HIDDEN SECRETS of a Civil War Mansion | History Traveler Episode 109

I’ve been to new Madrid!!!! My family is in East Prairie!!!!! And my great grandmas maiden name was Pope! Lots of buildings in EP have the name on them. Now I need to get info from my aunt!

Really cool history, as a southern man I'm very interested in history, a lot of the Farms that I worked on still had the slave houses and they're not much. They're very very small, and I can't even imagine more than two people living in them. I would like to think they took good care of Miss Phyllis for the rest of her life...

intersting I enjoy touring these old homes. Thanks for the tour I'm not able to travel anymore

You should come to Owensville MO, my sis lives on a farm here in a 3 story house from the 1850s that had a store-in the 1880s there was a shoot out with 1 robber meeting his maker. There is also the Brinkman farm-the house and barn were both built from quarried limestone and walnut! Both are pretty cool to see!

No hidden secrets. what a complete waste of time.

Amazing that they have so much of the original items and the state the house is in. Thanks for sharing

This house is magnificent piece of history.

So beautiful Thank you

I use chairs to store my farts.

Root cellar is where they refrigerated things bc there was no refrigerators.😊

Ppl were not tall in this era. Thus the bathtub would be short.

The drawer detail you drew attention to is clear sign of manufacturing and not hand made

I was wondering if her husband died in 1859 how many children did she have and how long did she live in the house.

I’m surprised that the paintings , furniture and belongings haven’t literally melted in this southern heat recently. I live in north Texas and have seen the damage of not cooling your house. Anything Wood or paper from furniture to doors, trim, baseboards and even paintings warp so bad they are ruined , Ive seen vinyl ceiling fan blades completely melted pointing down after only 2 weeks with electric shut off. Any longer and mold forms quick. Either global warming is real or the wood and building products were just that much better made 🤷‍♂️

If someone has never seen the Mississippi River then I highly recommend it. In the summer when I was a kid, my grandparents lived about 20 minutes away from the river. My uncle used to take me fishing on his boat in the river. It's very peaceful to be on the river.

Who does the house keeping ?

So nobody is going to bring up the rocking chair that was rocking by itself on the porch at the end? 😒

The joints in the drawer shown is known as a knapp joint. It was very time consuming to hand make a traditional dove tail joint and was one of the things that hadn't been able to be made by machine, as many furniture manufacturing was transitioning to machine made. The knapp joint was the first machine made joint. From research on a dresser I have, I have found that the machine was actually invented in around 1867 and put in use in the early 1870's. This increased the number of pieces that they were able to manufacture. In around 1900...the early yrs is when they invented a machine that could make the traditional dove tail joints and the knapp joints fell out of use shortly after .

We have a Wilcox and Gibbs sewing machine like the one that was in the sewing room

This is a fascinating look at life during civil war! 😍 I’ve been wondering what lighting and the bathrooms were like! I still wonder did public places like churches and Ford’s theaters had outhouses or makeshift toilets inside. Something I’ve always taken for granted is not having to go outside and battle winter and bugs 😂

I'm from north Missouri. Hmm I've never been there. Dang

Root cellar doubles as a tornado shelter.

What are those vents in the floors ? Are those original ?

Wow, what a gorgeous home! I just love this time period!! Thank you!!

Like your way of doing things..your humor/charm..very nice / refreshing..enjoyable.

What a beautiful place. Thank you for the video.

There was only 13 Colonies in the late 1700's. How can it be founded in the late 1700's. They were still speaking French.

I'm wondering why you didn't mention the earthquake in New Madrid? It happened in Feb. 1812 and recerse the Mississippi River for several hours

While I love your videos, would it be possible to use some kind of light? Dark wood is really hard to see the details. Just a thought. 👍👍👍👍

Thanks for the your. Very interesting and informative of the lifestyle in that era.

The outhouse would have been used by the slaves, not the home family members.

Lol. Going to the loo would have been quite the adventure ….. particularly in the winter.

Honestly, use the pronunciation of the original word. Mad Rid sounds stupid beyond belief. Couldn't tell what word he was saying til I saw it in writing. Maybe everybody there pronounces it New Mad Rid but its really stupid like how Boston fans have to call the Celtics sell ticks rather then Kel-ticks in the original language. Too painful to watch.

Cool. video. There is another Mansion in Western Florida that was during the Civil War times. Gamble Mansion @ Ellenton, Fla.

The first room is the foyer. There are whole towns that are filled with homes like this. If the roof isn't replaced soon,...replace the roof.

That bathtub looks like a crotch washer

You haven't been to Vicksburg then, there are several homes that were there during the siege of the town and predate the 1860s. Most are open for tours.

Man, I can't say enough good about your content. Thank you SO much for continuing to share amazing interesting stuff like this. Keep up the AMAZING work my guy!

Just watched, for the first time, one of your videos. Enjoyed it very much as I too, love history.

Don't know if you have been to tour The Little White House of the Confederacy in Montgomery, AL but it is a step back in time like the Hunter-Dawson House.

The Civil War was indeed a terrible time in our country. It was a miracle the we came out of it as a united country.

Some people would like to erase the historical markers of that time but we cannot deny what took place by doing so. We need to learn from our history.

God bless America and have mercy on us. May we not repeat the sad parts of our history.

Have you ever visited Anderson House in Lexington Missouri.? It's the site of an actual Civil War battle, and there's a museum there too. It is a spectacular experience. I highly recommend it

So many wows,drawer ,bed springs. Nice tour 😊🌞

Love this! Thank you for "focusing on the history."!

This was so cool!

Loved the history! THANK YOU!

this is sad , if you like to see a real house go to memphis on beal street ,,

Did anyone else notice the empty rocking chair rocking at the very end of the video? Anybody?

The area where a stairway is, especially when it's like a room of its own is called a stair hall. 😊

That is the most beautiful outhouse I have ever seen! Exterior anyway.