The cemetery is called "Gods Acre" and the burials are in choirs based on status, married female in one group, married male in another, male children of a certain age, female children of a certain age in another. Widow and Widowers in separate areas. That is why the numbers on the white stones bounce around. I am an Moravian from Winston Salem, NC. Also, the lower the number the older the grave.

1690....gotta be the oldest grave marker I've ever seen in my life. Recognition for a soul born some 330 years ago is an incredible find. Like these videos. You are truly a history buff and you pass on info with such a passion as it is a part of the history in your country.

Can you imagine what people looked like, their interests, the stories they could tell you. They lived in a world that is long gone. They would be surprised at how we live today. I'm sure there are a lot of lonely spirits in graveyards. Wow, your history is amazing - the 1600's

That's a 3 inch Ordnance Rifle. It was probably made by the Phoenix Iron Works in Phoenixville, PA. At least the original were. Spiking is driving a spike into the vent hole which is located on top of the cannon at the rear of the tube (barrel). It prevents a fuse or friction primer being inserted into the gun for firing. The Vent is actually threaded and with a special wrench can be replaced so the gun can be used again. I had one of these made by Steens Cannon in Ashland ,Kentucky for reenacting. They make museum quality guns for the National Park service for demonstration firing. The guns you saw at Gettysburg were original to the Civil War but not necessarily used at Gettysburg as the park service shipped them to various parks where a particular type of cannon was needed to represent ones that were used in that location during a battle.. After the civil War there were thousands of cannons available for the asking and these went to towns and cities to display at their courthouses.

Love it when you get inside an old cemetery makes my day crazy as that sounds. I think they are so ;neat. I’m glad you got to visit this one made for a special video thanks for :Making it and taking us all along.

Thank you for the history lesson. I had never heard of the Moravians. Very interesting.

@samanthab1923

4 жыл бұрын

Karen Caddle Very central to PA. There is a Moravian College in Bethlehem & a Tile Works in Doylestown.

Cool that you used the term eye ball out. As a retired 18 wheeler I would let another trucker know (CB radio) they had a headlamp out by using that term. Another great trip, Thanks Cliff.

Another great cemetery tutorial.youwife and kids should be proud of you for doing these interesting tutotial.nancy from Wasaga Beach,ontarior

Do not understand thumbs down. I really loved that, the history was incredible. Hope you do come back it is lovely there. Thanks so much for taking me along so enjoyable

@thewanderingwoodsman7227

4 жыл бұрын

I have my haters...

@gayeyount7948

4 жыл бұрын

There some on any site you visit. My advice don't engage them because that is what they want. I thoroughly enjoy these videos and don't know why if someone doesn't like them just don't watch. Problem solved.

@lindamccaughey8800

4 жыл бұрын

AAA

@kenbritton6782

4 жыл бұрын

@@thewanderingwoodsman7227 It seems every channel has them. Puny souls who want to make their mark in life any way they can. Sad.

What another outstanding visit. Another day youtube has taught me something that I will treasure. Thanks for taking me along. Hank

Love your videos. Especially the graveyards. I've always been interested in walking cemeteries and reading the headstones. There is so much history in them. Thank You

Thanks for your interesting and valuable information. This cemetery defines "old." - Dean from Minnesota

👍💐flowers for them🌹🌷🌼⚘💐🌸🌺

Really interesting history on this cemetery. So awesome they listed the vets the way they did.

This is so interesting.

Met a Nicaraguan man recently who grew up in an area (in the Nicaraguan jungle) that was heavily influenced by Moravian missionaries in the mid-twentieth century!

You just panned past my childhood home... played in that cemetery

This is such wonderful history, thank you Cliff.

This was so interesting. Gosh what an amazing amount of history. Thank you for sharing such an informative video.

Fascinating history Cliff...always enjoy cemetery tours..Wow 1690..Amazing..Thank-you for taking me along 😊👍

That is the most interesting cemetery I have ever seen. Thanks for taking us along Cliff!

What a lovely respectful video well done 😊 and so much history god bless all the people that lie there r.i.p ❤️❤️❤️

Love the way u know so much about where your exploring. Makes it so much more interesting. Thank you.

What an awesome way to be buried with everybody equal, I think that's how everyone should be buried really. Thank you for taking us around this amazing historic and unique cemetery. x

Thanks for another great vid.

My grandma's brother had just a small piece of wood for his headstone, pretty sad that the headstone was just wood & his name faded on it. But on a much lighter note great video Cliff, I highly enjoyed this have a blessed day. 🙂👍

@rrich52806

4 жыл бұрын

Family could replace it with stone?.

Thx for sharing

Fascinating! Thanks for doing this video, Cliff. Never knew...

Interesting history. Nice practice of very simplistic style burial. I liked the headstones built inside the stone wall. Thanks Cliff, really enjoyed hearing about & seeing this cemetary. :)

I really enjoyed watching. Thank you for the history lesson. I makes watching the video so much more interesting. I too love old cemetery's and history. This gets a big thumbs up in my book!!!

Glad to see early graves from 1600's.

Thanks I love that cemetery

Thanks for the history you included with this interesting cemetery.

This is one of the things I really like about your videos and that is the history you add to the experience. I love knowing the history of places and it helps to understand what was going on in that era. I have found out some interesting things from your cemetery visits like the metal markers of soldiers. This cemetery seems like one of the most thorough register of its occupants. Keep up the great work u do of taking us to places we can't go to ourselves. I had never heard of Moravian before and had to google it. Very interesting indeed.

Cool

Awesome to see all the veterans headstones, God bless them.

Interesting fact, thanks for sharing.

Cliff, awesome and very interesting cemetery! My Granddad Dickerson and my Uncle Johnny Lee served. Really enjoyed your video!

What a Great skull park WW! A term used by a long past dear friend, who now resides in one. I've never been to this one and it looks super interesting, a must visit. I do remember being in a cemetery years ago with the same system in Lancaster Co. I believe. There is a Moravian church in Lititz in Lanc.Co. Many Thanks WW and how often do you find Native graves in a cemetery? Very historical, we live in an area filled with tons of history. And thousands of years of unknown Native history, much of it lost. Historic Wooded Moss Covered Trails, without graffiti! DaveyJO

@thewanderingwoodsman7227

4 жыл бұрын

There is one in Lititz as well, and I found the location of another one as well. Might be the first time I've seen legit Native graves. Other cemeteries have rumors but no direct evidence.

See you learn something new every day!! I’ve never heard of Marovian before today. I’m gonna have to do some research lol Thanks Cliff 👍🏻❤️

Have you ever heard about the Gnadenhuetten massacre? It was a Moravian settlement that was attacked by Indians. One of my ancestors were taken by the Indians.

@thewanderingwoodsman7227

4 жыл бұрын

I've come across it in my research

@Chief2Moon

4 жыл бұрын

William Weicht Don't confuse the christianized "Moravian Indians" of Gnadenhutten&Shoenbrun associated with missionaries Heckwelder&Zeisburger with the "wild" Wyandots&Shawnees. The Moravian converts were absolute&total pacifists, the free ranging Delaware,Wyandots&Shawnee however certainly were not so friendly with whites. The Moravians were brought to Upper Sandusky Ohio by Wyandots&Delaware, but released by their Indian "kidnappers" so they could return to harvest their corn...it was a white militia who committed the murders of the Gnadenhutten group while they were gathering the corn, it was not the other Indians who killed the converts. I'm from Ohio&have studied this intensively for 50yrs.

Hey Ester here i follow you channel much love from Holland

Love your channel, thanks for the history of your state. When ever you say , or I see where it say Indians, I picture people from India. Then I think Oh! wait, Native Americans. I can't help it. Great show, love your travels.

I just subscribe A lot of old cemeteries should have an index stone like that . Enjoyed this video.

Wow!! First grave of indians I ever saw. There's a lot of history in that cemetary.

Those plaques in the stone wall reminded me of hobbit doors. The wall seemed a little thin to be a home though. Unless there were steps going underground behind those doors.

There's a monument (and mass grave beneath it) in my area for the Battle Of Wyoming from the Revolutionary War. It's along Route 11 in the northeastern corner of Pennsylvania. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming_Monument

If you look carefully, the tombstones laying flat have a number chiseled into the top edge of the stone that coordinate with the little white stones. So the white stones came much later.

Here is a good read about Moravian settlement of Hebron, Labrador : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebron,_Newfoundland_and_Labrador

Neat place. Odd to see the grave for 2 Indians.

Nice video. If you ever go back to that cemetery, please take a moment to record each plaque for a few seconds, camera on a tripod and the plaques centered in the viewer, and you can add those shots to the end so as not to disturb your narration. It is absolutely dizzying to the viewer when you pan with the camera as you read aloud from the plaque! I would love to pause a video and read at my own pace the complete plaques (which you do not capture in their entirety in this video.) Thanks!

Nice find,,,,,,, curious why they don't have flags,,, ?

@thewanderingwoodsman7227

4 жыл бұрын

Never really found out,

Reminds me of old asylum and prison cemeteries. Obviously, the process of number only markers were for different reasons

Our earthly bodies may be equal, but eternity is not.

I had ancestors that moved through Pennsylvania in the mid 1700s and moved out west and I had an ancestor that was also killed by Indians and we fought in almost every war and we had ancestors that died in the Civil War for the North and in the War of 1812 We also had cousins that were fighting on the North and the South in the Civil War Please cherish the history We need to know the truth and preserve the truth and thank you for doing so

Wish you would have mentioned where the cannon was forged.

Just wondering if there are any recent burials here?

@thewanderingwoodsman7227

4 жыл бұрын

I didn't see any.

First!

I don't see the fascination with cemeteries. Disrespectful of walking all over graves for what purpose? Morbid curiosity?

@artemisiak677

4 жыл бұрын

People want to be remembered. Otherwise we would all just be cremated and people wouldn't spend the ridiculous money on grave stones, mausoleums, statues and crypts. It's mostly for the families. I don't get it, cause once you are dead, you're dead. Dust to dust...done.

@tomkeating65

4 жыл бұрын

@@artemisiak677 true. Families. Not strangers. Let's bring in a meter to see if we can detect a ghost. They are not science projects. Let them lie in peace.

@artemisiak677

4 жыл бұрын

I don't believe in ghosts.