Love the way you use subtitles, instead of jabbering on in the background talking just for the sake of it, your video really conveyed the vastness of time passing us all by, thank you.
@@marylougeorge9890 I wouldn’t say that the stairs were stable and sturdy ( the elements and dampness). However, there are sets of stairs in buildings, like castles, built centuries ago that are very solid. If you enjoyed this, you might really enjoy ‘Kappy ‘s Old house searches, where he searches very old homes all through the States. 🤗
It was once a very nice home but now it has become a very bad health hazard ! if no one wants to be up for thousands upon thousands of $,s and at least a year, year and a half to get it up to code then it is time to bring it down !
I frikken love your vids bro. The silence you keep while others are talking non stop is like fresh air! And the little facts you put on screen whilst others can't even give a definitive answer as to what happened to the former occupiers? Brilliant! Keep doing the great work bro. It's refreshing!
Thanks Darryl. My curiosity needs to be answered and the biggest question in hear “if these walls could talk”, drives me nuts. So i make them talk. Thanks for watching!
@@secondaryhighway I have driven truck for spud harvest for 18 or 19 years now. While working for the first of the 4 farmers I've driven for, there was an old house that I drove by on the way to and from the spud cellar. It was boarded up but I always wished I could go explore it. I also thought "The stories they could tell if those walls could talk." I ended up writing a poem titled "This Old House." Thank you for your videos. I look forward to seeing more of them.
What an absolutely beautiful old house. And so much bigger than I thought. And what a beautiful window up in the attic. That house was very well built. What a shame it could not have been saved.
Thanks for all the time and research. The home is very large and full of history. I like the respect you show by honoring the deceased families in all your videos.
My grandma's house was built in the early 1900s. When my family died, I inherited the house. It needed a lot of work, and I was moving to Texas so I sold it do some people who planned to renovate it. But they lied to me. And they tore it down. They built a new house, but what made me sad, was they built it in a totally different spot. That old house had been there for more than a hundred years. If I'd known they were going to demolish it, i never would have sold it to them. I still go by there once in awhile. Always makes me cry.
@@secondaryhighway this house reminds me of my grandmother's it was a big old Victorian that had been added on to a few different times Probably built around the same time.
They most likely didn’t lie, changed mind instead. Probably after consulting contractors and considering cost and taxes. These large old houses get taxed into abandonment then demolished. The greed of the property tax office…
The problem is Devil runs the world. He is liar and murderer. This is the reason why liars and murderers feel good while righteous persons are persecuted. This is the reason why Hitler got the power, but Christ was executed as "blasphemer" and "rioter" by denunciation of clergy. This is the reason why all people are spoiled and the whole world is Sodom. That's why we've got the Gospel about the God's kingdom. Jehovah would put everything in order. The dead will be resurected and we'll meet our loved ones again! :-)
I LOVE how you add photos, and background information about the family's that lived there. It really brings these old places to life. Your adventures, have a calming effect for me. Well done. 😌
Beautiful video! I live in Alberta, and always admire these structures from a distance, wondering what they look like, feel like from the inside. I wonder about the lives that were lived there, and the happiness and struggles they had. You can still feel the energy of life amongst the ruins. I consider this such a thing of beauty!
I wish I had the time to stop and ask for permission to explore, I am all over Edmonton and areas for work, and I absolutely long to enjoy them before they are gone. Thanks to your videos I can do this through you! I look forward to enjoying the rest of your videos, thank you for them!
The first home my wife and I purchased looked like this home but had a porch across the entire front! It had a a soldered tin roof and gutters built into the roof which drained into an underground cistern in the back! It had the horse hair plaster latch walls and ceilings! Tall double hung windows with glass that had some waves in it! It was built in the 1830’s. I’m always sad to see these beautiful old homes abandoned! I can imagine the laughter of the family’s that lived in them!
**Thank you so much for giving us the backstory about this home and the owners!!! 😊 I GUARANTEE that was SUCH a GORGEOUS home BK in the day!! I bet there were MANY cherished memories made there!!😉
A nice look at an original prairie Homestead - well done. For those interested here is some more on the Foreman family and the Pioneer PO. Enjoy. In 1870 the farm family from Whitstable, Kent came to Ontario's Muskoka District under a commercial agricultural scheme. It was not farmland but George, Emma & family stuck it out. In 1895 their youngest, Ernest (1867-1953) and his wife Mary (1868-1960) secured a quarter-section (NW21/40/16/W4) under the Homestead Act 15 miles ENE of Stettler Alberta. Here he opened the Foreman PO on 1 Sep 1905 (closed 15 Mar 1946). His closest brother Frank (1865-1956), wife 'Annie' (1870-1947) and their 6 children followed in 1902 leaving Port Carling for a Homestead 6 miles due west (17/40/17/W4) of his brother's place. Within 4 years they had 24 head of cattle, 6 milk cows, 4 horses - and a hog! Two miles NW of the farm a small settlement, Red Willow, was established in 1903 (PO opened 15 Aug). Three more children were born at Pioneer farm including George Kennett Foreman in 1904, the baby buried on the property (there is no official record of a second infant). As we have learned, 14 year old eldest child Gordon died in an accident (19 Sep 1906). Apparently this happened on his uncle's farm as the coroner named Foreman as his place of death. Gordon became the first of 13 people buried in the Prairie Grove Cemetery (SE19/40/17/W4) NW of Pioneer farm between 1906-1925. The opening of the N/S branch line of the Cdn Northern Rwy in 1911 changed life dramatically. A stop was est at mile 40, 15 mi N of Stettler (30/40/18/W4) named Coralynn (PO op 1 Ap). Red Willow, 3 mi E, could not compete with the draw of a Rwy village and rapidly withered, the PO closing 30 Sp 1912. It was not forgotten, however, as the residents who migrated to Coralynn had its name changed to Red Willow on 1 Mar 1915 - as it remains today. The Rwy brought new settlers and by the mid-teens 35 farms with 165 people surrounded Frank's place. On 15 Jun 1914 the Pioneer PO opened in their house to serve this population with Frank as postmaster. By the end of the decade the brothers decided once again to pull up stakes. With only two teenaged daughters at home Ernest sold the Foreman farm to Hugh Ford. Frank purchased an orchard in Penticton BC selling the property to the Fromm's and the Pioneer PO closed on 30 Ap 1920. A few months earlier Frank & Annie welcomed an unexpected arrival, baby Bryan, their 10th child. Frank and his son Edwin (1902-72) ran their orchard for 35 years until retiring in 1955. Ernest built houses in Penticton (he was a carpenter by trade before moving west) retiring in 1950 to Salmon Arm. Four of Frank's younger children lived to their 90's and their last connection with the Pioneer Homestead ended with Bryan's death in 2008. Borrowing broadcaster Paul Harvey's signature line...'and that's the rest of the story'.
I love all the research and family members. Much better we know about the house and family that lived there. Thank you for great research you do. Really enjoy these videos.
This home was left to rot and is not dying with any dignity..sad..somehow you are giving it the respect it needs..you have done a wonderful job of telling its story and history of the ones who lived there…
Thanks. This house is dear to the family, but there comes a point when everything thing crosses the path of no return. An effort was made but the cost was too great. There was no need for it to be torn down and it stands as a reminder until someone like me comes a long and asks the questions we all want to know. The family has been amazing! 🤩
With somber feelings I look at these old abandoned homes with thoughts of all the past times this family had, how time has wiped it all out, and how time will inevitably wipe out all the times my own family has had in our home - even the memories eventually disappear. I'm still trapped not really knowing what sense to make of life.
Your presentations are fascinating, it's wonderful how the absence of narration allows the places to speak for themselves. There is a calming effect of hearing your footsteps as you walk through the house, it's great when you show pictures of the history and give us a back story! Well done!!!
Its such an impressive act when a man builds his own home for his family. They likely thought is would be in the family for generations. I really wish cities/towns/districts took pride in their hystory and kept many places up restored and protected. The buriels are truly sad being left like that. You can see the love and pride this family had in their home.
Hi just found you and I actually love how you have very good history in homes and family. I like also you don't chat all over your videos. Great I am enjoying watching them. Joanna United kingdom.
This must have been a lovely place to live, with lots of space around and houses such as this, were meant to last forever.👍👍This house must have been very busy with laughter and also sadness. Such is life.💪💪👍.✝☮
Thank you, thank you, thank you for allowing us to hear the silence of these abandoned places! I get so frustrated when I watch other explorers talk the entire time with unnecessary commentary… ie “look everyone, it’s a sink, how cool” 🤦♀. I really appreciate being able to hear the nature surrounding you, the creaks and cracks of the building you are walking through, even your tap on the iron, etc. perfection! Definitely subscribing!
Thanks! I like to let the places speak for themselves. I too get annoyed by talkers, and not everyone likes certain music. It takes away from the true soul of the house. I appreciate your comment. 😀
So well done, I enjoy it all from the old clothes, washing machines, furniture, especially the woodworking, I come from a Family of Carpenters, my Father was also a Finish Carpenter he did all the Pretty Detail Work and I Love to see that… Thanks 😊
That is a Large House Must have been something back when it was first built, it must have been a hive of industry with 9 Children, Still in fairly Good Condition! Was the Toilet an Outhouse?
Love the attic! That was a awesome room in it's day! Was trying to get a good look at the windows. I lived in a house and the windows had rope around the inside of the frames. That's what was used for raising and lowering the window. Haven't seen to many of them.
I really admire the early settlers, not really knowing what lay ahead of them very brave people. I live in England and find these derelict homes fascinating. So much history, and the babies graves very emotional, just thinking about the loss of 2 young children layed to rest in their garden. 🎉🎉
Weird to see a place we snuck into early on when I was just getting into urbex. Grew up really close to this place. Glad to see the house is still standing.
I really love your videos and the way you explore. Can I make one small suggestion? Could you aim the camera out the window to see The view the woman would be seeing every day? Just as if she was standing there pondering?
What a lovely home. Its amazing how well preserved it still is. Even most of the plastered walls are somewhat intact. Do you think it may be, in part, due to having no running water or sewer? It didnt appear to have a lot of the mold issues often seen. Thanks again for another great story tour!
Great questions. I’m not entirely sure. The roof has a lot of holes which water and snow gets through. The foundation is pretty solid. I’m sure there is a lot of mild but we can’t see it behind the plaster.
@@secondaryhighway ahh yes, true. If there are holes in the roof, there will be mold even if it's not overly obvious. Thanks for the answer. You do great, valuable and enjoyable work. It's appreciated.
In many of these old houses, there's a lighter strip along the top foot or so of the wall. It doesn't look like missing crown molding or wallpaper border; rather that the ceiling paint extended down the top 12" or so of the wall. Does anyone know anything about this? Was this common in early 1900s houses?
Our house has that and there is a wooden strip a few inches down from the ceiling. The strip was used to hang picture wire from so that pictures could be hung without damaging the plaster with nails. I don't know why some places still had that without the actual trim there. Perhaps they couldn't afford the extra trim but painting or papering like that still looked like a house that could?
Fascinating. It's true that many styles come from imitating something else. Wallpaper, for instance, was invented to imitate the silk that rich people hung on their walls. In a few movies/TV set in the early 1900s, I see the ceiling paint go down the wall like this and I love it, but I can find almost nothing written about it. Thanks for this. @tanyaredfield
Really liked the size of the house, and the stairs, upstairs hallway.. my mama use to have a ole wringer type washer.. so nice they used to iron for the gravemarkers instead of stone or wood, it'll last forever not rot..sad story bout the little boy getting shot.. thank u for sharing their story and photos 😊
My grandma used a wringer washer into the 1980s even after they went out and bought her a new washer and dryer, she still used her ringer and hung her stuff on the line LoL
there is so much more to say about this video .i wonder how the haydays would be in this house .when did somebody step on to those stairs where u touched your feet again .walls are whispering the stories of every person who lived in this beautiful house .what was the goal of their residents ,and where they ve been gone , what they ve been thru in their life .how simple life they lived , no internet ,no mobile . God has every persons history but we dont have . we can just imagine it and assume something what our mind portraits 'good or bad . woow . i love to be in the past to see how the life passes their time .🎉
@secondaryhighway u better mention the place as well ,where its located .that makes viewers imagination more vibrant and colorful. and i wish u speak those words which u mentioned in your videos on bottom side .that makes it more interesting .and keep caption ON to let it write everything what u said .
Great videos. I wish there was a channel like yours that is local for me down here in the US, but all of the ones I've found are teenagers who are loud and obnoxious and disturb EVERYTHING.
I’m not entirely sure they knew exactly where they were, but over time the depression occurs where the coffins collapse and that was where they figured them out to be.
The story of their son being shot because his brother tripped happened to me and my friend out hunting,she tripped on high grass and as she was getting up grabbed the rifle by the top of the barrel grass must have pulled the trigger and the bullet went through her finger and hit the tree next to me not 2 inches away from my head…she was fine but police showed up at the hospital and wanted to know what we were doing,because we didn’t have hunting licenses told him we were targeted practicing in the back yard,in a residential neighborhood..lol Of course he didn’t believe but couldn’t do anything about it.. We we’re hunting wild pig in Chalmette La,a few weeks later my friends husband went back and got a huge pig,one time shot a dear with a arrow and got two heads at once,a 12 point and a 10 point had gotten stuck together and one hoofed the others head off after it died..
Wont a same it would have been a great old house in the days mate its wound cost a arm and leg to do up these days mate the old houses are like old cars they got a great look about them mate
A play on words considering the building was the first post office in the area. Loss of memories, people, life and now the slow loss of this building. Post offices typically lose letters. I’m no Shakespeare but I tried. 🤷♂️
My boss, he's a builder, if this house was in Virginia, he'd buy it and renovate it. He did it with a house built in 1923 in a lot worse shape than this..I mean a lot worse .
They did the best they could but the cost to upkeep these old places can be much too costly. The plan was to build a new house on the land but their grandson bought their house in town.
Love the way you use subtitles, instead of jabbering on in the background talking just for the sake of it, your video really conveyed the vastness of time passing us all by, thank you.
Thanks Ramen. I have a bunch more.
Me too
@@secondaryhighway thats some freaky sh*t
You know it's well built when the stairs are still standing after 107 years. Amazing.
Yes still rock solid!
@@Musicismylove888 Not just standing but stable and sturdy.
@@marylougeorge9890 I wouldn’t say that the stairs were stable and sturdy ( the elements and dampness). However, there are sets of stairs in buildings, like castles, built centuries ago that are very solid. If you enjoyed this, you might really enjoy ‘Kappy ‘s Old house searches, where he searches very old homes all through the States. 🤗
It was once a very nice home but now it has become a very bad health hazard ! if no one wants to be up for thousands upon thousands of $,s and at least a year, year and a half to get it up to code then it is time to bring it down !
@@Catherine-i1w Shame on you, this is history of a family and a country. Keep your codes in your city.
I frikken love your vids bro. The silence you keep while others are talking non stop is like fresh air! And the little facts you put on screen whilst others can't even give a definitive answer as to what happened to the former occupiers? Brilliant!
Keep doing the great work bro. It's refreshing!
Thanks Darryl. My curiosity needs to be answered and the biggest question in hear “if these walls could talk”, drives me nuts. So i make them talk. Thanks for watching!
@@secondaryhighway I have driven truck for spud harvest for 18 or 19 years now. While working for the first of the 4 farmers I've driven for, there was an old house that I drove by on the way to and from the spud cellar. It was boarded up but I always wished I could go explore it. I also thought "The stories they could tell if those walls could talk." I ended up writing a poem titled "This Old House."
Thank you for your videos. I look forward to seeing more of them.
@@fox577577 Hey thanks...and I'd love to know if that place is still around!
@secondaryhighway it is still standing. I don't know anything about or who it belongs to.
What an absolutely beautiful old house. And so much bigger than I thought. And what a beautiful window up in the attic. That house was very well built. What a shame it could not have been saved.
It almost was but too expensive. Great memories though.
I like the silence and the pace of your video. Well done thank you.
Thanks took me a while to find the rhythm.
I actually like the wallpaper. Back then, men took pride when building a home 🏡
I agree. Not like the industrial looking places today.
Thanks for all the time and research. The home is very large and full of history. I like the respect you show by honoring the deceased families in all your videos.
Thanks Joey. I’m hitting up a massive one tomorrow!!
@ I can’t wait to enjoy it!!!
My grandma's house was built in the early 1900s.
When my family died, I inherited the house. It needed a lot of work, and I was moving to Texas so I sold it do some people who planned to renovate it.
But they lied to me.
And they tore it down.
They built a new house, but what made me sad, was they built it in a totally different spot.
That old house had been there for more than a hundred years.
If I'd known they were going to demolish it, i never would have sold it to them.
I still go by there once in awhile.
Always makes me cry.
Omg devastating. I wish I had the time to document as many as I can!
@@secondaryhighway this house reminds me of my grandmother's it was a big old Victorian that had been added on to a few different times
Probably built around the same time.
You probably know this but that broken piece of glass you picked up in the attic, came off of an old electric line. The type that looks like a t-post
They most likely didn’t lie, changed mind instead. Probably after consulting contractors and considering cost and taxes.
These large old houses get taxed into abandonment then demolished. The greed of the property tax office…
The problem is Devil runs the world. He is liar and murderer. This is the reason why liars and murderers feel good while righteous persons are persecuted. This is the reason why Hitler got the power, but Christ was executed as "blasphemer" and "rioter" by denunciation of clergy.
This is the reason why all people are spoiled and the whole world is Sodom.
That's why we've got the Gospel about the God's kingdom. Jehovah would put everything in order. The dead will be resurected and we'll meet our loved ones again! :-)
I LOVE how you add photos, and background information about the family's that lived there. It really brings these old places to life. Your adventures, have a calming effect for me. Well done. 😌
Thanks Elly, I have a lot more on the way!
Aww someone should take that beautiful wallpaper and flooring and put it in a frame for the family!! I love the wallpaper! ❤❤❤
Great idea.
Perfect exploration video. Showing everything without talking. And including some history.
Thanks Sue. The music and voice overs have never been appealing to me.
Beautiful video! I live in Alberta, and always admire these structures from a distance, wondering what they look like, feel like from the inside. I wonder about the lives that were lived there, and the happiness and struggles they had.
You can still feel the energy of life amongst the ruins. I consider this such a thing of beauty!
I agree. Somethings were left as if they step out momentarily.
I wish I had the time to stop and ask for permission to explore, I am all over Edmonton and areas for work, and I absolutely long to enjoy them before they are gone. Thanks to your videos I can do this through you!
I look forward to enjoying the rest of your videos, thank you for them!
The first home my wife and I purchased looked like this home but had a porch across the entire front! It had a a soldered tin roof and gutters built into the roof which drained into an underground cistern in the back! It had the horse hair plaster latch walls and ceilings! Tall double hung windows with glass that had some waves in it! It was built in the 1830’s. I’m always sad to see these beautiful old homes abandoned! I can imagine the laughter of the family’s that lived in them!
Thanks for the comment 😀
**Thank you so much for giving us the backstory about this home and the owners!!! 😊
I GUARANTEE that was SUCH a GORGEOUS home BK in the day!! I bet there were MANY cherished memories made there!!😉
Thanks for watching, Helena! 😀
A nice look at an original prairie Homestead - well done. For those interested here is some more on the Foreman family and the Pioneer PO. Enjoy.
In 1870 the farm family from Whitstable, Kent came to Ontario's Muskoka District under a commercial agricultural scheme. It was not farmland but George, Emma & family stuck it out. In 1895 their youngest, Ernest (1867-1953) and his wife Mary (1868-1960) secured a quarter-section (NW21/40/16/W4) under the Homestead Act 15 miles ENE of Stettler Alberta. Here he opened the Foreman PO on 1 Sep 1905 (closed 15 Mar 1946). His closest brother Frank (1865-1956), wife 'Annie' (1870-1947) and their 6 children followed in 1902 leaving Port Carling for a Homestead 6 miles due west (17/40/17/W4) of his brother's place. Within 4 years they had 24 head of cattle, 6 milk cows, 4 horses - and a hog! Two miles NW of the farm a small settlement, Red Willow, was established in 1903 (PO opened 15 Aug). Three more children were born at Pioneer farm including George Kennett Foreman in 1904, the baby buried on the property (there is no official record of a second infant).
As we have learned, 14 year old eldest child Gordon died in an accident (19 Sep 1906). Apparently this happened on his uncle's farm as the coroner named Foreman as his place of death. Gordon became the first of 13 people buried in the Prairie Grove Cemetery (SE19/40/17/W4) NW of Pioneer farm between 1906-1925.
The opening of the N/S branch line of the Cdn Northern Rwy in 1911 changed life dramatically. A stop was est at mile 40, 15 mi N of Stettler (30/40/18/W4) named Coralynn (PO op 1 Ap). Red Willow, 3 mi E, could not compete with the draw of a Rwy village and rapidly withered, the PO closing 30 Sp 1912. It was not forgotten, however, as the residents who migrated to Coralynn had its name changed to Red Willow on 1 Mar 1915 - as it remains today. The Rwy brought new settlers and by the mid-teens 35 farms with 165 people surrounded Frank's place. On 15 Jun 1914 the Pioneer PO opened in their house to serve this population with Frank as postmaster.
By the end of the decade the brothers decided once again to pull up stakes. With only two teenaged daughters at home Ernest sold the Foreman farm to Hugh Ford. Frank purchased an orchard in Penticton BC selling the property to the Fromm's and the Pioneer PO closed on 30 Ap 1920. A few months earlier Frank & Annie welcomed an unexpected arrival, baby Bryan, their 10th child.
Frank and his son Edwin (1902-72) ran their orchard for 35 years until retiring in 1955. Ernest built houses in Penticton (he was a carpenter by trade before moving west) retiring in 1950 to Salmon Arm. Four of Frank's younger children lived to their 90's and their last connection with the Pioneer Homestead ended with Bryan's death in 2008.
Borrowing broadcaster Paul Harvey's signature line...'and that's the rest of the story'.
Sound like the same article I received my info from 😀
Thank you for "the rest of the story."
(And I loved Paul Harvey)
What a lovely home this must have been. That arched window on the third floor...sigh. The light is beautiful. Thank you.
Thanks for watching Carol! 😀
I love all the research and family members. Much better we know about the house and family that lived there. Thank you for great research you do. Really enjoy these videos.
Thanks for watching Ellen. I’ll keep them coming!
So sad to see these homes abandoned after once being lived in and loved by families.
Seems to be the cycle.
What a beautiful homestead,,just wonderful. Thanks for sharing ❤
Hey big thanks 🙏
Love the calming silence and self-reflection.
Thanks Alan. Better than hearing my annoying voice lol.
I like the door knobs.❤
I wish I had them to restore.
That old wringer washing machine needs restoring, too.
They're beautiful, and yes, I did think about saving the wringer!
This home was left to rot and is not dying with any dignity..sad..somehow you are giving it the respect it needs..you have done a wonderful job of telling its story and history of the ones who lived there…
Thanks. This house is dear to the family, but there comes a point when everything thing crosses the path of no return. An effort was made but the cost was too great. There was no need for it to be torn down and it stands as a reminder until someone like me comes a long and asks the questions we all want to know. The family has been amazing! 🤩
Those metal markers are absolutely amazingly gorgeous!!! For some reason they struck me so much stronger than marble/concrete ones 🤷♀️
🙏❤️🩹🙏
Great welder who ever it was.
Wonder why caption said it's believed that the grave markers are not right at the head of buried body?
With somber feelings I look at these old abandoned homes with thoughts of all the past times this family had, how time has wiped it all out, and how time will inevitably wipe out all the times my own family has had in our home - even the memories eventually disappear. I'm still trapped not really knowing what sense to make of life.
I am SO with you on that!
You’re not alone!
Your presentations are fascinating, it's wonderful how the absence of narration allows the places to speak for themselves. There is a calming effect of hearing your footsteps as you walk through the house, it's great when you show pictures of the history and give us a back story! Well done!!!
I appreciate the comment. I’ve always been curious about the background. Makes the walk throughs more enjoyable.
Its such an impressive act when a man builds his own home for his family. They likely thought is would be in the family for generations. I really wish cities/towns/districts took pride in their hystory and kept many places up restored and protected. The buriels are truly sad being left like that.
You can see the love and pride this family had in their home.
My thoughts exactly! 👍
I love these grand old home’s! Another awesome video bro, thank you! 👍👍🤘❤️❤️
Thanks Carla! 😀
Great video, Thank You. Just sad to see house gone down hill so much. Yes, will cost to renovate, yet could do like me, a little at a time..
Hey thanks. I
What a beautiful and roomy house this was. ❤
Tall ceilings!
Love this channel. This was amazing to watch and read about these people and this home from long ago.✨✨
Awesome glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent video! Love history. Thanks for taking us along. ❤
Thanks for coming along.
@secondaryhighway Watching from my 1885 farmhouse near Savannah GA ❣️
I loved this story .thank you so much ❤
Thanks for watching! 😀
Absolutely love your videos. The house in awesome.
Thanks Wayne!
Hi just found you and I actually love how you have very good history in homes and family. I like also you don't chat all over your videos. Great I am enjoying watching them. Joanna United kingdom.
Thanks Joanna. I agree. My voice and taste in music would be annoying. It takes away the respect of the home. Thanks for watching.
To some that house was empty and quiet, you gave it it a face and sound.
Thanks. 🙏
Great comment-so true indeed.
This must have been a lovely place to live, with lots of space around and houses such as this, were meant to last forever.👍👍This house must have been very busy with laughter and also sadness. Such is life.💪💪👍.✝☮
I’m still in contact with the descendants. Many happy times here.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for allowing us to hear the silence of these abandoned places! I get so frustrated when I watch other explorers talk the entire time with unnecessary commentary… ie “look everyone, it’s a sink, how cool” 🤦♀. I really appreciate being able to hear the nature surrounding you, the creaks and cracks of the building you are walking through, even your tap on the iron, etc. perfection! Definitely subscribing!
Thanks! I like to let the places speak for themselves. I too get annoyed by talkers, and not everyone likes certain music. It takes away from the true soul of the house. I appreciate your comment. 😀
@@secondaryhighway “the true soul of the house” EXACTLY! You are an explorer who really gets it. Keep doing what you’re doing and keep safe
So well done, I enjoy it all from the old clothes, washing machines, furniture, especially the woodworking, I come from a Family of Carpenters, my Father was also a Finish Carpenter he did all the Pretty Detail Work and I Love to see that…
Thanks 😊
They don’t make them like this anymore. I like the same things!
I like the history of the houses.
Excellent video 👍
Thanks Gary.
Thank you for sharing this!
No problem Tara! 😀
Beautiful!! Thank you for showing this! Houses in are not built like this anymore!
They sure don’t! 💯
This is fascinating! Thank you for all the effort you put into this
Thanks for watching!
So very sad that no one wanted to keep and love this home.
They did try but it was too time consuming and expensive.
Hurts my feelings! They all gone! Empty home!
The family still visits frequently.
That is a Large House Must have been something back when it was first built, it must have been a hive of industry with 9 Children, Still in fairly Good Condition! Was the Toilet an Outhouse?
Yes there was no bathroom ever in this house. Crazy to think.
@@secondaryhighwayWOW
I still remember some outhouses in Virginia in the country in the 1970s.
That Irving Posluns vintage jacket is $$$$
Which one is that. On the hanger?
Sooooooo Amazing!❤
The only thing I thought strange, they put the washer machine up stairs?
Seem like that would be on first floor.
It may have been moved up there. Nowadays in the newer homes, there’s a room on the upper floor off the bedroom.
I was totally immersed , thank you
Thanks for watching! 😀
Another good one. Thank you so much.
I’ll keep them coming!
I hope so!
Yesterday I was admiring a big old wooden house in North Western Alberta and was wondering who built it and who lived in it and this channel pops up🤔
Well send me the gps and I’ll figure it out 😀💪
@@secondaryhighway maps.app.goo.gl/PtpfEmUf8h4bP5uh7?g_st=ac
Seeing the old washing machine In pretty good shape was interesting.
Probably still works.
Love the attic! That was a awesome room in it's day!
Was trying to get a good look at the windows.
I lived in a house and the windows had rope around the inside of the frames. That's what was used for raising and lowering the window. Haven't seen to many of them.
I have a couple of those in videos. The empty heart empty house video
Great video ❤ thanks
No problem 😌
I really admire the early settlers, not really knowing what lay ahead of them very brave people. I live in England and find these derelict homes fascinating. So much history, and the babies graves very emotional, just thinking about the loss of 2 young children layed to rest in their garden. 🎉🎉
I agree and thanks for watching. More to come!
The wall paper was really pretty.
I agree
So sad that the house has been let to decay like that! Are there any members of the Kromm family left? Sad!
~Janet in Canada
Yes. It’s still owned by the family.
It looks like a really good place to go metal detecting for old coins😊
I’ve always thought about doing that.
Interesting video love history.
Thanks for watching
Enjoyed it🎉🎉🎉
Thanks Dave!! 😀
What a large home … how many rooms were there? It must have been homey and comfortable during all the families lives. Lots of happy memories!
Lost count. But it certainly was a mansion.
They had nine children, that space was needed 😅
Weird to see a place we snuck into early on when I was just getting into urbex. Grew up really close to this place. Glad to see the house is still standing.
A lot of great family memories here.
@@secondaryhighway Going to be honest. I only made it halfway down those cellar stairs when I went. Big horror movie vibes, lol.
I really love your videos and the way you explore. Can I make one small suggestion? Could you aim the camera out the window to see The view the woman would be seeing every day? Just as if she was standing there pondering?
💯. I’ll keep that in mind for the next shoots!!! 🙏😀
What a lovely home. Its amazing how well preserved it still is. Even most of the plastered walls are somewhat intact. Do you think it may be, in part, due to having no running water or sewer? It didnt appear to have a lot of the mold issues often seen.
Thanks again for another great story tour!
Great questions. I’m not entirely sure. The roof has a lot of holes which water and snow gets through. The foundation is pretty solid. I’m sure there is a lot of mild but we can’t see it behind the plaster.
@@secondaryhighway ahh yes, true. If there are holes in the roof, there will be mold even if it's not overly obvious. Thanks for the answer.
You do great, valuable and enjoyable work. It's appreciated.
Very nice
Big thanks for watching!
In many of these old houses, there's a lighter strip along the top foot or so of the wall. It doesn't look like missing crown molding or wallpaper border; rather that the ceiling paint extended down the top 12" or so of the wall.
Does anyone know anything about this? Was this common in early 1900s houses?
Style perhaps?
Our house has that and there is a wooden strip a few inches down from the ceiling. The strip was used to hang picture wire from so that pictures could be hung without damaging the plaster with nails. I don't know why some places still had that without the actual trim there. Perhaps they couldn't afford the extra trim but painting or papering like that still looked like a house that could?
Fascinating. It's true that many styles come from imitating something else. Wallpaper, for instance, was invented to imitate the silk that rich people hung on their walls.
In a few movies/TV set in the early 1900s, I see the ceiling paint go down the wall like this and I love it, but I can find almost nothing written about it. Thanks for this.
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Unique wayof presentation with out horrible music or extra description 🎊 🎉. Sad to see the loss and abandonment, but changes are the rule of nature
Thanks. Keep it raw and stick to the facts.
Hi I am first time your video my favorite history so happy thank you ❤ tamilnadu
Thanks for joining! 😀
Really liked the size of the house, and the stairs, upstairs hallway.. my mama use to have a ole wringer type washer.. so nice they used to iron for the gravemarkers instead of stone or wood, it'll last forever not rot..sad story bout the little boy getting shot.. thank u for sharing their story and photos 😊
My grandma used a wringer washer into the 1980s even after they went out and bought her a new washer and dryer, she still used her ringer and hung her stuff on the line LoL
Thanks for watching Lisa! 😀
there is so much more to say about this video .i wonder how the haydays would be in this house .when did somebody step on to those stairs where u touched your feet again .walls are whispering the stories of every person who lived in this beautiful house .what was the goal of their residents ,and where they ve been gone , what they ve been thru in their life .how simple life they lived , no internet ,no mobile .
God has every persons history but we dont have . we can just imagine it and assume something what our mind portraits 'good or bad .
woow . i love to be in the past to see how the life passes their time .🎉
I agree with everything that you said!
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u better mention the place as well ,where its located .that makes viewers imagination more vibrant and colorful.
and i wish u speak those words which u mentioned in your videos on bottom side .that makes it more interesting .and keep caption ON to let it write everything what u said .
makes me want to get the snow shovel and scoop it up and put it out side. How close is the nearest neighbor's house?
Back then not sure, but now only a couple miles.
Wonder why so much dirt in the floors? Used to store something in the end?
The cows got in last year. That’s cow poo.
Compared with time, each of us is too small.
Everything you have worked hard and carefully built will disappear with you, and eventually disappear.
They’re long gone. The house is still there…for now.
Orion was the first ghost town I have seen . Wonder if anything is still standing?
Yes it’s still there. I should do a video on it. 😀
@@secondaryhighway awesome! I can't wait :)
I wished you had a flashlight to shine around the basement.
Ug I know. I forgot to bring it from my jeep!!
Great videos. I wish there was a channel like yours that is local for me down here in the US, but all of the ones I've found are teenagers who are loud and obnoxious and disturb EVERYTHING.
Well I have a solution. If you can provide me with some locations and permissions I’ll head down! That’s promise! 😀💪
I love watching these videos, much love from ohio. And i probably definitely would of saved the wringer washer. Haha
Hi from Calgary! 😀
@secondaryhighway hello!! I'm not sure where that is lol
@secondaryhighway I subscribed because you're videos are awesome!!!
Interesting that the grave markers aren’t where the bodies are actually buried.
I’m not entirely sure they knew exactly where they were, but over time the depression occurs where the coffins collapse and that was where they figured them out to be.
How do people leave clothes when leaving?
Good question.
That old washing machine probably still works lol.
lol I bet it does!
The Washing Machine is from no later than early 1950's. . That was one large house.
Massive!
silence is golden
True. Nobody needs to hear me lol. 😆
The story of their son being shot because his brother tripped happened to me and my friend out hunting,she tripped on high grass and as she was getting up grabbed the rifle by the top of the barrel grass must have pulled the trigger and the bullet went through her finger and hit the tree next to me not 2 inches away from my head…she was fine but police showed up at the hospital and wanted to know what we were doing,because we didn’t have hunting licenses told him we were targeted practicing in the back yard,in a residential neighborhood..lol
Of course he didn’t believe but couldn’t do anything about it..
We we’re hunting wild pig in Chalmette La,a few weeks later my friends husband went back and got a huge pig,one time shot a dear with a arrow and got two heads at once,a 12 point and a 10 point had gotten stuck together and one hoofed the others head off after it died..
Omg. A lot of kids were killed by guns and surprisingly lightning. ⚡️
Wont a same it would have been a great old house in the days mate its wound cost a arm and leg to do up these days mate the old houses are like old cars they got a great look about them mate
Grand home. Lots of history. I’m happy it has been documented! 😀
In 1907 the average carpenter made $200 to $400 dollars per year in America ! People don't realize how good we have it now days ! 🤔
Wow I didn’t know that!
$200 back then is equivalent to about $6,700 today. Not a lot.
Olá! Eu gosto dos seus vídeos, pq vc não fala nada e as legendas nos contam a história do lugar! Denise, Brazil
Hello Brazil!
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That was very cool
Hey thanks! 🙏
You almost hear the sound of children olaying
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Everything has sad end
Everything gets old, and everyone.
So where are the lost letters?
A play on words considering the building was the first post office in the area. Loss of memories, people, life and now the slow loss of this building. Post offices typically lose letters. I’m no Shakespeare but I tried. 🤷♂️
@@secondaryhighway Oh, OK. Sounds good and yes, it's a good play on words. BTW, I love your channel.
14:05 No wire hangers!
Not sure what you mean. 😆
Removing a marker of an actual grave?
They didn’t know exactly where they were buried until years after the markets were placed.
why do you feel a need to touch everything?
Why do you feel a need to comment on it?
I can’t help it lol.
My boss, he's a builder, if this house was in Virginia, he'd buy it and renovate it. He did it with a house built in 1923 in a lot worse shape than this..I mean a lot worse .
That’s talent and dedication!!
Sad they didn't take care of it
They did the best they could but the cost to upkeep these old places can be much too costly. The plan was to build a new house on the land but their grandson bought their house in town.
Amazing how people just build a house out in the middle of nowhere ? 🤔
Yes. They had to be close to their settled farm land.
@secondaryhighway In those days , towns were built around people. Not the opposite way like today.
Do you wear a mask when in this amazing old homes to protect yourself from the bat guano?
No but I should. I keep meaning to.
I woulda went through those pockets. Ijs
When I was there with Alan, he did.
No talkie?????
Nah. Nobody needs to here me babble lol