To people reading the comments, the importance of Lake Memphremagog rising 1ft because of the flood is that the lake is 32 miles long and 1-3 miles wide (39 sq miles total area), so a crazy big lake to rise a foot in a matter of hours. The pond is/was 20ish miles from the lake it eventually emptied into. I grew up in the area and didn't even know that. Thanks Ken!
That does it. I am going to the Busy Bee for breakfast this morning. Rt 16 from Hardwick to Glover is one of my favorite drives. The Run Away Pond story has always hit me in the gut. Could you imagine witnessing that. That wall of water is always on my mind when I drive down the hill into Glover. Hope you went to Bread and Puppet while you were up there.
I just read “Run, Chamberlin Run!” My Mom attended the bicentennial celebration and got the book signed by the author/ descendant of Spencer Chamberlin. Awesome video…thanx!
I moved away from Vermont over thirty years ago, but before the move South I had driven this particular stretch of road located within the fringes of the North East Kingdom and never had the slightest clue about Runaway Pond .. Thanks for sharing some of Vermont's history.
Amazing how a seemingly minor decision by one man could have such an incredible impact (negative and eventually positive) on the environment and the lives of many people for centuries! Not only was the lake lost, but also homes, farms AND the gristmill! He probably wasn't a very popular person after that. Thanks for another fascinating video! 👍❤️
History we would never know about if it wasnt for you sharing it with us. Your doing a fine job and I hope you get many views to this channel Thanks Ken.
Hi , I’m from mansonville in Quebec Canada, so i’m very nearby the Memphrémagog lake , long time ago I have read something about that in a book but at this time I wasn’t too fluent in English so I didn’t read much about that story. Good to hear about that . Thanks.
I first read about this as a kid, in a book about weird things in New England history, like the Willey House disaster and the Smuttynose murders. Recently I was looking at a LIDAR map of the Runaway Pond area and the scars of that flood are still visible in the landscape underneath the forest cover, even after 200+ years.
Mr. Ken, I'm liking these videos more and more each time and you are doing a great job putting them together, I'm sure learning something new every week my friend! Have a Blessed day brother. Jay 👍 👍
Wow, 2 billion gallons of water! That farmer didn't benefit from his trench! So good to hear that no one lost their life. It happened in 1810. Wow, my grandpa was born in 1910. That's great that it enriched the land in the valley. That's interesting that it got renamed from Long Pond to Runaway Pond. That is amazing that that whole area was full of a hundred feet of water there. Truly amazing that someone could run to get the gristmill owner's wife out of the home. That is the original gristmill stone he had? Thanks for the history lesson Ken. Beautiful spot for a "Pond". That's one way to clear a valley of trees!
I'm from the NYC area and came up here on vacation in the late 1980ies and stayed here in 1991 I bought a home built in 1812by the governer for his daudgterin peacham with my 2nd wife .I have been here since ,me and her split she still has the parsonage in peacham .I married my 3rd wife had 2 boys at 54 and 56 the 3rd left to Conn. with my boys and I'm still in St Johnsbury. I LOVE VERMONT , I tell people back in NYC do not come here! Don't want any nyers spoilingthis place.There is a spirit here that can not be discribed.
I tell ya, we are near the Waterbury Damn and they say that if it fails, we will have a 90ft wall of water coming at us at very high speed. This video has really put it into perspective. Thank you for sharing!
Fantastic video and information. Love what you have done with the channel. Love the history and it also provide places for my wife and I to visit and gain additional information and history lessons of this great country.
Good Friday mornin Ken ... sounds like that grist mill was operating at top speed ...... for a few seconds! @06:22 .... what's the speed limit in Vermont🤣😂🙃 Thanks for this very interesting bit of history Ken .... take care 👣✌🏻
I grew up in Southern Vermont, and read about this event in school as child, but I've never visited the location. Your video really brought this to life for me! It's so much bigger than what I imagined as a kid! Thanks for sharing.
Great video. Great info! I am a new property owner in Barton and will definitely go check that monument out! Maybe edit out the beeping in future videos? Really enjoyed it though!
Ken, thanks for sharing the history of Runaway Pond (Long Pond) with all of us. Your overview of the history supported with great drone videos gives a deeper understanding of the magnitude of the disaster caused by the flood. It is a wonder nobody died in this huge event.
Ken, I've driven by this pull-off and placard many times and never knew the significance until now. Runaway pond has always been a legend of the Northeast Kingdom, and now I know just what happened and where! Thank you for putting this video together.
That amount of water, all of a sudden released, would rip out all the down stream trees by their roots. Leveled out the valley and filled in the hollows with the mud. What a mess.
Love these videos. Would love to see one with you giving your history of say where you were born, your early life, and how you got into the current business of building/construction, keep up the good work
Interesting! New subscriber 😊 We live in Wheelock and camp on Shadow Lake in Glover every summer. We have passed this monument many times on the way down the road.
My father owns the land to the west of rt 16 just behind the marsh. This large hills in the left of your cover pic are called “black hills”. I grew up with this story especially since my mom taught at glover school for 40 years, but it was neat to see it presented this way and you did a great job. Thanks!
Enjoying it, didn't know. I live in VT now, was in NH. Thanks so much for your story and drone footage. Brings Long Pond/ Runaway Pond alive. A note: Someone must've pointed out, with a wry chuckle: "1810 was not 122 years ago" {as you seemed? to indicate-- {unless it's 1932 now.}
My family has a house on Lake Willoughby so we know Barton very well. Long pond was one of the places my father used to like to go to paint & watch birds.
I installed an Elevator in the a school in Newberryport back in the late 60's and flew out of its "International airport" over the lake and part of it is in Canada to raise that a foot was phenominal! at least. thanks for a great video/history lesson ECF>
Interesting history. It would have been cool to have the drone follow the flow of water, like from where the breach was down. (Makes me want to get a drone, too)
Omg i Bet back in the Day that happened Peps dint know what was going on and no way to tell others what had just happened Scary Stuff I'm kinda stunned that no one lost there Lives Great Vlog thanks Ken
Hi Ken, loved the first seven minutes of historic information of LongPond’s demise. Thought you missed a trick by not including a few relevant clips or a map showing the route the water took etc. as the video of just the road ahead was not so interesting. Watching your great drone shots right now! 👍(far too brief?)
@@kensscenicjourneys7190 Ken, I like the road view, because as a transplanted native Vermonter now in Florida I get to see roads and countryside I haven't seen in years, looks like the roads haven't gotten any better. I know, can't please everybody ...
@@kensscenicjourneys7190 Thanks! I'll definitely have to check it out sometime now that I know about it, I've probably gone right past it so many times
Sorry for this video. Our biggest environmental disaster was having General Electric plant in our city and they released p.c.b.s into the Housatonic River.
That's the New England hotspot. Just like Hawaii or Iceland there is a mantle plume that the crust moves over, and that hotspot will occasionally poke through the crust with volcanic activity. This ancient hotspot is currently off the continental shelf in the Atlantic Ocean. Mt Ascutney is just a remnant of this ancient hotspot and is not, and shows no indication that it will become, active again.
Yankee magazine is just a magazine for the elite, gone yo the quaint towns of New England, the luxury hotels, the five star restaurants, the fancy brew pubs that the average New Englandee can't afford, they advertise the vacation land of the rich and not so famous.
@@alicealdrich3376 I haven't seen Yankee Magazine in ages, though I live in NH. I guess based on your description I should avoid the subscription I was thinking about getting, because I'm "old-school" to the point where I think anyone entering south of VT or NH should have a Visa (hahahaha).
@@jacksak I grew up in N.H. vacationed with my grandparents in Maine moved to Vt in 1966, we always had Yankee magazine in the house it had great articles and pi tures of New England. I moved to Wyoming 30 years ago kept getting Yankee to keep in touch, but the last few years with the newer editor it has changed. Seems to cater to the wealthy elite who have turned New England into vacation land! Which unfortunately is happening in Wyoming also.
@@alicealdrich3376 Yes, that's the problem with rich city people retiring bringing the ideas with them that made their cities unlivable. It's disturbing like an invasive plant.
A very interesting video Ken. Thank you. Was long pond a naturally occurring pond or was it man made? Do you think it may have drained itself eventually?
May have just been a beaver made pond as most in VT NH NY are made by beavers activity .Could be water level was high for decades due to beavers then the fur trade removed many beaver so no beavers no high water levels .
Only in screwball Vermont would they consider a flood to be "an environmental" disaster. It is a "natural" disaster. But hey, it's Vermont. That's why I left there decades ago.
Oh interesting. 60 men and boys dug a trench and caused the lake to erode causing damage and making a lake disappear. It doesn’t seem natural. Thanks for the perspective though
@@kensscenicjourneys7190 Water is not toxic, just like CO2 is not. CO2 is a natural compound in the atmosphere but the screwballs call it a grave threat to the environment.
To people reading the comments, the importance of Lake Memphremagog rising 1ft because of the flood is that the lake is 32 miles long and 1-3 miles wide (39 sq miles total area), so a crazy big lake to rise a foot in a matter of hours. The pond is/was 20ish miles from the lake it eventually emptied into. I grew up in the area and didn't even know that. Thanks Ken!
Thanks for the input
That does it. I am going to the Busy Bee for breakfast this morning. Rt 16 from Hardwick to Glover is one of my favorite drives.
The Run Away Pond story has always hit me in the gut. Could you imagine witnessing that. That wall of water is always on my mind when I drive down the hill into Glover. Hope you went to Bread and Puppet while you were up there.
Pretty amazing. Thanks
I just read “Run, Chamberlin Run!” My Mom attended the bicentennial celebration and got the book signed by the author/ descendant of Spencer Chamberlin. Awesome video…thanx!
Cool. Quite the story
I moved away from Vermont over thirty years ago, but before the move South I had driven this particular stretch of road located within the fringes of the North East Kingdom and never had the slightest clue about Runaway Pond .. Thanks for sharing some of Vermont's history.
Hey nice. Thanks for watching
Hi Ken, Thanks for another great video and history of a flooding of long ago.
Thanks for watching
Thank you for sharing, ken.I have never been to that part of the country, before. Very beautiful area!🙂👌
Thanks for watching
Amazing how a seemingly minor decision by one man could have such an incredible impact (negative and eventually positive) on the environment and the lives of many people for centuries! Not only was the lake lost, but also homes, farms AND the gristmill! He probably wasn't a very popular person after that. Thanks for another fascinating video! 👍❤️
Thanks. I believe the family moved to southern New Hampshire
It only takes one person to ruin parts of the environment. It takes all of us to protect it.
Interesting! Thanks for sharing this piece of history.
Great video. Very interesting. Lovely Vermont on a pretty blue sky day. Thank you from a former resident.
Thanks for watching
History we would never know about if it wasnt for you sharing it with us. Your doing a fine job and I hope you get many views to this channel Thanks Ken.
Thanks I appreciate it
Hi , I’m from mansonville in Quebec Canada, so i’m very nearby the Memphrémagog lake , long time ago I have read something about that in a book but at this time I wasn’t too fluent in English so I didn’t read much about that story.
Good to hear about that . Thanks.
Thanks for watching
I first read about this as a kid, in a book about weird things in New England history, like the Willey House disaster and the Smuttynose murders. Recently I was looking at a LIDAR map of the Runaway Pond area and the scars of that flood are still visible in the landscape underneath the forest cover, even after 200+ years.
Thanks for the input
I've heard about Long Pond/Runaway lake several years ago but it was never explained the way you did Ken, thank you very much for the information...
Nice thanks for watching
Mr. Ken, I'm liking these videos more and more each time and you are doing a great job putting them together, I'm sure learning something new every week my friend! Have a Blessed day brother. Jay 👍 👍
Thanks for watching Jay
Wow, 2 billion gallons of water! That farmer didn't benefit from his trench! So good to hear that no one lost their life. It happened in 1810. Wow, my grandpa was born in 1910. That's great that it enriched the land in the valley. That's interesting that it got renamed from Long Pond to Runaway Pond. That is amazing that that whole area was full of a hundred feet of water there. Truly amazing that someone could run to get the gristmill owner's wife out of the home. That is the original gristmill stone he had? Thanks for the history lesson Ken. Beautiful spot for a "Pond". That's one way to clear a valley of trees!
My understanding was he and his family fled due to lawsuits
@@kensscenicjourneys7190 That makes a lot of sense. Probably a few death threats in there too.
What an amazing story! This channel has wonderful growth possibilities. 😊
Thanks
I'm from the NYC area and came up here on vacation in the late 1980ies and stayed here in 1991 I bought a home built in 1812by the governer for his daudgterin peacham with my 2nd wife .I have been here since ,me and her split she still has the parsonage in peacham .I married my 3rd wife had 2 boys at 54 and 56 the 3rd left to Conn. with my boys and I'm still in St Johnsbury. I LOVE VERMONT , I tell people back in NYC do not come here! Don't want any nyers spoilingthis place.There is a spirit here that can not be discribed.
Really interesting. Thanks for sharing. Becky from Kansas City
Thanks for watching
Nice history lesson Ken. And good old new England ingenuity to use that millstone in the commemoration.
Yes it was
I tell ya, we are near the Waterbury Damn and they say that if it fails, we will have a 90ft wall of water coming at us at very high speed. This video has really put it into perspective. Thank you for sharing!
Wow. Thanks for watching
Fantastic video and information. Love what you have done with the channel. Love the history and it also provide places for my wife and I to visit and gain additional information and history lessons of this great country.
Thanks for watching
Enjoyed your commentary on this historical location. Very fascinating . Great drone work as well. Looking forward to more videos like this
Thanks
Thanks Ken for taking me places I’ve never been. Beautiful Country side. 👍🏻❤️🙏🏻
Thanks for watching
Good Friday mornin Ken ... sounds like that grist mill was operating at top speed ...... for a few seconds!
@06:22 .... what's the speed limit in Vermont🤣😂🙃 Thanks for this very interesting bit of history Ken .... take care 👣✌🏻
Haha slow down!
I've lived in this area my whole life and driven by this spot many times and never knew much about it. Thanks for the history and information.
Thanks I didn’t until recently
My interest in history was peaked. well done Ken.
Thanks for watching
Nice video, I think your on to something. Great history with a view 👍
Thanks
Fantastic story and footage, Vermont is beautiful. I can’t imagine such a flood happening.
Pretty amazing
I grew up in Southern Vermont, and read about this event in school as child, but I've never visited the location. Your video really brought this to life for me! It's so much bigger than what I imagined as a kid! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks yes standing there and realizing what happened is kind of sobering
Good Morning Ken, still love your math 210 years ago. Must have been horrible for the folks back then. Hope You Have a Better Day, Boscawen, NH
Haha thanks
Thanks Ken, that was interesting.
Your drone does a great job and the video is very stable 😉👍
Thanks
Interesting video Ken beautiful scenery.
Thanks
Great video. Great info! I am a new property owner in Barton and will definitely go check that monument out! Maybe edit out the beeping in future videos? Really enjoyed it though!
Thanks for watching. You’re right about the beeping I totally missed it in editing
Thanks for sharing this Great information!!
I hunt and fish that area !!
The Vermonter
Nice thanks for watching
Great stuff Ken. Thanks for the illustrated history lesson.
Haha thanks
We crossed paths at Dollar General (L'ville) last week 😁
Always great content sir!
Cool thanks for watching
I worked one summer 1979 in Magog at the northern end of Lake Memphremagog. it was my first trip to North America!
Oh nice. I’ve never been on that end.
Ken, thanks for sharing the history of Runaway Pond (Long Pond) with all of us. Your overview of the history supported with great drone videos gives a deeper understanding of the magnitude of the disaster caused by the flood. It is a wonder nobody died in this huge event.
Thanks that’s true
Ken, I've driven by this pull-off and placard many times and never knew the significance until now. Runaway pond has always been a legend of the Northeast Kingdom, and now I know just what happened and where! Thank you for putting this video together.
Thanks I actually only heard about it a month ago
That amount of water, all of a sudden released, would rip out all the down stream trees by their roots. Leveled out the valley and filled in the hollows with the mud. What a mess.
Apparently it did
Love these videos. Would love to see one with you giving your history of say where you were born, your early life, and how you got into the current business of building/construction, keep up the good work
Thanks
Good morning Ken. That was an excellent view & info on what happened amazing the turmoil that these things can cause.
Thank you for that. Take care
Thanks
Fascinating. That was 212 years ago. Thank you for the research to inform us.
Haha yes my math was off
Great store, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching
I Love History ,Thank you for sharing ❤ with us
Thanks for watching
Interesting! New subscriber 😊 We live in Wheelock and camp on Shadow Lake in Glover every summer. We have passed this monument many times on the way down the road.
Nice. The story is pretty strange
My father owns the land to the west of rt 16 just behind the marsh. This large hills in the left of your cover pic are called “black hills”. I grew up with this story especially since my mom taught at glover school for 40 years, but it was neat to see it presented this way and you did a great job. Thanks!
Wow thanks for the input
Thanks again for sharing
You’re welcome
I like this channel. Its right around home, I like the history, definitely subbing
Nice thank you
Great video, always interesting to hear stories of events from different locations
Thanks
Very interesting, thank you!👍🌵🤠
Thanks for watching
Beautiful pics ken , historic information.
Thanks
Very Interesting! Thank you Ken!
Thanks for watching
just moved to woodbury from NH
enjoyed this You got my subscribe
Nice
Cool video Ken! Love stuff like this!
Thanks
Ken love your new channel love all types of history
Thanks
Enjoying it, didn't know. I live in VT now, was in NH. Thanks so much for your story and drone footage. Brings Long Pond/ Runaway Pond alive. A note: Someone must've pointed out, with a wry chuckle: "1810 was not 122 years ago" {as you seemed? to indicate-- {unless it's 1932 now.}
Thanks for watching. Haha yes I slipped up on my math.
Great video and information. I liked it very much, Now I know what this pull off is all about.
Thanks for watching
I loved this thank you for sharing!
Thanks for watching
What a great history lesson, I enjoy this so much.
Thanks for watching
My family has a house on Lake Willoughby so we know Barton very well. Long pond was one of the places my father used to like to go to paint & watch birds.
I installed an Elevator in the a school in Newberryport back in the late 60's and flew out of its "International airport" over the lake and part of it is in Canada to raise that a foot was phenominal! at least. thanks for a great video/history lesson ECF>
Thanks for watching
Very nice views of Northern Appalachia Vermont ! 😀
Thanks for watching
@@kensscenicjourneys7190 . . . and I wonder how well Vermont recovered from that hurricane (?) few yrs agone, nearly a decade I think ???
Wow.. Using the drone really puts the amount of water lost into the prospective. Nicely done sir.
Thanks
I was confused at first because in Modern times long pond is up above lake Willoughby.
Maybe more than one Long Pond
Very interesting title Ken..
It was a pretty dramatic time in history
Interesting history. It would have been cool to have the drone follow the flow of water, like from where the breach was down. (Makes me want to get a drone, too)
Haha thanks for watching
Very interesting video. I've never heard of this before.
Nice thanks for watching
Omg i Bet back in the Day that happened Peps dint know what was going on and no way to tell others what had just happened Scary Stuff I'm kinda stunned that no one lost there Lives Great Vlog thanks Ken
Yes amazing. Thanks for watching
I have drove by their many times thru the years with no idea, thanks for sharing.
Pretty amazing. The land recovered
Nice video Ken. Sounds like Wheelock next.
Haha nailed it
wow Thanks for the video and information
Thanks for watching
Pine Street barge canal is a super fund site in South Burlington.
Oh good to know
Ken I wounder if there was a newspaper that mite of reported on the flood or even interviewed the mill owner?
I think there was but I’m not sure of the name. It’s probably on the internet
Same kind of thing happened in Johnstown Flood PA.
Very interesting history! Never heard of this before.
Yes pretty strange
@@kensscenicjourneys7190 definitely! Was there any legal issues for the person who started digging?
What about doing some interviews with/in places like the Busy Bee Diner and other local places like that in NH/VT?
Yes maybe in the future
Hi Ken, loved the first seven minutes of historic information of LongPond’s demise. Thought you missed a trick by not including a few relevant clips or a map showing the route the water took etc. as the video of just the road ahead was not so interesting. Watching your great drone shots right now! 👍(far too brief?)
Thanks. I appreciate input. I’m trying to fine tune this channel.
@@kensscenicjourneys7190 Ken, I like the road view, because as a transplanted native Vermonter now in Florida I get to see roads and countryside I haven't seen in years, looks like the roads haven't gotten any better.
I know, can't please everybody ...
Agree. It does seem though that the runaway water pretty much followed what's now the roadway: as winding along the lowest 'channel.'
Never even heard of this place, I live in southern Vt, have almost my entire 26 years of life
North of Saint Johnsbury about 45 minutes
@@kensscenicjourneys7190 Thanks! I'll definitely have to check it out sometime now that I know about it, I've probably gone right past it so many times
Sorry for this video. Our biggest environmental disaster was having General Electric plant in our city and they released p.c.b.s into the Housatonic River.
Wow
Nice, enjoyed 🎅🏻
Thanks
OH and thanks for these vids great job !
Thanks for watching
Yo this was well done. Kept my attention and that's hard to do. 👍
Haha thanks for watching
Considering that Under parts of VT and NH lies a Future Volcano..could that Setoff Mt Ascutney...
That's the New England hotspot. Just like Hawaii or Iceland there is a mantle plume that the crust moves over, and that hotspot will occasionally poke through the crust with volcanic activity. This ancient hotspot is currently off the continental shelf in the Atlantic Ocean. Mt Ascutney is just a remnant of this ancient hotspot and is not, and shows no indication that it will become, active again.
Had a friend deceased now that grew up in west Glover probably born in 1935
Where is this at I'm in Newport center vt an used to live in Barton never heard of it would be worth a look see
It’s south of glover about 5 miles
Cool
Thanks
Sorry Town was Newport Vt not Newberryport. ECF
Wow. Amazing nobody was killed. God bless
Yes thanks for watching
Ken, well with this one, Yankee Magazine better watch their backs. You're coming on strong. I love these type videos.
Haha thanks
Yankee magazine is just a magazine for the elite, gone yo the quaint towns of New England, the luxury hotels, the five star restaurants, the fancy brew pubs that the average New Englandee can't afford, they advertise the vacation land of the rich and not so famous.
@@alicealdrich3376 I haven't seen Yankee Magazine in ages, though I live in NH. I guess based on your description I should avoid the subscription I was thinking about getting, because I'm "old-school" to the point where I think anyone entering south of VT or NH should have a Visa (hahahaha).
@@jacksak I grew up in N.H. vacationed with my grandparents in Maine moved to Vt in 1966, we always had Yankee magazine in the house it had great articles and pi tures of New England. I moved to Wyoming 30 years ago kept getting Yankee to keep in touch, but the last few years with the newer editor it has changed. Seems to cater to the wealthy elite who have turned New England into vacation land! Which unfortunately is happening in Wyoming also.
@@alicealdrich3376 Yes, that's the problem with rich city people retiring bringing the ideas with them that made their cities unlivable. It's disturbing like an invasive plant.
I think 1810 was a lot more than 120 years ago unless this video is a lot older than it looks.
Wow you’re right. I misspoke. I knew it was over 200 years. Thanks for mentioning that.
Oh my goodness Ken, Now ya got me "looking into" Google Earth. Ok Ok Ok. Pretty cool. Wow!
Haha nice
Pond mud is organically dead. (Lots of activity in it, but nothing good.) Not productive topsoil, and it took awhile to recover.
Wow thanks for the input
A very interesting video Ken. Thank you. Was long pond a naturally occurring pond or was it man made? Do you think it may have drained itself eventually?
Naturally occurring
Pretty cool Ken
Thanks
@@kensscenicjourneys7190 you're welcome
Mount Ascutney was a Volcano....do a Video on Ascutney...
beautiful
Thanks
May have just been a beaver made pond as most in VT NH NY are made by beavers activity .Could be water level was high for decades due to beavers then the fur trade removed many beaver so no beavers no high water levels .
Right
Only in screwball Vermont would they consider a flood to be "an environmental" disaster. It is a "natural" disaster. But hey, it's Vermont. That's why I left there decades ago.
Oh interesting. 60 men and boys dug a trench and caused the lake to erode causing damage and making a lake disappear. It doesn’t seem natural. Thanks for the perspective though
@@kensscenicjourneys7190 Water is not toxic, just like CO2 is not. CO2 is a natural compound in the atmosphere but the screwballs call it a grave threat to the environment.
1810 was 212 years ago! Wow
Haha yes my math was off