Searching for History is all about finding history. On this channel we will travel to anywhere history is hiding. Our channel is a history documentary and sometimes a travel vlog. We are history travelers and plan our off-road adventures, European vacations, and even our local day trips around exploring history. We hope to offer you travel tips for enjoying your “great American road trip,” European travel tips and other essential skills that are useful on history seeking adventures. These KZread videos will focus on history in the Pacific Northwest, the American Southwest, and European history. We love all sorts of history including: human history (historical and prehistorical), archaeology discoveries, and natural history. If it’s old, we want to find it, film it, and share it with you! Hopefully, after watching these videos you will feel inspired to go out in the world and find your own history adventures.
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Absolutely loved the Bird king.
We thought the trolls were really cool, especially Oscar the bird king. Thanks for watching!
We really enjoyed making this video! Finding all of the Thomas Dambo trolls in the Northwest Trolls Way of the Bird King exhibition was a great adventure. If you are in the Puget Sound region you should definitely check them out. If you have visited the trolls, or like the trolls, or enjoyed this video, please share your thoughts in the comments below.
Yes, please share your thoughts.
A different style of video, thanks for the troll tour of the area.
Not really history but something different and fun. Thanks for watching!
I was a student in Marburg in the academic year 1964-1965 and the city was like a beautiful fairy-tale dream.
It is a beautiful town. Wonderful memories. Thanks for watching!
Thank you for this video, I definitely want to visit it in winter. Do you suppose this was their winter home? Summer in Flag?
You know, I just do not know enough about Wupatki to be able to answer that question. As far as I remember, the informational panels around the site didn't mention it as a seasonal dwelling. You definitely should visit. It is a pretty cool pace. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment!
The siding on the grange appears to be painted cedar shake. I'd have to get up close to verify. Cedar shake was replicated in look by cement asbestos shake and later in press board shakes.
It very well could be. I guess the only way to know for certain would be to take a slice off with a knife and inspect to see if it is cedar but I'll leave that to the asbestos professionals. 🙂 I am fairly convinced it is not Saint Urban's original grange.
@@searchingforhistory an examination of the concrete work/steps and foundation should sort that immediately? clearly aluminum windows are a 60's/70s remodel and the light grey paint was in common use in the 60-early 70s. R recals im sure, those grey w/white trim and the beige houses with dark trim dominated some landscapes. ticky tack ugh... the roof will tell stories. a body might even find the builder/remodeler yet alive if one barked up the state grange assn and requested info about said concerns. im no pro historian, but i am a curious guy who like stories. and im clearly following ya'll, and loving the local.
@@destonlee2838 We love that you enjoy our videos!
The hx of oranges is fascinating. Oranges were started at the national level after the war against southern inhumanities. Granges were by wives of soldiers deceased on both sides in order to hold local farm communities together with the loss of male farmworkers, husbands fathers, brothers.. It' starts interestingly and the threads run from there.
Granges,lol
@@destonlee2838 Silly oranges! lol. Interesting history. Nearly every community has a grange.
the cement shake test is simple as a tap with a scewdriver or even a car key or ring. if its cement, itll sound like tapping tile or cement. if its wood, itll have that sound deadened tonal mute that wood has compared to cement or tile. no cutting necessary!
@@destonlee2838 That makes perfect sense.
I would bet that the siding on the Grange is asbestos. Circa 1940’s maybe.
Yes, 1940s sounds about right.
Where are the ghost?🤣
Maybe in the cemetery? 🙂 Thanks for watching!
Another cools spot. And the map was amazing at the beginning. I love maps. A lot of German settlers came into Texas a little earlier and into a similar time. Thanks for another fascinating place.
Glad you enjoyed it. Check out this historical topo map website, it covers most if not all of the USA: ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/
@@searchingforhistory will do. Thank you.
Hopefully, you can get an answer to the siding question.
I am fairly certain (but not 100%) that is not the original grange.
I love the 1916 USGS Topo map. It's amazing to think they hand-surveyed all these little towns and hills.
It is amazing. There is a lot of coverage for these maps too.
Auburn was originally known as the town of Slaughter because of massacre and the massacre on the green of an Army patrol
Interesting. I imagine that event stayed with the community for a long time. Thanks for watching!
The prison was built by the owners of the local lumber mill who also got use of prisoners as free labor. State library has loads of interesting records of the corruption at that dark hole.
I've worked with inmates out of DNR camps, so the State still uses prison labor, albeit under better conditions, and I think they get paid a small amount.
If Bucoda was founded by butler,colter &david shouldnt it be pronounce buh- coo- day instead of bewcoduh.? Also the word Seatco is a Lashootseed name for an evil spirit, and the site was named this to scare indigenous folk away.
The ladies that work at the bar said it was haunted. 🤫
Good job, keep it up old friend!
I'm glad you liked it. Check out our most recent video on the Puget Sound War. We learned a lot putting this one together. kzread.info/dash/bejne/mqumlKV7n5rflNY.html
I grew up in oly not the place it used to be 😢 Moved because it's a hell hole now no better than Tacoma!!!!!!!!
Thanks for watching!
There is still a blockhouse at the corner of 288 st and lions road east of Roy. Sits about 300 yds SE of intersection. I believe Stevens was killed at 2nd battle of bull run
Really? That is pretty cool, I did not know about one in Roy. I will definitely try to find it. Is it on private property? Thanks for pointing this out to me.
My great-great grandfather (Eldridge Morse) wrote extensively about the 1855-56 Indian War in the 1870s or 1880s. He lived in Snohomish City.
That would be really interesting to read. Thanks for sharing and thanks for watching!
Coburg ❤
Beautiful place! Thanks for watching!
So very informative and interesting. Thank you for taking the time to educate your viewers. I feel a little more smarter as a result of this video.
We learned a lot ourselves making this video. I think its a history in Western Washington that not many know about. Thanks for watching!
What a great video. I hope those teaching Washington, Western US and US History use this. It is brilliantly done and so much good information is put into it. I learned so much and you took us right along with you in the story and history. Way to go. And thank you for the shout out and making this!!!!! Now I need to think of another recommendation….. 😉
Wow, what a great compliment. So glad you liked it. We put a lot of work into this video. We are really hoping people like it. This was our most thought-out and scripted video to date. We can always use more topic ideas! Thanks for watching!
It deserves a large audience. I can tell how much work and passion you put into to it!
@@earthandtime5817 That's the thing with KZread... it could do well or it could die on the vine after a day. I guess only time will tell!
Great video, thanks for making it! What a fascinating story, seeing how you trace it through the area was wonderful.
Thanks so much. It was our most ambitious video to date. I'm glad you liked it!
@@searchingforhistory it seemed like a lot of research and driving to put all those places together.
It was. I think it took 4 or 5 Saturdays of driving to various locations. Luckily, most of the info I was able to piece together from the internet.
Thanks Earth and Time and Explore Tayo for suggesting we go further in depth on this topic! It was a really enlightening experience.
Yes, thank you for the suggestion!
You are welcome. Great video.
An interesting bit of our local history, thanks for sharing. Also a common theme often repeated around the country in our nations history but important to acknowledge and remember. Unfortunately there are those to whom this would be too ‘woke’ and would best be left swept under the rug.
Well... it's the truth, and if we don't learn about history, we are doomed to repeat it. If you liked this video, check out our Puget Sound War video thar came out today. Thanks for watching!
Loved the intro… hi Thora. Have there been many archeological digs there? Would be curious what they found? The crown was so interesting. First for me. The cemetery was cool. I am always fascinated by them and the stories they contain. Thanks for another great episode and for teaching us something new about your area.
To my knowledge, no. It's all private property. It would be interesting to look for evidence of the structures!
Nice to see Tenino again!
How long since you have been in the Tenino area? Thanks for watching!
@@searchingforhistory I’ve been in the area since 1990, and I wrote a couple articles about Tenino stone long ago
@@GeologyDude That is cool.
I liked your observation that what has been reconstructed is only a small part of the original.
It was a bit of speculation on our part based on the amount of rubble we could see scattered around the site.
Ball courts in Mexico have a different layout.
That would be interesting to see.
In Indiana we had a coolroom built on top of the well. It is just younger generations don't know about these things.
That makes sense and a good idea! Thanks for watching!
Very informative and interesting. I enjoyed this one too. Thanks again.
Glad you liked it!
Thank you, I just loved the little church with the crown on top. I have probably driven right past it and not even noticed. I so appreciate you pointing out this historical experiences in the area.
It's our pleasure, we love showing people the history that is all around us. We have more videos on western washington history and historic sites coming out, so stay tuned! Thanks for leaving a comment and thanks for watching the video!
Another interesting historical nugget of the region, thanks for the tour!
Glad you liked it. Next Sunday our video on the 1855-56 Puget Sound War comes out. Stay tuned!
@@searchingforhistory ooh, wonderful!!
Poor little Claquato was abandoned after the railroad bypassed it and instead was built in nearby Chehalis. I really loved the old church! Have you ever been to Claquato?
Erfurt is also an UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site due to its medieval Synagogue, ritual bath and medieval Jewish house and a spectacular medieval treasure trove. Why do you leave that out, despite that these sights are located right next to the Kämerbrücke?
Unfortunately I was suffering from heat exhaustion the day we were in Erfurt. What you see in video is all I had the energy to visit. I wish we had seen the places you mentioned. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment!
Covered a lot of ground on this one. I loved it! Gave me a new understanding the settlement of that region. I liked Erin's overview. Also liked the old cemetery! Were most of the headstones marble? Learned a lot! Thanks! And hi Thora :)
We are glad you liked it! There were some marble headstones but I think they were the "newer" ones. Thora says hello, "woof, woof." Honestly, stone type is definitely a knowledge gap for me. This brings up a collab idea I have that perhaps we could explore, something we could do from time to time for each other remotely. I will look and see if you have an email listed on your youtube page and send you an email with my idea. Thanks for watching!
Interesting that the HBC influence extended to Puget Sound. And, yeah, that biblical ladder representation was different. Maybe it's an attempt to imitate a totem pole?
The treaty of 1846, a treaty between the UK and the USA, ended joint occupation of the Oregon Territory in favor of the USA. Prior to 1846 (i'm not sure how much prior, but probably soon after the UK's Vancouver Expedition to Puget Sound in the 1790s), Washington State was called the Columbia District of the HBC. Vancouver, Washington on the Columbia River, just north of Portland, Oregon was the location of the HBC's large trading post, Fort Vancouver. Yes, I think the "catholic ladder" may have been created to mimic a totem pole. It is my understanding that the Saint Francis Xavier Mission was at least initially built as a place to convert local Native American's to Christianity.
What a gorgeous, little town. Couldn't get any more pretty and quaint.
We really love Coburg. We highly recommend it. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the tour. Reece Brewer was my mother's great uncle--her father was Milton Wright Brewer, son of Oliver P. Brewer who was a brother of Reece. Reece and O.P., along with siblings and their young families, came west from Pike County, Arkansas, I believe in 1853. Other members of my family recently found your video and shared it around. We all appreciate it.
We are extremely happy that you are your family found our video and that you enjoyed it. The homestead is a really beautiful property. We wish we could have seen the house before it was destroyed by wildfire! Thank you so much for leaving this comment.
@@searchingforhistory Yes, I love the "Oak Prairies" and still try to have a walk on the Scatter Creek property each spring, though I no longer live in that area. However, we always go farther north on the Scatter Creek reserve and I must confess I was unaware of the homestead. There is a fair amount of prairie in eastern Grays Harbor County also--around Oakville.
Really interesting. Thank you for sharing.
I was thinking you might like the cemetery symbology explanation. I am curious if the symbology is utilized in 19th century cemeteries throughout the USA. My hunch is it is universal.
Great video! Thank you for sharing your amazing knowledge
We are really glad you liked it. Thanks for watching!
I got to tour the Jackson House in middle school. I didnt appreciate it then, but 30 years later I want to go back.
We would love to see the inside of the Jackson House!
There's a cemetary on Waddell Cr Rd? I had no idea!
I used to work in the Capitol Forest and drove Waddell Creek Road many many times and never noticed it myself.
There are a couple of pioneer cemetaries where I grew up in Chehalis. I had no idea there was an old territorial prison in Bucoda 🤯
Do you happen to know the names of the cemeteries? We will try to find them. Thanks for watching!
@@searchingforhistory Fern Hill and Greenwood come to mind, I think there might be a couple more, though. Just outside of Chehalis on Hwy 6 is Claquato cemetery, too.
@@AllTheHappySquirrels I will look into the ones you listed. We visited Claquato a few weeks ago and will have a Claquato video coming out soon.
I love you ❤️😘
We are so happy you like the video. Thanks for watching!
Love this, more please, North America has endless content
We are working on it. More content is coming. 🙂 Thanks for watching!
Some graves in the local Cemetery in VA where many of my family are buried date back to the 19th century, I'll have to compare the symbols there with the ones in this Cemetery.
It would be interesting to know.
Interesting how the old prison system worked and why reforms that many complain about today were needed.
I can only imagine the harsh conditions people experienced. Thanks for watching!
Another excellent video. The prison was sure a harsh place and I know of two women that served time there at different times and they were basically kept in solitary confinement, which more than doubled the rigor of punishment compared to that of the men, who could associate with each other when locked up in their cells at night. Bucoda has always been a favorite of mine and it is cool to see a video of what was once the largest commercial district in Thurston county. Keep up the great work.
We are glad you liked the video. Life in Seatco must have been pretty horrible. Love hearing your knowledge and insight on the history around here. Thanks for watching!
We found it really interesting to learn about Seatco Prison. Have you been to Bucoda? Tell us what you think.
I think this is another good example of history hiding where you least expect it. I've driven past the Forest Grove cemetery many times but never knew its connection to seatco prison.