of them but, in this case, I think this place should be put to the torch...
Then you don't appreciate southern history.
I'm sure you're one of these people who destroy statues as well.
Thank you for showing us these houses from history the architecture is amazing
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Hello Emily how's the weather over there
Those are more like lesser brand couture dresses, not prom. curious that there were so many, more like from a boutique that shuttered, that one brand Cottonade is a defunct Paris brand that really doesn’t sell for much. Weirdly curious that they would be in that home, would love to vintage pick through them!
I agree. It looks like the costume wardrobe for plays or historical recreations. There were also many lighting fixtures appropriate for a stage presentation!
I appreciate you showing this. I could never explore a plantation home or slave cabin. My heart would be too heavy. The basement of the first house looks like a death torture chamber.
You know there was rape,beating, and sorts of trauma in that place! But to some it's a beauty
its just an old house, most likely that was root cellar
I've toured a few in Louisiana, the plantations from the movie "12 Years a Slave" and it was deeply moving. Especially when I saw the lists of hundreds of slaves that worked at one massive plantation, the ages of the kids, it was not easy. But I also felt eerily connected to the land, if that makes any sense at all.
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Imagine have humans chained up in your basement and being cool with it😒
I sure would be.
If those walls could talk
Very beautiful old home. I really wish you had gone back to document the outbuildings in the plantation home. Even though they may have been slave quarters, there's a history there that is going to be gone soon. I'm really surprised they would be there, I don't know what part of the South you're in but the Union army had a habit of burning homes and such on their way through. I'm a historian and Antebellum South was part of my concentration.
The cemetery is interesting. The Sweetwater plantation house (the second one) was started by General John Robert Brahan (8 June 1771 Fauquier Co VA--8 July 1834 Florence AL.) His wife is buried next to him in that cemetery, Mary Weakley Brahan (b 24 June 1810 Nashville TN,--7 Jan 1837 Florence Al.). Their son-in-law was Governor of Alabama just after the Civil War, Governor Robert Patton. He completed the work on the house in 1835. General Brahan bought 4000 acres of property in Alabama sometime in the 1810-20 range. He was with Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans in 1817.
Yeah, I had to go look him up. Having a gravestone was a big help.
From the looks of the materials in the home, it is warehousing the items that may be used for renovation, many of the items are of that period. I have NO idea about the dresses, when they were first mentioned, I was in hopes that they were period dresses that could be used in a museum.
Great video.
These houses were built so well they didn’t require ac they naturally stayed 66 degrees year round only heating
Have you ever spent a summer in the South?
What a beautiful house sitting on a gorgeous piece of land. Hoping it gets fully restored soon.
Seeing the grime on the doors and handles of things from the oils of people's hands collecting dirt and dust over time. Crazy.
I did a reenactment at the second house, Sweetwater Mansion, back in 2011, and they were trying to rebuild it to look similar to the way it did initially. However, it looks like they have given up completely. It could’ve been a great venue for weddings and several events. I will say this place is VERY haunted I had many strange encounters in there. I saw a little girl dressed in white, heard a baby laugh in the cemetery, and heard my name whispered several times throughout the mansion. It’s definitely a spooky place!
Oh wow thanks for sharing
I love homes with lingering energy.
Oh my !! 😳 but wow so cool to hear from someone that’s actually went there when it was being used. Thank you for the info !!
These homes are historical and worth preserving, but any parties or weddings at this place seems inappropriate. Humans were treated like animals in these homes- so, interesting to visit, but no parties/celebrations.
Treated much worse than animals
The "living rooms" were called "parlours" in the 1800s. This house needs over $1million in restoration. Whoever attempted this makeover didn't do a good job, sadly. In that second house those are not prom dresses they look like vintage evening gowns. I wish you'd have mentioned the names on the labels!
All looks vintage 60s-70s to me. Cha-ching!
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Bad mojo attached to a place like that. I wouldn’t want to live there. Any place that kept humans as slaves has got to be cursed.
I just want to know why when the first guy climbed in he didn't just open the front door for the rest?
You move way to fast and don't show all of the house.... I really wish you took more time and learned more of the history on the houses.
Absolutely. He tickled me when he walked through that recently enclosed back porch and said, "This is the laundry room, this is the clothes chute, and here's the bathroom" --- like he was a Realtor showing the house to a potential buyer instead of someone touring a historic property. Most people would've been wondering, "How was the house altered to add a bathroom in the 20th century? This 'kitchen' -- was it originally the dining room, or is it a newer room, since houses didn't have indoor kitchens in the 1820s?" He just breezes through in his pearls like he fully expects an antebellum house to have an indoor kitchen and bathroom.
Do y’all find concentration camps beautiful and fascinating as well? Or is it only a plantation thing? Take that into account the next time you make a video about a historic time period
Most of this is not original. Especially the paint and light fixtures. Very cool old home. Thanks for the tour.
I love the closet door in the living room, very classy. As far as the rest of the place, I would venture to say someone time traveled from the 70's. Sad.
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I can’t even begin to express how deeply incensed I was watching this video. The outright abuse of that historic home left me filled with outrage - the drop ceilings, the cheap light fixtures, ruined architectural features, the PAINT. The waste. And I am sorry, but I was bothered by the repeated references to the alleged shackles left in the basement. It didn’t feel respectful. It felt like clickbait.
Now, the second house was interesting. I don’t know. As compelling as urban exploration videos can be, they always leave me feeling sad.
Yes, it is sad to see those cheap tacky renovations.
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Don’t comment often but I thought I would say awesome video and I love that you put verses on every video ✝️ The places you find are truly amazing pieces of history and your presentation style is enjoyable. I love urbex but have a hard time watching most other channels. Keep up the great work- Merry Christmas to you and your wife from Cleveland!
Same here. Hi Amanda happy Sunday.
The bible verses? Cringy
@@b1k2q34Allahhu Akbar ❤
@@b1k2q34criticizing the Bible?
Wow. Aren't you edgy...
Try criticizing Muhammad next time.
I love the Bible verses! & How respectful they are. ❤
You younger people have a much different definition of "beautiful" than us older folks. Well, to each his own....
If those walls could talk 🥺 May the ancestors who lost their lives there rest in peace
They are walls they can’t talk.
The fact that human beings were treated so horribly makes this place very “Ugly” not beautiful. This house is doing exactly what it should be doing, wasting away! I noticed the lack of empathy for what people went through at the hands of such horrible people. You were laughing quite a bit when showing the video, seemed like you took pleasure in what this house represents. Especially when you talked about the shackles. There’s a lot of sick people in the world!!
Yup, you're right about that!
That one room that had Olaf in it could be a playroom☺️
When I see these old plantation houses, I can't help but think of the horror and Terror that went on behind closed doors and closed minds.
Even though slavery has been abolished, it should never be forgotten.
Do we truly have racial equality even today?
No we do not.
Yet we are supposed to be the dominant species on the planet!
Having served 23 years of my life in the military, my best buddy was a colored guy, his family originated from Rhodesia and his nickname was the bull...
I'll never forget him, unfortunately he died in Afghanistan.
RIP Brother, see you on the other side.
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There is a house on the Southside of Houston, TX that looks exactly like the first house.
It still has shackles in the basement but it's really beautiful!🤔 From the first shot I can see my people in the field! RIH to the beautiful people who was forced to keep that dump together!
I know right!?! I thought the same thing. Beautiful? I see no ounce of beauty in a plantation when I think of all of the physical, mental, and sexual abuse that went on there for years. No one would call Auschwitz beautiful but they'd call a plantation beautiful? Get the f*ck outta here!!!!
@@gossipandgrigio7200 Yes it is very telling! It tells you that some folks will never understand what does not effect them! Black pain, is black pain, point blank. Thats been proven over and over again! We truly are the a lost tribe! Its nobody's problem but ours! Its insanity to see beauty in so much pain! A worn out shack plantation house where slavery existed, complete with the shackles should never be considered beautiful! I guarantee you if this had been a place where the holocaust victims were tortured, it wouldn't been considered a thing of beauty!
@@beautifuldreamah2689 i think when they call it beautiful its because they wish they were alive back in “the good old days”🤮
Whoever thinks this is beautiful should envision there current family and ancestors in the enslaved position with shackles and all the other atrocities that came with it. When you wake up from that terrible vision tell me what you think is beautiful about the house…….
@@Crystal-yc7zn I was thinking the same thing. Every white person in the comments are glorifying this bs.
My house was built in 1894.
It sat empty for 2-3 yrs before I bought it.
It has been a MASSIVE headache getting the house and land to not be toxic.
I can not for the life me, figure out, how it takes such short time for OLD houses to come to ruin, but newer hse doesn't seem to deteriate as swiftly. Yet, a OLD house will withstand elements better (wind, rain, storms etc.)
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you cant undo what happened here
Once the water gets in decay begins rapidly, especially in warm humid climates.
Have a little respect . My ancestors were tortured there ! I know it’s nothing to you but that’s sacred grounds ….
I've been watching some others but you are the best
So sad…so much life and stories in this old house at one time! If only the walls could talk.
So much death and torture! They had Shackles in the basement. I see nothing but horror when I look at it.
@@nichellw2077 and he's so fascinated, weird stuff
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@@Reddfoxx84fr snd he was so dedicated to finding the shackles
Really wish this would get fully renovated.
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It looks like you definitely had fun exploring the old places and all those clothes were fantastic. It does leave such a mystery as to why all those really expensive clothes were put in the top of that last house.
Wonder if this state doesn’t have grants for historical homes to be restored ?
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Those fancy dresses may have been used for formal dinners and parties the Governor had. (Couldn't be seen in the same dress twice)!😜
The color scheme in the 1st place was not what I would have done to that place!😳
Im pretty shore the hideous colors were added much later.
its good to see a brother in the Lord Creating Content to show the Glory of God! Amen brother!
Hate all the colored rooms because it make the house lose its originality. I love the original look of these places. Too bad you didn't show the slave cabins! :( P.S. You guys might want to wear masks because the dust from rat waste is lethal, plus all the molds and who knows what else!
I agree! Those colors are awful. If that was someone's idea of renovation it stinks.
Those gowns 'fell off a truck'. Great explore.
You are absolutely one of the most respectful explorers. Thank you
I am 50 seconds in. And I have to say that I am very much enjoying the shots. Whenever I watch one of these I like to watch it with some graph paper at my side. And I like to try to sketch out what the house looks like inside and out. Right now I could draw the outside with near perfection.
Now we'll see what I feel like about the shots when you walk through the house. Cuz too many people just do not give a step-by-step, cohesive view of the inside rooms. That leaves me to guess where exactly the hearth room is. I look forward to leaving a review on that!
It looks like maybe it was stuff for a movie set or something
Hello Paula how are you doing with your family i do hope you’re safe from the Covid?
With the right kind of people and money.. this home could be beautiful again!
I think you’re right, how are you doing?
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Heritage homes can be a nightmare to restore also very exspensive and has lots of rules how it's done
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Justin ROCKS !!!!!
It is sooooo sad too see ALL these old homes empty and slowly decaying. So many homeless people but these homes need so much money for upkeep and safety.
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The homeless would speed up the decay process by tearing it up living in there own flith