Appalachia’s Storyteller: The Doorstop
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- Appalachia’s Storyteller: The Doorstop #goldrush #appalachianhistory #appalachia #gold #appalachian #northcarolinahistory #northcarolina #goldmining #reedgoldmine #appalachianstoryteller #storyteller #documentary #audiobook #audiobookfulllength
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Thanks so much for your wonderful stories 😊 you have quickly become my favorite storyteller.. I have given up on Hollywood and TV for that matter and am finding books and especially true life stories much more soothing to the heart. Keep em coming and I'll keep listening. 🙂
A cry better then corrupt political news. !
I've heard many gold rush stories but this one's the best. A wonderful piece of History that most of us wouldn't have known ,if it wasn't for wonderful story tellers like you.
This story was a true nugget of information.
Thank you, I appreciate each and every story and the work you put into them.
Thanks so much Nonnie, have a great day my friend
I've herd of a story early 2000's a old drinking hole turned bar. There was a solid brick shaped rock that was used to whole a back door open. Guy bumped his foot & asked about it. Then he took it when he left. It was made of pure silver . & was also used as a door stop.
As a prospector from California now living in Appalachia off grid, this is one of my favorite stories. I've heard it before back home even growing up it's a legendary story.
glad you enjoyed it my friend
Now that's one helluva story. Learned something new today. The Lord does work in mysterious ways 🙏
Thanks Bella! Preciate you
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller I deeply appreciate all the awesome stories that you bring to us... Sending my best to you and your family
I never knew that! Can’t wait to tell my folks! Thank you! 👍🏻🫶🏻
Amen
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller1 gghc
Loved this story. Always wondered how gold was discovered in North Carolina.
In the words of Paul Harvey, “Now you know the rest of the story “. 👍😊
Thanks James, it is a really neat piece of history that isn’t taught in schools
Nice story. My Dad had a big chunk of "fools gold" we used as a doorstop when i was a kid.
As a born and raised Californian, this was a wonderful bit of history my California school teachers failed to mention.
I’m so glad Mr. Reed straightened that slitherin’ jeweler out.
I would bet those teachers didn’t know…
This story is worth its weight in gold!Love it!Truly a Godwink moment!💗
Thank you for that Judy ❤️
That was an awesome story 👏 you are a true storyteller not just a narrator, but a true storyteller ❤ 15:29
Thank you so much ❤️
A true troubadour or wise storyteller. In the modern sense.
Louis L’amour was my favorite author growing up. I had his entire library. He consider himself a bystander and storyteller. Only difference in him and JD Phillips is JD’s stories are true. Excellent job my friend.
@@jamesholbrook7785 Louis L'Amour was one of my favorite is one of my favorite author a definite way with words
JD, this was a fantastic story! Thank goodness Mr. Reed went back to that jeweler & got some of the money that was owed him for the 17lb gold nugget. Because of Conrad’s find, the Reeds life changed forever.
Thank you!
Thank you so much, I personally think this is one of the best stories Ive written. Hopefully folks will find this story and watch it.
I went to the Reed Gold Mind as a field trip in elementary school. They did good preserving the history
that's awesome!
That is totally cool!
Thank you!
I've enjoyed your stories. This one hits close to home. I'm in Randolph county NC and live in the foothills of the Uwharries. This Reagan was littered with gold mines. There are several particular open today. I've been in a few.
Thanks for sharing that
There is a mine at their old homepage called Reedy Gold Mine. Tours and even panning gold. Took our son there while we lived in Marshville, he even planned and got a fleck of gold.
you got a fleck! Awesome!
You sure do have some good Ole stories to tell the world.......and very well told!.............👍
thank you!
As someone who studies and collects the “yellow rocks” I found this story absolutely fascinating. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you my friend!
Could you imagine. Gosh, that is an amazing story 😊😊❤
Can you imagine a time when no one knew what gold was?
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller I can't, what a perfect world.
What a story!!! 👍👍👍
And it’s true
How awesome I never knew that
Thanks Jeff, this is stuff they dont teach in schools!
What a story I got chills
one of my favorite stories ive ever written!
I love every story so so much! Thank you!!!!
Thank you so much!
This one is going on the top of my favorite list! What a great story!!
Thank you so much Amy, I’m happy you enjoyed it ❤️
Enjoyed this story...very well told ..interesting and very informative 🤗❤👍
Thank you 😊
Great story. Thank you.
Thanks Larry!
Already sitting on gold mine and didn't even know it .And by the way your editing is beautiful !
Thank you, I really spend lots of time on the production quality of these stories- quality not quantity
Fantastic. I have never heard this before. Thank you again for this amazing story.
Thanks Chris!
I had no idea! Amazing story!
Thanks so much!
WOW what a great story
This story really is a great hidden gem on this channel, and its true while 99% of America doesn't even know it
Great story JD. Thanks for all your research you do.
Thanks Eric!
Awesome history lesson. THANK YOU!! In my favorites. ❤
Thank you ❤️
Love this! I enjoy listening to your stories and do so almost daily. Toward the end, when you said "Reed Gold Mine," I realized I had been there years ago! I have always lived rocks and couldn't wait to go to the Park! I wish I would have heard the story as you told it then. Awesome cold, snowy Tuesday for me! Thank you so very much!
Supposed to say loved not lived. And born and raised in WV.
Thanks so much Janey!
This is an amazing story
Thank you Vicki!
That's a wonderful story, and well told. Thank you for sharing it
Glad you enjoyed it! ❤️
Fantastic so happy love Julie south Africa 🥰💚♥️
Thank you Julie!
Boy, you learn something new every day and coming from a master story teller such as yourself makes it all the more entertaining and enjoyable. Thank you sir.
Thank you so much!
Wow. That story IS entirely new to me (and well told as expected). At 78 I've been a voracious reader across a wide field my whole life, heavily into history, an early informal student of everything Howard Zinn ... but it took you, JD, to tell me about this. Thank you kindly, sir. :)
Thank you so much! It was a fascinating story and neat to think that at one time folks didn’t even know what gold was!
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller - Yeah, that was remarkable. But I'm very glad the family did well after that. And I'm also fascinated with the thought that a few generations from now, people will look back at US in wonder as well. "What? You mean to tell me people back then grew their food in the DIRT? Didn't they even have food replicators? And what's this 'farmer' person you keep talking about?"
JD i just love your voice. This has become a favorite channel. I knew part of the story but not all. I really need to see Reed's goldmine. Its really not that far away from me here in Lincoln county NC. Just never went.
It really is a remarkable story, sadly it isn’t taught at all
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller I've been trying to get my Galloway family together so our history won't be lost and we need to know each other. It's like pulling teeth. I guess you could call me the unofficial family historian.
@@TheAppalachianStorytellerso many aren't. I recently learned about the Siren of the French Broad.
I can only imagine what that big old nugget look like, and what it would feel like to lift it up. Dianna and I found some Appalachian gold, we were four hours in a river looking for it, although it was only a flake that we found for our effort, we sure are proud of that flake of gold, we still have it to this day.
Thank you.
That’s awesome!
I love these Appalachian stores
Thank you so much
Thank you, JD, for another fabulous story. 🐟
Thank you Melody!
Another great story mom and i loved it!!
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Cool story!! Love the opening Appalachian music !!
That’s an exclusive song found only on this channel called Appalachian Day
How did I miss this!!
Wonderful story!
Thank you 🙏
I remember my mother, whose grandfather was full Mataponi tribesman of Cherokee Nation, told me that the real reason of the Trail of Tears was because gold had been found in the Appalachian lands and that's what they were after.
wow!
That's what I was told to 😢
That is the reason? Greed never ceases to amaze. ✌️❤️
The world has apparently always had crooks and evil people.Now going to hell in a hand basket at and alarming rate according to current events. Needed that sweet story from the Appalachian Storyteller.
Have no fear, we have definitely paid the decendants a shit ton
I had heard that there was gold found in NC, but I didn't know they found nuggets that big. Thanks for the awesome story!
Yup, most had never heard of it, amazing story tho
Reed's goldmine is still open to view. I've never been there. Need to go.
Love this golden story!
Thank you!
Wow, that is quite the historical nugget! Much love JD❤
This is a beautiful story that most people have never heard of. Thank you for watching it.
Never know what the Lord has in store for you. Loved the story.
My daughter lives in SW West Virginia and my brother lives in NE Tennessee, I will be back in both areas in a couple of months. I can't wait, your storytelling has been great and makes me want to be there all the more.
Thank you my friend
I absolutely love listening to your stories. My moms family was from Trigg Ky. I have never been there but growing up my grandmother could tell the most interesting stories just like you do now. Thank you.
Thank you so much!
And that's a story we never heard the Lord does work in mysterious ways. And of course I thought gold was discovered in California. Thanks for setting the story straight. And have a wonderful day good teacher j.d..
Thanks Elizabeth !
I remember hearing Loretta Lynn's oldest daughter tell a story of why they moved out to Washington. She said it was because her grandpaw ( Doolittle's daddy ) was a prospector. He was panning for gold and other jews. 😊
I live in N.Georgia in Paulding Co. We are on the tail end of the Appalachians. We had a gold rush here back in the 1800s. There are still old abandoned gold mines here.
Yup I found old maps with gold mine locations and there were a few in Georgia
I heard this same story about Dahlonega Georgia.
Greetings and Blessings, Kin Folks, from the Foothills of the Ozarks of Arkansas.
greetings from the hills of east Tennessee brother
Great story, I can't wait to hear more of your stories.
Thank you Marilyn, be sure to check out the channel, there are 100 stories there
Just stumbled across your Channel you're an excellent storyteller I'm familiar with this story excellent job this is right up my alley going to enjoy this channel new sub
Welcome Steve glad to have you here
Wow thank you for telling this story, amazing work as usual..
Thank you my friend!
Thank you so much. That little story cheered me right up! Exciting with a happy ending.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you 😊
That's some history I didn't know, great story 😊😊
Thanks so much Betty
That's a great story. Is this one a true one? I really enjoyed it. I'd pass plum out if I had found a big chunk of gold like that.
100% true
💯 agree with you 👍
Wow learned something today in the most enjoyable way. I love the practicality of these people making a doorstop out of an unknown treasure. Thank you JD
what a simple time in history when folks didn't even know what gold was !
Fantastic story that little boy was blessed that day
I enjoyed writing this one and becoming little Conrad, what an aspiring young man he was. I didn't tell it in the story, but he ended up inheriting the gold mine after his dad passed...
Another great story!
Thank you!
I live in kentucky and i really enjoy listening to the story teller and love the appalachian channel.
Awesome! Thank you! thanks so much my friend
Great Story,
greatings from Germany
Greetings from the mountains of East Tennessee my friend
Thank you for sharing this story. God bless you and your whole family...🙏❤🙏❤🙏
Thank you
Another great story! Please keep them coming! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you my friend
What a great story and settin history straight to boot JD 😊I love the facts in your story tellin it sure is a mighty nice refreshment from all the historical lies our country has been told for centuries now .
Thank you so much!
Amazing story. Thanks for sharing. What a rags to riches story.
Thank you Alice!
Ohh wow, that was a absolutely beautiful story.. it's so great to hear a story with a happy ending. And wonderful history lesson as well, gold in North Carolina first.. thanks 😊 so much for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it Lisa!
Great episode! I'm always learning something new! Thanks!
Thanks so much for your support!
Very funny, in a cosmically humorous way - when you spoke the name Cabarrus County, I crossed the county line going in to Cabarrus, at Concord, NC. When you spoke Rocky River, I was passing the exit to Rocky River Rd. Makes it very personal that way.
All this was on another 2.5 hour drive to W-S, NC.
So glad you caught those small little details
Awesome story
Thank you 😀
Another wonderful story
Thank you Sharon, have a blessed day my friend
Thats Gold❗
it sure is!
JD, you sir are what I like to think of as 'the last great story teller'. There isn't one story that I have heard you tell, fiction or non fiction that doesn't consume me. Almost like a child who reads his first book that engulfs his imagination and gives him the bug to want to hear/read more. My grandfather was one of the only other people, as long as I can remember, who had the gift that you do for giving such life and doing such justice for the places and people's stories. This story was fantastic sir and I throughly enjoyed the history and knowledge shared in it.
Thank you JD for all you do and how you do it. 🤝 I truly appreciate your craft and skills.
That is mighty king of you and I really appreciate those words ❤️
Incredible story, born in n.c. thanks for sharing
Thank you my friend
Another great story .. keep up the good work 💯💯💯
Thank you so much!
Great story. Learned something new. I grew up and live in NC
Thank you!
Wow never heard this story.
I love your stories I am late watching this one but as always I do listen. Thank you for sharing
Thank you 🙏
Well I'll be damned! Aint that something! I never heard of there been gold found anywhere on the east coast like that before! Where do you come up with all these stories JD!?!? You've taught me something new again good sir, & with your fine story tellin! Much Obliged👍😊
This particular story some one told me about a old folktale their grandpa told them about a golden doorstop. I went on a wild goose chase tracking down the origins of the story thru newspapers until I landed of the truth of it 225 years ago. Then I imagined that I were the young boy and the father who found the gold and wrote this story from their perspective based on the actual facts
What a wonderful fun story! Thanks JD😎👍👍
Thank you Kathy
Out of all the stories I've enjoyed from ya JD, this ones the best so far! Keep 'em coming friend and Lord willing I'll see ya next Saturday morning!
Thanks Scott, I enjoyed writing this story and putting myself back into a time when folks didn't even know what gold was. I found it fascinating
Hard decision but Imma try to wait until after dinner tonight to watch this. Nothing on tv for me Wednesday evenings. So I'll need consoling.
Let me know what you think
BRILLIANT MR PHILLIPS JUST BRILLIANT
well thank you very much!
Another great story. Thank you for all that you do. Very informative channel..
Thank you so much
I love these stories.. I never knew this information.. thanks for sharing
Thank you Rusty
❤ God bless the Reed family good for them
Amen my friend
AWESOME find in NC
Ain’t it though!
Yep The LORD works in mysterious ways for sure. Great story JD be safe and GOD BLESS y’all Amen 🙏
Thank you brother
Great story! I've been there and seen the "Tater Patch."
Thanks so much!
Great story
Thank you Sandy!
Absolutely amazing story. Thank you so much for such a blessed platform you have sir. Alabama here. ❤
Thank you Pam, have a blessed day
Good evening JD, I've spent the last 40 years looking for gold in the streams of South Dakota and I've found small nuggets but I can only dream of finding something of that size. Y'all stay safe out there my friends 🙏
Thanks Big Iron, its a heck of a story, Ive only panned for gold in Arkansas of all places... didn't find anything
i just subscribe to your site I grew up loving hearing my grandmother telling me old ghost stories and witch tales were her family is from the Appalachian Mountains her daddy's Family is from Mitchell and Yancey County from the mountains in North Carolina I have always loved Old Mountain folklore and Superstition Tales looking forward to hear more stories from you
Welcome my friend, glad to have you here
Awesome story!! God works in mysterious ways
Amen my friend
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller 😁
Great story. I enjoyed it!
Thank you ❤️
Excellent story, as always. 👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you John!
Such a great story. Thank you! ❤
Thank you Tracy ❤️
What an awesome story, learned something new today
Thank you my friend
Appalachian, you rock!
Thank you kindly my friend