Our parents used to take us to visit these places when we were growing up. I too admired the simple beauty of plain, useful things. It's probably why I enjoy history so much. 😉 I love that house too. So quiet! Really enjoyed this video....well done!
Was just there yesterday. I grew up on Black Matt Road about 5 miles from there! My friends and I would ride our bikes there and to St Pete's very often as kids. Live in Maryland now but every time I'm up home visiting my mom and sister I check out my old stomping grounds. Certainly miss the area!
BTW, I believe the wooden troughs leading to the water wheel were called raceways. I think there were 2 of them. There were remnants of another on the other side of Route 345 when I was young, back in the 70's. It is quite the sight and sound when they have the water wheel in operation! I have a cannon ball that was made there as well. During the Agnes flood of 1972, the creek that ran through my grandparents' farm was overrun and churned up a lot of debris. June 10, 1972, I was walking along the creek after it had subsided and saw what I thought was a snapping turtle. I grabbed a large stick to try and get it out but realized it wasn't a turtle, but a large iron ball caked in clay and mud. My grandfather helped me clean it off and realized it was a 12lb cannon ball. I remember that dated like yesterday because it was 2 days before my 10th birthday. My mom and I took the ball to Hopewell to see if it was made there. They confirmed it was and immediately asked where it came from. Since it was found on private property we were allowed to keep it. There were still wagon trails throughout the woods behind the farm, and a couple would lead to Hopewell. We surmised it fell of a wagon heading to Valley Forge, as Route 724 is a mile from the farm and it leads into Valley Forge in 22 or so miles. Was it really heading that way? Who knows, but why else would a cannonball be in a farm creek in the middle of nowhere that saw no Revolutionary or Civil War battles!
Wow - that house is beautiful !! Amazing waterwheel and those furnaces - this is a place I have to visit ! Thanks for sharing this awesome video- I love anything that deals with historic places and this video is the best 😁👍💕
If you follow the stream that feeds the sluice that feeds the waterwheel up stream it will take you to Hopewell lake. There is a trail, it is a nice walk, about a mile I think if I remember correctly.
So much I like to say about this video, RJ Production showed a video about a mine that was used for pouring medal. He explained by a drawing how the medal got poured from the ground down to the pin rails I think you call it. First time I seen a pin rail before, I worked at a Foundry before back in 1998 to 2001. Now they have big furnaces that's run on electric not coal; I bet the guys worked harder those days then the days like now. Thanks for showing
Wow I am really loving this place. How awesome! If I ever come up that way I will have to visit. I am a total history buff. I am so amazed how well preserved this place is. I would have to spend an entire day there. Love it.
Awesome! I wish the iron furnace down the road from me ( NC) still had all the original structures. The mind can only imagine what time has erased. If only youtube was around in the late 1700's and 1800's.
That was awesome!!! Reminds me of Colonial Williamsburg. I love history!!! I was as excited as you were touring this location. You did a great job making me feel as though I was there with you. I would love to visit there in person. Thanks for sharing!!!
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. This village speaks volumes of past history and yet it's not outdated. It's quite modern with every need satisfied. All the desires are met. After the pig iron is melted it's poured into molds from the bottom upside down. The molds are knocked off leaving a line called a gate mark. Very desirable today. Modern cast iron is poured on the side so these lines are ground off smooth. Lodge cast iron is forged in Tennessee today. Keep iron seasoned to avoid rust.
I am a direct descendent of marcus "mark" bird :) he is my 7th great grandfather and its so cool i got too visit there with my grandma and cousins! she is his 5th great granddaughter, and its weird too think our family (his family) immigrated too the south (the carolinas) and then we eventually came back too pennsylvania!
Love your videos. We live in a nearby village,, a couple miles from Hopewell. Our home was originally built for the book keeper at Hopewell. His "office" would have been in the store.
Thanks Cliff really enjoyed that video. Looks like you had a great time there too. Like you said, tthe animals really add to the authenticity of the place. Looking forward to the next video.
We loved your video! My son has always been interested in just this...the historic way of life. Like you, he would live in the smaller house in a heartbeat! Thank you & your narration is a wealth of information. I am still teachable.
Cliff, what an awesome and cool place! Thank you for taking me along with you! Absolutely beautiful buildings and scenery and horse and sheep! Love history and that's really interesting.
Yeah man,Id have a collection of old miners carbide lamps on my mantle. Neat place bro!! They just let you explore the house like that,holy heck hope they have cameras!!!
This place is still awesome some 50+ years after I was last there. Same with St. Peter's Village. You ought to be there when the water wheel is running. It's spectacular. Didn't know about the blacksmith shop and workers houses at the time I was there. I was only a kid and had to follow the adults. Oh, and another thing...You have to try their homemade apple butter on their homemade bread from the bake ovens, seen at the beginning of the video.
You crack me up. You started saying you wanted to live in the big house. Then you would settle for the spring house. By the end you were willing to live in that wooden teepee hut! Easy to please! Very informative & entertaining.
Cliff, in my opinion...your best ever explore! You have shown me what I would never find on my own. I never watch an almost hour long video, that should tell you how cool I think what you do is. I am in my 50's and hated history in school, these days I cant get enough of it. Your video was very informative, I just wish you would have paused a little longer on stuff for us to read. The cannon was amazing! Also the charcoal that was produced was likely a possible component of black powder used in the day for guns. There was a Pennsylvania long rifle next to the grandfather clock that was beautiful. On the hand pump for water, we still have them in Illinois. There are many that are abandoned but still work like a charm. I thank you so much for the video!
Thank you for your tour of this beautiful place. I much appreciate your love of history which you show in your videos. They have truly done a wonderful job of restoration, when you realize that after Hopewell shut down in 1883, it was allowed to fall into disrepair. My parents used to bring me to Hopewell ,as a young child in the 1950’s when many of restorations were going on. In 2005, I had the privilege of finding 9 orders for stoves and stove parts addressed to Clement Brooke
That horse has an amazing winter coat. I always like how whooly they get that time of year. Makes them look rustic and ancient. Local to me are folks that raise and sell Scottish Highland cows/bulls. They are amazing and ancient to look on too.
Was reading that at one time there was a "sheep craze" hundreds of years ago where many farmers started raising sheep for wool. And apparently that's why there are so many abandoned stone walls built in parts of the US. Something to do with stone walls being better for keeping sheep penned
I think it's awesome that places like this survive, it's a good way to educate the younger generations as to what life was like back then. Thank you for showing us around. x
thank you for taking us to this wonderful place... awesome.. Pennsylvania has so many beautiful landscape and historical places to offer.. great video and educational..keep it coming.. God bless and stay safe.. from your fan in Germany...... peace
In 2005 I had the privilege of finding 9 letters addressed to Clement Brooke of Hopewell Furnace dated between 1822-1836. These letters were orders from customers for stoves and stove parts. It turned out, after I looked into it, that Clement Brooke was Hopewell’s most successful iron master. After he retired in 1848, Hopewell could never again flourish like it had under Clement Brooke’s direction. I showed the letters to Hopewell’s museum curator. She made copies which she said would be on exhibit.
Jogging cart and black sled. Beautiful place. A lot like Old Mo. Town in Blue Springs. Sluice trough. Don't think they had much time to hang out. Your potato looked like a pawpaw to me..l Loved all of it. I miss having the live stock to.untill I remember wading threw snow drifts and chopping holes in the pond ice in winter. Then dont miss them so much.
And the hopewell furnace has workings that extend out towards st Pete's as well. There's and 83 page historical document of the "Kristeen furnace" that was the precursor to Coventry and reading furnace!!!
If you go to hibernia park outside of coatesville you will find the mansion of the owner of the original hopewell furnace. Whom would help the owners of lukens steel. The hibernia mansion.
The Brooke's had the only people who had their own forests and planned their reforesting to provide wood and charcoal for the furnaces. No other foundry ever did this.
You are adorable. I love your tours and how much you love history and old things of all sorts.
Great place, history and tour. Thank you
Wow Beauty... Love them there chickens🤗🐓🐔🐥🌽
Beautiful chickens. Love your videos.
Thoroughly enjoy these longer videos:).
I LOVE PA and American history!
Such an awesome place! I can so see you there with a fire in the fireplace, a book in your hands, your animals in the pasture...
I love the larder on the left side of the first two worker houses. Awesome place, a whole lot of history. Thanks for the tour and the history lesson.
Our parents used to take us to visit these places when we were growing up. I too admired the simple beauty of plain, useful things. It's probably why I enjoy history so much. 😉 I love that house too. So quiet! Really enjoyed this video....well done!
So beautiful home it's like its saying come and make yourself at home
Love your videos!
WOW WOW WOW mind blowing video 🍄🌷🍒🌷🍄
awesome place
The stone home reminds me of an Irish cottage loved the big fire place, great to see the chickens wonderful adventure thank you
Great video. I visited Hopewell Village as a kid. Crazy to think I can revisit it on youtube thanks to your video.
Was just there yesterday. I grew up on Black Matt Road about 5 miles from there! My friends and I would ride our bikes there and to St Pete's very often as kids. Live in Maryland now but every time I'm up home visiting my mom and sister I check out my old stomping grounds. Certainly miss the area!
BTW, I believe the wooden troughs leading to the water wheel were called raceways. I think there were 2 of them. There were remnants of another on the other side of Route 345 when I was young, back in the 70's. It is quite the sight and sound when they have the water wheel in operation! I have a cannon ball that was made there as well. During the Agnes flood of 1972, the creek that ran through my grandparents' farm was overrun and churned up a lot of debris. June 10, 1972, I was walking along the creek after it had subsided and saw what I thought was a snapping turtle. I grabbed a large stick to try and get it out but realized it wasn't a turtle, but a large iron ball caked in clay and mud. My grandfather helped me clean it off and realized it was a 12lb cannon ball. I remember that dated like yesterday because it was 2 days before my 10th birthday. My mom and I took the ball to Hopewell to see if it was made there. They confirmed it was and immediately asked where it came from. Since it was found on private property we were allowed to keep it. There were still wagon trails throughout the woods behind the farm, and a couple would lead to Hopewell. We surmised it fell of a wagon heading to Valley Forge, as Route 724 is a mile from the farm and it leads into Valley Forge in 22 or so miles. Was it really heading that way? Who knows, but why else would a cannonball be in a farm creek in the middle of nowhere that saw no Revolutionary or Civil War battles!
Nice cottage.
A historic wonderland! 🍄🍄🌷🍒🍒🌷🍄🍄🌷😎
Cool place. Reminds me of our Hancock Shaker Village. I should film that someday.
That archway the tree took over is for firewood. across from the outdoor oven.
Catching up on all of your wonderful videos. You are truly an 'old soul' and make history interesting.
I am related to Isaac Cole, a laborer at the furnace. A portrayal of Isaac is in the visitor center.
Muito bom poder olhar este sitio histórico, Thank you
Your videos are great, but, this one is awesome! For real!
Loved when you were eating the plastic food.. made me chuckle... Video was great.. Thank you.
Beautiful video
What an awesome step in time! Really enjoyed this..thanks Cliff.
Wow - that house is beautiful !!
Amazing waterwheel and those furnaces - this is a place I have to visit ! Thanks for sharing this awesome video- I love anything that deals with historic places and this video is the best 😁👍💕
Awesome video! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for the awesome video.
What a trip down memory lane. I grew up in Berks County.
If you follow the stream that feeds the sluice that feeds the waterwheel up stream it will take you to Hopewell lake. There is a trail, it is a nice walk, about a mile I think if I remember correctly.
You look pretty young..for an old soul,😄 love your videos
thanks
Really Enjoyed the tour if this truly Awesome place Cliff..makes me miss the farm... love seeing the animals too...Thanks so much!!😊👍
So much I like to say about this video, RJ Production showed a video about a mine that was used for pouring medal. He explained by a drawing how the medal got poured from the ground down to the pin rails I think you call it. First time I seen a pin rail before, I worked at a Foundry before back in 1998 to 2001. Now they have big furnaces that's run on electric not coal; I bet the guys worked harder those days then the days like now. Thanks for showing
Super cool site :)
Beautiful..luv the history.... your best vlog yet.. in my opinion....stay safe..!!👍🇬🇧🇺🇸🇨🇦👍!@
Wow I am really loving this place. How awesome! If I ever come up that way I will have to visit. I am a total history buff. I am so amazed how well preserved this place is. I would have to spend an entire day there. Love it.
We are new to your videos but have been binge watching. This is an AMAZING ....to quote you....video. Excellent work Sir
Love the history so interesting.
Catching up on all your videos.
Wow! Love everything you do! So interesting, keep on hiking!
check out the Brooke Cemetery in Limerick. Also, A Brooke started Lakeside Inn l795.
Your right! That place is super cool. Thanks for the video.
You can make butter in a blender.I used to buy whole Milk from a farmer. Great video. A lot of history God's blessing to you..
A beautiful business and farm area! ,I love the history 💙
Awesome does describe that place, and Coffee is great!! Thanks for the trip back time!!
Awesome! I wish the iron furnace down the road from me ( NC) still had all the original structures. The mind can only imagine what time has erased. If only youtube was around in the late 1700's and 1800's.
That was awesome!!! Reminds me of Colonial Williamsburg. I love history!!! I was as excited as you were touring this location. You did a great job making me feel as though I was there with you. I would love to visit there in person. Thanks for sharing!!!
Cool place Cliff, thank you for the share. 🙂👍
Cliff, Great history to share . Couldn't agree more this place is ,awesome,amazing a million times over . Thanks
I’m from Lebanon County I’m looking forward to exploring more of Lebanon Co due to your videos do you live in Lebanon.
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. This village speaks volumes of past history and yet it's not outdated. It's quite modern with every need satisfied. All the desires are met. After the pig iron is melted it's poured into molds from the bottom upside down. The molds are knocked off leaving a line called a gate mark. Very desirable today. Modern cast iron is poured on the side so these lines are ground off smooth. Lodge cast iron is forged in Tennessee today. Keep iron seasoned to avoid rust.
There's also an Iron furnace at whats called Curtin Village at Howard Pa. It's just a bit South West of Bald Eagle State Park.
I am a direct descendent of marcus "mark" bird :) he is my 7th great grandfather and its so cool i got too visit there with my grandma and cousins! she is his 5th great granddaughter, and its weird too think our family (his family) immigrated too the south (the carolinas) and then we eventually came back too pennsylvania!
When I saw you on that porch in a rocking chair I just knew you could live there! lol I could do the same thing. Really cool place.
Love your videos. We live in a nearby village,, a couple miles from Hopewell. Our home was originally built for the book keeper at Hopewell. His "office" would have been in the store.
You are right..this place is Amazing and Awesome!
Thanks Cliff really enjoyed that video. Looks like you had a great time there too. Like you said, tthe animals really add to the authenticity of the place. Looking forward to the next video.
Great video as always! Cool place
Awesome video .
We loved your video! My son has always been interested in just this...the historic way of life. Like you, he would live in the smaller house in a heartbeat! Thank you & your narration is a wealth of information. I am still teachable.
Love your show! No need to apologise for your mentioning of how much you love things periodically.
Thank you 🍻
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I'm impress by the tour and how well preserved the place is, definitively worth to visit one day. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the tour. Very much a part of history, glad it is preserved. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Reminds me a lot like Mt. Vernon.
amazing video thanks for the history lesson
Cliff, what an awesome and cool place! Thank you for taking me along with you! Absolutely beautiful buildings and scenery and horse and sheep! Love history and that's really interesting.
Sheep are cool!
Yeah man,Id have a collection of old miners carbide lamps on my mantle.
Neat place bro!!
They just let you explore the house like that,holy heck hope they have cameras!!!
Love this place too! When I was a kid we would camp at French Creek State Park a couple times a year. Hopewell Village/Furnace was close by.
This place is amazing
At 40:10, it looks like the fruit of a paw-paw tree, which grow well in that area.
🤗 Awesome plays, I move in immediateliy 😍
So interesting! Thank you! 😊
This place is still awesome some 50+ years after I was last there. Same with St. Peter's Village. You ought to be there when the water wheel is running. It's spectacular. Didn't know about the blacksmith shop and workers houses at the time I was there. I was only a kid and had to follow the adults. Oh, and another thing...You have to try their homemade apple butter on their homemade bread from the bake ovens, seen at the beginning of the video.
You crack me up. You started saying you wanted to live in the big house. Then you would settle for the spring house. By the end you were willing to live in that wooden teepee hut! Easy to please! Very informative & entertaining.
Cliff, in my opinion...your best ever explore! You have shown me what I would never find on my own. I never watch an almost hour long video, that should tell you how cool I think what you do is. I am in my 50's and hated history in school, these days I cant get enough of it. Your video was very informative, I just wish you would have paused a little longer on stuff for us to read. The cannon was amazing! Also the charcoal that was produced was likely a possible component of black powder used in the day for guns. There was a Pennsylvania long rifle next to the grandfather clock that was beautiful. On the hand pump for water, we still have them in Illinois. There are many that are abandoned but still work like a charm. I thank you so much for the video!
Thank you for your tour of this beautiful place. I much appreciate your love of history which you show in your videos. They have truly done a wonderful job of restoration, when you realize that after Hopewell shut down in 1883, it was allowed to fall into disrepair. My parents used to bring me to Hopewell ,as a young child in the 1950’s when many of restorations were going on. In 2005, I had the privilege of finding 9 orders for stoves and stove parts addressed to Clement Brooke
Amazing place great to see so much history preserved Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
That horse has an amazing winter coat. I always like how whooly they get that time of year. Makes them look rustic and ancient. Local to me are folks that raise and sell Scottish Highland cows/bulls. They are amazing and ancient to look on too.
I was there in 1976!
Time to come back!
@@janromer6401 Sorry retired, moved out of Taxavania now live in Eastern Tennessee WE ARE PENN STATE !!!!
Was reading that at one time there was a "sheep craze" hundreds of years ago where many farmers started raising sheep for wool. And apparently that's why there are so many abandoned stone walls built in parts of the US. Something to do with stone walls being better for keeping sheep penned
Love them chickens! 😀👍❤
I think it's awesome that places like this survive, it's a good way to educate the younger generations as to what life was like back then. Thank you for showing us around. x
Last week my neighbors, twenty somethings, did not know what a side saddle was, a clothes pin, or a thimble was. Frightening!
@@lynnmaupin-simpson1215 education nowadays just doesn't teach kids anything worth knowing that would help them look after a home 😟 x
Thanks for a great history lesson. I love watching and seeing places like this!
When you where at the outdoor oven, turn around to the house there's a basement door, that's where the kitchen is
This site was Awesome! I Loved the animals!
thank you for taking us to this wonderful place... awesome.. Pennsylvania has so many beautiful landscape and historical places to offer.. great video and educational..keep it coming.. God bless and stay safe.. from your fan in Germany...... peace
Some of the items on the mantle were candle molds.
I go there quite a bit its neat. And its also cool to see the ruins of the ironor mines at saint peters village
In 2005 I had the privilege of finding 9 letters addressed to Clement Brooke of Hopewell Furnace dated between 1822-1836. These letters were orders from customers for stoves and stove parts. It turned out, after I looked into it, that Clement Brooke was Hopewell’s most successful iron master. After he retired in 1848, Hopewell could never again flourish like it had under Clement Brooke’s direction. I showed the letters to Hopewell’s museum curator. She made copies which she said would be on exhibit.
I completely agree with you about living there- that would be a life's dream🤗😤
Jogging cart and black sled.
Beautiful place. A lot like Old Mo. Town in Blue Springs.
Sluice trough.
Don't think they had much time to hang out.
Your potato looked like a pawpaw to me..l
Loved all of it. I miss having the live stock to.untill I remember wading threw snow drifts and chopping holes in the pond ice in winter. Then dont miss them so much.
And the hopewell furnace has workings that extend out towards st Pete's as well. There's and 83 page historical document of the "Kristeen furnace" that was the precursor to Coventry and reading furnace!!!
I wonder if they produced Benjamin Franklin's Franklin stove at that foundry.
I miss home :(
Thanks for all of the videos. :))))
So cool to see all of that amazing history....
If you go to hibernia park outside of coatesville you will find the mansion of the owner of the original hopewell furnace. Whom would help the owners of lukens steel. The hibernia mansion.
I think the small horse cart is called a sulky cart.
The Brooke's had the only people who had their own forests and planned their reforesting to provide wood and charcoal for the furnaces. No other foundry ever did this.