I get to escape to these places too through your videos Thanks for sharing.

Born and raised in Ft Meade awesome seeing someone make a little video about the town

Love these videos. That old house, you just know how awesome it used to be. So sad, Rest easy, Julian. Take care, Jay.

This was fascinating, I really enjoyed all of it.

RIP Julian. I remember him on SMALLVILLE and ofcourse many other projects. Great video and remembrance, buddy. :)

These Florida Roadside Attractions and Abandoned places are so cool! So much to see in Florida.

Awesome video, my friend! 👏 You be safe out there, and God bless ❤️🙏 ❤️ Happy 4th of July to you and Cris!

👋Hey, Jay! I love the trees with the Spanish moss. Spookingly beautiful! Is that a word? 😆

Congratulations to you and Cris for getting your new home. Hopefully we will see a vid of yall in your new place.

So sad about Julian Sands 😢. A nice tribute for him. And great Vlog. I love the backroads of Florida

Very cool. For the past 25 years I have lived less than a half mile from that abandoned house on Durant road. I've never been inside but have passed it countless times. Thanks for the tour. I'm sure it was a nice place back in the early part of the last century. Used to be all orange groves around here, mostly owned by the Mulrennan family. Have a great week!

That's interesting. There is a Fort Meade, Maryland too with an army post, both named for George Meade. great video as always, Jay.

The river crossing was a phosphate pipeline. From the Swift and Co. Watson MIne. The same mine that created Sand Mountain. The Drive in restaurant is still a drive in if you choose. We love the food.

Another great job of exploring the back roads and towns of Florida! Thanks Jay!

A nice tribute to Julian Sands. So sad about his passing. Thank you for the lovely video.

R.I.P Julian Sands

Really enjoying this series, Jay!

Pretty cool! You should film a Massachusetts attractions, old places, cemetaries, and abandoned places! That would be cool!

Good video keep it up ❤

Very cool vid! Great stuff as always 🎃

Great video! Polk County looks old fashioned. They have a great sheriff in Grady Judd.

Hello from Gatlinburg TN Smoky Mountains Park Mr Jay..🏞️🐻🌄..Those Rays...my goodness

I love these roadside attraction videos. You always take such care in your videos, Jay! Julian Sands, RIP, good sir❤

Pretty scenery Jay

Great video! Love videos with history. Entertaining and educational.

Way to cool Jay

Nice work. Glad I found your channel.

Thank you so much for such interesting and compassionate content, as always . RIP Julian Sands

Great video!!

One of my dream jobs would be to fix up old houses, buildings, and really anything abandoned to what I imagine they would’ve been in their heyday. Great video of some neat stuff!

I love when you end the videos with a little hike or a park!

Awesome as always Jay. This trip over on SR 60 is a great ride to US 17 and Bartow/Fort Meade. Nice town. I love your old Florida blogs, they are the best. I love the old citrus, phosphate and railroad history you show people, a part of Florida from long ago back when citrus, cattle and phosphate were king in Central Florida! The tribute you gave was heartfelt. The drive-in you went to almost looks like an old Whattaburger or Hornes with the steep roof but I do not think they got into Polk. Maybe a Biff's Burger or Maryland Fried Chicken like you suggested, burger looked awesome. Sometime you and Cris should check out Soloman's Castle south of Fort Meade, down between Arcadia and Wauchula, it will be worth your time. Amazing video as always. God bless and happy 4th to all!

Funny Farm Chevy Chase vibes here! Love ya work Jay😎👍🏻

Hello Jay! I just found your videos! I love to watch these videos! THANKS!!

Thanks awesome video keep up the great work

Great work thanks.

The aband house would be perfect for a haunted house or horror movie!

LOVE IT JAY THANKS

I absolutely love your creepy videos lol. Very informative and I'm very proud of you! Well done Sir!

Hi Jay! 🙋 That house I was going to say looks like a house from horror movie or Halloween. Florida has so much to see. Awesome video. Have a great day.

Really enjoyed this video

I'm from Maryland and there is an Army base "Fort Meade" Love your video's on forgotten towns.

These are so interesting, thanks Jay. When you went up those stairs, I thought someone was gonna pop out. 😯 I hope you visit more historical sites. Maybe the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and Arlington. Thanks Jay, you always do an awesome job. 👍

Mornin Jay!!

You're awsome dude. I really enjoy the videos you put out. I was stationed at Mayport,near Jacksonville as you no doubt know, in the 70's. It would be really cool if you could go out there sometime. That would be really cool. Happy 4th to you and Cris "The Girl" You guys ROCK!😊

i love you Tampa jay

Yes cheese makes everything better ! Great show !

My 2 sons and some friends are at Gettysburg National Battlefield tis weekend doing some historical tours for the 160th anniversary. Very interesting video,thanks!

I live close by the Valrico house and always wondered what the inside might look like, thanks for exploring!

That first shot of Ft. Meade reminds me of Downtown Miami Springs except it had a circle at one end that connected to Hialeah. This and your previous video on southwest Polk will come in handy for me. As I scout out some places for my friends to do some cosplay shoots there. BTW Both Generals were at the Battle Of Gerttysburg on Opposing sides. A lot of the restaurants in Polk County have those old timey photos of the town or city that restaurant is located in. Mostly McDonalds, and Burger Kings! You know, you could do a tour of the Minor League stadiums in Florida! That can be done at your leisure! Adam's doing this with the MLB stadiums this year.

Great video Jay! Thank you for acknowledging Julian Sand’s death.

So enjoy your stream of consciousness sense of wonder. Please try to get back to the RR museum train. Later gator.

Hey Tampa Jay nice video I enjoyed your video Great job Tampa Jay 😁👍🇺🇲

I LOVE FLORIDA

THE CAT WANTS TO GO HOME WITH YOU JAY PLEASE

From a fellow English person, I was sad to hear of Julian's death too. R.i.p. from across the big pond .

My hometown, I moved to Avon Park 23 years ago and I still drive through there quite often, try the ribs next time you're at the diner, salad bar is pretty good as well.

Hey Jay ! What's up?Another sick video !!!

i broke my school 400m track & field record on the track of the school where Julian Sands was a pupil, way back in 1992! the school is called Lord Wandsworth and is situated just outside of London, England to the South West. My fave movie he did was Oxford Blues [1984], also starring Rob Lowe & Ally Sheedy. A storm must have snuck up on him, let's hope he didn't suffer. R.I.P

Fort Meade, Florida, located in Polk County, was a post that served as the headquarters of the military forces of the area when it was established in December 1849. The fort was built on the Peace River along a new military road from Fort Brooke to Fort Pierce. The road and the fort were constructed by Lieutenant George Meade, directing nine companies of the 1st U.S. Artillery, the 3rd U.S. Infantry, the 4th U.S. Infantry, and the 7th U.S. Infantry. When it was complete, the post was named for Lieutenant Meade, who would later rise to the rank of Major General during the Civil War. The post was garrisoned by U.S. Army and Florida Mounted Volunteers. Future Confederate General Stonewall Jackson was stationed at the fort in 1851. The post was abandoned in November 1854, reoccupied in March 1857, and again abandoned in September 1857. It was occupied by Confederate forces from 1861 to 1864 during the Civil War. The town of Fort Meade, which had grown up around the fort, was destroyed by Union forces in the Battle of Bowlegs Creek in 1864. Afterward, the town was rebuilt. There are no remains of the post today, but a historical marker designates the site in Heritage Park on 3rd Street N.E., 500 block, in Fort Meade, Florida. © Kathy Alexander/Legends of America, updated November 2022.

I don’t know for sure which of the Ft. Meade saw a lot of use in WWII, but, there is also a Ft. Meade in Maryland near where I grew up in Virginia. Love your channel!

I always enjoy your roadside videos. I had no idea that there was a Ft. Meade, Florida. I lived in Maryland for a time not far from the big Ft. Meade, which is still active. I hope you get to go back to this Ft. Meade again when the museum is open. I don't know if you are aware, but Florida supplied most of the beef to the Confederate Army during the Civil War. The Union wanted to capture as much as they could in Florida to stop the meat supply because they knew that would demoralize the men. I don't know if there are many Army bases (if any) left in Florida, but I do know that Camp Blanding near Jacksonville is still active for reserve training and Civil Air Patrol encampments. They have some pretty old buildings there.

First! Love you!!

Jay, you are brave going in that haunted house!

I grew up right down the road from that house lol... it was owned by the Pearson family (the road going south is named after them. It has not been abandoned all that long. It used to scare me as a young kid but I wanted to live there later on. It was a huge beautiful house in the middle of acres and acres of orange groves at one point. It bothers me it is in such horrible shape

In jacksonville we also have an Evergreen cemetery and there's a trailer park next and behind it. We have a friend of the family that lived there. So it is kind of funny going there to visist a family members grave and look up and to be able to wave at the friend at the sametime.

That burger was dripping yhe grease lol

Going to see TB rays in Tropicana Field on the 5th for my bday!!! Any recommendations for Tampa family things to do? We’ve done the aquarium and the zoo in the past.

Hope Julian didn’t suffer, I can only imagine what he went through, never hike alone!

Jay. You need to get to Gettysburg. It is very moving and the ghosts will be all around you. Mrs. James

JAY GREEN FRIED TOMATOES AWESOME TRY THEM OK

Grimm life collective have just released their video on the actual locations..there abouts where he disappeared, so yes R.I.P... to Julian, and Bloody bucket bridge was my first video for you, going back would be kinda neat for Halloween this year, make it one of these videos you make.

In the old barbershop in downtown they have a pic of people sking on the sand mountain

I do know of a real haunted house in Ft.Meade, Fl. I contracted to do some work on this particular abandoned home that a church bought to turn into a meeting center. The lady told me about a small child dressed in old time clothes that could be seen once in a while. I didn’t tell my employee about it. A few days later while talking to him. He mentioned he saw a young child running up and down the stairs. He said the child looked and was dressed like he was from back in the 20’s or 30’s. He had a strange feeling about that child. I didn’t tell him the child was a ghost. He never saw the child again.

At 25:51, I believe the Fort Meade you are referring to is Fort Meade Maryland. It is still an active US Army post. The number of troops trained there was probably closer to 350K and not 3.5 million.

jay i seen that house before the old people live there

Weird question but did I see you on the side of the highway on 275 going to the rays game last week??

Man TJ, That house you showed at the beginning could be used as Michael Myers House

So John's drive-in restaurant used to be a Whataburger there was at least one in every city from Arcadia to Lakeland used to go there when I was a kid my parents were district managers over the whataburgers in the 70s

That dog barking confused me I couldn’t figure out where it was coming from for 20 min 🤣

I AM ON MY LABTOP THANKS FOR THE GOMMENT SON

Thanks!

1917 in Maryland Fort George G. Meade was established as Camp Meade in 1917 as one of 16 cantonments built to prepare American Expeditionary Forces for WWI. Named after Union Civil War officer, Major General George Gordon Meade, Fort Meade was home to the first women to serve in uniform.

You should go to angels in palatka for a traditional drive up restaurant. I believe its the oldest in FLA its from 1932.

Reference 3.5mil troops trained in WWII probably is a reference to the FT Meade in MD not Fort Meade, FL

Those historic photos in Burger King oh wow…how did they survive the day without air conditioning? That’s where the term “roughing it” came from 😩

The fort Meade you spoke of with 3.5 million trained personnel, is the Fort Meade in Maryland. Coincidentally enough George G. Meade is tied to the Maryland Fort. George Meade in Florida is not the same person.

OLD BRIDGE WALK ON IT IF YOU CAN

It's too bad some billionaire doesn't bring the first house back to grandeur. It makes me so sad it will be raised (torn down).

Very creepy....

John's was once a What A Burger

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Now here's the truth about Fort Meade in Florida that was abandoned back in the 1800s

I DONT SEE THE HEART

Perhaps your real niche is to explore Florida History . Nobody is doing it . Until now .

If mister Hooker died in 1862 ... how could he have attended a church that wasn't built until 1889 ? just saying

Why do you sound so much like Adam the Woo? 😂😂😂

You are cool 😎

You must be part troll.

What are your pronouns?