Hey welcome back everyone it's time for another list today I thought we would go
small really small we're gonna take a look at 10 of the best very small towns
with a population of under a thousand you know the real America this is where
you find the roots in the history of this great country on the back roads and
the blue highways now there's no real way statistically or with reports to
figure out which one goes where and which are the best a few I've been to a
few I've read about and a few I know people that are from that town or at
least from the area so here's my top 10 best really small towns in America
number 10 Harpers Ferry West Virginia Thomas Jefferson visited Harpers Ferry
in 1783 and said it to be perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in nature
other than the fact the word stupendous has always sounded made-up to me
this West Virginia town is surrounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains and is where
the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers meet it has such natural beauty that most of
the town is now part of the National Park Service this place is breathtaking
they only have about 300 residents all of which have seemed to have avoided the
overuse of painkillers good job Harpers Ferry number 9 Wallace Idaho Wallace is
a small town in the Panhandle section of ID oh they hold the distinction of being
the only city in Idaho to vote for Hillary Clinton in the last election I'm
totally kidding I looked up the voting stats and from what I gather it may
actually be illegal to vote Democrat in this town which is fine
Wallace was founded in 1884 and hasn't gotten much bigger since then and that's
what makes this place beautiful they only have about 750 residents and from
what I've experienced they all seem to be very kind and down-to-earth people
what makes this place even more amazing is the scenery around Wallace so the
type of landscape that makes you want to go sit up on a hillside and just watch
the world for a bit if you do go to Wallace try the City Limits pub tell
them Big Jim in the twin Sencha just kidding don't tell him that that's just
something I told the bartender when I was drunk they're like
two years ago number eight makanda Illinois makanda is a town in Jackson
County Illinois this one is actually considered a village but we're gonna
call him town the community of makanda began with the building of a
boardinghouse and construction camp for the Illinois
Central Railroad back in the day and we all know what happens when a small town
has a train going through it that's right
a hobo problem one time they had this hobo making his way through town the
sheriff tried to usher him out of town well it turns out the hobo was a Vietnam
vet and didn't take kindly to this so he beat up a bunch of the sheriff stole the
motorcycle went into the woods and at some point got a hold of a rocket
launcher wait forget that that never happened that was actually I think the
plot of the first Rambo movie but anyway they did have big crowds during last
summer's Eclipse which that was kind of cool and this place was like dead center
for the Eclipse if you weren't in Oregon this was one of the places right along
the line it started in Oregon in the United States and went down through
Illinois and a bunch of it was really cool the town has a population of about
550 people and they have several weird festivals every year including one that
celebrates turkey vultures turkey vultures but a it's a really nice town
number seven Bell Buckle Tennessee Bell Buckle is a town in Bedford County
Tennessee Bell Buckle downtown is listed in the National Register as a historic
location the town was settled in the early 1800s and became incorporated in
1850 due in part to becoming a rail hub between Chattanooga and Nashville since
this place has been around a while it has some historic things here there's
actually even a Bandstand in the middle of town so you can go there and play
music like some 1950s musical this place is an antique lovers heaven and everyone
loves to watch the train roll by like they've got to have something else to do
but this seems to be something that people like to sit and watch not into
trains but I know there are some of you out there that love trains this may be
the place for you oh and they have a moon pie and RC Cola festival I didn't
even know RC Cola was around anymore that's cool don't bring your kids
there's too many antiques they get in the way but it's definitely place to
visit and I love kids just don't bring them they're gonna break some shit
number six Union Connecticut Union is a town of just under seven hundred
residents and a few ghostly ones too that's courting legend the town's
graveyard is supposedly haunted by a number of spirits that draws a modest
amount of ghost tourism Union is also home of traveler food and books a
restaurant that gives patrons free books with their meals with over forty
thousand acres of forestland in and around the town and a major
interstate going through it Union is known for outdoor recreation things like
hunting fishing hiking camping and apparently fornicating in the woods that
last one is some information I got from a guy that grew up in the area he said
that's what you did during the summer I'm going camping with my friends and
then some girl would say I'm going camping with my friends and they all go
camping as everyone does this around here then you end up having sex in the
woods just outside of Union Connecticut good times moving on number five
Cottonwood falls Kansas Cottonwood falls is the largest city in chase County
Kansas as of the 2010 census the city's population was only 903 people now
that's the largest city in chase County I guess not many people want to live in
Chase County I wouldn't mind I like it mainly because Comcast isn't in chase
County and that's a good thing now not a lot of people associate the Prairie or
grassland with nature hikes or nature for that matter most of us see it as a
place you farm oh you're right but you're also a little bit wrong the
prairie and grasslands are naturally beautiful now check out chase state
fishing Lake if you go there this place is beautiful
creeks that are just trickling into the lake geese ducks whatever this town is
what we thought this whole country was going to be after World War Two this
place is straight out of The Andy Griffith Show this is the Google
Streetview from the courthouse and down Broadway which is the main commercial
street in Cottonwood falls now here's the other direction then that's the
courthouse America
number four Augusta Montana with under 400
year-round residents Augusta is almost like stepping back into the Old West
known as the last original cow town in the West this is a tiny community full
farmers ranchers nature types friendly people and a few city slickers that
nobody likes well I don't really know if that's true but it sounds like it should
be this is like an Old West town with cars if you like a town with that whole
Western flavor try Augusta in Augusta you have access to a million acres of
unspoiled rugged high country land there are ten lakes ranging from six to 25
miles away from town great fishing streams I did notice that the news of
Augusta that they had a lot of hunting and fishing related crimes and a strange
number of men named Clem for some reason Clem Clem it's a weird name Clem Clem
hmm moving on number three Phoenicia new york Phoenicia is a town in Ulster
County New York with only about 300 residents and when you go to Phoenicia
which is spelt with a pH none f you will think that they have close to a thousand
with the amount of tourists they get year round a creek runs through the
south end of town and is thick with rainbow trout and during the summer it's
thick with drunk college people tubing down the creek now this is what's really
cool the library in fern Asia this isn't really cool but it ends up kind of cool
the library Phoenicia burned down and suddenly there were books everywhere not
from the fire or from boxes and boxes of donations to replace what was lost
residents can now check out books again in their temporary library and they can
also check out fishing poles from the library and use it in the creek think
that's really neat that is like the best and small in America right there
number two Cedar Key Florida Cedar Key is a city in Levy County Florida
the population was 702 in the 2010 census not a lot of people there the
Cedar Keys are a cluster of islands near the mainland it's north of Tampa
like all the other keys in Florida which kind of makes it kind of a cool place
this place is really underdeveloped for what it is
despite its prime location on the Gulf of Mexico Cedar Key has escaped
developers it doesn't really have enough Beach to attract any kind of resort type
thing and I get the feeling that type of thing will never happen it feels like an
old fishing village from some Humphrey Bogart movie back in the 50s people
always say Cedar Key is like Key West was 30 years ago what I like here is the
lack of commercial property in the keys it's mostly people just live in their
life and it's a far stretch from US tourist location it's more like a unique
place to live now I've been here I ended up there by mistake I was dating a girl
from Bronson Florida which was down the road from there I drove down from Fort
Benning to meet her family yes she was that hot I drove from Fort Benning to
the middle of Florida to meet a girl's parents and when I got down there I
turned right instead of left on the 24 and ended up in Cedar Creek instead of
Ronson I called her she said that her parents were being dicks and told me I'm
coming to you we spent the weekend there it was really
nice I think it was nicer for me because we didn't talk much after that and quit
returning my phone calls maybe I'm not as magical as I thought I was I don't
know she was I scrolled though she was really hot a really good-looking girl
and number one leapers fork tennessee leapers forcas rural town in Williamson
County Tennessee and it has a population of about 650 people this place ain't big
but it is big in history it's along the old Natchez Trace which is a trail used
by Native Americans and settlers that traveled from Tennessee to Natchez
Mississippi which is right near the border of Louisiana will nut right near
but it's close to now leapers Fork sprung up as one of the trading posts
along the trace it's also the trail that Meriwether Lewis of Lewis and Clark
expedition died in 1809 leapers Fork was also big in the moonshining history as
well and they still have a distillery located there today now I learned about
this place from a high school friend that watches my videos she's lived just
outside the leapers Fork for about twenty years now she says she will never
leave she says the people are great it's wonderful
she loves the place she also says that she has to keep the fact she's from Los
Angeles secret or some of the older locals they treat her like she's some
sort of sexual deviant drug user because of course if you're older than 60 and
live in middle America you think all of California is a big
coke-snorting orgy her words not mine if you like small towns and hate
coke-snorting orgies this little Tennessee village may be the place for
you if you do go there go to pucketts grocery so it's a restaurant as well as
a grocery store and it has a roadside gas agent when I say roadside it is like
a bus stop and most cities are the bus just kind of pulls off the road you get
on the gas pumps look right here see you just kind of drift over a little bit if
you're at the gas pump now this place pucketts is really nice has musicians a
nice summer nights they actually go outdoors there and they play music and
open mic stuff it's really neat this is a really really cool community that's
why it's number one on this list the history the people it's amazing I'm
going to visit there sometime soon roping next year if you're in the area
give it a try take a look all right so that's my video hey I hope
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