History in Your Own Backyard

Channel produces short documentary-style videos that document local historic buildings, transportation and industrial infrastructure, and abandoned sites—especially bridges, railroad structures (tunnels, overpasses, walkways), canals/locks, mills and cemetery-related features. Videos focus on the history and present condition (abandoned, demolished, damaged or still in use) of specific locations in U.S. states such as Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

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Calculated from videos published in the last 12 months

1 video every 10 days
Publishing pace
Regular
Publishing regularity
15 min
Average video duration
45 min
Published time per month

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The Rosinco Shipwreck, Kenosha, Wisconsin, 1928
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Historic But Unusual Hayworth Road Bridge, West Newton, Indiana, Built 1904, Near Indianapolis
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Historic CSX:B&O Railroad Bridge, Indianapolis, Indiana
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St Charles, Virginia, Population 72 but Technically Not a Ghost Town, The Great Banana Bank Robbery
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Abandoned Eagle Creek Railroad Bridge, Indianapolis, Indiana
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Vulcan, West Virginia, Level 3 Ghost Town and Their Link to Russia
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Elkhorn Railroad Museum and the Abandoned Kentucky Route 80 Bridge
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Village of Harveysburg, Massie Twp. and the Connection to the First Free Black School
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The Mysterious Seven Gables Road Bridge, Symmes Township, Hamilton County, Ohio
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Historic Lynhurst Drive Stone Arch Bridge, Indianapolis, Indiana, the Bridge that Nobody Sees, 1910
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