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Just to clarify, I did not cut open that fence. Looks like it's been like that for years.

The "typewriter" is a Burroughs F 1000 bookkeeping machine from c. ~1950. The building was likely an accounting and records office for the plant if I had to wager a guess, hence all the file boxes strewn everywhere.

Typewriter is a Burroughs alphanumeric accounting machine.

You're approaching the perfect urbex mix there. A tramp through the woods, industrial monoliths and a characterful house with enough left inside to offer a little mystery.

Hi, Chris, at 13:15, the machine you are looking at is a Burroughs Sensimatic, which I believe to be from the early 1950's and I believe it was called a Comptomitor. I worked for Burroughs Corp. from April,1965 till about April of 1982 The Comptomitor was a forerunner of the earliest computers and I think it was all mechanical and was probably just before they started using electronics. I will start trying to learn more about Burrough's history and try to let you know what I find out, if you're interested. God Bless and stay safe.

I recognize that machine anywhere, it’s a Burroughs Alphabetic Accounting Machine. Used for accounting. I’m an accountant so yeah thank God we have computers now or that’s what we would still use. Fun huh? Great video as usual thank you great to see that. When things were still made in America. Good times.

The wildest thing when finding places like these is imagining how in their heyday, they were places people lived, worked, thrived, now only seeing humans every so often. Valuable properties once.

That house could've been an office building for the other cement company

I wonder, who owns that land: Those deep, cylindrical man-made shafts, at the beginning of this video, need to be covered, or filled-in, obv. People/animals will fall in, and never get out.

During the cold war many buildings were CD fallout shelters.Churches,Schools,Office buildings ect. My parochial school had barrels of survival biscuits,water,first aid kits and even several Geiger counters in the church and school basement. Common in steel mill towns.

That hole is terrifying

You need a metal detector. Imagine all the hidden treasures you could find in places like this.

8:59 I'm amused at how no one is able to access the top of the silos to spraypaint or to steal the copper wiring. Thanks for the tour Chris! 👍🤠

Very interesting find, especially the house. Thanks Chris and Jay

Yup. I'm near 60yrs old. We learned to duck and cover under our desks when I was in school in the early 70's. One time there was a loud car crash just outside the school, our widows were open and it was very loud and sudden, and we all dove under our desks. I had nightmares for a week about bombs dropping, everything being destroyed and I couldn't find my home or my mother. It was a fear that was instilled in you at that age and time.

Looking at that old picture of when it was in operation makes me think about all the people that must have worked there just like any other job or place & could never imagine it buried in the forest & abandoned. Another great video Chris. I've never missed one.

You sir. Have some damn good content on your channel. Been a follower for a few years now and it seems that I don't skip any of your videos. Love how thorough you were with that drone. I wanted to take in every second of that chunk of history. Thanks Chris!

Chris and Jay thanks for all your exploration, sadly my health prevents me from exploration, always enjoyed forgotten places , Be careful please ❤

This was absolutely awesome. Great videography as usual. Thanks, Chris

👋🏻Chris,Awesome Sites You Find Very Interesting, Thank You For Sharing🙂👍🏻

I can’t believe the holes at the bottom aren’t closed off. They know people are gonna go back there I’m sure

I can tell you exactly what all the square light blue flat box-like items upstairs in the attic at 18:03 are... 16mm film reel containers for transporting and storing large16mm movie film reels after having been developed. Those appear to be the 16" size which held up to 2000' of developed film. This is how any movies that were shown in schools, business training programs, colleges and many other applications were shipped and protected. There are both tops and bottoms visible. The film reels were put into the bottom half, then the tops were fitted over the bottoms and secured using the canvas straps that were then buckled tight to lock them closed These were in common use from the 20's through the early 80's until VHS tapes began to be used for the same kind of educational materials. Many libraries and schools still have stacks of these slowly decaying boxed film reels in deep storage. Probably over 90% of every old video you've ever seen came from these 16mm films before being copied to VHS or digitized. Any kid from the 70's on back through the 40's who took a history class (that is every kid who went to Jr High or High School) has seen these when the teacher showed films with a big projector. They just don't remember the boxes the films came in... Sometimes the boxes were a greyish tan in addition to the blue or black. Hope that was a contribution to outdated information. Sometimes we old boomers are actually useful. And in person, actually pretty cool.... ;)

Be careful...I grew up in this area and there are quite a few areas that are monitored by "government agencies." I grew up in Wallkill (just south of Rosendale) at the foot of the Shawangunk Mountains. There are a lot of areas there that were once used by the government for training purposes but are still monitored even though they have been abandoned. Weird stuff happens in those woods.... 🤣

Interesting that you found a bunch of Civil Defense stuff in the house. Shortly after entering, I noticed several old telecom racks laying on the floor -- it's possible that this house was used for storage or some kind of telecom junction point. Also possible that it was from the cement plant but who knows.

Watching the video it Started looking familiar. I went in the house about 10 years ago. They look about the same as the last time I was there seem to be holding up fairly well. I Remember finding a news paper from 1981.

Awesome video! I appreciate your bravery in going into that abandoned house. Many thanks to you Chris, and Jay.

The civil defense department used a lot of concrete...

Let’s goooo, finally one of my favorite KZfaqrs are talking about rosendale

Thanks for sharing Chris , interesting place. That hole should be covered , so dangerous !

sensimatic alphabetic accounting machine, very interesting find.

Thank you, Chris! ❤

Dang, Chris! Draw a line due east across the river and you'd be where I grew up in Staatsburg, NY - was there this past weekend as a matter of fact. As for that Sensimatic, it was an bookkeeping/accounting machine by the Burroughs Company, found a few close images of ads from the 50s , so the one you saw was prob from the 60s (just a wicked assed guess). Excellent find of that office building!

So as you are walking around in that water,you don't know of its 1inch deep or 100 ft.

That house must have some high quality roofing material to have lasted that long. The exterior walls looked like asbestos tile. Amazing location altogether.

15:14 Magnetic tape transmittal form - Magnetic data storage tape was used by mainframe computers. The transmittal form was required by IRS. Before the internet, if a company wanted to send a data tape to the IRS that form would be included. Data probability would have been employee W-2, or other tax info. Those boxes would have held the data tapes for transport.

Further up just below Catskill NY you'll find a very small town of Cementon. Half that plant is shut down. I use to go there for work. Might be all shut down by now that was 3 years ago. Its owned by Lehigh Cement last I knew.

taco bell shirt!! we used to have those places in Australia.

5:16 Minus the spraypaint. 👍😉

I was born in 1957 and remember doing those drills and listening to the sirens testing all the time

So cool! I sometimes wish I was a guy explorer as I’m a big wimp of a girl explorer🤣 and too afraid to go this deep into the woods or plains to explore! That’s why we have you and Jay!! 🙌🤣❤️❤️

wow, what a blight that was left behind

Interesting & eerie indeed!!! Awesome explore, thank you 💖

In the old photo of the plant in operation there’s a rail car near the silos. The railroad grade should still be there but possibly overgrown by brush from view. It could be an interesting walk to find where it went and joins the mainline, if that still exists.

Forgot about this channel for a hot minute. Binging on all your videos now. Kudos for the contents!

Well you can go to dangerous places. Just great viewing and take care. HI Jay!

Those green industrial lights fetch a nice sum.

Very cool explore! Thanks for taking us along.😊

When I think of civil defense, I also think about underground bunkers. You know, like where they would mine cement? Hmmm...

This was a great find. Thanks for going and sharing!!!

Such a big place thanks for sharing guys

Thanks for the journey Chris!

8:08 “What’s Up there?” Bigfoot👣

You and Jay going upstairs at the house---was sure you were going to crash though! be careful!!

Probably set up as underground fall out shelters . Pretty cool.

You should get one of those Zoom spot light flashlights when exploring these places. there’s no telling what could have been in those cylinder ground shafts those lights would be perfect for looking in them. check these lights out in sporting and hunting stores.

13:30 that seems to be an electric typewriter. I found a few similar ones online, also from Sensimatic. Wanted to share the link but apparently got auto-blocked. 😅

It's an accounting machine, very cool!!!

Great video. Thanks!

Very nice! Thank you for sharing, and greetings from Canada!

Amazing stuff. This is definitely one of your best finds.

Really cool. Thanks for sharing.

Wow this place was such a mystery. Great video!!

Cool find! I love seeing historic places!

Great video. Thanks for sharing.

in the abandoned house, you found a burroughs sensimatic industrial/architectural typewriter. a very prolific and expensive typewriter for doing blueprints and floor plans, back in its day. its truly a relic. burroughs adding machine was a cometitor to IBM in its time. also those 2x4 in the house, also look like they are actually 2x4 inches and very valueable

I looked up that weird typewriter. It's an accounting machine from the 50's

Fascinating!

Loved it!❤

Looked like an Eastern Black Racer snake. Amazing find!

Very interesting. Both you and Jay made Very interesting videos on this old cement plant.

WOW!!!! Amazing video and find. Thank you for sharing. I found your channel through Lamont at Large Enjoying your channel.

Awesome find with a lot of history.

Loved this!!

Wow, very cool explore.

Awesome Vid Love The Attack Drone Background Music 😎

What a find! 👍🏽

This is an awesome find.

Wow there's tree's growing on top of the silo's. That's cool

Fascinating. 👍💯

I remember the CD drills basically if you were within 100-200 miles of a major city like NY, Chicago etc you went into she School Hallway say down put your head between your Knees and kissed your Rear goodbye!

I looked up that typewriter looking machine that was in the house and it is an accounting machine

Looking down that deep hole gave me some serious vertigo.

As always, your videos are awesome. 💯

Pretty cool find out in the woods

Fascinating to watch, interesting, x

Cool place

How is it possible that no matter how remote the location you think you have found, some damn kid has been there first with his nasty graffiti 🤬

No roads. No trails... dude... if you knew how many people have tramped around those woods...

Great video. 👍.

I liked this one!!

Heck yeah man, I use Google Earth to find abandoned place's as well.

Very cool

We can't wait!!

Incredible 🎉

Thev old "cold cave" mines are pretty close to me. I never knew about that Google maps location though. Looks like I'm going exploring!

I wish I knew you were here. My driveway passes over the D&H canal

My father worked in the lab (quality control testing) at a cement company. The lower level of that building looked just like that lab. There was also an adding machine just like that one there. My guess is the lab was on the first floor and the business/shipping office on the second. That was the arrangememt where my father worked which is now another abandoned (portland) cement company in PA.

It either could have been used to provide cement for domestic military installations - as there were tons of random missile launch sites around the country (they're all abandoned but many still stand!) or perhaps the site itself was used for military activities. I think you should investigate the area more! heck, you'll probably find at least one more building...

Civil Defense could have been using that house and the massive concrete structures near as a possible place for some form of government to evacuate to and its far enough away from anything it wouldn't be hit by any nuclear weapons and hopefully no radioactive fallout. Being in that low valley would have been a big reason the spot was chosen as well. The many secure file containers were probably once full of plans and information on what to do if the people that made it there were to be the highest ranking government officials after a massive nuclear war. Believe it or not Civil Defense still exists. I have been a member of my local Civil Defense for many years. Granted its nothing like it used to be but we still meet every month and still have plans on top of plans for multiple large-scale disasters!