Comments by "ToughAncientSpark" (@freetolook3727) on "Pennsylvania's Abandoned Cement Kilns | Coplay Kilns" video.

  1. There has been a cement factory at Howes Cave, NY for as long as I can remember. It was cool as a preteen to hear that warning siren go off, run to the window and watch the explosion go off in the quarry across the valley to mine new limestone. My mother worked in the office for one of the many different companies that owned the quarry over time. At one time, the quarry employed 400 workers. That was a significant amount of employees in a county that counted more dairy cows than people in it. 😂😂
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  2. I remember a lot of Portland Cement being shipped out of the Howes Cave, NY cement plant as a kid back in the 1950's and 1960's. Trucks with bags of cement on flat bed truck trailers held down by elastic rubber bungee cords that my dad would collect for reuse by him off the side of the road that fell off those trucks. Many, many train cars loaded with cement and tractor trailers too. The trailers looked like miniature versions of the rail cars. I look back now and wonder where all that cement ended up made by our local company.
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  3. He can't claim that as he signed an NDA in order to work for the Slate Rock and Gravel company (formerly known as Rockhead and Quarry Cave Construction Company). 😂😂
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  4. It's a highly overlooked area of history (probably because history bores most people and the rural nature of the area). I constantly remind people that the American Revolutionary War was literally fought in the Schoharie, Cobleskill, Mohawk, and Cherry Valley areas and they are amazed that they didn't know that. Schoharie river valley was known as Washington's bread basket because it contained many farms that provided food for the Continental Armies of The American Revolution.
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