I built with brick, block, stone, concrete, tile, steel and wood over 30 years. At time of their build dates it would have taken years just to dig for buildings to have full basements and multiple floors underground. They didn't have excavators and dozens. Nobody builds a basement with dirt filled to half and more height of building with windows. They had trouble repairing the wagon wheels quick enough to just get their shacks built. Those buildings were built by a more intelligent humanity and when they started repopulating after the reset the rulers wrote the histories. It's a cycle of reset when people start figuring out the lies

As a kid in the 50's I spent all my summers in Pottsville with my aunt and uncle. It was so different from my hometown, Valley Stream Long Island, which was very flat. The road trip to Pottsville was magical with all the mountains and hills and barns with the hex signs on them. I have very fond memories of this time... movies at the Capitol theater, and the Hollywood theater, and the worlds best chili dogs at the Coney Island restaurant on Centre Street.

Pottsville reminds me of my home town of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.....home of the historic Peterborough Lift Locks, Trent Severn Canal system (manmade with fishy backstories galore) big ole churches peppered throughout the "downtown", the historic Quaker Oats Factory (old world) that guess what? burned down and was rebuilt in late 1800's, not far out of town are warsaw caves and serpent mounds....so much to explore everywhere....wish I knew what I know now back then. same "template" all over ..... thanks so much for another great episode of Old World Exploration

Ooohh... you are so close to Pennhurst Asylum. That's an interesting place. Built in.. 1908. Lol.

Hi, I live in Reading. Pottstown and Pottsville are different towns.

Great video. I grew up in this region and appreciated this one. I agree the small towns spread throughout the NE all contain so much. Nearby Danville has some interesting history. The basilica os Saints Cyril and Methodious there is now up for sale. There are so many remarkable asylums found throughout this region: Laurelton, Selinsgrove, Harrisburg, Danville just to name a few.

Good find on boxcar rocks ! I'm from Boston and our greater area has some silly stories as well when it comes to "formations" , the same with all of our histories . Thank you bud . If you have time , try and check out the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston (Where I grew up and explored when I was younger) Tons and tons (pun intended) of stone walls , railway activity , many many many old world buildings and crazy stories that never made sense to me . God bless man

Howdy Chris. Great finds in this recommended little city. The wall is pretty mind-blowing! The theatre and the old school are crazy too, as well as the prison and court house. Excellent job, bud. Have a great weekend. Cheers!

All the towns that follow route 61 are like this.. Pottsville, Ashland, Shamokin, mt Carmel . The Edison hotel in sunbury was the first building to be lit with Edison’s 3 wire system. So much old money that has dried up

Love the new intro and background tunes! 🙌🏽

Ashland, Shenandoah are towns just 15 minutes north of Pottsville. A lot of towns were built around a few main coal mines and they grew from that. Pottsville was the county courthouse location and much of the business transactions went thru Pottsville as well, hence the big coal money influence. Ashland had a trolley car much like San Francisco and the tracks are still there, but covered by asphalt and they have a coal mine that you can tour. Shenandoah was considered the last western town of the east coast as it was very "wild west" kind of environment and was in the Guinness Book of World Records twice. It was the center hub for the Molly Maguires persecution and hangings. It was one of the reasons why my father changed the family from the italian one to an english as you couldn't work at an Irish owned mine if you were italian.

I enjoyed this video. I noticed on the map that there’s a Pottsville northwest of Pottstown….not far away….I live in Southwest Pa. There’s many unique little towns with wonderful architecture. Thanks for showing us this!😊

A little research would have helped you avoid the blunder of mislabeling Pottsville as Pottstown. The City of Pottsville is the county seat of Schuylkill County. I was born and raised there. It is also the heart of the once thriving anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania. It was that industry and the textile industry that brought money into the city. Unfortunately, that money was gain through the hard work and toil of the miners and factory workers who worked very demanding and dangerous jobs. These workers never realized the riches, though. It remained in the pockets of the mine and mill owners. The buildings came to serve the industry (the banks, railroad headquarters, mine offices, etc.). The schools served the growing population. The high school built in 1933 continues to serve the students in the Pottsville Area School District. I graduated from there. It’s a lovely building with great architecture. I also attended the grammar school that you featured. It’s now the county historical society. Unfortunately, like many towns and cities in Pennsylvania, Pottsville has suffered because of the demise of industry. Hopefully these amazing buildings you featured will remain the decades to come.

Thank you for doing this exploration 😊🧱

Time stamp .56sec , I've located the same architecture building called the Molina Fine Jewelers in Phoenix Arizona where I live now.

Time stamp 12:31 light fixture looks like what we call today a high pressure sodium / mercury vapor light bulb but now replaced by LED hex. lamps style street lighting.

These towns, in this section of pa, seem to all ways be in a valley near by Doylestown has a castle with a wall and gate you can still walk through. Also a large "art" "project" rock that has been cut into a roughly 5 foot tall block that was bisected all the way through seperated and core drilled multiple times. None of the striations inside drill bores make any sence for rock drilling. Clearly according to the striations from these holes getting drilled the bit was advancing roughly 1 inch per rotation of the 6 inch bit. Obviously we can not drill rock or anything that fast that it wouldnt be faster to dig.

I Remember seeing some of those pics somewhere about a week ago 🤔 lol.

The buildings are very similar in other parts, like Pittsburgh but the low population of people with these buildings doesn’t make sense How can the whole country e built from 1870 to 1920 ?

That tunnel in the brewery is where a water pipe came down from up on the mountain to be used to brew beer. From nearby. Been there many times. All the cities and towns around here have a few old world style buildings still hanging around

Wonderfully done. Makes me want to live there.

@12:42 I'd love to see a look at Park City, Utah (where I recently honeymooned!) or Cripple Creek, Colorado -- great gold rush cities that have remained small and somewhat preserved in their 19th-century charm with loads of fancy brickwork. The Park City City Hall is an astounding brick (castle?) structure.

I grew up in Pottsville and although I applaud you for making the video, I feel you did very little research on the town or the photos you have shown. (1:15) The "penitentiary" is not a federal prison, but Schuylkill County Prison or jail, 5:13 The tunnel is a tunnel used for storing beer before refrigeration and NOT a mining tunnel. Those tunnels were also used during the Civil War to transport slaves to freedom as part of the Underground Railroad. 5:50 This is NOT the capitol, I actually have no idea where this building would have been. In fact, the Capitol was demolished in the 1980's to make way for a parking lot. There was NEVER a Nineteenth St. or CivicTheater in the town. 7:59 It was built as a school, as were all of the schools you show. 10:45 There were several grammar schools in the town . 14:46 I believe the first Miner's Journal building was destroyed by fire and was rebuilt. Please don't take this as Gospel, but I think I am correct. What you have to understand is as coal mining came into this area, the money flowed in as well. Not to the miners, but to the companies and banks. The building were status symbols of the wealth they held.

I'm from here (Sadly) Learned a lot I didn't know, we don't get taught about our history very much if at all. The "state penitentiary" is definitely a jail in the modern day. The jail and courthouse are for the entire county rather than just Pottsville. The armory is now a YMCA which is a bit of a weird juxtaposition, never knew it was an armory. Interesting to hear about the Henry Clay statue. Everyone here seems to call him the "Dancing Man" He kinda looks like he's tap dancing from the street below but, he's certainly not. I don't think there's a standard way to walk up to the plaque anymore. Not sure if it's true but I've definitely heard old people here talk about a time where the high school building wasn't there and they instead went to school in the building at 7:36 which certainly lends itself to being built in the 30s or 40s

Definitely an ancient wall of some sort.

My uncle has a cabin by tidioute. Warren PA is a really interesting town. Also oil supposedly discovered there

I spent 3 years in a penitentiary that looked like that, but we named it a high school😊 we had more towers though😂

Germantown Avenue Philadelphia neighborhood, 18th-century homes and taverns mix with indie boutiques and cafes in traditional storefronts. Picturesque attractions include the country's oldest rose garden, at Wyck House.

Wow! How beautifully gullible, aka, childlike we all were to believe the crap narrative after only 12 years of “free” education. Thanks Uncle Sam! Let freedom ring! Awesome vid Old!

@8:44 It would be fascinating to see a macro over view of construction of courthouses and capitols alone in any given 19th-century decade. You often say a single structure might be able to summon a feasible explanation, and then you look to the left or right of said feasible construction, and there are a dozen other structures left to explain! Great views of Pennsylvania, friend.

The Amish back then had to get up extra early to construct things like this.

Can’t distinguish Pottsville from Pottstown but you know the grand secrets of the world! 😂

Another prison with another unique tower just like Fulton County in Atlanta.

Imo the colonization process/program repurposes stone from Indigenous masonry because imo it would be difficult to explain elaborate pyramids and rock structures to the migrant inhabitants of the new world

It is the County Jail, in Pottsville.

Pottstown has The Hill School which is an interesting property, Trumps older son went there!

Oh. My Gosh! That’s IT!!! Jean Val Jean! Look at Reading and PottsTown which is in Montgomery county. I think you are looking at the Ruscombe Manor from the original charter and Pottstown is closer to the Gilbert Manor and the Iron Center of Frick’s Lock. Look up the old PA Canal. Cross reference EVERYTHING eastern PA against another map, especially the waterways. There is a deviation regarding the rivers. The Delaware used to be the Lenapewihituck or something of the sort. The DuPonts were FoxCatchers and the Foxes are Quite sly. That said. Someone pulled a JeanValJean somewhere around the French Revolution timeframe, as they weren’t sent to debtors prison, and they possibly were not in England at all… but rather just west the old state Penn

Reminds me of playing Cities: Skylines. So much from that game. Also so many red bricks it doesn't add up how people could produce them and put them there. Like people used telekinetic powers to move things. Using telekinesis moving things around like wizards or something like that is a possibility because this needs some explanation. It's mind boggling

I was just at boxcar wall! I was amazed by it. Quartz rocks and concrete, just posted a video of my visit there.

🧱❤️🙏🏼grand structures we can’t replicate!

Some of the architecture in Scranton is amazing

I lived in Erie Pa. and was told about a tunnel or train tunnel that saved Black slaves from the South ?

You should get with geomansee. He's done some of PA. ✌️

What I want to know is why is there a statue of Henry Clay? He lived most of his life here in Kentucky. His house is in Lexington and my town was named after his home Ashland.

It's Pottsville,not Pottstown.How do I get to the "Boxcar Rocks"?I'm a native of Pottsville,I've lived there all my life.

Look into STAUNTON, VA...I think it has what you are looking for.

What a cool town. 👍🏻

Thank you for the look at Boxcar Rocks. That will be cool to look at more. Henry Clay’s wife look’s absolutely miserable and I mean absolutely miserable. Treasures are waiting to be found in the small towns and city’s.

@3:46 Daaaaaaang what a sight.

That’s Pottstville. What you are ACTUALLY covering is the most accurate thing your could be. IT is the original land charter which went from Pottsville to Philadelphia

Great video! I think the east coast is a good place to look. Too much to cover up.

You are mixing Pottstown & Pottsville two very towns.

South Orange, New Jersey. Entire place is old world

Pottsville and Pottstown are two different towns.

im in West Chester Pa! you gotta see

Isn't it potts town wonderful life

That first image, looks like some sort of traffic light system.

Pits AND potts in PA!

You should check out Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. You won’t be disappointed.

My question is, why were the native Americans not using these buildings? If the buildings were from a previous civilization wouldn’t the natives just moved right into these abandoned cities?

Looks like my little city in Kansas. Where no one looks. Its everywhere and makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Brick roads, many paved over. But when they dig down for 'reasons' theres the brick.Stone bases on most every house in town, huge churches, no more than 50,ooo ppl in any recent years. Freemason emblems used to be on many buildings. Not so much anymore. Downtown is amazing old structure, all of it. Block long bldngs, cut up into shops. Its everywhere.

Is this Pottstown or Pottsville they are two different places

Ahhh...see i knew i knew you from meltology lol...my bad...im in williamsport/montgomery area😁

You keep saying pottstown, its pottsville. T he box cars ive been to.

i think thats part of the dragon so it may be "natural"

Pottsville or Pottstown?

Title says Pottsville…a different town.

Stoney creek battle field Kingston brock monuments niagara on the lake forts etc

Ants gone wild bro

It is POTTSVILLE, PA. not Pottstown, Pa. Geographically, Pottstown, Pa. is not anywhere near our Anthracite Coal Region. Your video is very misleading to the public who does not live in the area and very insulting to those of us who do!! Next time you do something like this, double check you information and your script. By the way, you also butchered the names of the Yuengling Brewery and the Necho Allen Hotel. Definitely thumbs down!!

Also you say Pottstown and it is pottsville......

Hamilton Ontario

Have yu seen American high schools football baseball fields. Not like canada

It was founded - It was found dead

This guy has no clue and is a clown.

Those box car rock formations should be tested for a concrete mix?!