Hi Roger. I was born and raised in Bedford and have had breakfast, coffee and bought bait from Maxine's. My dad took me there when I was young and he knew of it because he sold meat and other products for a company out of Indy called Stark and Wetzel. My dad passed away in 08 but he told me a funny story about Maxine. I will share it with you sometime. Thanks for the local history. Mike

I'm a Boston guy but I'm fascinated with all the states, they all have so many stories, Indiana being one of them. God bless the United States of America. 🇺🇸🙏🌎

Its good to see your long past families cabin being saved. I hate seeing old building going to waste . Thanks for the video

We are traveling to Tennessee tomorrow from central Indiana. Hoping to stop at some historic places if the weather is nice. Thank you for the video ❤

Love your calm and measured delivery! I enjoy all of your videos.

I live in Western NC, in the Smokey Mountains. I wish there was someone like Roger in my neck of the woods. I don't even know anybody in Indiana and I love watching his presentations!

I just sat down to eat my lunch when the video notification came through. Another awesome video, thank you for making my lunch so much more enjoyable!

Thanks for the tour, Roger. I've never lived in Indiana, but drove through it many times. My wife was born and raised in Cambridge City. Even though she moved away when she was 22 and died in 2018 at age 84 in Arizona, she always had fond memories of her childhood there. Many of her family still live there.

Roger, you have the gift of telling stories. Not only was this a nice presentation but your artistic photography was beautiful. Many postcards for all to relax, watch and daydream. Great job.

Loved seeing the old cabin that your great great great great (I think that’s how many greats) grandfather built. What a treasure to see.

Hey brother I love your channel! I am from a very small town in northeast Indiana by the name of Corunna, Dekalb county outside of my time in the US Army I have been a life long Hoosier! Because of your channel I have more places to go and see then I ever knew were in this beautiful state! Thank you for your hard work and I hope to cross paths with you some day when I go to see all the places you have shown me. Have a great day and again thank you!!

Born, raise, live, and will likely die in Indiana. I've been other places that are more beautiful in various ways, but it's home for me. Your videos give me a yearning to "wander indiana".

Oh, I yearn for a road trip! thank you for sharing some of your family history and beautiful ruins! Blessings on your travels ahead!

I was born in Orange County (Paoli), graduated high school from Springs Valley H.S. in French Lick with Larry Bird's younger brother. I lived at Mount Airie in French Lick from 1979 -1986. It was the Taggart home and is currently overnight rooms and dining for people playing the golf course by the hotel's stables. The guest house is the pro shop. I currently reside in Crawford County and discovered your channel today. I have subscribed and would like to thank you for some great ideas for "day tripping"! I love learning new things about my great state! Thanks again. ✌️

Your videos are so unbelievably interesting and well made, I'm absolutely hooked Great work

Roger, you have the ability the make anything interesting and beautiful. You have a good ❤.

Evansville Indiana native here. Never knew of these places. So interesting!

Thank you for sharing history and your family's story with viewers. It is pleasant to listen to someone talk about what they see, and then expand on that as signs, plaques and details become part of the landscape, as if we are walking together. Also, thank you for not including dramatic, overwhelming music. The scenery and your conversation is very nice.

I've seen many of your videos and this is by far, the most interesting and intriguing. I've lived in Southern Indiana for nearly fifty years, have no relatives here, but this one touched me in that sense of wishing I knew more of my relatives in Northwestern Ohio. Good job Roger. I think I'll have some motorcycle ride to some of these places.

It’s like taking a Sunday Drive with you Roger ! 😊 Thanks for the slow cadence and the quiet; no annoying music, except the ending.

What a fun & interesting journey you took us on, thank you!

This video showed up logging into my dad's youtube on his tv. My ancestors came directly from prussia, earned citizenship through the civil war, and settled in ripley county we're still here and plan to stay. I know Dad and i appreciate this video on our wonderful state history

Long time no see! Your videos haven’t been showing up in my feed for some reason. Awesome job! Thanks for sharing ❤

Great video Roger! There’s something about old abandoned places that’s quite fascinating. We’ve seen several of those but not all.

Perfect timing!

I'm related to Clark, I believe, the castle structures were most likely built by the peoples, or early native Americans, check out Tarteria and the mud flood!

Thanks so much, Roger, for another great video. I think it's wonderful that you have a personal connection to some of these. How cool! ❤😊

really enjoy your work man, thanks for sharing

I grew up in Evansville and moved away in 1976. I'm now visiting my twin brother in Kokomo and stumbled across this video while having coffee one morning and it has been brought up many times in the last few days. Thank you so much for this walk through time and wonderful presentation. We really appreciate it.

Another great video and even better narration. Thanks, Roger. I always look forward to your buddy

I love your videos. Your voice is also perfect for this kinda thing.

17:00 I've often wondered about those 3 buildings just outside of Orleans. I pass them everytime I take one of our critters to the vet. Haha, I'm so glad that you've solved the mystery 😉 Much love from Lawrence county ❤

Thank you Roger. Loved this trip. 🙂

Love these continued backroad trips around our beautiful Southern Indiana Roger. I am familiar with many of them, but not with all and learn something new and add to my travel list with every view. I agree with you about Rothrock Mill-so many memories of fishing there with my Dad as a kid ❤ Such a beautiful, peaceful place. My family really enjoy your Indiana Vlog. Thanks again and safe travels!

Yet another great documentary! Thank you Roger, loving your content and storytelling.

So cool, especially love the family part of your video. Love videos about the abandoned .

You’ve done it again! Another excellent video filled with history, intrigue and wonder found only on the backroads and byways of our Southern Indiana. Thank you!

When you mentioned Maxines I about died. My grandparents lived down there in Chapel Hill. I used to go to Maxines. This was very exciting indeed!

I was born in Indianapolis Ind in 1967 , and sadly my Parents left the area in 1976 to move to Ky , I was 9 yrs old ..My Mothers family was from Owen Co Ind , My Fondest memories was traveling .. " Back Home again In Indiana " to my Grandparents farm in Daviess Co and to Santa Claus INDIANA , i received a ring with Santas picture when I was about 4 yrs old ..I still have it ..I love Indiana , its my home away from Home , I have relatives still in Indiana and many who have passed on are buried there.

Roger the best video you have dropped. Excellent work, thanks for my trip before the trip.

Good possibility I’ll never make it there. Thanks for sharing this.

Thank you so much for this channel and the work you put in it. The pace of the explanations is great.

Thank you for the wonderful stories. Happy travels to you 😊

Very much enjoyed thjs presentation.

Another great video. Thanks for sharing

Another very interesting trip into the past! I always enjoy traveling through our local history with you! You put us right there! : ) Thank you, sir!

Emy and Dad and I just got around to watching this video Roger. Wow! What a great visual journey it is. Well narrated with lots of background information. Thank you so much! Another one to share with my Facebook friends!

I thoroughly enjoyed watching this. Nothing like life as it once was and we tend to forget as time marches on. Everything we see was once inhabited by human beings with all the drama in their lives. The births, marriages and deaths. It’s all we have left of a time forgotten. Thanks for sharing this!

Your videos are great We like driving around southern Indiana So much to see in your back yard!

That Church in Crawford County is Not made of Limestone, but, of concrete block. There were MANY mail order houses that would send you forms and instructions to build your home/church/school or whatever......! It's classic! My former husband's family is from the Bedford/Mitchell area... Absolute SALT of the Earth! GOOD People!!

Thank you for this video! I love history like this!

Excellent Episode, Roger! One of My Favourites, and I Believe, One of Your Finest! Salutations and Cheers!

the good part of youtube, ate my lunch while watching (pacific time) and all mellowed out now

Thank you for the video Roger, Some very interesting places. Really enjoy your posts, keep up the good work

I'm so impressed. Your family connections too. Thanks Roger

Another awesome video Roger. I have been to many of those places, in fact I live close to many of them. I never knew that that old building in Paoli was a bottling factory. I remember it as an auto parts store. We would go there and gets parts from old ma Mentworth..Thanks again and I'll take a bottle of that happiness ...

There are some very beautiful things in Southern Indiana. Landscape, homes, people 👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

I was born and raised in Indianapolis. I spent all my spare time in Southern Indiana. I daydream about it every day

So so Cool! Now, this and all your travels in my birth state, Indiana is another travel route to explore. Beautiful old counties that have stories of "common folk" . It's been several months since I wrote in your Southern Indiana travels, Roger, but I also wanted to let you know, I finally got "the new car": Subaru Forester "Touring" metallic bronze 2023 SUV. Love its looks and features. That will be the car to do the travels to Indiana. And, ahh yes...the old Monon train line. I remember it well in the 1950s. God Bless you and your family, Roger! Oh...speak of Bedford...do you remember a Methodist Church camp around those areas called In-D-Co-So (not spelled that way but sounds like it's pronounced)? How about Flat Rock YMCA camp, and another Methodist Church camp, Rivervale? Been to all three in the 60s and early 70s.

Keep the videos coming. You are going to drive my family nuts with all the places I'll drag them to visit while traveling.

Much love and light from Tucson Arizona. I enjoy your videos and appreciate you speaking in detail.

Excellent video! Thanks Roger

Roger I really enjoy your videos. You do a great job narrating your journeys.❤

Roger you have done it again, and a good day for it. Too cold outside and a good day to see what is close to me yet so far. Thank you for your video's I have enjoyed all of them. Your Great Grandfathers cabin appears faimilar to me. My family was around nearby in those early years. Again Thanks.

Great video! My grandparents and other family members are buried in that little cemetery in Bartlettsville. I’ve always wanted to go inside the church. Thanks so much for sharing!

Southern Indiana is such beautiful country. I lived there around 85-87 as a kid, in Seymour. The last time I went back it had become almost like every other crossroad in the US, invaded by chain stores and restaurants... such a shame. I'm glad that so many other smaller towns have kept their history and community intact.

Thank you for all of the pictures along with the info. When you were driving down the country roads I felt as if I was in the car with you. How proud you must be of the stories about your ancestors now gone. 🥰. I'm going to look and see if there is more.

Memories ! I grew up in SE Indiana and it really brings back memories. And the stories of what my parents told me of what it was like for them growing up here as well. There are places now that are just a one or two buildings still standing. that my dad would tell me of how they were at one time busy thriving places. I would like to see the old days return.

Knew those stone bldgs in Orleans immediately. . That was our cruising turn around point as a teen back in the day. . The Gorge in French lick would have been a good one to visit, especially had it not burned down. Great video. Makes me want to come down and do a few days day tripping.

I enjoy your videos Rodger! Keep up the great work!

Roger, you should set up a tour. I’m sure people (me) would love to have you guide them through some of these stories! Great work!

Those engraved names of the Civil War soldiers left me heartbroken 😔. RIP to the young men who lost their lives. I loved traveling with you as you told us about these amazing lost places that people and time forgot.

This is getting saved in places I want to explore! What a great video- I’d only heard of a couple!

Great work brother! Fellow IN history lover here. Indianapolis

Outside of connersville on 44 sends a big limestone home . This used to be the worsham farm the quarry the stone for the national monument in Washington DC . This home was also a stop for the underground railroad . There is a marker on the wrong side of the road telling the story of this. My grandfather was the second owner of this property and is where I was raise. There is a marker on the wrong side of the road telling the story. Connersville also has the first jail that was in Indiana.

What a great historical adventure mate!!

awesome ! thanx for your Good work! we love the History ❤😊

Love this! ❤️ I too, am a Hoosier of Central Indiana!

If not mistaken, I was told that the in-ground pool at Rose Island was the first in-ground pool constructed in Indiana that had a filtration system. Thanks for sharing Roger, this brought back memories from when I traveled the countryside of S. IN for an oil co.

Ripley County here! 😊 I love history!

I grew up in Charlestown. Down by rose island on the path with the bridge if you go off trail just a little there is a beautiful small waterfall running into that creek there and close to the river. There’s several beautiful paths down there to take. I’m glad to see some of these places getting some recognition. Great video

What amazes me is just like the times we live in and have such a fondness for previous eras of the past , I'm sure eras from the past felt the same as we do now , if we could only go back in time somehow, when or where would you travel back too even if it was just to visit or live, thank you always for amazing content !

Keep up the great work 👍🏻

I grew up in Floyd and Harrison counties, and my dad was from Crawford county. Dad use to take us weekend country rides all over, but ice never seen most of these places. One exception that was shown just for a moment was Tower Orchard. It made me kind of sad because we go there every summer for a bushel of peaches. There was also a CCC park alomg the way that we'd stop at on the way home and eat some of the peaches. It was special because it was where my parents had their first date along with my great aunt and uncle. It was so much fun.

Oh my! Imagine my surprise to see the Church & Cemetery of my kinfolk. You presented the old Hawkins Cemetery & Methodist Church, just down the road from Bartletsville. So many of my kin are buried there. It’s my understanding my Great Great Grandfather James Knox “Polk” Hawkins, ceded the cemetery land to the Bartletsville Methodist Church, there lies also Great-Grandfather Abraham Hawkins (my G.Grandfather 4x removed), he had led his family & siblings into the Brown & Lawrence County region around 1820. After his father Abraham, following the opening up of the Eastern Kentucky region by Daniel Boone, passed away in Kentucky. Many Hawkins living today has Ancestral Roots there. My Grandparents, & my Aunts Ruth, Esther, & Helen rest there. Thank you for featuring a place I treasure! Love also the scenes of Bedford, the quarry’s & Williams Dam. My parents were from there. Visiting my Grandparents I walked often down J street past the Train station to the town square & fished at Williams. This was in the sixties when the Trains still ran right past the courthouse & Limestone was the big Employer. Back when Bedford was thriving!

Love these video's

There was an abandoned brickyard like that outside Loogootee into the 80s. It was leveled to make room for an industrial park.

Thank You!

I grew up near the Ohio river in Kentucky and spent lots of time in Southern Indiana. This feels like home❤️ Thank you❤️🤗🐝

I always enjoy your videos. This one was especially good, because we got to see some of your family history. I love seeing old buildings and ruins, although it makes me sad. But what really upsets me is the destruction with all the spray paint.

Another great one as always! In the 2nd part for Rose island, It looks like you had much better luck with the music box than I ever did 😂. I especially liked seeing inside of the pump station in Crawford. That building is a fortress. It was also really neat to see your family’s old diner in Lawrence. I can only imagine how cool it must have been to pull up and have a good meal there back in its hay day.

Great video! As someone who was born and raised in Lawrence county, I really enjoyed hearing some history about the surrounding areas. I've been to a lot of the places you mentioned and it brought up a lot of great memories. I noticed you didnt mention the Tunnelton Tunnel, if you've never been, it's a pretty neat visit if you can find it

14:03 this the current call center at Holiday World and Splashin’ Safari. Great video!

My Dad got his haircut at Voyles Barber Shop and that’s where my little brother got his very first haircut. Lots of nostalgia in this one, but lots of new stuff too!

Great video 🤗

Washington, Loogootee, Jasper, French Lick.... got a day long tour of this area in 1973 when I was 20. My mother married into the Feagan family who farmed the area for a couple generations. They were originally from Virginia and moved here as the land opened up after the bloody Indian Wars in PA, OH & KY. There is a lot to see. The large grave markers for Civil War soldiers impressed me the most. Several included a 'tree trunk' with a leaning musket & pack hung up, plus their Union regiment and where they died. Just standing out in the forest along dirt roads crisscrossing the land. There is also an abundance of arrowheads in the farm fields, some surrounding small family cemeteries. Small town America is great.

I have no idea why this was in my suggestions, but I'm glad it was. Your voice is so soothing!! Maybe it's just me, but I almost get ASMR tingles from your voice. Added bonus: I've never been to Indiana and love exploring new places. Not to dote on your voice more, but your accent literally fascinates me. It's not Southern. But it's more drawled out than flat Midwestern. It's melodic and (there's that adjective again!) : soothing. So soothing. Ok, enough compliments. Looking forward to watching more 🙂

@adventureswithroger My Wife & I would absolutely love to visit these location! We all live very close to each other! We always love visiting your videos. You truly inspire us to do better & explore more!

Hi Roger I have a daughter and ex-husband buried at the Old Chapel Hill Graveyard. I was married to him at the New Chapel Hill Church that is down the way from there. I never saw the Old Church in use either. Also, just a little update on the quarries, the Empire quarry was reopened when the Pentagon was damaged and stone from there was used for reconstruction.

Love your content..life long hoosier, and I realize how little I've seen..