My son is five and has been absolutely inspired by your channel. He has spent hours and hours in the sandbox, slowly excavating hot wheels cars and cups with a paintbrush, making notes in chalk, taking 'pictures', and doing 'computer scans' with a telescope before describing what the items in his ancient civilization might have been used for. He's even trying to learn to read faster so he can read archeology books. He wants to volunteer at a dig site, even if that means he has to just haul dirt! Thank you for the time and effort you put into every video. I assure you- it has made a large and impactful influence on a young one. I have been told you're cooler than The Flash. You're his new superhero.
I am sure that you don't need to be told, but you son is *very special*. Please keep encouraging him. The world needs more people like him, they are our future. Give him a hug.
If he has a passion that early then its ur responsibility to help him get there ***imo*** i finally found my passion in cars and mechanics a few years ago and ik if i had it that early i would be waaaaaaaaaaay further into it, remember experience is invaluable
I'm a land surveyor and amateur archaeological surveyor. I got my start in much the same way. I was inspired by the show Time Team and worked my first archaeological dig as a volunteer. Feed that boy's passion. Seems he's a natural.
You've got that Mrs Frizzle energy where you're enthusiastically dragging us into amazing worlds we'd never ordinarily see. Thanks for the amazing work sir. Hope to see more of you in the field.
I’m currently going to school in the middle of Appalachian Ohio. There are a lot of really tragic stories like this one out there. I have a lot of appreciation for the history in the Appalachian region that I didn’t know existed a year ago
Same man, I’m going to college in a railroad town in central Pennsylvania, and there’s a ton of history in the area. There are even some ghost legends surrounding the area. There’s a lot of history in the Appalachian Mountains.
@@Knightshospitaller More history than many people realize. I just recently learned that the Appalachians are part of the same mountain range that makes up the Scottish Highlands and the Atlas Mountains of North Africa. They were pushed up when the Pangean Supercontinent came together.
Not sure which I enjoyed more; the crisp and pristine Vermont wilderness, or Milo's effortless and beflanneled confidence as he lights his pipe for the second time because the first match went out. This was a real treat!💙
@@sourgreendolly7685 thanks, but i can't take credit for "beflanneled": Milo says it himself in the video! It is a pretty cool word that i didn't know the English language needed but now it sure does.
Living in Vermont I often find remains of buildings and walls while exploring in the woods, but I rarely know the stories behind them. It's so interesting to learn about this town less than an hour away from me that I didn't even know existed until today. I will definitely be exploring it sometime soon!
It's the same in North Western MA. Remnants of stone buildings in the middle of the thick woods. I've always wondered what the stories behind them are.
@@miniminuteman773 Have you considered visiting Cerro Gordo? Might be a bit of an expensive trip but I'd love to see what you could find and tell of a ghost town being revived. Maybe even collab with the guy who's restoring it.
@@miniminuteman773 I live in Marblehead ma. if you want photos of anything here let me know. love your stuff and I'd love to contribute, Marblehead is as rich as it gets with history
In my eyes you are slowly becoming the Veritasium of history and geology education. By that I mean, you are able to educate people about your chosen subject while being fun and entertaining. Keep up the good work!
I'd rate milo higher than veritasium personally - milo just feels way more genuine and much less... infantalising in tone than veritasium is. (Opinion, it's ok to disagree, I'm biased lol)
A few months ago I showed my mom your content and she immediately fell in love with it. Now I sit here in my room, watching you talk about history while I freeze half to death in Canadian winter.
@Miniminuteman I mean it's cold in south dakota too right now, it was 20 this morning. I was confused when I started watching this video cause your trees still have their leaves.
Growing up in a ghost town and finding old mining parts all over the place, ghost hunting in old houses, etc is definitely what gave me my love of history. These sites have so many stories to tell! 👍
Adding "beflannelled" to my daily speech immediately. Thank you for the interesting run through (literally) of the village! I'd definitely love to see more of this kind of thing!
Your ability to storytell is unmatched, Milo. You allow me to truly place myself in these historic places/events and that's honestly really impressive. Great video!
the way you run from place to place, match cuts, and form the history into a story is reminiscent of bill nye, and i just love that you're creating such accessible and entertaining content about something you love.
I may not be a patron, but I tell everyone in person and online about your channel. So many TH-cam channels are about true crime or drama. It is so refreshing to have a channel with a young man excited about archaeology.
I grew up on the coast of Maine, went to college in the mountains of Vermont, and now I live an entire ocean away in Europe. I know there are more majestic vistas and more stunning landscapes in the world, but to me the weathered coasts and rolling hills of my home will always be the most beautiful place in the world. I love living in Europe now, but sometimes I still get desperately homesick. You treat the places and the many peoples who have lived there with such love and respect, and it is so deeply comforting. So thank you. Thank you for doing justice to my home, for educating us about its rich history, and thank you for the long, loving shots of New England's natural beauty. These videos soothe my soul, and I look forward to seeing wherever you go next.
I feel the same about the Mojave Desert of Nevada. Many people come here and see a barren waste land but it's so much more. It has wonderful mountain ranges and when it gets enough rain desert flowers that make a kaleidoscope of color.
@@cerberaodollam I'm queer and disabled. I'm married to a European woman and we were living together in the US when Trump got elected. We saw the writing on the wall and left. Healthcare, education, and the quality of life are all so much better where I live now. For people like me, the US isn't a good place to live at the moment, sadly.
@@cygnusmadrose856 fair enough. Also queer here BTW but 2A envy is a thing. Also I experienced govt-managed healthcare with my parents and....ugh no thanks. Manhandled, maltreated, waiting lists, no choice (you basically get ordered around by the doc), can't even sue anyone because they're literally government employees. 😑
Eighth generation Vermonter here. I lived in nearby St. Johnsbury for 14 years and had no idea this place existed. I'll definitely have to go see it for myself soon. Thank you for highlighting this little known part of Caledonia County. Love the channel!
Hi Milo! Very excited for today's upload, me and my dad watch your content and he's always asking me when you've uploaded😅 I've been trying to explain the notification bell thing to him, hopefully he will get it down soon! Anyways have a good rest of your day!
That makes me so happy to hear! Bell button or not, I'm glad he's got you there to keep him in the loop with the new content. But tell him from me personally that there is a new video up and that I hope he enjoys it!
I love things like this. I live in Old England myself, in an area rich in coal and thus a major hub in industry from the 1600s to the 1980s, when Thatcher closed the mines. The town saw a big decline for decades, but has since recovered by joining with nearby townships into one massive town and with a few more job prospects is now a mere cathedral away from being a city. Scattered throughout are historical sites, and with them information kiosks. I have spent many warm summer days wandering through the woods, reading every sign I come across and finding old factory foundations or leftover century-old equipment scattered about.
Ohio’s woods have so many places like this. I loved climbing over abandoned homes and buildings as a kid. A lot of indigenous community landmarks are also pervasive and just as fascinating yet heartbreaking to explore.
oh my god you just 'unlocked' a memory I forgot I had! I was kayaking with my little brother in Minnesota and we found this little island with a bunch of dilapidated buildings.. must have been almost a century old, judging by the condition. There was even a seesaw that would gently bounce up in down in the wind (as if the ghost of a small child was playing on it 😶). It was spooky but really neat! Anyway thanks for reminding me of that :)
My dad took us on a long tour of Native Mounds in multiple states when I was 13. Starting with Cahokia in east St Louis, we wandered northward through Illinois-and over through Ohio which had so many and then down to the great Serpent mound and back through Georgia and Kentucky. Hours and hours of long daily drives. A bit boring for two teenagers who hated each other stuck in the car together but I am glad I have a unique and vastly different view of America than other people ever get to see/experience.
thank you so much for taking pictures of the signs with info!! really interesting stuff on there, especially the picture showing the woolen mill in 1880, incredible to see such a massive building in a place that has now been retaken by nature EDIT: have watched a bit more of this video and i just love how this story of a town with real people in it whos lives were completely uprooted by the fire is being told so many years later. thanks internet!
This reminds me of Fayette Michigan, an iron smelting town that popped up around the time of the civil war. It was an isolated spot on the banks of lake Michigan. After the war the towns business dried up and the company that owned the town shut it all down and pulled everyone out, the foundry remains and some of the original buildings, but there are a decent amount of ruins. It is quite the interesting location.
This is absolutely beautiful. Vermont in the autumn is iconic, but there's just something about exploring a landscape of forgotten stone walls and young tree growth with a bloke enthusiastically espousing it's story that makes me nostalgic for doing bush walks with my family when I was a kid (we still do, but much less often). There are a lot of abandoned frontier towns and mining/logging operations in NZ. Some were founded during the gold and kauri rush that make you think that the people were absolutely crazy and you can still find massive pieces of equipment just rusting in the forest, but some actually declined very recently when highways built from the 40s onwards started displacing what was once a huge network of rural railway stations with more direct routes between cities. The best bit, actually, is where you can't see anything at all, but there's still roses or other ornamental flowers growing randomly in the middle of a tangle of ferns and rata because it was once someone's garden.
Wow, I’m always so impressed by your dedication to your interest but even more so by your ability to spin a beautiful story from a small piece of history, such an incredible way of sharing your knowledge, thank you for this and I look forward to the next journey with you
If the guy who started the fire survived I could imagine how much the rest of the town hated him afterwards. I loved this video! You should definitely do more like this!
Very interesting! My family has a house in Vermont, and I remember hearing someone talk about this place while we were up there, so it’s pretty cool to know what exactly happened
As yet another barely educated Australian man with little else going on in his life who will never travel due to financial restraints. I highly value your videos as a source of understanding our world. You are a treasure Milo, never stop educating.
Man. I'm writing this 7 minutes into the video - I absolutely love this format. You, running around in nature, with your peak humorous recording and editing, while explaining and teaching about stuff is just fantastic. I'll likely never cease to be amusedly fascinated by your content. I love everything about this, continue what you're doing, keep experimenting, cause you are doing a fantastic job and I am so glad I found your channel.
I've gotta say that the "Special thanks to: The Entire State Of Vermont" made me laugh out loud for some reason lol 😂 Also, keep it up with the amazing content, Milo! I'm loving the more outdoorsy videos 💕
Here in Australia we have many similar places; little towns built on wool production that used to be fed by a railroad that was no longer maintained or cattle stations where the water source dried up, or gold/mining towns that got picked clean. Some of the footage here reminded me of the south-east coast (i.e. The Blue Mountains) and Tasmania, where it gets a lot colder than you'd expect anywhere in Australia to ever get. I bet you would have a ball if you ever check out our neck of the woods!
Over halfway to 700k 48 hours later! You are absolutely one of my favourite channels and my favourite for natural history! Well deserved and keep it up!
My hometown (in the Netherlands) was a center of wool and textile industry as well. It started to decline in the 1960s (though not as dramatically). The last major textile producer stopped in the early 2000s. Few marks of that industry are left, most notably the harbor in the center of the city with its 100-year-old manually operated rotating bridge, The buildings of a major textile plant now serves as a shopping mall, and one building has been converted to a museum. Many of the old buildings were sadly demolished in the late 60s and early 70s(which is something that is still a hot issue today).
@@idontwantahandlethough ~Yeah. It has a central pivoting point, and it's a 100 ton bridge that can be rotated by one person operating a hand crank. Here's a picture of it: www.monumententilburg.nl/images/monumenten/thumb_draaibrug-piushaven-brug-prinsenhoeven1568121243893.jpg
I just watched a long documentary which included a section on Manchester England and them building the canal and their rotating bridge! It was pretty amazing what a horde of “navvies” can dig whilst Victorian engineers masterminded and refined amazing technology. This was all done for the cotton industry there- all those mansions built by “industrialists” were based on a never ending supply of slave labor and near-slave labor. Even these small towns all started with nearly free land after removing the actual tribal owners and with the massive hordes of European poor immigrants. Those people in this town probably felt the dream might happen for them someday as well with slogging hard work but one fire later and it was gone.
Omg, it sounds like a cool place. Is it where Scheepjes comes from or is it an entirely different location? (Asking as both a knitter and a dutch learner)
As an European it's always fascinating how in the US a town can spring up, be a local hub for a couple decades only to get abandoned one day and everyone moves on.
@@kilppa Our towns are standing since the Romans laid their foundations. Through millenias full of famines, plagues, wars and natural catastrophies. "Main employer left because factory burned down" isn't a problem, it's a Tuesday...
I've loved these last few traveling and hands-on videos! You absolutely do this format justice, and it's so cool to see you finding and investigating things that are actually out in the world. This video was also incredibly well written! Your storytelling quite literally gave me chills, you really made it sound so poignant and truly managed to convey the emotions in the life and death of this town. Incredible job as always! I can't wait to see where you decide to go next.
I’m from Ellisville, Illinois. A town that used to be bigger than Chicago (it was a proper town when Chicago was just a fort). At one point we had two hotels, a gas station, restaurant, bank, general store based in the opera house, a shoe shop, and a library. It’s located on the Spoon River, which used to be deep enough to support a paddle boat that ran between several other small towns from Ellisville. We even had a railroad that ran close by! But as time went on, people moved away and the town shrank and shrank. And now the population is less than 70 people. The hotels are gone, one torn down and replaced with a post office. The gas station is now a privately owned garage, and the restaurant closed probably 15-20 years ago. But every year the town opens up on the first two weekends in October for the Scenic Drive; the shoe shop and one of the banks have been made into little museums, the other bank has a little treat shop in it, and the opera house has several local vendors 9n one side, and the other side serves food. There’s a book called “Spoon River Anthology” that tells stories about people in my local area. It’s a fascinating book, especially as a local because I know many of the descendants of the people that the book references! Small, forgotten towns are where much of our country’s history happened. The deeds of ordinary people that collectively shaped a nation.
These outdoor videos have been an amazing add to the channel, Milo! Your personality is what keeps us coming back, so you applying it to a bunch of other interests of yours has been a joy to follow!
I love this small town/ area history! I work as a sternweeler Captain in the Columbia Gorge and have been doing live narration for our passengers for 5 years now and have really fallen in love with learning the stories of an area to pass on to others, so I really appreciate seeing this!
I love your stuff and hope to see it grow! The unabashed love for history is incredible to see and your take on presenting this knowledge is very informative and extremely entertaining. You do you boo boo and keep up the good work.
I absolutely love this style of content as well as your usual stuff. The presentation is on point. Also it's a bit (lot) out of the way, but you might find Ha Ha Tonka interesting. A burned down stone mansion deep in the Ozarks with a Native American name for the site. I used to visit it a lot as a kid, it's a beautiful area.
I was just passing through the Ozarks last week on my way to Little Rock, AR. Love the rolling hills and just able to see the last of the fall leaf change was a chefs kiss.
I live just a bit across Missouri but Ha Ha Tonka is a great fantastic place to hike when we feel like a drive. My advice tho: Go down the cliff stairs as you start -not up on the way back after a long hike. As an elder-those stairs about killed me-L😂L! And I was in great shape!
I'm absolutely loving these little historical side-trips. They're things I never would have known of if you hadn't brought them to light like this. I'm a Midwesterner in Ohio, however, so we've got our own unique history of abandoned places. I think you mentioned before that you wanted to do some urban vids. Would love to see that in your future content. Love everything you're doing, and you're just the right mix of eloquent and caustic to make my fucking day every time. Drinks up!
Such a truly beautiful video. From the content itself to the way it was shot and dictated. Shedding light on the hidden wonders of America in such an endearing way. I love that you share your passion and joy for such great subjects such as this one. Really fascinating history in a place many people wouldn't give a second look. Thank you so much, and keep up the good work!
The little Town of Grandin Missouri, where I grew up, at one had the largest sawmill in the United States, The Missouri Lumber and Mining Company, love watching you.
The power Milo has to get people like me, those that have previously had absolute naught interest in American history, to pick up what I'm now pretty sure is a new autistic special interest (my friends are gonna be thrilled /s) is unbelievable! Like right now, it's 3am and I should be resting or at least rehearsing for a show I have at 6pm. But no, I'm smiling my ears off watching this guy wander around a ruin reclaimed by nature and I'm inevitably about to head to my school/uni library site to see what more I can find out about this place. I couldn't be more blissfully shameful if I tried.
This video is made to perfection, all the way from the beautiful shots of the nature and ruins, down to the soundtrack. And then the cherry on top is Milo's well researched and knowledgeable telling of the towns history. Well done Milo, and congrats on the 600k subs.
As someone who's from and lives in Vermont, and who has been up to and around Danville and St. Johnsbury so so many times, this video was simultaneously incredibly cool and bizarre. XD Like I am so completely unused to seeing people make videos about Vermont, let alone being there IN Vermont. Like most of the time it feels like we might as well not exist to the rest of the world. Thank you so much for sharing this with everyone. ^_^ Oddly I hadn't been aware of Greenbank's Hollow so this was a really cool watch. Definitely going to go visit there sometime next spring/summer.
Yo Milo your choice of music is some of the best on all of TH-cam and you need to get more credit for it. From the intro, segways and the outro it really sets your videos apart from others and for me is a major part of the "aura" of your channel. Been here since 50k subs so glad for your success man and cant wait to see where we go from here. Grats bud!
This might be my favorite video you’ve done, although for a different reason than the educational archaeology content. It was relaxing, somber, but also still educational. You do some pretty incredible work, Milo. I always look forward to your uploads. I may not be a part of your Discord or Patreon or any of those other things you may have, but I am a huge fan and value the service you provide. This is the type of content that could have been an episode of a Discovery Channel series, or History channel when it was good.
I am a year late, but its always fascinating to learn about my home region. So many walls for miles in the wood of New England. Its geat to learn about some of them, thank you for doing this.
A videography tip: While I understand it's a bit hard to plan things while going out to an unfamiliar solo shoot location, I would advise trying to avoid if at all possible recording dialogue near moving water with your current equipment. Instead I would advise shooting some footage of the scenery and yourself walking around looking interested from a few angles and record the dialogue in a quiet environment. You can keep the audio but lower the volume from your near-a-river footage when you layer the vocals on top so you don't have weird hard cuts in your overall background tone. Love what you're doing. We just finally got a decent mic a few weeks ago but have been dealing with some health issues keeping us from recording any content with it yet. Us and the other coop members have been doing a lot of behind the scenes work, writing, designing, programming. Big things in store within a few months!
I love this. Its so wierd to see actual ruins, reclained by nature from a time not that long ago. I occasionally see building from this time, but usually renovated. These look like buildings a thousend years older.
Imagine you and your kids go hiking, and you find a beflanneled man talking to a camera atop mossy ruins that then skitters off into the wood yelling historical factoid relevant to the area
It started like a professional tv documentary, but the locations gets more and more ridiculous while staying informative. Fantastic mix of comedy and education!
Love these vids. I moved up to Vermont and into my first house the day after he posted the Champlain video. I actually was watching it while packing my room up. Perfect timing.
I'm eternally grateful for the plethora of historic urbex opportunities that exist in New England. If it wasn't for growing up in Western Mass I wouldn't have had the same exposure and ease of access to one of my favorite pastimes, leading to some of my favorite memories of my teenage years like the Easthampton Industrial Park and Belchertown State School (both of which are no longer accessible). If you haven't checked it out, Mt. Tom in Easthampton, MA is littered with abandoned buildings, a whole abandoned ski resort, some very cool history, and a ghost horse! Not to mention the fantastic hiking trails, I'd highly recommend giving it a visit if you're ever on this end of the state
I like the fact that you could have put in a narrative track afterwards, but instead you yelled at us over background noise on site. It's the small things that make it awesome.
It's really important to remember that this was not in fact an untamed wilderness. The Abenaki were already there. Their ancestors had been there for over 12,000 years. They hunted and fished and grew crops in their fields and they built sprawling networks of villages. They began to flee Vermont after the French ceded their claimed territory to the British in 1763 and the British nullified all of the treaties with the Abenaki and began to forcibly remove them. So these so-called pioneers were not in fact pioneers. They were just setting up shop amidst the abandoned villages and fields that had belonged to a people who now lived in diaspora to the north.
I grew up in the 2000s just wandering the woods in VT. My friends and I would explore and find a lot like this. Old foundations, fire places, cars, tractors, and way more. I never thought to the deep history of these sites. Places like this are littered around the state. Look up Valcore island! It’s a historic island in lake Champlain. Originally home to indigenous people, then occupied during the revolutionary war. This is just miles from where Benedict Arnolds boat the Philadelphia went down. It then had Victorian homes, a traditional ny light house, a cult in the 1800s, amazing place with tons of sites like this. If you ever want to go, I have a boat (only accessible by boat, no public ferries yet) and would be happy to show you around.
This is wonderful, Milo! I was transfixed, and could have watched for another hour. I had no idea about this place. Next time I'm up that way I will have to explore this lost village. I'm a Vermonter with deep roots here, many generations deep, and am always glad when other people appreciate the history of my home state, instead of thinking of it as just a place to go skiing. I hope that someday you do an exploration of the charcoal industry that along with lumber and farming nearly denuded the state in the 1800s. By the turn of the 20th century, Vermont was 75%-89% deforested, with untold numbers of trees burned to charcoal in enormous kilns and shipped to the industrial towns of the Northeast to fuel boilers in factories and mills. It is still possible to find the ruins of charcoal kilns deep in the woods of Green Mountain National Forest. The fireplace in my house is made in large part of bricks salvaged from these abandoned industrial sites. Keep up the good work!
I really enjoy your videos. This one I like especially because I love walking in forests and finding old walls and foundations. I always stop and wonder at the lives of those who occupied those spots and the indigenous peoples who were displaced. It is the best part of living in New England.
A wonderful and very sad story. Disaster strikes and small communities vanish or are changed forever. We had a disaster in my village of Sanford Michigan. A week of rain storms and Three dams failed and a “once in a hundred years “ flood wiped houses and businesses off the map in its wake. Still trying to rebuild.
As someone who is from low populated area in Spain, is not that difficult to find ghost towns or towns with barely 4 people living in it. However these ghost towns have very different reasons to be forgotten than Greekbank's Hollow. They are normally abandon because they lack the job opportunities cities have, or because they are in a isolated area and, is easier and cheaper to leave rather invest in electricity, or a decent road to be connected to rest of the world (this last reason was mainly in the 60's, the first one does still happens today). Sadly there is one third last reason, the inhabitants were force to leave. For those who don't know, between 1939-1975 Spain was living under a dictatorship, during which many reservoirs were built. For these reservoirs to be built many towns were emptied by force. For example heavy machinerywas used to demolished people's homes forcing them to abadon the town,. In the end, some of the reservoirs weren't built. Nevertheless, we are seeing an arising trend of people from coming to their once grandparents/parents town houses, as many can now choose to work from home. My family in fact did this. Anyways, this was a long of saying that I liked the video and foudn really interesting the different ways towns are abandon.
I appreciate that you give the same amount of love and attention and excitement to the humans that lived and loved and lost as ‘recently’ as the first half of the 1800s
I live in the middle of New Hampshire, right next to the border of Vermont now. My grandparents own a house deep in the woods with a lot of 4 wheeler trails and hiking trails. When I go hunting, I pass many old cellar holes just out in the forest, hidden by trees and leaves. The old stone walls still divide fields overgrown by forest now and sometimes there's still stone chimneys standing more or less intact. It apparently used to be a huge lumber town, enough for two whole school houses. When the Twin States were clear cut, with barely any useable wood to chop down, it died out, with only the town road still bearing the town's name.
God I loved this, it felt like my childhood walking round old houses and stone circles in britain. They are my only real positive memories of childhood.
I grew up in the Green Mountain National Forest but now live in MA and now have a new spot to visit on my next trip back up. You really caught peak foliage for the area around the NEK which is incredible considering that lasts for about 3 days before it absolutely pours and all the leaves are gone.
My life would be fuller with a passion like yours. There's nothing in my entire life that can ever make me have as much passion as you have. I'll do my best to change that
My son is five and has been absolutely inspired by your channel. He has spent hours and hours in the sandbox, slowly excavating hot wheels cars and cups with a paintbrush, making notes in chalk, taking 'pictures', and doing 'computer scans' with a telescope before describing what the items in his ancient civilization might have been used for. He's even trying to learn to read faster so he can read archeology books. He wants to volunteer at a dig site, even if that means he has to just haul dirt!
Thank you for the time and effort you put into every video. I assure you- it has made a large and impactful influence on a young one. I have been told you're cooler than The Flash. You're his new superhero.
I am sure that you don't need to be told, but you son is *very special*. Please keep encouraging him. The world needs more people like him, they are our future. Give him a hug.
I KNOW that he will make it big in the archeology industry if he keeps on being inspired
If he has a passion that early then its ur responsibility to help him get there ***imo*** i finally found my passion in cars and mechanics a few years ago and ik if i had it that early i would be waaaaaaaaaaay further into it, remember experience is invaluable
I'm a land surveyor and amateur archaeological surveyor. I got my start in much the same way. I was inspired by the show Time Team and worked my first archaeological dig as a volunteer. Feed that boy's passion. Seems he's a natural.
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You've got that Mrs Frizzle energy where you're enthusiastically dragging us into amazing worlds we'd never ordinarily see. Thanks for the amazing work sir. Hope to see more of you in the field.
Just better cuz he smokes from a pipe and swears
That's cartoon is before his time. 😆
@@KoRntechThe Magic Schoolbus was still being used in grade school well after he went through it. I guarantee he’s seen several episodes.
I think Milo running through the woods while trying to explain things is my new favorite thing
The smoking pipe completes the whole image for me
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@@spooch89 He is fully embracing the "mid 20s grandpa" look and I am loving every second of it.
I’m currently going to school in the middle of Appalachian Ohio. There are a lot of really tragic stories like this one out there. I have a lot of appreciation for the history in the Appalachian region that I didn’t know existed a year ago
Same man, I’m going to college in a railroad town in central Pennsylvania, and there’s a ton of history in the area. There are even some ghost legends surrounding the area. There’s a lot of history in the Appalachian Mountains.
@@Knightshospitaller More history than many people realize. I just recently learned that the Appalachians are part of the same mountain range that makes up the Scottish Highlands and the Atlas Mountains of North Africa. They were pushed up when the Pangean Supercontinent came together.
Not sure which I enjoyed more; the crisp and pristine Vermont wilderness, or Milo's effortless and beflanneled confidence as he lights his pipe for the second time because the first match went out. This was a real treat!💙
I’ve never heard beflanneled before.
LOL, "beflanneled"! 😂 that's a wondeful word lol, thank you for enlightening me to it's existence :)
Thank you, Ashlin, for this gift to our vocabulary 😂
@@sourgreendolly7685 thanks, but i can't take credit for "beflanneled": Milo says it himself in the video! It is a pretty cool word that i didn't know the English language needed but now it sure does.
Him running around the forest and being continuously out of breath while yelling historical knowledge into the forest at high speed
Living in Vermont I often find remains of buildings and walls while exploring in the woods, but I rarely know the stories behind them. It's so interesting to learn about this town less than an hour away from me that I didn't even know existed until today. I will definitely be exploring it sometime soon!
It's the same in North Western MA. Remnants of stone buildings in the middle of the thick woods. I've always wondered what the stories behind them are.
I would love to see more videos like this, where you travel to an abandoned town or historical site and regale us with its history.
Ohhh you just wait ;)
@@miniminuteman773 Have you considered visiting Cerro Gordo? Might be a bit of an expensive trip but I'd love to see what you could find and tell of a ghost town being revived. Maybe even collab with the guy who's restoring it.
@@miniminuteman773 I live in Marblehead ma. if you want photos of anything here let me know. love your stuff and I'd love to contribute, Marblehead is as rich as it gets with history
@@miniminuteman773 This statement is very ominous...
@@miniminuteman773 You're like Baby Tom Scott at this point.
In my eyes you are slowly becoming the Veritasium of history and geology education. By that I mean, you are able to educate people about your chosen subject while being fun and entertaining. Keep up the good work!
I'd rate milo higher than veritasium personally - milo just feels way more genuine and much less... infantalising in tone than veritasium is. (Opinion, it's ok to disagree, I'm biased lol)
@@OutbackCatgirl Nile red/Nile blue is a great alternative to Vertasium
@@Kai_isdead Yee, love Nile's content. Good recc~
A few months ago I showed my mom your content and she immediately fell in love with it. Now I sit here in my room, watching you talk about history while I freeze half to death in Canadian winter.
Yeah I heard it's already getting pretty bad up there
Man its NOVEMBER and ya'll are already freezing?? Canada really doesn't mess around.
@@miniminuteman773 oh yeah, Halloween ended and we got just about a foot of snow in a little under a weekend. Went from 1 to 1000 real quick up here
@Miniminuteman I mean it's cold in south dakota too right now, it was 20 this morning. I was confused when I started watching this video cause your trees still have their leaves.
@@miniminuteman773 yesterday morning we got -26 Celsius! Got to love the true North strong and free
Growing up in a ghost town and finding old mining parts all over the place, ghost hunting in old houses, etc is definitely what gave me my love of history. These sites have so many stories to tell! 👍
Amazing, a new video, I like how you get outside and touch grass, I can't it is winter
Just hang in there for a couple of more years and global warming will sort out your problem 🙂👍
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dude this was awesome!!
Adding "beflannelled" to my daily speech immediately. Thank you for the interesting run through (literally) of the village! I'd definitely love to see more of this kind of thing!
Your ability to storytell is unmatched, Milo.
You allow me to truly place myself in these historic places/events and that's honestly really impressive.
Great video!
the way you run from place to place, match cuts, and form the history into a story is reminiscent of bill nye, and i just love that you're creating such accessible and entertaining content about something you love.
I may not be a patron, but I tell everyone in person and online about your channel. So many TH-cam channels are about true crime or drama. It is so refreshing to have a channel with a young man excited about archaeology.
I grew up on the coast of Maine, went to college in the mountains of Vermont, and now I live an entire ocean away in Europe. I know there are more majestic vistas and more stunning landscapes in the world, but to me the weathered coasts and rolling hills of my home will always be the most beautiful place in the world. I love living in Europe now, but sometimes I still get desperately homesick. You treat the places and the many peoples who have lived there with such love and respect, and it is so deeply comforting. So thank you. Thank you for doing justice to my home, for educating us about its rich history, and thank you for the long, loving shots of New England's natural beauty. These videos soothe my soul, and I look forward to seeing wherever you go next.
I feel the same about the Mojave Desert of Nevada. Many people come here and see a barren waste land but it's so much more. It has wonderful mountain ranges and when it gets enough rain desert flowers that make a kaleidoscope of color.
As a European who CAN NOT WAIT to get the frick out of here.... What tempted you to come?
@@cerberaodollam I'm queer and disabled. I'm married to a European woman and we were living together in the US when Trump got elected. We saw the writing on the wall and left. Healthcare, education, and the quality of life are all so much better where I live now. For people like me, the US isn't a good place to live at the moment, sadly.
@@cygnusmadrose856 fair enough. Also queer here BTW but 2A envy is a thing. Also I experienced govt-managed healthcare with my parents and....ugh no thanks. Manhandled, maltreated, waiting lists, no choice (you basically get ordered around by the doc), can't even sue anyone because they're literally government employees. 😑
what school did you go to? im at Northern Vermont University (formerly johnson state college)
Eighth generation Vermonter here. I lived in nearby St. Johnsbury for 14 years and had no idea this place existed. I'll definitely have to go see it for myself soon. Thank you for highlighting this little known part of Caledonia County. Love the channel!
Hi Milo! Very excited for today's upload, me and my dad watch your content and he's always asking me when you've uploaded😅 I've been trying to explain the notification bell thing to him, hopefully he will get it down soon! Anyways have a good rest of your day!
That makes me so happy to hear! Bell button or not, I'm glad he's got you there to keep him in the loop with the new content. But tell him from me personally that there is a new video up and that I hope he enjoys it!
I love things like this.
I live in Old England myself, in an area rich in coal and thus a major hub in industry from the 1600s to the 1980s, when Thatcher closed the mines.
The town saw a big decline for decades, but has since recovered by joining with nearby townships into one massive town and with a few more job prospects is now a mere cathedral away from being a city.
Scattered throughout are historical sites, and with them information kiosks. I have spent many warm summer days wandering through the woods, reading every sign I come across and finding old factory foundations or leftover century-old equipment scattered about.
Ohio’s woods have so many places like this. I loved climbing over abandoned homes and buildings as a kid. A lot of indigenous community landmarks are also pervasive and just as fascinating yet heartbreaking to explore.
oh my god you just 'unlocked' a memory I forgot I had! I was kayaking with my little brother in Minnesota and we found this little island with a bunch of dilapidated buildings.. must have been almost a century old, judging by the condition. There was even a seesaw that would gently bounce up in down in the wind (as if the ghost of a small child was playing on it 😶). It was spooky but really neat!
Anyway thanks for reminding me of that :)
My dad took us on a long tour of Native Mounds in multiple states when I was 13. Starting with Cahokia in east St Louis, we wandered northward through Illinois-and over through Ohio which had so many and then down to the great Serpent mound and back through Georgia and Kentucky. Hours and hours of long daily drives. A bit boring for two teenagers who hated each other stuck in the car together but I am glad I have a unique and vastly different view of America than other people ever get to see/experience.
thank you so much for taking pictures of the signs with info!! really interesting stuff on there, especially the picture showing the woolen mill in 1880, incredible to see such a massive building in a place that has now been retaken by nature
EDIT: have watched a bit more of this video and i just love how this story of a town with real people in it whos lives were completely uprooted by the fire is being told so many years later. thanks internet!
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My parents are both archeologists so finding this channel is awesome
Also love the inclusion of the RD2 house building song
There's also a bit of the Adler house on fire
I love the usage of the red dead 2 soundtrack
Edit: just realized the clip from the first mission at 13:11
This reminds me of Fayette Michigan, an iron smelting town that popped up around the time of the civil war. It was an isolated spot on the banks of lake Michigan. After the war the towns business dried up and the company that owned the town shut it all down and pulled everyone out, the foundry remains and some of the original buildings, but there are a decent amount of ruins. It is quite the interesting location.
There are probably hundreds of ruined company towns sprinkled around north America
This is absolutely beautiful. Vermont in the autumn is iconic, but there's just something about exploring a landscape of forgotten stone walls and young tree growth with a bloke enthusiastically espousing it's story that makes me nostalgic for doing bush walks with my family when I was a kid (we still do, but much less often). There are a lot of abandoned frontier towns and mining/logging operations in NZ. Some were founded during the gold and kauri rush that make you think that the people were absolutely crazy and you can still find massive pieces of equipment just rusting in the forest, but some actually declined very recently when highways built from the 40s onwards started displacing what was once a huge network of rural railway stations with more direct routes between cities. The best bit, actually, is where you can't see anything at all, but there's still roses or other ornamental flowers growing randomly in the middle of a tangle of ferns and rata because it was once someone's garden.
Wow, I’m always so impressed by your dedication to your interest but even more so by your ability to spin a beautiful story from a small piece of history, such an incredible way of sharing your knowledge, thank you for this and I look forward to the next journey with you
If the guy who started the fire survived I could imagine how much the rest of the town hated him afterwards.
I loved this video! You should definitely do more like this!
Very interesting! My family has a house in Vermont, and I remember hearing someone talk about this place while we were up there, so it’s pretty cool to know what exactly happened
As yet another barely educated Australian man with little else going on in his life who will never travel due to financial restraints. I highly value your videos as a source of understanding our world.
You are a treasure Milo, never stop educating.
Vermont's history getting some much needed appreciation
Man. I'm writing this 7 minutes into the video - I absolutely love this format. You, running around in nature, with your peak humorous recording and editing, while explaining and teaching about stuff is just fantastic. I'll likely never cease to be amusedly fascinated by your content.
I love everything about this, continue what you're doing, keep experimenting, cause you are doing a fantastic job and I am so glad I found your channel.
I've gotta say that the "Special thanks to: The Entire State Of Vermont" made me laugh out loud for some reason lol 😂
Also, keep it up with the amazing content, Milo! I'm loving the more outdoorsy videos 💕
As a Vermonter I enjoyed that myself.
Here in Australia we have many similar places; little towns built on wool production that used to be fed by a railroad that was no longer maintained or cattle stations where the water source dried up, or gold/mining towns that got picked clean. Some of the footage here reminded me of the south-east coast (i.e. The Blue Mountains) and Tasmania, where it gets a lot colder than you'd expect anywhere in Australia to ever get. I bet you would have a ball if you ever check out our neck of the woods!
Big, big fan of this new storytelling format! Do more about local archeological sites!
Over halfway to 700k 48 hours later! You are absolutely one of my favourite channels and my favourite for natural history! Well deserved and keep it up!
My hometown (in the Netherlands) was a center of wool and textile industry as well. It started to decline in the 1960s (though not as dramatically). The last major textile producer stopped in the early 2000s. Few marks of that industry are left, most notably the harbor in the center of the city with its 100-year-old manually operated rotating bridge, The buildings of a major textile plant now serves as a shopping mall, and one building has been converted to a museum.
Many of the old buildings were sadly demolished in the late 60s and early 70s(which is something that is still a hot issue today).
rotating bridge?! Like... horizontally? I'm not sure I've ever seen that but it sounds really neat! I love weird bridges :)
@@idontwantahandlethough ~Yeah. It has a central pivoting point, and it's a 100 ton bridge that can be rotated by one person operating a hand crank.
Here's a picture of it: www.monumententilburg.nl/images/monumenten/thumb_draaibrug-piushaven-brug-prinsenhoeven1568121243893.jpg
I just watched a long documentary which included a section on Manchester England and them building the canal and their rotating bridge! It was pretty amazing what a horde of “navvies” can dig whilst Victorian engineers masterminded and refined amazing technology. This was all done for the cotton industry there- all those mansions built by “industrialists” were based on a never ending supply of slave labor and near-slave labor. Even these small towns all started with nearly free land after removing the actual tribal owners and with the massive hordes of European poor immigrants. Those people in this town probably felt the dream might happen for them someday as well with slogging hard work but one fire later and it was gone.
Omg, it sounds like a cool place. Is it where Scheepjes comes from or is it an entirely different location? (Asking as both a knitter and a dutch learner)
@@TryinaD Schip = ship, scheepje means a small ship, but we hardly ever use that word :)
As an European it's always fascinating how in the US a town can spring up, be a local hub for a couple decades only to get abandoned one day and everyone moves on.
It happened in Europe, too. Just look at all the places where the Romans set up forts and towns.
@@zarasbazaar Yeah but that was 2000 years ago after a cataclysmic event and not less than 200 years ago after a minor inconvenience.
@@mnk9073 You call that a minor inconvenience? Wow.
@@kilppa Our towns are standing since the Romans laid their foundations. Through millenias full of famines, plagues, wars and natural catastrophies. "Main employer left because factory burned down" isn't a problem, it's a Tuesday...
@@mnk9073 Just stop. You are making us europeans look dumb.
I've loved these last few traveling and hands-on videos! You absolutely do this format justice, and it's so cool to see you finding and investigating things that are actually out in the world. This video was also incredibly well written! Your storytelling quite literally gave me chills, you really made it sound so poignant and truly managed to convey the emotions in the life and death of this town. Incredible job as always! I can't wait to see where you decide to go next.
I’m from Ellisville, Illinois. A town that used to be bigger than Chicago (it was a proper town when Chicago was just a fort). At one point we had two hotels, a gas station, restaurant, bank, general store based in the opera house, a shoe shop, and a library. It’s located on the Spoon River, which used to be deep enough to support a paddle boat that ran between several other small towns from Ellisville. We even had a railroad that ran close by! But as time went on, people moved away and the town shrank and shrank. And now the population is less than 70 people. The hotels are gone, one torn down and replaced with a post office. The gas station is now a privately owned garage, and the restaurant closed probably 15-20 years ago. But every year the town opens up on the first two weekends in October for the Scenic Drive; the shoe shop and one of the banks have been made into little museums, the other bank has a little treat shop in it, and the opera house has several local vendors 9n one side, and the other side serves food.
There’s a book called “Spoon River Anthology” that tells stories about people in my local area. It’s a fascinating book, especially as a local because I know many of the descendants of the people that the book references!
Small, forgotten towns are where much of our country’s history happened. The deeds of ordinary people that collectively shaped a nation.
These outdoor videos have been an amazing add to the channel, Milo! Your personality is what keeps us coming back, so you applying it to a bunch of other interests of yours has been a joy to follow!
This new outdoor experience you’ve been providing has been great! Love the new videos. Keep it up! 😃
I love this small town/ area history! I work as a sternweeler Captain in the Columbia Gorge and have been doing live narration for our passengers for 5 years now and have really fallen in love with learning the stories of an area to pass on to others, so I really appreciate seeing this!
this gives me vibes from some old documentary of which you don't know the name but love with your heart
I love your stuff and hope to see it grow! The unabashed love for history is incredible to see and your take on presenting this knowledge is very informative and extremely entertaining.
You do you boo boo and keep up the good work.
I loved this episode! Transforming mute stones by a creek into a vibrant and tragic story of real humans... What a gift you have! Thank you so much.
I absolutely love this style of content as well as your usual stuff. The presentation is on point.
Also it's a bit (lot) out of the way, but you might find Ha Ha Tonka interesting. A burned down stone mansion deep in the Ozarks with a Native American name for the site. I used to visit it a lot as a kid, it's a beautiful area.
I was just passing through the Ozarks last week on my way to Little Rock, AR. Love the rolling hills and just able to see the last of the fall leaf change was a chefs kiss.
@@LKCLifer Fall in the Ozarks is the best, almost makes the hot humid summers worth it. almost.
I live just a bit across Missouri but Ha Ha Tonka is a great fantastic place to hike when we feel like a drive. My advice tho: Go down the cliff stairs as you start -not up on the way back after a long hike. As an elder-those stairs about killed me-L😂L! And I was in great shape!
Every single time I watch one of your videos it reignites my love of history. One day I'm going to end up going back to school because of you
I'm absolutely loving these little historical side-trips. They're things I never would have known of if you hadn't brought them to light like this. I'm a Midwesterner in Ohio, however, so we've got our own unique history of abandoned places. I think you mentioned before that you wanted to do some urban vids. Would love to see that in your future content. Love everything you're doing, and you're just the right mix of eloquent and caustic to make my fucking day every time. Drinks up!
Milo spitting facts... not just HIStory but the truthhhh. How absolutely refreshing!
Such a truly beautiful video. From the content itself to the way it was shot and dictated. Shedding light on the hidden wonders of America in such an endearing way. I love that you share your passion and joy for such great subjects such as this one. Really fascinating history in a place many people wouldn't give a second look. Thank you so much, and keep up the good work!
The little Town of Grandin Missouri, where I grew up, at one had the largest sawmill in the United States, The Missouri Lumber and Mining Company, love watching you.
The power Milo has to get people like me, those that have previously had absolute naught interest in American history, to pick up what I'm now pretty sure is a new autistic special interest (my friends are gonna be thrilled /s) is unbelievable!
Like right now, it's 3am and I should be resting or at least rehearsing for a show I have at 6pm. But no, I'm smiling my ears off watching this guy wander around a ruin reclaimed by nature and I'm inevitably about to head to my school/uni library site to see what more I can find out about this place. I couldn't be more blissfully shameful if I tried.
Watching you just leaping about in a bunch of old basements and creeks made my day
This video is made to perfection, all the way from the beautiful shots of the nature and ruins, down to the soundtrack. And then the cherry on top is Milo's well researched and knowledgeable telling of the towns history.
Well done Milo, and congrats on the 600k subs.
It's fascinating to see how quickly Nature retakes a human settlement.
As someone who's from and lives in Vermont, and who has been up to and around Danville and St. Johnsbury so so many times, this video was simultaneously incredibly cool and bizarre. XD Like I am so completely unused to seeing people make videos about Vermont, let alone being there IN Vermont. Like most of the time it feels like we might as well not exist to the rest of the world.
Thank you so much for sharing this with everyone. ^_^ Oddly I hadn't been aware of Greenbank's Hollow so this was a really cool watch. Definitely going to go visit there sometime next spring/summer.
Wow, the peak of fall! What a beautiful reminder of the fragility of society.
Yo Milo your choice of music is some of the best on all of TH-cam and you need to get more credit for it. From the intro, segways and the outro it really sets your videos apart from others and for me is a major part of the "aura" of your channel.
Been here since 50k subs so glad for your success man and cant wait to see where we go from here. Grats bud!
With that in mind, do you happen to know the name of the end credits song? I have fallen in love and need to know
That nature is just absolutely beautiful, what a place!
I love your videos. You do and go where I can't and because of you I learn so much. It's so important to never stop wanting to learn new things
This might be my favorite video you’ve done, although for a different reason than the educational archaeology content. It was relaxing, somber, but also still educational. You do some pretty incredible work, Milo. I always look forward to your uploads. I may not be a part of your Discord or Patreon or any of those other things you may have, but I am a huge fan and value the service you provide. This is the type of content that could have been an episode of a Discovery Channel series, or History channel when it was good.
Loved your editing and narration in this video. You truly have a talent for storytelling Milo!
I am a year late, but its always fascinating to learn about my home region. So many walls for miles in the wood of New England. Its geat to learn about some of them, thank you for doing this.
A videography tip: While I understand it's a bit hard to plan things while going out to an unfamiliar solo shoot location, I would advise trying to avoid if at all possible recording dialogue near moving water with your current equipment.
Instead I would advise shooting some footage of the scenery and yourself walking around looking interested from a few angles and record the dialogue in a quiet environment. You can keep the audio but lower the volume from your near-a-river footage when you layer the vocals on top so you don't have weird hard cuts in your overall background tone.
Love what you're doing. We just finally got a decent mic a few weeks ago but have been dealing with some health issues keeping us from recording any content with it yet. Us and the other coop members have been doing a lot of behind the scenes work, writing, designing, programming. Big things in store within a few months!
Amazing to see people talk with such great passion about my home state
Stoner friend : "i know a spot"
The spot:
I love this. Its so wierd to see actual ruins, reclained by nature from a time not that long ago.
I occasionally see building from this time, but usually renovated. These look like buildings a thousend years older.
Imagine you and your kids go hiking, and you find a beflanneled man talking to a camera atop mossy ruins that then skitters off into the wood yelling historical factoid relevant to the area
The video shot down to like 240p and it reminds me of those VHS documentaries you would see in school and honestly? I like that
I love seeing Milo yelling and running and keeping things very coherent. Fabulous!
It started like a professional tv documentary, but the locations gets more and more ridiculous while staying informative. Fantastic mix of comedy and education!
I love these outdoors videos so much! its like going on a virtual fieldtrip.
TH-camr running around explaining their area of expertise is my new favorite content
Love these vids. I moved up to Vermont and into my first house the day after he posted the Champlain video. I actually was watching it while packing my room up. Perfect timing.
I'm eternally grateful for the plethora of historic urbex opportunities that exist in New England. If it wasn't for growing up in Western Mass I wouldn't have had the same exposure and ease of access to one of my favorite pastimes, leading to some of my favorite memories of my teenage years like the Easthampton Industrial Park and Belchertown State School (both of which are no longer accessible). If you haven't checked it out, Mt. Tom in Easthampton, MA is littered with abandoned buildings, a whole abandoned ski resort, some very cool history, and a ghost horse! Not to mention the fantastic hiking trails, I'd highly recommend giving it a visit if you're ever on this end of the state
I like the fact that you could have put in a narrative track afterwards, but instead you yelled at us over background noise on site.
It's the small things that make it awesome.
It makes me excited to learn you're a new englander. I miss loving there so I plan on living and learning vicariously through you
I love the editing where you keep narrating while you light the pipe, etc. It's smooth and fun!
YOU’RE THE MAN! Love what you do and your knowledge and cadence when teaching/sharing.. it’s only gonna get better. Keep it up brotha!
It's really important to remember that this was not in fact an untamed wilderness. The Abenaki were already there. Their ancestors had been there for over 12,000 years. They hunted and fished and grew crops in their fields and they built sprawling networks of villages. They began to flee Vermont after the French ceded their claimed territory to the British in 1763 and the British nullified all of the treaties with the Abenaki and began to forcibly remove them.
So these so-called pioneers were not in fact pioneers. They were just setting up shop amidst the abandoned villages and fields that had belonged to a people who now lived in diaspora to the north.
The Lindybeige vibes from this video are immaculate. Great video Milo! I ordered a hoodie, can wait for it!
I grew up in the 2000s just wandering the woods in VT. My friends and I would explore and find a lot like this. Old foundations, fire places, cars, tractors, and way more. I never thought to the deep history of these sites. Places like this are littered around the state. Look up Valcore island! It’s a historic island in lake Champlain. Originally home to indigenous people, then occupied during the revolutionary war. This is just miles from where Benedict Arnolds boat the Philadelphia went down. It then had Victorian homes, a traditional ny light house, a cult in the 1800s, amazing place with tons of sites like this. If you ever want to go, I have a boat (only accessible by boat, no public ferries yet) and would be happy to show you around.
You have put a fun new twist on the "Abandoned" video archetype. I'm doing a binge on your channel! Great content.
This is wonderful, Milo! I was transfixed, and could have watched for another hour. I had no idea about this place. Next time I'm up that way I will have to explore this lost village. I'm a Vermonter with deep roots here, many generations deep, and am always glad when other people appreciate the history of my home state, instead of thinking of it as just a place to go skiing. I hope that someday you do an exploration of the charcoal industry that along with lumber and farming nearly denuded the state in the 1800s. By the turn of the 20th century, Vermont was 75%-89% deforested, with untold numbers of trees burned to charcoal in enormous kilns and shipped to the industrial towns of the Northeast to fuel boilers in factories and mills. It is still possible to find the ruins of charcoal kilns deep in the woods of Green Mountain National Forest. The fireplace in my house is made in large part of bricks salvaged from these abandoned industrial sites. Keep up the good work!
I really enjoy your videos.
This one I like especially because I love walking in forests and finding old walls and foundations. I always stop and wonder at the lives of those who occupied those spots and the indigenous peoples who were displaced. It is the best part of living in New England.
As a born and bred vermonter, THANK YOU FOR THIS! It was wonderful!
A wonderful and very sad story. Disaster strikes and small communities vanish or are changed forever. We had a disaster in my village of Sanford Michigan. A week of rain storms and Three dams failed and a “once in a hundred years “ flood wiped houses and businesses off the map in its wake. Still trying to rebuild.
As someone who is from low populated area in Spain, is not that difficult to find ghost towns or towns with barely 4 people living in it. However these ghost towns have very different reasons to be forgotten than Greekbank's Hollow. They are normally abandon because they lack the job opportunities cities have, or because they are in a isolated area and, is easier and cheaper to leave rather invest in electricity, or a decent road to be connected to rest of the world (this last reason was mainly in the 60's, the first one does still happens today).
Sadly there is one third last reason, the inhabitants were force to leave. For those who don't know, between 1939-1975 Spain was living under a dictatorship, during which many reservoirs were built. For these reservoirs to be built many towns were emptied by force. For example heavy machinerywas used to demolished people's homes forcing them to abadon the town,.
In the end, some of the reservoirs weren't built.
Nevertheless, we are seeing an arising trend of people from coming to their once grandparents/parents town houses, as many can now choose to work from home. My family in fact did this.
Anyways, this was a long of saying that I liked the video and foudn really interesting the different ways towns are abandon.
this was so freaking cool! my family has been vacationing in vermont my whole life, and i love exploring there! milo is genuinely living my dream
I appreciate that you give the same amount of love and attention and excitement to the humans that lived and loved and lost as ‘recently’ as the first half of the 1800s
I live in the middle of New Hampshire, right next to the border of Vermont now. My grandparents own a house deep in the woods with a lot of 4 wheeler trails and hiking trails. When I go hunting, I pass many old cellar holes just out in the forest, hidden by trees and leaves. The old stone walls still divide fields overgrown by forest now and sometimes there's still stone chimneys standing more or less intact. It apparently used to be a huge lumber town, enough for two whole school houses. When the Twin States were clear cut, with barely any useable wood to chop down, it died out, with only the town road still bearing the town's name.
Thank you for shining a light on Vermont, and I LOVE the footage at the end!
Get this man a PBS show. I love this stuff
God I loved this, it felt like my childhood walking round old houses and stone circles in britain. They are my only real positive memories of childhood.
I grew up in the Green Mountain National Forest but now live in MA and now have a new spot to visit on my next trip back up. You really caught peak foliage for the area around the NEK which is incredible considering that lasts for about 3 days before it absolutely pours and all the leaves are gone.
I love how excited you got seeing the photos on the kiosk. I'm a total nerd and will read every sign I come across on hikes 🥰
My kids and I really appreciate your videos. They're budding archeologists.
My life would be fuller with a passion like yours. There's nothing in my entire life that can ever make me have as much passion as you have. I'll do my best to change that
Your storytelling is compelling. Please do more of these.