I used to drive a dump truck for a gravel company in upstate NY and when getting top soil along the banks of the Susquehanna River I would walk through the rows of corn and collect all types of arrow heads, decorative pottery and net weights. The farmers have been plowing them up for generations
@@cleggsadventures According to Cornell University the area between Tioga Center NY and Binghamton was continuosly occupied for hundreds of years and they're not even sure what they called themselves because there's no apparent connection to the modern Native Americans that still live in the area.
Of course there's loads of artefacts Following Christopher Columbus' arrival in North America in 1492, European violence and disease killed 90% of the indigenous population - nearly 55 million people. You love on a graveyard
Well thanks loads for this one... My dad, a retired engineer who passed in 2012 at age 84, spent many hours down along the shoreline of the Susquehanna River around Falls, PA digging and doing the exact same thing. He was just as excited about his last find as he was his first, and I was always amazed at the artifacts that he brought home. Thanks for bringing back those fond memories of the best man that I've ever known. 😊
@@cleggsadventures thanks. If you have a friend. That’s does. I wish I could find 1 arrowhead. I watched most of your vids. Seemed. Helpful. They made sense. Trying to understand area s of land and creek. You get very into maybe. A sketch. Or over head. Drone. View. Of what you talk about. That would be great
We built a golf course in south eastern Ohio and when they started scraping back the earth for the greens and tee boxes, arrowheads were everywhere. After a rain, they would shine. Out of the 18 holes scraped I filled almost a whole gallon plastic bag. I gave some to the neighbor kids, my nieces and nephews. Ohio is rich in Native American history.
Many Natives were “relocated” from the Marietta, Ohio area. They were known for the mounds they made usually with dead soldiers from both sides buried underneath.
The mighty Ohio & other rivers drew many native American settlements.. I was a camper at Thomas E Lightfoot in Hinton WV until a teenager & they would seed a large field so us campers could find them. :)
I’m in NE Ohio and there used to be a golf course up the road from me called Spearhead, they found many arrowheads and from the name large spearheads…it’s been converted to farmland now, I need to go take a walk around the fields sometime
I was born in southern Ohio. When we were kids there were so many arrowheads on our playground at school that we didn’t even bother to pick them up! My father was a lineman for Ohio Power and when they had a job out in the rural part they would find all kinds of Indian artifacts and bring them home to show us kids. He’d bring us pipes, vases, bowls, all kinds of things. I have no idea whatever happened to all of the things he would bring home, but I sure am thankful for the experience! Sadly the Native American history of that area is being lost and it is absolutely fascinating.
Growing up on the banks of the Ohio River I saw tremendous collections of artifacts. In some cases, the grandfather started, the son, continued, and I knew the grandson. I'm 72 years old now and what blows me away is things continue to be recovered. As I think about it millions of points were made and thousands recovered and will continue as long as people look. It makes us small in the big picture of history.
My family had an old time family, hand tool everything, and mule equipment usage farm near a big slough that came out of the Green River (which is an insland water river off the Ohio River below Owensboro KY. The back water into our bottom land made shallow wading pools, or small lakes, and both our farm, and the neighbors fars were raised hills, and there had been ;fishing camps for a 100 years thru Daneils Boones time and foreward. Thousands of people would come walk thebottom, and any raised land near the flooded areas. My Father found some old age war club stones, and several grain grinding roicks, plus other stones for working out napping flint. A local university cane and took those. Dad found several superior spear points, but we kids just kept breaking theme. There were man smal size arrow points were around for small game and fish hunting.Thise areas are concsoder picked out, but I bet plenty artificaits as still there,
@@johnshields9110 John, Greetings from the Bluegrass. I grew up near Little Sandy River meets the Ohio River, big corn fields, lots of the low lands covered by water when they built the Ohio River Dams. I can imagine the area you described, we as young boys didn’t respect these artifacts. When I was little (72 now) one of my uncles talked about the cool “Indian” spear points ect. they broke on trees trying to stick them. What must have been lost to boys being boys. Now I live near Boonesborough State park, it’s hard to believe the fields had bison 🦬, deer, bear, and was the forest and meadows untouched (by white men) until Daniel and his friends built the fort. A lot changes in 250-300 years. Thanks for sharing. PS Nice how a university takes things and never puts them on display. UK I’m sure has tons of things they wanted to “study” .
@@flouisbailey Greetings to the Blue Grass! I was in Lexington for 13 years between schooling and work. I used to ride my motorcycle over to Boonsborough long before and park development. I skulked around the forest there above where the fort was, just to sense the approachs the Indians made against it.Our farmland was next to Boise Ferry on Green River. There was a samll Civil War scermish there, and once in awhile, a rifle ball or old coin was found. Dad bought the farm in 1926 and was concerned with survival, and traded most of the stuff he found. Work with mules pulling a single blade plow, and/or a ditching scoup, he brought up a lot of relics but he had work to do and he quit stopping for same. Best to you.
I’ve looked places that didn’t produce much, but every now and then I get on to a good spot. I think it’s just luck thing really. My friend’s 5 year old daughter found an incredible point on a gravel bar that I usually hunt. Right place at the right time
It was a area where they made points not shot the arrows. The lesser points where left in the slag. They only kept the sharper , better made points for hunting.
I sit here watching you find artifacts and I'm drawn into a world I don't know. I imagine the person sitting on a stump or a rock and fashioning the tips and blades because they needed to keep their supply up for hunting and skinning their game. They think nothing of us, hundreds or thousands of years later locating their hard work. It's a mixed bag of emotions. Maybe those tips killed another human being in battle. Maybe the broken ones were rejects by the craftsman and just discarded or a missed shot that broke on impact of trees or earth or bone. Maybe it was used in a most epic hunt. And I also wonder, as I'm sure is the case, that as much as we think we know about that time, if we could travel back we would probably be embarrassed to a degree of how much we misrepresent their time and culture. Thanks for the video.
I always think about how ignorant modern man is, yet we think we are so superior to ancient man. Thrown into the wilderness with no modern means of survival, most of us would perish. Yet everything we need for survival is all around us, provided by mother earth at no cost.
I’m a 6th generation Lene Lenape’ from PA. The summer between high school and college I volunteered on a river dig site in Muncy, PA. I found pottery pieces, arrow heads and flint balls. So exciting.
I find your videos to be a good combination of entertainment and practical archaeology. I love how much you enjoy finding these treasures. Super contagious enthusiasm.....keeps me going for days on my own searches. Thanks
With a strong back and a curious mind the man takes us back thousands of years to a time when there were no property lines or property taxes or attorneys. So many things during the daily life would have been unfamiliar to us now. The stone age evidence along the river gives Clegg a rich bed of pay-dirt to do his time travel magic.
@@tomeickhorst6787 I have yet to find a Clovis but I’ve found an Ohio lancelette, transitional Paleo. I’m still looking but there have been a bunch of Paleo pieces found around here, so I’m hopeful
I was going to comment about recording where you found your points... until I heard the breadth of knowledge you have. Awesome video, I just graduated in Geology/Archaeology in the Midwest and I worked with lithics in this region for the last 2 years or so. You're spot on about everything, I would have been grateful to have you as a teacher - I'm excited to see more!
I keep everything I find for my personal collection, like a little museum in my house. I hunt generally in a small location, spanning a few miles along the river. I find all time periods in every location. I’ve never sone a dig into virgin ground but would love to. I would be able to record the depths of the finds and relate things easier. Everything I find has already been washed from its original location by the river. I think that’s why a lot of it is broken.
@@cleggsadventures that totally makes sense. I haven’t had been able to participate in a fresh dig either, I imagine seeing the pieces in the place they were dropped probably provides a perspective relatively unknown to most people. My family has an old house that sits by an old “trash” dump (broken points, hammer stones, and the like) by an old route to flint ridge and it’s a really wonderful feeling being able to connect personally with a moment in distant history.
Amazing! If he has found this many artifacts in such a small area, can you imagine how many there are on the shore of the rest of the river...well done, sir...
Much Appreciated! There seem to be artifacts all along the river below these fields. Some are better than others. This stretch of about 300 meters, has been the best site I’ve found. I think it was a preferred place to live.
I just found my first arrowhead this past summer in northern Michigan! You're super knowledgable, thank you for all the information I learned from this video. I will definitely be using your tips and tricks from now on!
The forest was so dense in the Michigan peninsula that most Indian activity was on the coast. Harvesting and smoking salmon for the winter. Things changed little until the old forest was cut down to rebuild Chicago after the great fire in the late 19th century.
Cleggs! Your energy is contagious! Great Native American finds in this video. Thank you for explaining the "lay of the land" and also the type and dates of the artifacts. I agree with you.... It was Nick Nolte!
As a kid, I went on several digs with Wright State University archaeology department. My dad had gone back to school and was working a site at Massie's creek north of Xenia, Ohio. It was a large encampment for the Hopewell culture. They unearthed a large hearth under limestone overhangs and found all manner of bone, pottery and spear heads. It was an amazing thing to experience as a kid and this video really makes me nostalgic for that. I may have to get out there and do some exploration around the Scioto and Olentangy rivers using your methods. Thanks a ton for the video and information!!!
@@claytonhaske Look for sharp bends in the river one side is the cut bank other will be gravel/sand side. You must remember the rivers and creeks meander.
I'm in southcentral Indiana, this looks like home territory to me. Yep lots of native artifacts in the Ohio Valley. Everyone has a few arrowheads found out while plowing the fields, or fishing etc.. My favorite find is a good sized grinding stone, very comfortable and well used..
When I was growing up in the country in central Ohio me and my friend Tommy would walk freshly plowed fields to see what we could find . Found just a few arrow heads but when you do it's a powerful feeling to realize right where you stood , somebody else stood too long long ago.
Glad to hear from others like you who have thought deeply about the people who came hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of years before us because of finding their old belongings, tools, and weapons.
As a kid I walked corn fields before planting or after harvests. What a feeling to find stuff. The uniqueness, simplicity, durability and beauty Now all the local corn field are are gone , build on.
I just really like this guy. He answers questions before you even think of them and gives you so much information that you want to keep watching. He makes it look so easy, but I know it's work. I will certainly subscribe and am happy to have stumbled upon his channel. Thumbs up. Gonna try myself now.
This guy is really good at this stuff I find it interesting as heck. Love America native history. I've never found a arrow head or knife sharpener. I can't wait though. It's going to be life changing.
Was it lots of people or thousands of years? Something my retirement has given me time to think about. Sadly I have time but not the physical body to hike a river edge and then dig. Doesn’t make me want to know less it makes me want to know more. This channel has great comments.
My cousin just bought some property along the Ohio river in Ohio. The previous owners found 2 milk crates full of arrow heads over the years. While we were moving her in, a few people found some laying right on top of the dirt. I think 4 or 5 were found with in an hour or 2 of being there. They weren't looking for them, just happened to look down and seen them. I found a couple as a kid but I haven't found any as an adult.
I was very intrigued by your finds....I had an Uncle who lived in Indiana. His brother used to follow his father in plowing their fields. He found over 3,000 artifacts over a 160 acres which included axe heads, hammers and many points. The man's grand daughter still holds the collection. She asked me what I thought...I suggested that it could have been a battlefield where many of these items were left after whatever skirmish occurred. I met a man in Illinois that has built a cabin to house all of his finds...he runs the creek beds in the spring and uncovers points every year...the man is in his 80's.
It was the site of an encampment/village. They would use these camps for generations upon generations. Some tools were stockpiled (caches), some were lost, some discarded when broken, some dropped. We have found many, as in many hundreds.
A man who's enthusiastic about his work/passion. I recently moved to KY, from CO. I was shocked to learn that bison migrated to KY (Stamping Ground, KY), crossed the Ohio River in search of minerals from the springs in KY. Bison crossing the Ohio River!! One of the shallowest points in the river (how'd they know that?). Indians followed by the earliest Europeans hunted the buffalo in this area. The packed earth became the highway to the western frontier, Buffalo Trace. Gotta' love history.
Greetings from someone who grew up in Stamping Ground. Until the tornado hit lost all but one room to the house. But live in Georgetown now. A friend of mine found a dinosaur head in Elkhorn creek here. Lots of relics to be had here in Scott County
@@alanhawse well… that’s what I thought, the limestone is kind of a give away, I know areas nearby with trilobite’s but not many, drive an hour or 2 and you can definitely find some really cool geology but you can find tall tales way easier
They knew the shallowest point because the Ohio was clear at the time. No plow had broken the soil, and no propellers were churning up the mud. Imagine a clear Ohio river, seeing the bottom....
I grew up right on the Ohio Valley, I have found arrow heads on the river myself. The river is nasty now but my mom would say, can you imagine what the river looked like when the Indians lived there before the industrial revolution?
I live just outside of louisville, I would die to see it back in the day. I love Kentucky and its history but the days and lack of respect from new habitants have taken their toll :/
keep voting for politicians that roll back environmental standards and protections, want to abolish the EPA and then turn around and tell everyone how you're an outdoorsman that loves to hunt and fish
i grew up next to the auglaize river and it would flood the field next to our house quite often. once that water would recede. we would just walk down through the field and find 10 to 20 points. eventually we had a massive collection. my father even found a full frio spear tip. it was immaculate. my father almost had a heart attack when he picked it up. i personally found a Red Gorget. there are so many artifacts around my house that you could go outside and trip over them
I had to come back and leave another comment on this one Scott. This is a prime example of "if one channel/video in out community of treasure hunters does well, we all do well". No doubt many of us have benefited from the popularity of this video. You know our videos have been recommended many times to folks that watched this one. Congratulations and thanks!
This was amazing! I live right by the Ohio river and didn’t realize all of this information, nothing better than a highly entertaining video all whilst learning something, subscribed!
I live in Louisville and back in the day when I was in high school I had two semesters of Archeology and one of anthropology. As a midterm project we had to go out into the field in teams and discover a new archeological site. Not as hard as it sounds. We ended up finding two sites along the Ohio, one a hunting camp and the other was a garbage dump. The fist site was a lot of broken points and flakes. The second one yielded points most were broke a few were intact but it did have tons of bone fish hooks. we actually did register the second site.
Idk if youre an archeologist or just a really well informed hobbyist but ive got the exact same type situation on the river where i live here in sw michigan. I know Indians were in the area heavily for thousands of years cause its a major part of the history in this local area and we have the same thing w the local river having numerous different dams on it so im gonna try this on the beaches where i fish cause i would LOVE to find some legit native artifacts in the "wild" myself. That would be sooo cool.
This was exciting! I used to look for them in south central Virginia after the cornfields were turned after harvest especially along a flood plain. We'd walk along the furrows and flip the rock bits with a walking stick instead of bending down for every stone of interest and find quite a few. My friends grandfather farmed and as he plowed the fields he'd spot them... he literally found buckets of them farming for 60 years. Ive never tried on the water like this. Thoroughly enjoyed your video!!
I live on Lake Austin near Steiner Ranch. A neighbor friend of mine has been living here 40 years. She showed me her collection of arrowheads she's found in this area. She remained vague on where and how they were found. I spend off time digging in the bottom of the river for interesting rocks and Native American artifacts. It seems on the trails around I find scrapers, cutting stones and stones to pulverise with. They're everywhere. People walk right past them not recognising a rock with an edge that has been worked. Its amazing the way the stones have been chipped to fit your hand comfortably. In the river I find tomahawks. So far I've found 6 in 3 years and I'm really not looking very hard. I'd like for an expert to give me dates and tribes that created what I've found. Sometimes I don't recognise an artifact until I look at it again by chance as I walk past a rock garden. My hope is to one day find a large perfect arrowhead. I swear one could be between my feet and I'd never see it. Seems I need to learn about erosion and terrain to be successful at it. Interesting video. Tks for sharing it.
Your friend is vague about where she found them because those sites would become heritage digs and she'd lose control of the land there for an indefinite time.
First time viewer of any of your videos. This video popped up on my feed. Glad I watched. Interesting, fascinating, informative and entertaining. I could imagine myself right there on the bank with you. Thx for sharing your passion with others!
Every year when my Grandfather tilled his Garden we would find arrowheads. They were different than what your finding. Much larger a white colored stone and much heavier. I was told they were older than native Americans
Good to see you back on the river Scott . As usual you are the best at finding artifacts . You are very informative , explaining what you find , thanks for all the information ,Welcome back
Just found your channel - and so glad I did! Man this is fun stuff. I love to learn about this sort of thing. This is living history, and it's just soooo cool ! Love it. Great work. Really interesting material, and I can't wait to explore more of what you've got going on. Subbed for sure!
Very cool. Thanks so much for sharing. I have a friend who has a big ranch out in West Texas. Most of the land has not been touched for a long, long time. I spent weeks out there, just walking the property and finding so many artifacts just laying out on top. I have quite a collection and I cherish it so much. Love your enthusiasm too.
My uncle had a spot on his farm JUST like this....had some archeologists do a thorough excavation of the area and why he had so many objects (like you found) in various states is the opposite of what you might think. These are not "heavily used" they are failed attempts. What my Uncle had, and looks to be the same here, is that this was a location where someone was making lots of arrowheads and you are finding a collection of the messed up ones. We literally found hundreds of arrowheads and drill points at my uncles which all looked "heavily used" but the archeologists were able to show us how our intuition served us wrong.
In my many years of life, I have learned that when we have completed our time on earth, we will go, no matter the struggle. No one can stop it. We have one life to live. The material things we invest in are left behind. Memories therefore, are important to me. And so, I'm going to start a "reunion of friends". The idea is to see who reads a post without a picture. If no one reads my post, this will be a very short experiment. But if you are reading this message, make a comment using a single word about how we met. After that copy this message on your wall and I will also leave you a word. Please, don't leave a word and then not bother doing the second thing. Let’s go. Friends are important. Those we see and talk to often and those we think of often.
My boss was an avid points collector. He had the vision, in the desert 100 people walk right past an awesome point & he was the only one to see it. He collected a lot of very ancient ones that had value. He offered them to the University of Texas, & they gladly accepted them. Then they showed up where they keep them. In stacks & stacks of storage shelves in a basement, where the public will never ever see them again. He decided he's never donating points to research again, if it can't be displayed, they aren't getting it.
That happens with most every historical 'treasures'. Universities tend to keep things for research or teaching. Museums often rotate items in and out of storage, keep for research, trade them with other museums or sell them to interested parties (operating expenses you know). Most things in university and museum collections will never be put on display.
In newsomfornia the Berkeley university had 20,000 boxes of collections from digs all over the state and they are in the process of or have successfully 'repatriated' the stuff back to the appropriate tribal groups. And there is no mention I can find that they ever had it. Kroeber's writings of the tribal life he documented is a valuable although contemporary view of the people.
My family had the same experience. My grandfather was going to donate part of his collection to a local museum but only if they would put them in a display for the public to see. They refused to make any promises, so they stayed in the family. We know they were just going to sell them, lol.
I used to stomp the cornfields in Missouri for artifacts. You could always tell where the tipis were, from the round circles where the corn was yellow and stunted, the ground was still packed down and nothing really grew well there. These were great times with my father and grandfather 🙂
I appreciate how on almost every video you explain the fire cracked rock I think that's very important for people to know and also why is this channel not huge
Dude I just found your channel a hour ago. I've watched 5 of your videos. This is coolest channel I've found for a while. This is really interesting. I love history and American native history. Very cool. Thank you
I grew up in Ohio in the towns of New Richmond, Manchester and Rome (Stout) and me and my brother have a large collection of arrowheads we dug up along the Ohio River but we also use to walk through farm fields right after they plowed in the 1960's and 1970's. His collection is humongous and I told him to donate it to the arrowhead museum in Klamath Falls Oregon. One of the largest in the United States. He still lives near New Richmond.
I’m half Wyandot, but the German half of my heritage was from point pleasant. My great great grandfather used to walk to Pittsburg and ride logs down to Cincinnati. I’ve never found an arrowhead in my life lol
Wow Scott what an amazing day on the river!! I still havent used my pump out! Maybe one day we can get together again and try it out. I havent been out on the banks but once or twice in the last year. You made some amazing recoveries!! Your channel has grown alot! Oh and i noticed you're doing something right because youre starting to get haters and jealous folks making comments. I honestly wish more people would recover artifacts like you and I. We dont sell or buy we just preserve history that would just disappear forever. But with our collections many generations to come will get to see them. Great job Scott! Ttys
Thanks George! Yeah, times been tight here with work. Funny how every time someone has a good video, he’s on them rants. I just find it funny nowadays, never goes anywhere
@@circlepfarm3776 Well what if you owned the property and wanted to do it on your own property? Or if you gave them permission to do it then why would you have a problem with it? We wouldn't do it on someone's property without getting permission. Just relax sweety. 😉
@@georgemotz5359 I'm glad you are one to get permission but I know from personal experience there are those who come by boat along the Ohio river and dig huge holes in the bank, use pumps to wash away the dirt and cause a lot of destruction. All without permission. Over the years my family has lost acres of ground from people doing this. They undermine the bank, then the next time the water rises the ground falls in and washes away.
Loved the video, Clegg! As usual, it was fun, informative, and you rescued some fine pieces of history to share with us. All shot and edited in a way that is uniquely your signature style. Your channel is one-of-a-kind and I always enjoy your videos. I think your personality and style is what has granted you such success. I can tell you put a lot of hard work into your channel. Thanks for doing so!
Hello from Alaska! Thanks for sharing that!!! WOW and WOWWWWWW that was so cool to watch you find those and I imagine erosion has caused the loss of a lot of objects. Can't wait to explore Ohio when we move soon :)
Pretty awesome day on the river. Sure beats walking a few miles picking up a bunch of broken stuff in the fields lol. That 1st one from the scooper sifter kinda resembles what we call an Ashtabula up my way. BTW, how difficult is it to paddle up river there? Look pretty reasonable close to the shore. Thanks for another great vid! Always enjoy your hunts and narration, looking forward to the next 👍🇺🇸
You know I have a 4 inch gold dredge… you could put in the dredge and run it like you was looking for gold but put the screen box at the tail and collect the tailin’s and look for points .. you can move a ton of material with little work .. just a idea if you know anyone with a dredge 👍
I'm from South Carolina toward the north of the state. I've only found a few examples, all on top of the ground. But what a thrill for me to find one! I have a million questions about their history, but all of them will remain unanswered. What I do know is this; those earlier inhabitants were living real close to the bone. Thanks for your vid!
I’m in the Rock Hill area and have found quite a few points around the area. I found 8 in one day turkey hunting our property, the turkeys were safe that day I was far too distracted 😂. Lots of quartz, and two very large pieces from a sandstone type of material that had to be knife blades or spear points.
Your passion and excitement are contagious ❤ much love from Kentucky! Thank you for the excellent video. Might have to build me a shaker box and break out the kayak and do some exploring… I’m in northern Kentucky right by the Ohio and licking rivers…
My grandmother was on the tribal council for the Etowah Indian mounds in the 60s when we was kids we would go over there and find arrowheads in the etowah river and on the banks, some of the old-timers would tell us that some of the broken ones that we found were from the young Braves that were learning to make arrowheads by their elders. Their mother and father were too busy to teach the young Braves, so they spent a lot of time learning from their elders, no that don’t mean that all of the broken ones were bad attempts just some of them. It’s real fun finding them though.
There was a business owner who had a shop next to the Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge. He had a framed display on the wall of his office with stone arrowheads. He said that in the spring when the farmers plow their fields, he waits for a heavy rain, then goes out walking the fields picking up these artifacts.
Hunting plowed fields use to be really good in central Iowa but the farmers don't plow like they did in the past. Many just go the no till method or a chisel plow.
This wonderful book taken from historic accounts will answer your question. “That Dark And Bloody River” by Allan W. Eckert. A great read, it explains the westward expansion of pioneers along the Ohio River. What Ioved most about the book is that it was honest and was very sympathetic toward the Native American viewpoints. It was my favorite book of all time and I am not a historian.
This was a great watch. I would never have thought to look on the river bank for arrowheads, but your explanation makes great sense. Thanks for sharing a really cool experience!
Well done video. I live about 40 mins from Ashlands section of the Ohio river. Ive been itching to get down there and hunt. Done a lot of creek walking for years with some great finds.
Love your videos!!! I have a question though. I used to live in Illinois, I'm 73 now, and would get permission and then hunt for arrowheads in farmers fields. When I found an arrowhead I would id it with the states site location number and date. In looking through my old collection I realized I can no longer remember the site locations nor can I find where to check them with the numbers. Any idea on how to pinpoint on a map with the numbers I have? If this is confusing just forget about it. At my age everything is getting confusing, kinda like my teenage years all over again:~)
Fascinating DIY field archeology. Great way to spend one's time. He has done much historic context study to identify his "gems". I wish something analogous could be for the desert Southwest. Thanks for the effort in the video!
A lot of battles were fought along and on the Ohio river. Every war taken place between Northern Natives, French, British, Colony States, the Ohio was there quietly witnessing it all. The Ohio at one time (still is today) a central piece for trade. The Ohio separated colonial America from the French colonies and Natives for quite some time. USA finally purchased it through Louisiana Purchase in 1803 but Ohio remained a battleground state for long time between waring natives, who joined the British to war again a newly independent USA.
Ohio became a state in 1803 the Louisiana purchase was property West of the Mississippi river. The first organized settlement in the Northwest territory was Marietta Ohio in 1788. There are more officers of the revolutionary war buried in Marietta Ohio than anywhere else in the United States
When I was a kid, we had a boat on the river, we spent weekend there with a few families. Every morning we would walk the beach cause the barges would make big waves, kinda like the ocean. We would find arrowheads. I forget how many we had but I would say in the hundreds. I will save the story of what happen to them.
1. The gubment confiscated them. 2. You donated them to a museum. 3. A flood came and washed them all back into the river. 4. Your kids found the bucket full and thought they were perfect for skipping out on the river. 5. I give up. What happened.
My wife’s family owns a property that had a lot of Native American activity years ago. I have looked for arrow heads and never found any. One year we were out mushroom hunting. My niece hops out of truck and found a really really old arrow head. The crazy part, where she found it is where we always park the truck. We have walked over that piece of ground who knows how many times. Crazy
Excellent lesson in geomorphology, Clegg. You could find anything you're seeking with this knowledge, sharkteeth and other fossils, gems and minerals (gold), or artifacts and relics. I'm in Va. but we should hang out sometime, you'd enjoy my box full of artifacts.
I love watching these Native American artifact channels. My imagination kinda runs wild thinking about how each clan probably had a master tool maker, and he (or she) had a production set up, just making points all day long.
Thanks for this very interesting video on your unique method of hunting for arrowheads. In many places here in Arizona an ancient Native American site can be dated by the pottery type. The later pottery shards are from painted bowls including black on white and black on red. The earlier pottery had a simple design pressed into the clay along the edge of the outside of the rim or just nothing at all, a little later in time before painted pottery were solid pressed in designs covering the entire outer part of their bowls. In most sites the time period of the pottery is a good indication of the time period of the arrowheads. Thanks again!
Much appreciated! The pottery around here doesn’t hold up well, I only find small pieces. Most are textured on the outside usually by wrapping a cord around a stick and rolling it on. You can see it was a chord. Others have been rolled with corn cobs. And some are just smooth.
Well, my arrow head adventure has stopped and started all in same weekend. Went out Saturday afternoon and had a great time looking. So much fun, I decided to go back Sunday. I was stopped by game warden and told that digging for arrow heads is a class A misdemeanor. Officer was real nice guy and was just doing his job. He wrote me a warning. I asked if I could dig on private property and he said no. So, before you go out, check the rules. I had a sifter screen and was on a riverbank. What a bummer. Be careful and don’t get yourself into trouble over it
That’s just terrible! I’m sorry this happened to you. It’s so sad that we have to be careful and check with “authorities” . It makes me sad and frustrated because God gave this earth to everyone and it seems like the bad guys get to buy up all the property and privatize it. Government does the same thing. I think it’s wonderful when someone finds something and then calls their county or local museum to report it and it gets preserved, researched and studied that way, but that doesn’t mean WE shouldn’t be able to preserve it privately for generations as well. I know some will say we could damage it or break it but everyone had to learn somewhere and not everyone has the opportunity to get a college degree. As a matter fact, I am willing to bet there are many people who hunt for and find artifacts that know more about them, and are better at handling them than people with degrees. Not all, of course, but still… Everyone has to learn somewhere, and it isn’t fair for other people to pick and choose who gets to learn and how. I want to learn… I want to find artifacts if I find something, I’m not turning it in. I’m saving it to show my kids, my grandkids, and great grandkids and let them do the same with it if they choose, they can donate my collection to a museum or research. “The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.” Psalm 115:16
WHERE CAN YOU NOT DIG ON PRIVATE PROPERTY ? IT IS PRIVATE! I'M NOT GIVING YOU ANY SHIT I JUST HATE THE SYSTEM! ONLY IN THE LAND OF THE FEE AND HOME OF THE SLAVE.
*The Ohio River was a frequented battle arena between invading Amerindians and the Native American Salutreans.* There was a particularly brutal massacre just outside of Ravenswood, where over 960 Salutreans were slaughtered after being taken prisoner. Of which 403 were children.
It's a pipe dream. I noticed in the comments that some posters have more enthusiasm than knowledge. They can always go to the library or even major in Anthropology at College, Most states have Archaeology Societies that the "wannabees" can join and donate a few hours of their time per month on a dig. These digs are run by Graduate Students or PhD's who would be more than happy to show them how to do a dig properly, document artifacts, mapping and share their knowledge in geology, history and archaeological techniques. It takes years to become an archaeologist but one can find artifacts just by walking a plowed field or creek. Archaeologists want the artifacts for information, not for display. Once an artifact has been dislodged from its "in situ" place, its importance is lost and becomes next to worthless. None the less, I have no problem with surface collectors. I do have a problem with "known site "robbers. They are out there, especially out West.@@maracohen5930
I’ve never thought of sifting river sand. There’s a historical camp or village site here that may have been used thousands of years. The local people had no actual cemetery before the 1900’s so my entire town has skeletal remains here and there. They buried their dead where they died. My home town was an Indian burial ground except we didn’t have any poltergeist events. In fact outside of a drunk telling ghost stories we don’t even have scary legends. The people’s who were here were amazingly peaceful so even if they wonder these lands they wouldn’t be mean as spirits.
I live 10 miles from Louisville, there was just a couple arrested for doing this same thing not long ago. They were charged with illegally searching and stealing artifacts. Be careful.
If they government sanctions it IE universities, research etc, it's OK. Otherwise you could be in trouble. Someday it will be OK if you register with 'them' and pay 'them' a fee.
All about this is incredibly exciting. Great video! So informative and educational. I now feel I want to learn more about Native American history and culture, especially along the Ohio River. I recently moved to Louisville from Boston, and I would love to do some artifact hunting on my own. Thank you for sharing your excitement and knowledge!
I had a cousin, who died young and was a collector because there was some sort of battlefield in a field on his father’s land on the bluffs above Warwood, WV. This land had been part of his I’m guessing five times great grand father’s tomahawk claim in the 1700s . He would have been Samuel McColloch’s brother Abraham. Abraham was my five times great grandfather as well. What you are finding are arrowheads washed out of sites like the one I described and concentrated by river hydraulics. Do not discount these arrowheads being washed down tributaries. Oh, I am a geologist with about 50 years of varied experience including about thirty in the field!
We stopped in Madison, IN recently and stayed in Lawrenceburg, IN right on the river. We were there to tour the Creation Museum just over the river in KY. It was a great little trip! Since we'd been studying the Underground Railroad, it was a wonderful learning experience.
Awesome video. I live in Pa, and you've inspired me to buy a sieve and go looking. I've looked along paths etc all my life and never found a single one.
I used to drive a dump truck for a gravel company in upstate NY and when getting top soil along the banks of the Susquehanna River I would walk through the rows of corn and collect all types of arrow heads, decorative pottery and net weights. The farmers have been plowing them up for generations
Sounds like a great river to hunt.
@@cleggsadventures According to Cornell University the area between Tioga Center NY and Binghamton was continuosly occupied for hundreds of years and they're not even sure what they called themselves because there's no apparent connection to the modern Native Americans that still live in the area.
Of course there's loads of artefacts
Following Christopher Columbus' arrival in North America in 1492, European violence and disease killed 90% of the indigenous population - nearly 55 million people.
You love on a graveyard
Well thanks loads for this one... My dad, a retired engineer who passed in 2012 at age 84, spent many hours down along the shoreline of the Susquehanna River around Falls, PA digging and doing the exact same thing. He was just as excited about his last find as he was his first, and I was always amazed at the artifacts that he brought home. Thanks for bringing back those fond memories of the best man that I've ever known. 😊
Very Much Appreciated Brian
Did you ever do Maryland
@@godbyone never
@@cleggsadventures thanks. If you have a friend. That’s does. I wish I could find 1 arrowhead. I watched most of your vids. Seemed. Helpful. They made sense. Trying to understand area s of land and creek. You get very into maybe. A sketch. Or over head. Drone. View. Of what you talk about. That would be great
Where’s falls PA?
We built a golf course in south eastern Ohio and when they started scraping back the earth for the greens and tee boxes, arrowheads were everywhere. After a rain, they would shine. Out of the 18 holes scraped I filled almost a whole gallon plastic bag. I gave some to the neighbor kids, my nieces and nephews. Ohio is rich in Native American history.
@@2sistersjunkjournals Very Nice
Many Natives were “relocated” from the Marietta, Ohio area. They were known for the mounds they made usually with dead soldiers from both sides buried underneath.
The mighty Ohio & other rivers drew many native American settlements.. I was a camper at Thomas E Lightfoot in Hinton WV until a teenager & they would seed a large field so us campers could find them. :)
I’m in NE Ohio and there used to be a golf course up the road from me called Spearhead, they found many arrowheads and from the name large spearheads…it’s been converted to farmland now, I need to go take a walk around the fields sometime
@@bullfrog1807 We played on an Indian mound right by a creek close to my house as a kid in Dayton Ohio
That was phenomenal! A person who knows what they are doing, and can communicate so that somebody like me can learn and understand. Thank you sir.
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Just like Nick Nolte.
I was born in southern Ohio. When we were kids there were so many arrowheads on our playground at school that we didn’t even bother to pick them up! My father was a lineman for Ohio Power and when they had a job out in the rural part they would find all kinds of Indian artifacts and bring them home to show us kids. He’d bring us pipes, vases, bowls, all kinds of things. I have no idea whatever happened to all of the things he would bring home, but I sure am thankful for the experience!
Sadly the Native American history of that area is being lost and it is absolutely fascinating.
Growing up on the banks of the Ohio River I saw tremendous collections of artifacts. In some cases, the grandfather started, the son, continued, and I knew the grandson. I'm 72 years old now and what blows me away is things continue to be recovered. As I think about it millions of points were made and thousands recovered and will continue as long as people look. It makes us small in the big picture of history.
Yeah, over thousands of years. Just think of how many coins have been lost over only the past 300 years
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Gamblers in a barn hiding from women folk.
My family had an old time family, hand tool everything, and mule equipment usage farm near a big slough that came out of the Green River (which is an insland water river off the Ohio River below Owensboro KY. The back water into our bottom land made shallow wading pools, or small lakes, and both our farm, and the neighbors fars were raised hills, and there had been ;fishing camps for a 100 years thru Daneils Boones time and foreward. Thousands of people would come walk thebottom, and any raised land near the flooded areas. My Father found some old age war club stones, and several grain grinding roicks, plus other stones for working out napping flint. A local university cane and took those. Dad found several superior spear points, but we kids just kept breaking theme. There were man smal size arrow points were around for small game and fish hunting.Thise areas are concsoder picked out, but I bet plenty artificaits as still there,
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John, Greetings from the Bluegrass. I grew up near Little Sandy River meets the Ohio River, big corn fields, lots of the low lands covered by water when they built the Ohio River Dams. I can imagine the area you described, we as young boys didn’t respect these artifacts. When I was little (72 now) one of my uncles talked about the cool “Indian” spear points ect. they broke on trees trying to stick them. What must have been lost to boys being boys. Now I live near Boonesborough State park, it’s hard to believe the fields had bison 🦬, deer, bear, and was the forest and meadows untouched (by white men) until Daniel and his friends built the fort. A lot changes in 250-300 years. Thanks for sharing. PS Nice how a university takes things and never puts them on display. UK I’m sure has tons of things they wanted to “study” .
@@flouisbailey Greetings to the Blue Grass! I was in Lexington for 13 years between schooling and work. I used to ride my motorcycle over to Boonsborough long before and park development. I skulked around the forest there above where the fort was, just to sense the approachs the Indians made against it.Our farmland was next to Boise Ferry on Green River. There was a samll Civil War scermish there, and once in awhile, a rifle ball or old coin was found. Dad bought the farm in 1926 and was concerned with survival, and traded most of the stuff he found. Work with mules pulling a single blade plow, and/or a ditching scoup, he brought up a lot of relics but he had work to do and he quit stopping for same. Best to you.
Amazing ! ! I have walked hundreds of miles of feilds & felt delighted to find even one point after all that . Cannot imagine so many in one place !
I’ve looked places that didn’t produce much, but every now and then I get on to a good spot. I think it’s just luck thing really. My friend’s 5 year old daughter found an incredible point on a gravel bar that I usually hunt. Right place at the right time
It was a area where they made points not shot the arrows. The lesser points where left in the slag. They only kept the sharper , better made points for hunting.
Love to see his passion on arrowheads. This guy enjoys life.
I sit here watching you find artifacts and I'm drawn into a world I don't know. I imagine the person sitting on a stump or a rock and fashioning the tips and blades because they needed to keep their supply up for hunting and skinning their game. They think nothing of us, hundreds or thousands of years later locating their hard work. It's a mixed bag of emotions. Maybe those tips killed another human being in battle. Maybe the broken ones were rejects by the craftsman and just discarded or a missed shot that broke on impact of trees or earth or bone. Maybe it was used in a most epic hunt.
And I also wonder, as I'm sure is the case, that as much as we think we know about that time, if we could travel back we would probably be embarrassed to a degree of how much we misrepresent their time and culture. Thanks for the video.
Much Appreciated! You’re right, we know very little
I always think about how ignorant modern man is, yet we think we are so superior to ancient man. Thrown into the wilderness with no modern means of survival, most of us would perish. Yet everything we need for survival is all around us, provided by mother earth at no cost.
Their life was constant war
Toyo was here.
I’m a 6th generation Lene Lenape’ from PA. The summer between high school and college I volunteered on a river dig site in Muncy, PA. I found pottery pieces, arrow heads and flint balls. So exciting.
I find your videos to be a good combination of entertainment and practical archaeology. I love how much you enjoy finding these treasures.
Super contagious enthusiasm.....keeps me going for days on my own searches. Thanks
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Hey Bro, what's up???
With a strong back and a curious mind the man takes us back thousands of years to a time when there were no property lines or property taxes or attorneys. So many things during the daily life would have been unfamiliar to us now. The stone age evidence along the river gives Clegg a rich bed of pay-dirt to do his time travel magic.
It keeps me going back. I bet it was a grand time!
A way better time to be alive for sure .
@@cleggsadventuresI’m curious to what the oldest tip or knife you have found. Thanks for the videos
@@tomeickhorst6787 I have yet to find a Clovis but I’ve found an Ohio lancelette, transitional Paleo.
I’m still looking but there have been a bunch of Paleo pieces found around here, so I’m hopeful
@@kerickwalters2749 I’d love to see what it was like. Just worry about food and shelter.
I was going to comment about recording where you found your points... until I heard the breadth of knowledge you have. Awesome video, I just graduated in Geology/Archaeology in the Midwest and I worked with lithics in this region for the last 2 years or so. You're spot on about everything, I would have been grateful to have you as a teacher - I'm excited to see more!
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I keep everything I find for my personal collection, like a little museum in my house. I hunt generally in a small location, spanning a few miles along the river. I find all time periods in every location. I’ve never sone a dig into virgin ground but would love to. I would be able to record the depths of the finds and relate things easier. Everything I find has already been washed from its original location by the river. I think that’s why a lot of it is broken.
@@cleggsadventures that totally makes sense. I haven’t had been able to participate in a fresh dig either, I imagine seeing the pieces in the place they were dropped probably provides a perspective relatively unknown to most people. My family has an old house that sits by an old “trash” dump (broken points, hammer stones, and the like) by an old route to flint ridge and it’s a really wonderful feeling being able to connect personally with a moment in distant history.
Amazing! If he has found this many artifacts in such a small area, can you imagine how many there are on the shore of the rest of the river...well done, sir...
Much Appreciated! There seem to be artifacts all along the river below these fields. Some are better than others. This stretch of about 300 meters, has been the best site I’ve found. I think it was a preferred place to live.
I just found my first arrowhead this past summer in northern Michigan! You're super knowledgable, thank you for all the information I learned from this video. I will definitely be using your tips and tricks from now on!
Right On!👍
The forest was so dense in the Michigan peninsula that most Indian activity was on the coast. Harvesting and smoking salmon for the winter. Things changed little until the old forest was cut down to rebuild Chicago after the great fire in the late 19th century.
. Your right that's how they turned into sand tunes. Your a smart man
Cleggs! Your energy is contagious! Great Native American finds in this video. Thank you for explaining the "lay of the land" and also the type and dates of the artifacts. I agree with you.... It was Nick Nolte!
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Definitely Nick Nolte
As a kid, I went on several digs with Wright State University archaeology department. My dad had gone back to school and was working a site at Massie's creek north of Xenia, Ohio. It was a large encampment for the Hopewell culture. They unearthed a large hearth under limestone overhangs and found all manner of bone, pottery and spear heads. It was an amazing thing to experience as a kid and this video really makes me nostalgic for that. I may have to get out there and do some exploration around the Scioto and Olentangy rivers using your methods. Thanks a ton for the video and information!!!
Much Appreciated! I find mostly Hopewell stuff
I live in Columbus, and kayak fish the scioto, and olentangy often. Where abouts would you look for artifacts like arrowheads in those watersheds?
@@claytonhaske No sure of your area, only know of guys field hunting there. Very flat
Bro you are in a choice area.
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Look for sharp bends in the river one side is the cut bank other will be gravel/sand side. You must remember the rivers and creeks meander.
I'm in southcentral Indiana, this looks like home territory to me. Yep lots of native artifacts in the Ohio Valley. Everyone has a few arrowheads found out while plowing the fields, or fishing etc.. My favorite find is a good sized grinding stone, very comfortable and well used..
I found one a couple years ago in a fire pit.
When I was growing up in the country in central Ohio me and my friend Tommy would walk freshly plowed fields to see what we could find . Found just a few arrow heads but when you do it's a powerful feeling to realize right where you stood , somebody else stood too long long ago.
Fields are great places.
Glad to hear from others like you who have thought deeply about the people who came hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of years before us because of finding their old belongings, tools, and weapons.
As a kid I walked corn fields before planting or after harvests. What a feeling to find stuff. The uniqueness, simplicity, durability and beauty Now all the local corn field are are gone , build on.
I just really like this guy. He answers questions before you even think of them and gives you so much information that you want to keep watching. He makes it look so easy, but I know it's work. I will certainly subscribe and am happy to have stumbled upon his channel. Thumbs up. Gonna try myself now.
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This guy is really good at this stuff I find it interesting as heck. Love America native history. I've never found a arrow head or knife sharpener. I can't wait though. It's going to be life changing.
I really appreciate the explanations of the how's and why's about time, place and artifacts. Stuff thats Ive always wondered about.
Thanks Jeffrey
Wow, some great finds, buddy. I'm glad your back. I missed your videos. Thanks from Huntington WV
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I’ll always be back
Great vid! I live near Mason-Dixon line in Maryland. I found arrow heads near the Conowingo Dam as a kid in the 1980's. Fun to see.
I’m not far fro the line on the opposite end
Excellent artifacts, video and explanation of things.Thanks ,new subscriber
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First time watching your video and thank you for sharing. Every time you would show us an arrowhead it made me want to cry.
@@rachelmaier1057 I try to save as many as I can, from being lost forever.
Awesome recoveries Scott! Another great indication of just how many people lived on this continent before European contact. Great job! Keep it up!
Thanks guys! Just finding average points. I’m due for a nice one, I hope
The American Indians were descendants of Hebrews
Was it lots of people or thousands of years? Something my retirement has given me time to think about. Sadly I have time but not the physical body to hike a river edge and then dig. Doesn’t make me want to know less it makes me want to know more. This channel has great comments.
My cousin just bought some property along the Ohio river in Ohio. The previous owners found 2 milk crates full of arrow heads over the years. While we were moving her in, a few people found some laying right on top of the dirt. I think 4 or 5 were found with in an hour or 2 of being there. They weren't looking for them, just happened to look down and seen them. I found a couple as a kid but I haven't found any as an adult.
Sounds like a great area
Awesome finds and a nice explanation of the origin of the artifacts!❤
Thanks Cynthia 👍
When i lived up on Lake Eerie i found them in my back yard as a kid. wish i kept them all. beautiful finds
I was very intrigued by your finds....I had an Uncle who lived in Indiana. His brother used to follow his father in plowing their fields. He found over 3,000 artifacts over a 160 acres which included axe heads, hammers and many points. The man's grand daughter still holds the collection. She asked me what I thought...I suggested that it could have been a battlefield where many of these items were left after whatever skirmish occurred. I met a man in Illinois that has built a cabin to house all of his finds...he runs the creek beds in the spring and uncovers points every year...the man is in his 80's.
Very Nice! Probably a lot of people lived there over the
It was the site of an encampment/village.
They would use these camps for generations upon generations.
Some tools were stockpiled (caches), some were lost, some discarded when broken, some dropped. We have found many, as in many hundreds.
A man who's enthusiastic about his work/passion. I recently moved to KY, from CO. I was shocked to learn that bison migrated to KY (Stamping Ground, KY), crossed the Ohio River in search of minerals from the springs in KY. Bison crossing the Ohio River!! One of the shallowest points in the river (how'd they know that?). Indians followed by the earliest Europeans hunted the buffalo in this area. The packed earth became the highway to the western frontier, Buffalo Trace. Gotta' love history.
Greetings from someone who grew up in Stamping Ground. Until the tornado hit lost all but one room to the house. But live in
Georgetown now. A friend of mine found a dinosaur head in Elkhorn creek here. Lots of relics to be had here in Scott County
@@davidb9150no joke? Any idea what kind? If not then like how big was it and was it complete?
@@swayback7375 if he did it was one that swam as KY was underwater during the age of the dinosaurs...
@@alanhawse well… that’s what I thought, the limestone is kind of a give away, I know areas nearby with trilobite’s but not many, drive an hour or 2 and you can definitely find some really cool geology but you can find tall tales way easier
They knew the shallowest point because the Ohio was clear at the time. No plow had broken the soil, and no propellers were churning up the mud. Imagine a clear Ohio river, seeing the bottom....
I grew up right on the Ohio Valley, I have found arrow heads on the river myself. The river is nasty now but my mom would say, can you imagine what the river looked like when the Indians lived there before the industrial revolution?
It was half as wide and only about 10 foot deep
@@markbranch682 But it was clean and clear and full of fish.
I live just outside of louisville, I would die to see it back in the day. I love Kentucky and its history but the days and lack of respect from new habitants have taken their toll :/
keep voting for politicians that roll back environmental standards and protections, want to abolish the EPA and then turn around and tell everyone how you're an outdoorsman that loves to hunt and fish
i grew up next to the auglaize river and it would flood the field next to our house quite often. once that water would recede. we would just walk down through the field and find 10 to 20 points. eventually we had a massive collection. my father even found a full frio spear tip. it was immaculate. my father almost had a heart attack when he picked it up. i personally found a Red Gorget. there are so many artifacts around my house that you could go outside and trip over them
Nice! Just imagine how many people lived there. I would say a lot
I had to come back and leave another comment on this one Scott. This is a prime example of "if one channel/video in out community of treasure hunters does well, we all do well". No doubt many of us have benefited from the popularity of this video. You know our videos have been recommended many times to folks that watched this one. Congratulations and thanks!
Much Appreciated Guys! Y’all have absolutely helped me as well. I just wish I could figure out what drives some of these videos.
You’re sand drawing and explanation was really well done I’m impressed !
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Thanks, I always enjoy your videos. And, they are very informative as well. I use the Overstreet books as well for identification.
Much Appreciated! Yeah, it’s a good book
This was amazing! I live right by the Ohio river and didn’t realize all of this information, nothing better than a highly entertaining video all whilst learning something, subscribed!
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I live in Louisville and back in the day when I was in high school I had two semesters of Archeology and one of anthropology. As a midterm project we had to go out into the field in teams and discover a new archeological site. Not as hard as it sounds. We ended up finding two sites along the Ohio, one a hunting camp and the other was a garbage dump. The fist site was a lot of broken points and flakes. The second one yielded points most were broke a few were intact but it did have tons of bone fish hooks. we actually did register the second site.
I wish we’d gotten to do stuff like that.
How interesting! I live in Louisville too! Perhaps we can organize a trip like this!
Some teachers instill the wonderful things history can give us. You were lucky.
Care to share where? KY or IN?
@@wuznotbornyesterda Me? I’m in WV
Love your finds,your enthusiasm and knowledge of what you’re finding. Love your Tour de’France hat, I watch every year.
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Great video. Love your passion! Very informative….thanks again
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Idk if youre an archeologist or just a really well informed hobbyist but ive got the exact same type situation on the river where i live here in sw michigan. I know Indians were in the area heavily for thousands of years cause its a major part of the history in this local area and we have the same thing w the local river having numerous different dams on it so im gonna try this on the beaches where i fish cause i would LOVE to find some legit native artifacts in the "wild" myself. That would be sooo cool.
Sounds like a great spot. Make sure your state allows it, you don’t wanna get in any trouble.
Would you be referring to the Kalamazoo River. I grew up on a farm in Hickory Corners.
This was exciting! I used to look for them in south central Virginia after the cornfields were turned after harvest especially along a flood plain. We'd walk along the furrows and flip the rock bits with a walking stick instead of bending down for every stone of interest and find quite a few. My friends grandfather farmed and as he plowed the fields he'd spot them... he literally found buckets of them farming for 60 years. Ive never tried on the water like this. Thoroughly enjoyed your video!!
Fields are great places to look for sure
I live on Lake Austin near Steiner Ranch. A neighbor friend of mine has been living here 40 years. She showed me her collection of arrowheads she's found in this area. She remained vague on where and how they were found. I spend off time digging in the bottom of the river for interesting rocks and Native American artifacts. It seems on the trails around I find scrapers, cutting stones and stones to pulverise with. They're everywhere. People walk right past them not recognising a rock with an edge that has been worked. Its amazing the way the stones have been chipped to fit your hand comfortably. In the river I find tomahawks. So far I've found 6 in 3 years and I'm really not looking very hard. I'd like for an expert to give me dates and tribes that created what I've found. Sometimes I don't recognise an artifact until I look at it again by chance as I walk past a rock garden. My hope is to one day find a large perfect arrowhead. I swear one could be between my feet and I'd never see it. Seems I need to learn about erosion and terrain to be successful at it. Interesting video. Tks for sharing it.
For sure, most folks don’t know what most artifacts are.
Your friend is vague about where she found them because those sites would become heritage digs and she'd lose control of the land there for an indefinite time.
How do u find them in the river?
First time viewer of any of your videos. This video popped up on my feed. Glad I watched. Interesting, fascinating, informative and entertaining. I could imagine myself right there on the bank with you. Thx for sharing your passion with others!
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This is one of the coolest things ive ever seen on youtube. I would absolutely LOVE spending an afternoon doing this. Thanks for sharing!!
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Every year when my Grandfather tilled his Garden we would find arrowheads. They were different than what your finding. Much larger a white colored stone and much heavier. I was told they were older than native Americans
Many years from now they will find our nucular missile silos and empty underground bunkers .
Good to see you back on the river Scott . As usual you are the best at
finding artifacts . You are very informative , explaining what you find , thanks for all the information ,Welcome back
Thanks Bill! I hope this one flies
Just found your channel - and so glad I did! Man this is fun stuff. I love to learn about this sort of thing. This is living history, and it's just soooo cool ! Love it. Great work. Really interesting material, and I can't wait to explore more of what you've got going on. Subbed for sure!
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Very cool. Thanks so much for sharing. I have a friend who has a big ranch out in West Texas. Most of the land has not been touched for a long, long time. I spent weeks out there, just walking the property and finding so many artifacts just laying out on top. I have quite a collection and I cherish it so much.
Love your enthusiasm too.
@@222dyan much Appreciated
Great video. Thanks for explaining the logic behind how the river affects the land and how that in turn affects the artifacts.
@@MikeSanders-u3u Much Appreciated
Good to see you're back at it! I thought you retired from hunting. Look forward to more videos!
Much Appreciated, I’ll always be back
My uncle had a spot on his farm JUST like this....had some archeologists do a thorough excavation of the area and why he had so many objects (like you found) in various states is the opposite of what you might think. These are not "heavily used" they are failed attempts. What my Uncle had, and looks to be the same here, is that this was a location where someone was making lots of arrowheads and you are finding a collection of the messed up ones. We literally found hundreds of arrowheads and drill points at my uncles which all looked "heavily used" but the archeologists were able to show us how our intuition served us wrong.
In my many years of life, I have learned that when we have completed our time on earth, we will go, no matter the struggle. No one can stop it. We have one life to live.
The material things we invest in are left behind.
Memories therefore, are important to me. And so, I'm going to start a "reunion of friends". The idea is to see who reads a post without a picture.
If no one reads my post, this will be a very short experiment. But if you are reading this message, make a comment using a single word about how we met. After that copy this message on your wall and I will also leave you a word. Please, don't leave a word and then not bother doing the second thing. Let’s go. Friends are important. Those we see and talk to often and those we think of often.
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My boss was an avid points collector. He had the vision, in the desert 100 people walk right past an awesome point & he was the only one to see it. He collected a lot of very ancient ones that had value. He offered them to the University of Texas, & they gladly accepted them. Then they showed up where they keep them. In stacks & stacks of storage shelves in a basement, where the public will never ever see them again. He decided he's never donating points to research again, if it can't be displayed, they aren't getting it.
A collector told me the same. Do the donate to a museum, if they don’t have room, it’ll be sold to pay for other stuff or sit in storage
That happens with most every historical 'treasures'. Universities tend to keep things for research or teaching. Museums often rotate items in and out of storage, keep for research, trade them with other museums or sell them to interested parties (operating expenses you know). Most things in university and museum collections will never be put on display.
In newsomfornia the Berkeley university had 20,000 boxes of collections from digs all over the state and they are in the process of or have successfully 'repatriated' the stuff back to the appropriate tribal groups. And there is no mention I can find that they ever had it. Kroeber's writings of the tribal life he documented is a valuable although contemporary view of the people.
Cal should cancel those tribes for eating meat. I can hear the rabbits scream. Heathens.@@pplusbthrust
My family had the same experience. My grandfather was going to donate part of his collection to a local museum but only if they would put them in a display for the public to see. They refused to make any promises, so they stayed in the family. We know they were just going to sell them, lol.
Wowza, what a treasure trove. Thanks for the share... amazing , so many in one area... Well done.
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This video was great! Thanks for doing it. I grew up in N. WV and I love your accent, reminds me of home!
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I used to stomp the cornfields in Missouri for artifacts. You could always tell where the tipis were, from the round circles where the corn was yellow and stunted, the ground was still packed down and nothing really grew well there. These were great times with my father and grandfather 🙂
tee pees
The correct spelling is "tipi". Google tipi and you will see 😉
I have a lot of hobbies but this has to be one of the most addicting because you mever know what at youre gonna get
That’s what keeps us going.
So true, it's captivating. Might even find something you don't know about, so you have more fun looking it up when you can't be out there.
I appreciate how on almost every video you explain the fire cracked rock I think that's very important for people to know and also why is this channel not huge
It’s growing slowly
Dude I just found your channel a hour ago. I've watched 5 of your videos. This is coolest channel I've found for a while. This is really interesting. I love history and American native history. Very cool. Thank you
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Very nicely explained! I liked your enthusiasm. I'd love to see you when you get REALLY excited!
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I grew up in Ohio in the towns of New Richmond, Manchester and Rome (Stout) and me and my brother have a large collection of arrowheads we dug up along the Ohio River but we also use to walk through farm fields right after they plowed in the 1960's and 1970's. His collection is humongous and I told him to donate it to the arrowhead museum in Klamath Falls Oregon. One of the largest in the United States. He still lives near New Richmond.
Fields are great places
I’m half Wyandot, but the German half of my heritage was from point pleasant. My great great grandfather used to walk to Pittsburg and ride logs down to Cincinnati.
I’ve never found an arrowhead in my life lol
Wow Scott what an amazing day on the river!! I still havent used my pump out! Maybe one day we can get together again and try it out. I havent been out on the banks but once or twice in the last year. You made some amazing recoveries!! Your channel has grown alot! Oh and i noticed you're doing something right because youre starting to get haters and jealous folks making comments. I honestly wish more people would recover artifacts like you and I. We dont sell or buy we just preserve history that would just disappear forever. But with our collections many generations to come will get to see them. Great job Scott! Ttys
Thanks George! Yeah, times been tight here with work.
Funny how every time someone has a good video, he’s on them rants. I just find it funny nowadays, never goes anywhere
Hope you are not using a pump to wash the bank. If I caught someone doing that to my property they would regret it.
@@circlepfarm3776 Well what if you owned the property and wanted to do it on your own property? Or if you gave them permission to do it then why would you have a problem with it? We wouldn't do it on someone's property without getting permission. Just relax sweety. 😉
@@cleggsadventures I understand. And yes absolutely!!!
@@georgemotz5359 I'm glad you are one to get permission but I know from personal experience there are those who come by boat along the Ohio river and dig huge holes in the bank, use pumps to wash away the dirt and cause a lot of destruction. All without permission. Over the years my family has lost acres of ground from people doing this. They undermine the bank, then the next time the water rises the ground falls in and washes away.
Loved the video, Clegg! As usual, it was fun, informative, and you rescued some fine pieces of history to share with us. All shot and edited in a way that is uniquely your signature style. Your channel is one-of-a-kind and I always enjoy your videos. I think your personality and style is what has granted you such success. I can tell you put a lot of hard work into your channel. Thanks for doing so!
Much Appreciated Man. I don’t miss your show, I enjoy it as well.
@@cleggsadventures Thank you sir!
Hello from Alaska! Thanks for sharing that!!! WOW and WOWWWWWW that was so cool to watch you find those and I imagine erosion has caused the loss of a lot of objects. Can't wait to explore Ohio when we move soon :)
Thoroughly enjoyed hanging with you today. Learned a lot.
Much Appreciated Richard
Pretty awesome day on the river. Sure beats walking a few miles picking up a bunch of broken stuff in the fields lol. That 1st one from the scooper sifter kinda resembles what we call an Ashtabula up my way. BTW, how difficult is it to paddle up river there? Look pretty reasonable close to the shore. Thanks for another great vid! Always enjoy your hunts and narration, looking forward to the next 👍🇺🇸
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It’s easy paddling unless it’s really windy
You know I have a 4 inch gold dredge… you could put in the dredge and run it like you was looking for gold but put the screen box at the tail and collect the tailin’s and look for points .. you can move a ton of material with little work .. just a idea if you know anyone with a dredge 👍
Yeah, I thought about that. Went to Alaska a few times and used a 6”.
It would definitely work if it didn’t break the stuff
I'm from South Carolina toward the north of the state. I've only found a few examples, all on top of the ground. But what a thrill for me to find one! I have a million questions about their history, but all of them will remain unanswered. What I do know is this; those earlier inhabitants were living real close to the bone. Thanks for your vid!
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I’m in the Rock Hill area and have found quite a few points around the area. I found 8 in one day turkey hunting our property, the turkeys were safe that day I was far too distracted 😂. Lots of quartz, and two very large pieces from a sandstone type of material that had to be knife blades or spear points.
Hello. Great videos. Thank you for taking us on your adventures. Ohio is beautiful!! Have a wonderful weekend.
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Your passion and excitement are contagious ❤ much love from Kentucky! Thank you for the excellent video. Might have to build me a shaker box and break out the kayak and do some exploring… I’m in northern Kentucky right by the Ohio and licking rivers…
Good luck out there 👍
My grandmother was on the tribal council for the Etowah Indian mounds in the 60s when we was kids we would go over there and find arrowheads in the etowah river and on the banks, some of the old-timers would tell us that some of the broken ones that we found were from the young Braves that were learning to make arrowheads by their elders. Their mother and father were too busy to teach the young Braves, so they spent a lot of time learning from their elders, no that don’t mean that all of the broken ones were bad attempts just some of them. It’s real fun finding them though.
Thanks for that story David, much appreciated. It’s fun to search for them
There was a business owner who had a shop next to the Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge. He had a framed display on the wall of his office with stone arrowheads. He said that in the spring when the farmers plow their fields, he waits for a heavy rain, then goes out walking the fields picking up these artifacts.
Fields are great places to look
Hunting plowed fields use to be really good in central Iowa but the farmers don't plow like they did in the past. Many just go the no till method or a chisel plow.
This wonderful book taken from historic accounts will answer your question. “That Dark And Bloody River” by Allan W. Eckert. A great read, it explains the westward expansion of pioneers along the Ohio River. What Ioved most about the book is that it was honest and was very sympathetic toward the Native American viewpoints. It was my favorite book of all time and I am not a historian.
My friend just gave me this book, I plan to read it soon
"Allen Eckerts book "Wilderness Empire" is another good book. Just about every library had a collection of his works.
"The Frontiersmen" is one of my favorites
This was a great watch. I would never have thought to look on the river bank for arrowheads, but your explanation makes great sense. Thanks for sharing a really cool experience!
Much Appreciated! Any eroded banks will eventually put it all at the water’s edge.
Well done video. I live about 40 mins from Ashlands section of the Ohio river. Ive been itching to get down there and hunt. Done a lot of creek walking for years with some great finds.
@@AceGess Good Luck out there 👍
My only complaint with you is I wish you made way more videos I really enjoy your style of creating content
Thank you.
Love your videos!!! I have a question though. I used to live in Illinois, I'm 73 now, and would get permission and then hunt for arrowheads in farmers fields. When I found an arrowhead I would id it with the states site location number and date. In looking through my old collection I realized I can no longer remember the site locations nor can I find where to check them with the numbers. Any idea on how to pinpoint on a map with the numbers I have? If this is confusing just forget about it. At my age everything is getting confusing, kinda like my teenage years all over again:~)
I’m not sure on that one Richard. I wish could help.
OK, thanks anyway!
“Watch you don’t cut yourself! Glass!” (Throws garbage back into river) lol
Fascinating DIY field archeology. Great way to spend one's time. He has done much historic context study to identify his "gems". I wish something analogous could be for the desert Southwest. Thanks for the effort in the video!
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A pleasure to watch and learn. Thank you.
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A lot of battles were fought along and on the Ohio river. Every war taken place between Northern Natives, French, British, Colony States, the Ohio was there quietly witnessing it all. The Ohio at one time (still is today) a central piece for trade. The Ohio separated colonial America from the French colonies and Natives for quite some time. USA finally purchased it through Louisiana Purchase in 1803 but Ohio remained a battleground state for long time between waring natives, who joined the British to war again a newly independent USA.
Oh Yeah, I figure there was much fighting when settlers started moving west. Most the artifacts I find are before these times
Ohio became a state in 1803 the Louisiana purchase was property West of the Mississippi river. The first organized settlement in the Northwest territory was Marietta Ohio in 1788. There are more officers of the revolutionary war buried in Marietta Ohio than anywhere else in the United States
When I was a kid, we had a boat on the river, we spent weekend there with a few families. Every morning we would walk the beach cause the barges would make big waves, kinda like the ocean. We would find arrowheads. I forget how many we had but I would say in the hundreds. I will save the story of what happen to them.
I bet your Mom got rid of them
Waiting for the story...
1. The gubment confiscated them.
2. You donated them to a museum.
3. A flood came and washed them all back into the river.
4. Your kids found the bucket full and thought they were perfect for skipping out on the river.
5. I give up. What happened.
My wife’s family owns a property that had a lot of Native American activity years ago. I have looked for arrow heads and never found any. One year we were out mushroom hunting. My niece hops out of truck and found a really really old arrow head. The crazy part, where she found it is where we always park the truck. We have walked over that piece of ground who knows how many times. Crazy
Just never know. Probably more than we think under our feet
I've done that. Park the truck and take off hunting. At the end of the day upon returning to the truck, there's one laying right under your nose.
Had fun watching you. You work very hard and seem to be enjoying it. Great exercise video! Thanks so much for sharing.
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Excellent lesson in geomorphology, Clegg. You could find anything you're seeking with this knowledge, sharkteeth and other fossils, gems and minerals (gold), or artifacts and relics. I'm in Va. but we should hang out sometime, you'd enjoy my box full of artifacts.
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I love watching these Native American artifact channels. My imagination kinda runs wild thinking about how each clan probably had a master tool maker, and he (or she) had a production set up, just making points all day long.
I’ve said similar. Not everyone has all the skills. Probably depended a lot on each other
Thanks for this very interesting video on your unique method of hunting for arrowheads. In many places here in Arizona an ancient Native American site can be dated by the pottery type. The later pottery shards are from painted bowls including black on white and black on red. The earlier pottery had a simple design pressed into the clay along the edge of the outside of the rim or just nothing at all, a little later in time before painted pottery were solid pressed in designs covering the entire outer part of their bowls. In most sites the time period of the pottery is a good indication of the time period of the arrowheads. Thanks again!
Much appreciated!
The pottery around here doesn’t hold up well, I only find small pieces. Most are textured on the outside usually by wrapping a cord around a stick and rolling it on. You can see it was a chord. Others have been rolled with corn cobs. And some are just smooth.
Well, my arrow head adventure has stopped and started all in same weekend. Went out Saturday afternoon and had a great time looking. So much fun, I decided to go back Sunday. I was stopped by game warden and told that digging for arrow heads is a class A misdemeanor. Officer was real nice guy and was just doing his job. He wrote me a warning. I asked if I could dig on private property and he said no. So, before you go out, check the rules. I had a sifter screen and was on a riverbank. What a bummer. Be careful and don’t get yourself into trouble over it
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Yeah, I heard some states only allow surface finds. And some states don’t allow anything.
That’s just terrible! I’m sorry this happened to you. It’s so sad that we have to be careful and check with “authorities” .
It makes me sad and frustrated because God gave this earth to everyone and it seems like the bad guys get to buy up all the property and privatize it. Government does the same thing.
I think it’s wonderful when someone finds something and then calls their county or local museum to report it and it gets preserved, researched and studied that way, but that doesn’t mean WE shouldn’t be able to preserve it privately for generations as well.
I know some will say we could damage it or break it but everyone had to learn somewhere and not everyone has the opportunity to get a college degree. As a matter fact, I am willing to bet there are many people who hunt for and find artifacts that know more about them, and are better at handling them than people with degrees. Not all, of course, but still…
Everyone has to learn somewhere, and it isn’t fair for other people to pick and choose who gets to learn and how. I want to learn… I want to find artifacts if I find something, I’m not turning it in. I’m saving it to show my kids, my grandkids, and great grandkids and let them do the same with it if they choose, they can donate my collection to a museum or research.
“The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.”
Psalm 115:16
DOING HIS JOB? WHERE IS THE VICTIM? SOON WHEN THEY ARE TAKING YOUR WIFE OR HUSBAND FROM YOU IT WILL BE THE SAME .....''JUST DOING MY JOB''......
WHERE CAN YOU NOT DIG ON PRIVATE PROPERTY ? IT IS PRIVATE! I'M NOT GIVING YOU ANY SHIT I JUST HATE THE SYSTEM! ONLY IN THE LAND OF THE FEE AND HOME OF THE SLAVE.
WOW! What a great hobby. I had no idea that such a method for finding artifacts existed. Well done and have fun.
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Very glad to find your channel, it's good to see the excitement and enthusiasm when you find a point !!!
Thank you Paul
*The Ohio River was a frequented battle arena between invading Amerindians and the Native American Salutreans.* There was a particularly brutal massacre just outside of Ravenswood, where over 960 Salutreans were slaughtered after being taken prisoner. Of which 403 were children.
That’s still a hypothesis
That is a very precise number. Where can more learn about this?
Sorry buddy, your solutrean hypothesis isn’t born out. Neither are your fantasy narratives.
It's a pipe dream. I noticed in the comments that some posters have more enthusiasm than knowledge. They can always go to the library or even major in Anthropology at College, Most states have Archaeology Societies that the "wannabees" can join and donate a few hours of their time per month on a dig. These digs are run by Graduate Students or PhD's who would be more than happy to show them how to do a dig properly, document artifacts, mapping and share their knowledge in geology, history and archaeological techniques. It takes years to become an archaeologist but one can find artifacts just by walking a plowed field or creek. Archaeologists want the artifacts for information, not for display. Once an artifact has been dislodged from its "in situ" place, its importance is lost and becomes next to worthless. None the less, I have no problem with surface collectors. I do have a problem with "known site "robbers. They are out there, especially out West.@@maracohen5930
I’ve never thought of sifting river sand. There’s a historical camp or village site here that may have been used thousands of years. The local people had no actual cemetery before the 1900’s so my entire town has skeletal remains here and there. They buried their dead where they died. My home town was an Indian burial ground except we didn’t have any poltergeist events. In fact outside of a drunk telling ghost stories we don’t even have scary legends. The people’s who were here were amazingly peaceful so even if they wonder these lands they wouldn’t be mean as spirits.
I’d look around, never know. Sounds like a good area
I live 10 miles from Louisville, there was just a couple arrested for doing this same thing not long ago. They were charged with illegally searching and stealing artifacts. Be careful.
Strict laws there. Legal here on private land
That's awesome!! ❤️
@@cleggsadventures Legal if you have permission from the landowner. You can't just stop anywhere along the river and start searching someone's land.
@@circlepfarm3776 They are friends of mine
If they government sanctions it IE universities, research etc, it's OK. Otherwise you could be in trouble. Someday it will be OK if you register with 'them' and pay 'them' a fee.
All about this is incredibly exciting. Great video! So informative and educational. I now feel I want to learn more about Native American history and culture, especially along the Ohio River. I recently moved to Louisville from Boston, and I would love to do some artifact hunting on my own. Thank you for sharing your excitement and knowledge!
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Awesome man. Brings me back to us kids finding arrowheads as we played in the dirt. We'd find 2-3 every year. (Upstate NY)
Much Appreciated. WV here
I had a cousin, who died young and was a collector because there was some sort of battlefield in a field on his father’s land on the bluffs above Warwood, WV. This land had been part of his I’m guessing five times great grand father’s tomahawk claim in the 1700s . He would have been Samuel McColloch’s brother Abraham. Abraham was my five times great grandfather as well. What you are finding are arrowheads washed out of sites like the one I described and concentrated by river hydraulics. Do not discount these arrowheads being washed down tributaries. Oh, I am a geologist with about 50 years of varied experience including about thirty in the field!
Yes, I explain this. These are washed from the flat field above. They are concentrated at the water’s edge mostly
Somebody who doesn't know any better would say they were planted there by someone.😕
Yep
We stopped in Madison, IN recently and stayed in Lawrenceburg, IN right on the river. We were there to tour the Creation Museum just over the river in KY. It was a great little trip! Since we'd been studying the Underground Railroad, it was a wonderful learning experience.
Very cool
Awesome video. I live in Pa, and you've inspired me to buy a sieve and go looking. I've looked along paths etc all my life and never found a single one.
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Your excitement is contagious!
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