Looking for a Mine on the side of a New Hampshire mountain

hey everybody thanks for tuning in this video you're about to see is a compilation of several days when I went looking for a lost mind that was vaguely written about in our local history these are the kind of things you can expect on this channel in the future so hope you enjoy and stay tuned well hey everybody this is the start of something I've been meaning to do for a long time I got out of one of our old local history books a small blurb that mentioned a mine yeah so that's what we're gonna go looking for [Music] well the old history book gives us very little insight as to what kind of mind copper mine LED mine salt mine just mine well pretty much I parked on the main road which you can hear back there and I'm heading for the south side of this mountain back in the early 1700s this whole area there was a lot of debate as to where lines would be drawn and in the book it states with the shifting of people's properties it also mentions the old abandoned mine that's rather curious I have been all over well the other side of this mountain and there's a reason for that see when the glaciers receded dragging all that earth with it in new england here i've observed it's the northerly sides to have the slopes i think of where all your ski areas are it's the southerly sides that are steep and have a lot of deposit the reason i've been so much on that side is because it was heavily settled I've been to all those farms but I've never come completely around this side and that's my best guess as to where this mine would be so unless with some crazy reason I get lucky and just walk up to it I have a feeling that this is something we're going to be able to well find together over a bunch of videos this is the time of the year to do it I've picked the center point and I'm going to do the easterly side today or as much as I can and as we go we'll be looking for the signs you would think if they were mining up here you know there'd be a cart pass there'd be a way to get whatever it was out of the ground out of the area you'd also think they'd be all the refuse coming out of the ground it's gonna be rocks that's that's a given we're pretty flat where I am right now so we need to keep heading towards that horizon from the top they're hiking down I've only gone a short distance because it's so steep so I'll be kind of looking for things like this beat and trails I'm sure people still come and hike but as I had said recently a lot of these hard packed trails are a lot older than modern-day times and as we've learned through the years reading the language of the landscape anything the colonists on have done in the past 400 years it's painfully obvious when you see it man leaves its footprint and fingerprints everywhere that's getting steep now so right about this area all the way around the mountain to the other side is where I'm thinking to look it goes from being you know somewhat of a grade to the top Wow it can't get much more up than that it's actually over vertical in a lot of that face because of all this stuff that's broken off so you can see as to where we're limited as to how far we can go up to peak it's it's sharp on this side so it's gonna be a matter of you know a few hikes going around this side the road may sound loud to you guys but it's probably it's probably quarter to a half a mile that way so it's a good chunk of land to have to go back and forth on but I really believe it's gonna be along this ridge line you're gonna dig into the side of a mountain looking for stuff pack keep heading that way so look at all this this is what we find on the south sides of the mountains here in this part of New Hampshire I'm sure it's like that throughout the northern hemisphere and on the other side from the glaciers receding a lot more soil you can see how far I've come up look into the south oh boy look at you leave them alone well as I said earlier I've been on this side of the mountain many times and I believe I've come to about this point at this elevation so I've been that way I've come about a mile to the east not the no signs of man it can be anything you guys know cart path a couple stacked stones old tree whatever so I'm gonna drop down a bit to where it's a bit more traversable and see if we see any any signs down there and aside from it being a great hike every now and then I see the comment well too bad you didn't find anything sometimes not finding anything is the biggest piece you get into an area like this and you're like well it definitely didn't happen over here take that right off the map more we chip away a better chance we have right now it's the if I was here over 300 years ago where would I be walking and looking topographical standards of the area this isn't too bad right well it's remarkable how quickly the landscape can change man I just went down into a pit and back out whoa my kneecaps are on fire what it feels good it doesn't look any better I haven't seen any signs I mean I'm even surprised that nobody was up here splitting stones for seller holes and stuff back the way we just came is documented as the ancient road and people out here for a long time even before documented settlement so being it so clearly we don't see that anything happened here it's kind of a good thing well being that this is a Friday edition of not Thursday we'll pick this up next week these videos are all part of the if and when if it is found match all these together we've got a pretty cool story I guess it's a 50/50 there was a mine here or somewhere down the line with folklore stories were told and there actually was not a mine but either way proven or disproven we have some information all right everybody well this is part 2 of finding a mine if you missed the episode before this one go back watch it then come back here this is where we left off I had gone all the way to the east didn't find anything but a lot of rocks this time we're going to the west and we're starting out this really hefty walk so after the video the other day I had gone back and I did more research apparently it was this mine location which actually determined where the town lines would be set remember I said it was debate over that that's given me some clues and another reason why I'm pretty sure it's in that direction another blurb I didn't mention the other day was the fact that they said the mine had been drained of all its resources in the early years and again is we were out here looking the other day logic would tell you it's you know somewhere along this ridge line before it gets steep then we were on the other side in the last video there was no apparent signs of human activity you know exception of logging obviously but it was going back and doing the research that I figured out who lived where that was the tail end of a farm we just skirted along and that's one of the coolest that's interesting tea in the wall this corner here is away from the mountain so this square is facing the face of the mountain behind me see a lot more going on on this side than the other side I'm thinking I'm seeing the back wall over there I also went back and checked the topographic oceans topographic oceans nice reference to a yes album right I went back and checked the topographic maps and roughly from where I am to the peak it's 500 feet and it is it's not drawn out it's a face alright let's go check out that back wall and again like I said the other day I think it's gonna be pretty obvious not like it's gonna be this little you know cartoon character like mine shaft or something but I think the mess they left behind or footprints should be apparent it's a small square very small not good ground so it's probably for livestock maybe it had to do with the mine I can tell you that the road closest to here is way off I don't like the other day we are not near any established roads so this is intriguing over here be careful today too you can see we got a bit more snow and it's blanketing any speaks of ice nakedness well I've gone as far around as I think I need to go I could be wrong and I'm gonna start heading up that way found a little bit of a loggers landing down there and as we've learned that through the 1900s through the different stages of logging there's a reasons why we find logging paths where they are or landings most of the time it's an old cart path the landing is almost always at a cellar hole because it's the path of least resistance it brought me to right here this is where the thrill is that just intensely scanning the land is you go hope in your eyes we'll walk on to what you're looking for geez maybe I'm up higher than I thought I was I'm recalibrating I can see a land feature off in the distance I do need to go further and crazily enough this far I'm seeing a wall down there I'm gonna get down to that wall continue on yeah that's definitely an odd place for a wall unless that's a cart path because you can see the how steep this is where we're walking down levels out wall and then it goes down no cart pass it does mean something well with compressing video to make these episodes seems like it's pretty quick but I just went all the way to the other side where north side of the mountain slopes down as they come around it's you can see behind me it's not too bad so I'm gonna go back to that steep area that I went up where I said loggers had cut a little notch pretty sure that's dead center of the steep part of the face it's got to be over there just over here would make no sense alright onward well there's my prints round and round and back up the steep side you guys see that no is natural but then again with it already being lost to history and only that one mention in the old book and believe me I have cross-referenced everything I could try and find info the safety sake I guess they could have closed it up somewhere but again I think it would be it would be more apparent this is odd I don't know what it means but this doesn't look there again by any means it is peculiar those almost look stacked so there's the peculiar trench and here that right up behind it a little cave something's living in there as I'll poop everywhere yeah we won't be going up at the flashlight to look for eyeballs probably a porcupine but who knows so this is the area that seems the most interesting that Sun feels good for January it's a lot colder today but you get where there's no wind and the Sun plenty comfortable well I don't know guys maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree as they say but it would make sense to me this is the area where it would be I guess it's gonna take another trip to sorry either way this is the fun part it's thought it's all about the hunt yeah well let's look around a few more oh I got a sign look at this yes Wow Wow they never pulled it out of here and look what's beside it a cart path and this is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for this is pretty far up and for them to split this up here there's a reason for it because there's plenty of rocks down there to split and be used and they didn't even take any of it with them that fascinating look at that that's maybe two inches in just flip this thing and that does look like a cart path right over here there's some rocks on the side of it that's a good sign feel real interesting if it's in this area I'm pretty much in the middle of what I just did and a bit further up from where I originally walked in it's not terribly steep over here that's why I'm curious I don't know if you can tell but I'm on the side of the mountain this to me looks like a way of travel for sure compared to everything else I've seen I've just got a feeling I don't know this people have definitely been over here it's not like the other side detail into the farm this is the side of the mountain and you're doing nothing but moving rocks so to get this path in here you would have had to have move earth to me that's clear as day going up there and look at all the rocks off to the side on both sides well it did lead me to this plateau a nice flat shelf halfway up you see the horizon that's how high I went but No maybe that was a staging area I'm shooting with my wide-angle today so that's as close as I can get let me crop it in I can't see if there's anything in there and I don't want to get any closer boy that just goes straight up from here I'm pretty sure there's no way in hell that's up there you guys wouldn't believe how steep that is all right back down a bit more my gut feeling tells me that this is the closed area though the ground has been shifted the stack rocks everywhere and we are really quite a distance in between Old Farms well I appreciate you all watching hope you enjoyed coming along again I'm coming back maybe even tomorrow I'm not gonna rest until I've hit every inch of ground up here well here we go everybody part three of finding the mine I went back home yesterday and went through all the material I had to work with again and here are my thoughts on what we learned the last two videos and why we're going back to where we are going today points of interest from yesterday's video the first thing we had come across was that wall that small little square pasture well I came back this morning and followed all four sides and it's completely isolated on its own it is not connected to either of the two farms further down that way which does make me think that if there was some type of operation up here mining that you would need livestock to pull carts move rocks whatever and that cart path that's the second thing the cart path that took us to that Plateau goes right down to that and then that small pasture is in between farms and goes out to the main road and the third thing that I learned last night is this the debate for the town lines here was settled in 1790 and in the book it describes as to where the actual line that sits now is in the proposed line from point A to point B so what I did was I took and drew lines on a map and it does give us a very small sliver to work with which is this side of the mountain if this is not actually it over here there's only one other small possibility not too far off is where they started to split the line but it's marshy I know that so we're going back up to that plateau and we're gonna take a poke around I'm not gonna last out here today it's single digits with the wind extremely cold I'm very warm right now because I'm dressed properly but once I slow down I'm gonna cool off so let's head up to the top there take a look around and see if there's anything that stands out so this is our painfully obvious cart path that leads up to our plateau and comes up from the small pasture and then out to the old main road so look around and see if there's any other signs of people doing things here the more I thought about it last night the more it made sense for this location and really thinking about it again it doesn't imply what kind of mind it was so we don't know what their approach was as to pulling the resources out of here and the fact being that this happened over 200 years ago that is a long time for the land to shift up here don't forget we've had some major floods over that time the hurricane of 38 that Cove changed the entire face of this mountain over here maybe that's why it has not been brought back up over the course of 200 years because it's been forgotten nobody else has found it and brought it back to light you guys know you went with me circling the entire side of the mountain here inside that sliver that I pointed out where it had to have happened this is the only place that a cart path brought us up to that was flat so who's to say that whatever they took out of here isn't what created this plateau you know what I mean like this chunk it's just very hard to say not knowing but it is the most intriguing and peculiar spot around poke around see if anything else stands out like that split stone yesterday and that's not very far from here so that is all I have for today and I'm gonna let this area breathe for a while as you guys have seen and we know that sometimes it takes years to figure things out and find them because of what we learn in between as we go there's been many a sites here you've seen in the past that we are like it took three years to find it because we learned something somewhere else along the way and these last three videos I've definitely learned a lot more about this mountain because I had never spent so much time over here because it's so rugged so I'm gonna hike my way out of here because that wind is just tearing at me and I'm quite content with the hike today well it's the next day I was thinking about what I had said about that one little sliver I could not get to because it's all swamp Myanmar not too far off and where they started to split the line I couldn't let it rest that's where I'm heading right now I actually had to come up over that part of the ridge line to go down where I'm hoping there's a little plateau but the rest of it is all wetland water marsh and if this turns out to be a dead end then no doubt the plateau we had found has got to be it so this is what I'm coming down and through let me tell you it is cold today single digits and that wind just makes it really really bliss to touch on a couple comments in the first videos possibility of it being a surface mind absolutely possibility of it being a quarry highly unlikely the quarries around here are painfully obvious and it is not a mistaken phrase in the book using the word mine because quarry is mentioned frequently and no I don't expect to see a tunnel going into the side of the mountain that's why I said I don't expect a cart seemed like you know entrance boarded up or anything like that I'm looking for the residuals and leftovers from the mind that's the other thing if they were quarrying bran it out of here wouldn't it state it in the book that they ran out of resources because there's no shortage of well interesting see the wall behind me I just popped in from over there it comes up squares off so the suspicions I've had for some time did that wet land at one point in time was pasture or field I think is right on this wall squares off for that area and when you can when you look at it you can just you get always tell when a field of pasture has been flooded you can see down here on the other end the wall goes right down into water so that square is confined to that area I know there's nothing else over here for walls that is all right back it's easy to see why that lower area plot it out like a runoff and probably when they paved the road out there and built it up it just choked it all off and that water was going nowhere well I come up in here to get out of the wind for a bit before I head out go home well we just went I'm glad I did it it confirms the tail end of that farm is in fact under the wetlands that I've seen from the other side many a times clearly that wall came out squared off right back in as for the location of the mine I guess it's still yet to be undetermined but I really do think that plateau is the best possible candidate at this moment who knows maybe someday we'll discover that was not it but there's one thing for certain something did happen there and I can do little it down on my map and maybe in the future because as time goes on we learn more we find things later on because of what we've learned in the meantime who knows maybe we'll just come across something someday up here exploring and go whoa but until that day I'm gonna keep getting outside keep exploring keeping the Wonder alive inside and sharing it with you alright everybody see you soon until next time enjoy your not Thursday [Music] you [Music]

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Length: 32min 21sec (1941 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 08 2019