This forgotten town in Southern Illinois is a hidden gem
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- This forgotten town in Southern Illinois is a hidden gem - Full of fascinating historic sites and cool places to stay, this small town in Southern Illinois near the Ohio River is unlike any of the other surrounding towns in this part of Illinois and should be on everyone's list to visit!
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Daddy bought his cars from Mr. Anderson. My Mother worked at Watson's for a while & then the Dairy Bar. and that is where my parents met. The "castle" use to have these big numbers that they put out for guides of some sort for the river boats. A friends Father, Mr. Ron, worked there & my friend & I played there. LOVED this video111
Enjoyed that one! (I'm from Mississippi, and we usually think of Illinois as being "up north", but in the Ohio River towns of Illinois I always feel like I'm still down south.)
Southern Illinois should be called Northern Kentucky, it's very Southern and not always in good ways. Lots of poverty.
Cairo (Kay ro)was on my list since "The adventures of Huck Finn" the Movie. The bridge over the Mississippi from Missouri ends at a stop sign by a park at the south end of town, a right turn puts you on another bridge to Kentucky over the Ohio River. Cairo has Magnolia trees and levees with massive flood gates on the highway to keep floods out. The "City of New Orleans" still passes through Cairo ,a town with history...
When was a boy 65 years ago Cairo was still an active town as it was a river and rail hub. I was lasr through there 20 years ago and it was sad to see how much of Cairo is gone to ruins. It shouldn't have happened to such a historic place. Now it is lost to changing timrd.
I grew up in southern Illinois. When I hear of rents in California, Florida and Oregon being outrageously high, I think of these quiet midwest towns with nobody on the streets and wonder what a two bedroom home would rent for? These towns are perfect for retirees. I now live in Virginia and we have the same quiet little villages. So enjoyable with homes going back to the 1700's.
Shhhh, we like it quiet & off the trodden path here in the Shawnee honey.
I live in Central Illinois about equal distance between Springfield and St. Louis and for me this is the best place to be the way times are. House prices are high but other costs are not bad and Illinois does not tax retirement nor Social Security so it is ideal for my wife and . My wife and I have lived average cities (Decatur IL ) , large cities (St. Louis Mo.-San Antonio TX ) and small towns (Gillespie and Lebanon IL ) and there were good and bad things about each. But here in Gillespie where I was raised, we are living the small town life but are only 50 minutes from either St. Louis on Springfield IlL.) We can enjoy a relatively safe area to live with access to hospitals, restaurants, and city amenities like the Sr. Louis Zoo and At Museum, Cardinal Baseball, Blues Hockey, and the Lincoln Home, Law Office, and Presidential Library. There is also the Mississippi and Missouri River nearby and the historic cities of Alton, Belleville, Lebanon, and Cahokia within an hours drive.
@@billgrandone3552 You have gifts that money can't buy and that's appreciation for what you have and where you live !!!
@@bentnickel7487 Yeah. I would agree. We don't have a lot of things in a small town but at 75 the issue is not what I need , but how get rid of the stuff i've accumulated and inherited over the years.
Grocery shopping becomes simplified. Between the foods that i have outgrown, and the stuff the doctors won't let me eat, shopping is simple, cheap, and i recognize most of the songs.LOL
Southern Illinois is horribly hot and humid nine months of the year. The other three are mud season. Hubby is from a town a little farther up the Ohio river. He hates Wisconsin winters, however he doesn't miss the other nine months. Wow, a court house without a security guard and metal detection system!
So right a c is on from may til Oct high humidity and tornadoes
These are so interesting and somehow at some time in the future I would not be surprised that small towns like this get discovered by digital nomads like they are being done in certain places in Europe.
Glad to see you guys back in the saddle again!! Yay!❤ Your faces let me know you are in your happy zone. 😄 What a wonderful historical dive into a very neat town! Thank you.👍
Yes we are! Thank you!
Good job on the video. We loved Marty's insight about heating the building and the construction of buildings. Very interesting to us. Well, we loved the entire tour actually.
And Pam noticed that you were able to climb the stairs and that makes us happy.
Thanks,
Doug and Pam
Thanks Doug and Pam, glad you enjoyed the vid! As much as I dislike wearing them the compression stockings have made a world of difference in my day to day life.
Thank you for featuring our home town. Great getting to talk with you two. Lovely video!
Thank you, it was our pleasure! We enjoyed our visit to your town. Getting to see the historical museum was great and so was our company at lunch.
I wish I would’ve known you were back in Southern Illinois. I would’ve tried to meet you. I love your videos.
I love Golconda !!!
Interesting town..............thanks, Sally and Marty! Love those old mansions........
Never heard of this town, and am from IL. Thanks!!
So nice to see you two on the road again. Love to see the small towns and the cool old buildings. Thanks for taking us along. Best to you both, Lynn & Steve😎
Our pleasure! We’re so happy to be back out and about again!!!
I always save you videos for Sunday morning with a coffee. That Marty cracks me up with all his talking in stuff. my guess you can't get a moment of silence around him.. lol..
A small group of us rode our motorcycles through Golconda on our way to Cape Girardeau from OH two summers ago.
I'm enjoying your Southern Illinois travels. Having passed through frequently a half a dozen years ago I have a fondness for the area and small towns in general. Good job as usual for you guys.
I must say that was a dam interesting tour. I also loved the opening music you chose!
I live in Golconda Illinois. Thank you for doing a video here. Lil Hank (Mason Ramsey) is from here and still lives here. His grandpa comes to the bar where I do DJ/KJ but the grandpa doesn't have a voice like Mason 😂
Nice sunny town
Awesome! ❤❤
Would love to go there!!!
Best view by dam site!
It was a very good video, I enjoyed it very much.
I live in Most Southern Illinois, in a mature home that has seen its share of family rearing, coming and goings. . Our largest winter bill is around 300- for our 5 bed-3 bath home. We do have a supplemental fireplace too. Yes, our winters are Very much milder than Wisconsin.
Informative video again as always Sally! I like it when Marty is with you and of course your adorable pups! I always enjoy your videos so much!❤
This was very interesting. I love the history of places like this. Thanks for posting.
As she went into the " Castle" I spied the creed of the Engineers how cool.
Interesting,I’ve lived in Evansville all my life,even worked with a descendant of the Mesker family and never heard of the building materials. All the time I knew of the company,they dealt in steel,coil and such
Yo Marty! I collect all kinds of spuds Mackenzie memorabilia!!! Love the reference!
I read a "Trail of Tears"history book many years ago that said someone felt pity for how hungry the Cherokee's were and gave them pumpkins to eat. However, this gave them diarrhea which made things worse for them. Also, they were given spoiled & rotten food many times on their journey east to west. This book commented that vultures would travel along and at night roost in nearby trees. Sitting around camp at night they could hear the droppings knowing full well that that was their relatives and members of the tribe. An estimated 6,000 died on the 1,200 mile trip. Did they not bury the dead? Not hard to believe they didn't. Hard to hear at times that America is a Christian nation.
New subscriber here, thanks for the travels. i enjoy your videos.
Really enjoyed your video on Galconda. I made several observations and comments. Unfortunately they got lost before I could post them. It was an enjoyable video.
No worries, August. Just letting me know you enjoyed it works too. 😉
I really enjoy your videos! Especially when I can’t get out if my back or sciatica flares up. You go to such a variety of places and the history is really interesting! Thank you!!
I enjoy your videos, especially of Southern Illinois. I live in nearby Makanda, a small but interesting town adjacent to Giant City State Forest. Makanda is basically an artist community and is close to the town of Cobden and Alto Pass. This area has a rich history and I think you should also check it out.
Agreed‼️
I enjoy this…❤
I enjoy watching you visit the forgotten areas of Southern Illinois. My grandmother is from the Hurst/ Carbondale area so I really enjoy small towns. I haven’t heard of that little place but enjoyed seeing you explore.
I appreciate that you know how to use the word 'gnarly', and its forms:)
Most excellent tour!! Nice work you two👍 😀
Thanks so much! It felt great to be back in the groove again.
@@SightseeingSally I could tell. You both were obviously pleased to be back at it! Even your dogs looked happy in the scenes where Marty was walking them. 😄 I’m looking forward to your next video!👍❤️
Hi, Sally. Thank you for your video. I hope you to travel good places. Have a good week.🎉.❤.
I love this video! A friend of mine years ago retired to Golconda for a few years. Then, she moved back to Northern Illinois. This is the first I heard of this town. This is a neat little town!😊❤
most enjoyable, nice work!
Nice town ! Sally ! Glad you both doing OK !
Thanks Glenn, appreciate it very much!
Great show🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thanks!
You’re very welcome 😉 thank you!
Very cool and a job well done.
Thank you! Cheers!
Your videos are always great. I live in wausaukee and enjoyed your video of my town
Thank you 😊 Wausaukee is such a neat little town. I love the ice cream stand there!
Watchin from north port fl , love you sally and marty
Nice tour of Golconda you two!
I got to see a rare sight, two damn buzzards sightseeing two sightseers.
Cool! 👍😉
I can't believe I thought those buzzards were fake lol 😂
Suggest that you check out an interesting and historic Illinoiis town which my wife and I had the pleasure to live in for several years before i entered the Air Force. , Take a trip to Lebanon Illinois and step back in time on their main street and the Mermaid Inn . Charles Dickens stayed there on his travels in the United States. Take in a stage play at the Looking Glass Theater, established in 1973 and still going strong 51 years later. My wife was the first secretary on the board and I came in two years later. Well worth the trip. especially at Christmas when the downtown looks like something from a Currier and Ives drawing.
Great 👍 video 👍....SALLY and Marty
Thanks! 😃 Glad you enjoyed it.
9:59 - Looking nice without glasses!
Part of me was hoping you'd show the public school, as my cousin spent his educational career as a teacher and administrator in the Pope County schools in Golconda.
I'm glad to see you back in my neck of the woods.
The cannon in front of the court house looks cool........ wonder it's history.
Same here. I never thought to ask when we were at the Historical Museum.
Ride, Sally, ride!
I really dig the story about the guy who supposedly helped feed some Indigenous folks who were suffering on the Trail of Tears. didnt find a ton of that kind of compassion in those days.
love the vid, guys 🤙
Thank you!
It gave them diarrhea which made things worse for them.
Golconda - you know you wanna - go and see it.
Grrreat!!!!
Thank you 😁
Hello from Longview Texas
Hey, from Northern IL! I lived in the DFW area during the 70's and 80's, and was out around Longview now and then. Nice part of TX. Now I travel up near Sally and Marty's neck of the woods. Nice part of the country!
I worked in the DFW area in 1986 installing phone booths. Long time ago.
@@kennykittrell2549 What's a phone booth, Grand Pa? Just kidding. 😀😁😉 I'm 74 y/o, I remember when a local call was a nickel.
i hope you and marty are doing well with your health, take care!
Thank you Michael.
The castle that looks like a lighthouse
I believe it was part of the dam that used to be there.
@@SightseeingSally Yeah Thanx baby, in all your trips never such a construction!
Interesting. New heard of it. Is it near Cairo?
Always informative about hidden treasures.
Love this video! You are so pretty!
A dam good video 😂
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Woohoo! Thanks John 😉😁
The doctor told me I've got aortic aneurysm. I had heart attack 7 years ago. Thin ice skating is fun!
What happened to the ending of this video? Seems like its missing
A mammoth sized exploration. Thank You kids for bringing us along .
Does Marty’s let’s go mean extract the digit??…..lol
Oh Marty 😂
southern Illinois was a coal producing region. I imagine it was cheap to heat that building with coal.
he needs that cannon
lol don't give him any ideas
Watson Hardware’s phone # was “29” ?
Cool Video, except it ended right after you pointed at the Stires grave. No typical Sightseeing Sally ending. Was that on purpose, or did TH-cam do a number on you?
Question for you: when you got to that point, was it a surprise when the video ended?
Yes! I just thought it was a commercial interruption, but it was the end.@@SightseeingSally
Historic District but a dead town...Went out of my way to see this, I was the only one there. No one was there..
They should be embarrassed at the condition of their cemetery.
Why did they change the name to an ancient city in India ?
FIBS
What year did you graduate Sally???
1990
I graduated in 1979 but I enjoy your open video because I didn't know how to do that kind of thing. Have a good One
Do you know what the current town population is
6-700? Here in southern il a ton of coal delivered by Mike the methhead will last all winter and set you back $200
Thank you 😊 Wausaukee is such a great little town. I love the ice cream stand there!
700 a month to heat that home would be about right
McCoy of Delta Force?
McCoy of the Hatfields and McCoys feud
@@SightseeingSally I meant Chuck Norris movie! Seen it Sally?
@@SightseeingSally Oh girl I haven't seen it! Is it a program?
@@SightseeingSally Thanx Darling for tellin! Just saying!
@@SightseeingSally Love you Sally, you're so pretty!
I was born and raised in Illinois. There is no freaking way I would live in Illinois.
The Mason’s and Freemason’s….😐
A nice improvement would be : if you would look at "us" - (into the camera), when you are talking to "us". Thank you.