The Chigg and I love coming upon these "Sentinels" in the woods. The anticipation, the unknown history of the place, the family and children who once called this home. Today it sits unknown and lost in time. Treasures come in all sorts and fashions. Is it artifacts alone? Is it not also discovering a once thriving homestead in the woods? The treasures found in this episode could tell a story of a home, a wife, a husband and children and you will will discover it as we explore this amazing place.

The Lunkenheimer Valve Co. started in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1862. It made brass, bronze, and copper valves and fittings for the gas and oil industry. It has been in business since it started 158 years ago. Pretty cool find. I loved seeing Ralph again...such an interesting fellow. I love listening to his stories so much. You guys had a pretty good day. Thanks for taking us with you. Stay safe and healthy.

Please thank Ralph for sharing history with us. Could listen to him all day!

"Family names of remote and unknown homesteads lost to history." That is the prime reason why I find your videos fascinating. God bless you Todd and Beau. You two searching to bring life to the lost past of people that could have never imagined the impact of their lives reflecting upon present.

Great adventure !!! Enjoyed Mr Ralph telling us the history.. Keep up the good job .

I love when you are interview the “old timers.”

That's a really cool place. I believe the chain you pulled out was a curb chain off of a horse bridle. Great find on the ring. Congratulations.

Very cool hunt buddy love all the relics yas found God Bless and happy dirt fishin…Virgil

Fascinating and that country is just beautiful. CHIGG was wandering around looking for shine

Exciting to me as well! Thank you two.

I could sit and listen to him tell stories all day. What a great video, thank you for sharing. Great hunt, good luck on the next!

One very awesome video from beginning to end. Great story, great artifacts and great interaction with Ralph and the Chigg.

Thanx Todd... great video and history

Another great video Todd!!! Love the buckles🤙

Great video Todd and Beau. Love watching your adventures. Looking forward to part 2.

Great finds I really like your style o always enjoy your videos thanks tom

Great episode :)

Interesting finds gentlemen. 👍

Super cool! Thanks for sharing this. Please go back to the site.👍🏻

Ralph is so awesome. Someday you should just do a video of him telling stories. I wished more people still learned from elders.

You two are doing a good thing. Keep it up!

Beautiful video just beautiful and some wonderful finds too

SWEET AND COOL FINDS TODD GREAT DETECTIVE WORK!

You can just imagine family hunkered round that ol fireplace on a cold winters eve or morn. Thanks for yalls stories👍👍

Love the history involved with your detecting videos. The personal accounts and backstories, really add some emotion to your finds. Nice work!

A corn cob baby doll 😂 that's awesome.

Great video cool finds great history of the area

Just goes to show you the importance of the old town folk. Without him and his knowledge the stories and history would have been lost forever, kudos to you for having the foresight to document it.

Some nice 👍🏻 history recovered!

What a great place to just hang out an take in the senerary. An thank, what it was like in the 1800's. An what they all were doing during those hard times. Just seeing them plowing the fields, working in the garden or running around catching lighting bugs in the late evening. Maybe even picking black berries for a pie they would soon make. It's a place that takes us back in time. Another old home site you guys have captured before its all gone. Not alot of it left but enough of it that can still tell the story of a family long ago. An I'm sure that when your there around the old home place it's nice an quiet, you could probably even here a leaf drop from the trees. Thanks guys for taken us along on an adventure of another old home place that has a story to tell. You guys made some amazing finds to. Always exciting to go to a site like that. You just never know what your going to find. Great video guys. As always safe an happy hunting/digging.😁👍👍

Okay, that was hilarious! I posted and then kept watching, and you pulled out a wedding ring!!! YAY!!! What a day! So much for not finding much. That was super!

Congrats on the wedding band ( ; I just found my first one about a month ago. Really enjoy watching both your guys videos, learn so much, ty for sharing, stay safe ( ;

Absolutely wonderful relic finds guys! The research and history is great, as is the videography and music. Nice to watch! Take care and have a good day:)

Thank you so much for sharing your adventures and these snippets of history with us (being obsessed, I wish they were longer videos 🤭 but that's just me). You remind me so much of my late grandaddy and uncles, it's uncanny. Grandaddy's family was from Shenandoah Valley (Orndorff)...then Charles Town/Harper's Ferry area (where he grew up). They were Orndorffs, Allens, and Painters. Very prolific in that area.

Great day in the woods!

Love the history aspect of your adventures. Have watched The Chigg since I first discovered metal detecting. You all make a great pair. Looking forward to No. 2 visit.

Hey Todd. 👋🏻😃 What a great video and a great interview with the old chap at the start. You found some cool stuff including a really nice silver (?) buckle!! Maybe that chain & spike were for a dog?? 🐶 Beau didn’t do too bad either. Loved his bucket part with handle! 🤣 It’s great to save history before it’s all gone so top job. Thanks for sharing, take care, GL&HH. 🇺🇸🇬🇧 Deano. 😃👍🏻

A great day out Todd, I have been enjoying your adventures from the Chigg's point of view, appreciate the time you put into the editing and the interview was a bonus which gave an insight into earlier times. Look forward to your next mate. Happy Fossicking! Warren.

Hi Todd, man do these hunts make me jealous! Great finds for both of you! Stay safe and keep swinging!

Cool finds

When ol Beau wears out his welcome I’ll take over for him. Lol. Nice video as always Todd.

Ralph is a national treasure. Absolutely great video Todd. The pandemic has prevented me from being able to travel, or knock on doors to obtain new permissions. I've had to get creative, but your videos are always something to look forward to, and I've been able to live vicariously through you and the Chigg. You have been an extremely positive influence, in a seemingly uncertain time. I am very grateful for Appalachian History Detectives!!😎

I had a good tag a long with you guys, poor old house is gone, but still interesting. There's something about old chimneys that just fascinate me, there like old monuments, or even tombstones. They sit with no names or dates but they represent time that has passed, and the people who once lived there. I didn't think the valve you found was a piece to a bed, I don't think the old beds had threading on them. You found some interesting things, and you had fun. See you next time, and God Bless

That was a great hunt!

its a ok day got to dig and have some fun.

The square plate with square loop, if I not mistaken. They where sewed in leather tak for draft horse equipment. To take up slack in the rains or leads. Awesome video. Love the history thanks for trying to save the verbal and physical history of Appalachia.

Great video, love the story behind the video. Its not just digging, it's history. Thanks for sharing. Until next time. *Chris*

I enjoyed the whole video from Ralph's comments at the beginning to the roundup at the end. I was excited for you when you found the wedding band but I guess my favorites were the Lunkenheimer valve and Chigg's clip with the man on horseback. I think Chigg's mystery item was a hasp from a toolbox or trunk. There would have been a hinged piece on the lid the swung down over it to hold the box shut. Great video, am so looking forward to part 2.

Seeing that beautiful country makes me wonder why I live in the desert.....grass is always greener on the other side. Especially when you live in southern Arizona. Great videos!

great hunt fellas . really liked the old valve part. hope you can connect the wedding band to someone. look forward to the next one.don't let the rona get ya. keep movin

Perhaps you already know, but as mentioned, the chain looks like a curb chain which would be behind the horse’s chin so when the reins were pulled back that chain put pressure on the chain and the horse would stop. Not sure, but those are still used today. Your videos are terrific!

😃 Fantastic site - I'm glad you were able to dig there! Preservation of history is SO important! Most incredible is that wedding band you found. Imagine the last person who wore that ring! Too bad there's not a time machine available so you could go back to give the ring back to the one who lost it... 😏 That would be cool... Thanks for posting and sharing; I am very much looking forward to part two. 💕

Great story

the brass piece with two mounting holescandvav center hole is a windowv shade holder. It takes two of thosevto mount thr shadev that could be pulled up and down to block the sun from heating up a room during the day and for privacy at night.

Thank you Ralph and thank you Todd and Beau. Now both of you, GO BUY SOME GOOD GLOVES!!!!!

@18:12, all that glitters is not gold. This is quite special, still. I love personal items. Makes your imagination go back in time. Great video!

I think the chain you found is a curb chain for a horse bridle. It connects to the bit and goes under the chin to give a little added control. If you Google it, you’ll see what I mean! Love your channel!

Hi Todd! Another awesome video for sure! Loved this one so much you and chigg are so blessed I would give anythg to detect old homesites and talk to the old folks !!! I wanted to watch chiggs video too is it out yet? Ps I finally found silver!! A beautiful chunky sterling silver bracelet from germany.. Stay safe and God bless You both

Another exciting and revealing hunt. Great job, I love the finds. Thank goodness for Ralph and his memories of the area. Once you finish all of the clips, maybe your could create a condensed version of the Egypt community. Thanks, keep up the great work. Another idea is to study the stonework required to creat the chimneys that stand as statues of the past.

Wow! Great finds, the best is the wedding band. I'm sure the one that lost it was Hart broken. The last name Poole linked to this home site,maybe distant family to a Co'worker, his family is in West Virginia, and his great grandfather was in the lumbering trade around the turn of the century, I'll share this video with him. Who knows, might be a link to his ancestors. Love the history, locations and the finds. It brings history to this timeline, opens a window to the past. Thank you Todd and Beau. "Dirty hands, are happy hands"👍✌

You guy,s work good together

That house is about a 45 min walk from my house. It was still standing in the early 90s. I remember exploring it. Everything inside was painted a weird color of green. I have pics of it somewhere when it was still standing.

The chain is my favorite find , I wonder who made each link by hand ? What an amazing piece of History .

It must have been fascinating to talk with Ralph. He was a living history book of local culture.

Ralph seems like a good old guy would be good to talk to and also thank you for your Bible verses

I worked for a great Industrial Pipe, Valves and Fittings company in Phila. and a piece of Industrial plumbing supply history is the Lunkenheimer globe steam valve but unfortunately it's broke and missing the stem but that might be an original. That's a keeper

I really liked the hand-wrought copper chain. How nifty was that?! Those large heavy rings you find always remind me of cinch rings from a saddle. But no doubt there were a lot of other uses for a large ring like that. What a nice place to hunt, to bad there wasn't more of the house left. Looks like the chimney is always the last thing to go, which tells you it was pretty well made. We lived in a house once that had been built in the 1920's. We were remodeling it and found the fireplace, which was huge and went from the ground to the second floor, (on the outside of the house), had been built on sand without any proper support. As a consequence the chimney was sinking and leaning away from the house. It was too much of a job for us to handle so we sold the house and the folks that bought it had the chimney and fireplace removed. Glad we didn't have to deal with that one. You always find great spots to go Todd, and even if there aren't loads of finds every time, the history is all so very interesting. Besides you and the Chigg have such great fun and educational conversations, it makes me wish I had, had you guys as teachers in history class. It would have made it so much more enjoyable. History isn't always silver coins and major discoveries, sometimes it's tiny grommets in an old leather boot.

Wow nice finds that are now a visual part of history you've saved from time for now! The ring is amazing... Now are you going to clean those buckles up using electrolysis? Great video! Thanks.

Todd some of those rings could be hog nose rings to keep them from rooting certain areas. I'm not sure really but I know hog and bull rings have notches on one side so they could open. Just a thought. Cool finds and as always enjoyed the old place and history

i read something about privies years ago. the NUMBER ONE ITEM FOUND IN PRIVIES? hand guns. i mean, there were coins, and watches, but consistently they found pistols in there more often and in more holes. i guess maybe somebody wanted a place to hide them where no one would look, ya know? they have also found leather items, like shoes and belts intact. for some reason(im not a chemist) the 'stuff' in there preserves the leather almost perfectly. ps, im the one that did living history over here in salem, WV. the only job i ever loved.

The brass fitting was probably to a hot water tank on a wood stove. The thin plate with the strap loop was to a wooden trunk. All in all I'd say the wedding band was an amazing! Find👍

Hey Todd, I'm thinking the valve is part of a portable steam engine that may have been used to drive a saw mill, grain mill, or threshing machine etc. The engine might have malfunctioned and blew the valve apart from the engine. Be on the lookout for other blown parts the next time you hunt the cabin area.

Very nice video! 💗

Looks good. I think it can be fixed up to live in again.

It's for water pump outside or inside

Thats a valve the linkhimer?

The ring was a sad but awesome find be nice to find her grave and give it back to her ....but

The company Lunkenheimer made steam and water valves in the early 20th century.

Some day the stuff we throw away will be cool to somebody in the future.

31:30 looks like a lift valve for a steam engine setup

Do you think chain could have den a bracelet?

21:30 small part to a oil lantern.

Leaf blower?

I think the brass thing you found is a Lunkenheimer globe valve. Patented in 1865 www.valvemagazine.com/images/article_images/Lunkenheimer1865fixed.png

Lunkenheimer is located in Cincinnati. Now know as Cincinnati Valve Company.

All those finds are from old long disappeared graves. Eaglegards...

I'm sure you have already looked it up but the valve was a Glove Valve pat: in 1865

The copper chain is from a horse bridal, the bracket for a bucket looks more like a window shade and

You fellers need to start digging the outhouse holes....

I'm thinking that the twisted up chain at 14 minutes is a curb chain for a horse bridle

Spike in wood and chain with something hanging from it ????????????I have them on my very rustic porch with cypress posts!!

My 1st Watch, K, let's see what these guys are up to" and if they got the 🔑 Appalachia, runs through the East Side of this state I live in... Tennessee. A state that I truly has some beautiful areas, lush vegetation, and Mountains, Hills, Flat land, Delta, and the Mississippi River. Orange clay dirt, no clue how the Farmers grow anything in this soil. It is clay when wet and Hard as a brick when dry.

Not a bucket, a cooking pot. Better iron pots were much thinner than later made iron pots.

You can actually drive to within a 15 min walk of that place if you know where to turn off dillons run rd. And cross my property. There is a cemetery very near that house as well but its buried in briar bushes. Youd never know it was there unless someone showed it to you.

Do think chains could have been a bracket. Homemade

A slot for a Christmas ornament

Pressure relief valve company has been around 160 years

I think you're brass piece comes out the bottom of a steam whistle from a train

It’s possible your hand forged copper chain is a chin strap to a horse bridle.

The old settlers knew and trusted their Bible. The land of Egypt stored the grain in time of drought. Joseph held no grudge and fed those he loved through the thick and the thin. Forgiveness and hold no malicious towards your brother.