Ghost Town in Upper Michigan UNTOUCHED
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ส.ค. 2024
- Ghost Town in Upper Michigan UNTOUCHED - Exploring an Upper Michigan ghost town, I discover how different this ghost town is compared to ghost towns of the west. Unlike a lot of ghost towns, this Upper Peninsula aka UP ghost town is frozen in time, UNTOUCHED and WELL PRESERVED, making this town one of the BEST preserved ghost towns in America!!!
This video is 2 of 2 from my Michigan road trip.
Link to video on Harrington Beach ruins:
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I loved this video so much. Once upon a time in another life (30 years ago ), I lived in Marquette County. So beautiful - thanks for an amazing tour!
Standing at the dock on the town side of Snail Shell Harbor, the view of the cliffs and the water has to be the most beautiful view on earth. There is nothing like it.
Interesting video about a little-known place. I'm almost 70 now and we visited Fayette (pronounced Fā ett) every summer as a child 50 to 60 years ago. It wasn't much of a going concern. Most of the buildings were just foundations or stone walls then. The town has been mostly restored over the years to part of its original glory. Looks much better than when I was a kid, too. Fayette celebrated its centennial in 1967 and its sesquicentennial in 2017. It was very important in the history of the westward growth of the United States.
Some of the old locks are from me. I had a bunch of rentals in Saginaw with the real old style locks 1875 and up. I sent them to the park after seeing it in 1972.
Another cool UP mining ghost town is Old Victoria south of Ontonagon.
What an incredible sight! Hard to believe it’s been preserved so well! Thank you for sharing Sally!
Hi sally! It’s gail 😃 just realised I don’t comment on your vids so thought I’d do so now, enjoying your video with my morning coffee, thank you for the content! Love it. Have a great weekend 🇬🇧🇺🇸❤️
This is definitely not untouched.
It has had decades of refurbishing.
When my grandparents starting taking me to Fayette, in the early 70s, it was untouched. Weeds to my chest and junk everywhere to trip on.
What an incredible town - I’ve added this to my bucket list. It’s not all that far a trip.
Nice! the buildings look well preserved!
Love the History and the UP of Michigan. Thank you for the tour.
My favorite TH-camrs Sightseeing Sally and Marty! I love your videos and the information they contain. This reminds me of a colonial village! Awesome.
How cool Sally. It is beautiful up that way. We used to camp near Ironwood along the lake. No cell there. Who need that? With such views. Thank you. Give the pups a hug for me. 4 thumbs up!
When I was thered about 12 or 14 years old, back in the early 1950s, the state had this property on back tax sale, when quite a few people gathered to bid on this land. The state then decided to keep the property. At that time there were many houses still left, but vandles burn som down. Fayette was at time in very bad shape. My dad along with a banker from Detroit had decide to turn it into a resort. But with the state eventually turning it into a State Park, thorted that idea. I had been ther a couple of times before the Tax Sale had occured. When the forest had been depleted to make charcoal, and that used to melt iron ore into Pig Iron, and shipped out on ships to other places.
Awesome video, Sally! ❤️
Just got back from spending a few days up there at the campground.. It really is well taken care of / preserved... Good video... I was going to try and create a scuba diving video of the little harbor (Snail Shell Harbor) but unfortunately I broke my foot before the trip... Once again. Great job on the video, and from Lansing, Michigan. Wishing you and your loved ones a great week.
Very cool! Added to my bucket list:)
A wonderful video Sally love them ghost towns they're so peaceful stay healthy and safe 🌺👍🏆✌️
Thanks Duane, maybe that’s why so many ghosts hang out there, no noise to deal with 😜 ✌️
@@SightseeingSally Lol 😆
Cool tour of the ghost town 👏
Very cool! It would be awesome to be a caretaker of a place like that. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing
I have been subscribed for quite a while, and I don't know how I missed this video. It is a great one! Thanks ...... Danny in Alabama
I really liked this vid.Sally..Those old homes were built to last.and glad their getting some help to last even longer.Altho I enjoy seeing thing from the past.I wouldn't have wanted to live back in those days.Thank you for taking us back .if only for a brief moment..
Sally Rocks. Happy Thursday everyone. Great job girl 👍🎙🎮👀
Thanks!!! 😁
Amazing. Some of those buildings look like you could put a coat of paint on them and move right in.
Been there 3 times in the last 40 yrs. They do an awesome job keeping this place in great shape !
I was there many years ago and have been to a lot of places, but this was the first time I felt " entities" . Hermannsville is a cool place to. The IXL company.
Looks chilly in the UP. Unless this is older footage, of course. Thanks again, sweet Sally!
It was quite chilly for sure!
Beautiful!
I was there back in May. Very cool place to visit!
Looks like a good place to go visit some time. Nice video thank you, hope Mabel stayed warm. The UP was stolen from Wisconsin.
You’re welcome, glad you enjoyed it. I bundled up Mabel in her sweater and wrapped her up like a taco in her heavy fleece blanket before popping her into her bag.
Love all these old ghost towns.
I grew up going there, my grandma lived in Garden. My family came from Canada, my ancestor Antoine Deloria came and built the kilns. I’m glad you showed this.
Did he happen to build kilns for anyone else in the area?
@@robertcolpitts4534 Possibly I don’t know. He had a lot of different business ventures in the area. Also think prior to Garden, he had land up by Marquette.
@kathryndeloria1834 - The reason I ask is because my dad found a bunch of charcoal kilns at Point Aux Barques (aka Barques Point) about 8 miles south of Thompson. There was a village there in the late 1800s, probably with a sawmill.
love your sunglasses😎
What a BEAUTIFUL PLACE!!
That is a beautiful place !
The hotel had a two story outhouse. I never knew they existed until we visited there a couple years ago.
If y’all are still in the area, the four seasons resort on the Menominee river is where I’m staying a really neat country club built in 1905 👍🤠
My neck of the woods
Love it
Very impressive ! Sally !!!
Best I have ever seen !
Nice !!!!!
I agree with you Glenn, this place has to be one of the best preserved ghost towns in America.
@@SightseeingSally turn 74 today !
Always wanted to go & see bodie in calif !
This place is amazing !
Happy Birthday Glenn!!!
Me, too. I’m hoping to explore Bodie next time we’re in California.
@@SightseeingSally never made it there , but I always wanted too!
Road trip you where on was amazing & now michigan ! This amazing find !
@@SightseeingSally thanks for the birthday wishes ! Celebrate alittle on Tuesday with friends !
Aloha sally. A real ghost towns it’s very pretty.
You're amazing in every way!! Where's Marty? Don't you watch missing 411? 😆 Please be careful 🙏❤
Did they mined out the iron till its totally gone ,???or something else happened??
It's a neat tiny town .
Enjoyed the tour.!!
This was charcoal iron furnace using local hardwood trees. Later it was found more cost effective to ship the iron ore further down the lakes where coal was readily available for smelting purposes. The iron ore still hasn't run out, although the high grade stuff is gone.
@browngreen933 - It was a combination of things: reduced shipping costs due to larger capacity ore boats and the opening of the Poe Lock at Sault Saint Marie, changing and more efficient large-scale iron and steel production methods and technology, depletion of the high-grade ores that charcoal furnace smelting was more suited to, plus the depletion of the hardwoods that were required for the charcoal all contributed to Fayette's demise. It was a perfect storm. In the end, the operation was too slow, too inefficient, and too uneconomic to continue.
Grey skies, hardly no one else around and a chill in the air. I'm suprised you didn't see any ghosts! 👀
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Appears To Be A Delightful Spot To Poke Around
Love old Fayette.
the pup,s are cute!
i was there 40 years ago. i wouldn't exactly say it is untouched but if people are in the area it's worth stopping in.
Nice time of the year to visit there. Winter up there is a whole different story. I once knew someone who was born and lived up there his entire life. He said the only month of the year he had never seen it snow was July.
I believe it! The UP is the gateway to the North Pole lol 😂
The UP is sometimes called the "Poor-Man's Alaska".
We went there in junior high on a class trip. Can’t believe they’re still standing
No railroads through Fayette. That RR trackage was abandoned many ago.
I was there probubly 30 yrs. Ago and I think things have been rebuilt , these buildings back when I was there
I don't recall seeing .
Well taken care of for sure. National Parks is where people mysteriously vanish. National Park Service has never released
'what happened to Stacy Arras?'
I’m not sure if they ever found her. I could be wrong, tho. I just did a quick Internet search on her name so maybe I missed something.
I agree with your observation that the old abandoned horse-drawn wagons are disappearing. I'm an old fart and I remember those beauties were all over the place when I was a kid.
I live in upper Michigan. Perhaps you're talking about the Upper Peninsula of Michigan?
I always wanted to go to the upper peninsula I know it gets alot cold and longer than the bottom.... I look at it on the map as a flying dragon that I want to ride lol
It's called Fayette but you do a good job thank you
First silly thanks you my dear sweet Sally see you soon
Lol congratulations on being first Donna!
Hello to the Superintendent!
There actually have been a few gold mines, only one that I could confirm location/actual existence of was Ropes gold mine in ishpeming but not much there
Wonderful location for a Zombie Apocalypse movie/show.
I am a new viewer and also an "Amateur" with tech. I have tried and tried to find your "Amtrak" video.I can't find it.Thanks.
My mom grew up there. Never been there myself.
My summer house was close, been there twice, went in warm weather. Tour Nahma?
I liked Stuben. Population 15. Airport too.
is this town open to the public to visit??
Got there before the bug invasion. Black Flies and Mosquitos. What a horror we Michiganders have to deal with!
The state bird of the up.
A lot of the buildings should be painted.
Many many years ago. I saw a Wendigo there. Swear to God.
Check out Victoria Vill. A well preserved miming village near Mass City, Greenland, MI by Victoria Dam. Preserved by neighbors and local historians no charge but you may like to donate to the tour guide who lives on the ;premises.
That use to be a cool town. Where was Marty in this one?
When we mine cooper we are also mining gold
Silver
Sally any friendly ghosts like Casper!
Isn't it, "Fay ette"?
Without watching the video,the lawns look mowed,so someone is mowing the lawns.
hi!! sally you doing ok and marty! this delta variant sucks.
It's not untouched. They have restored multiple buildings over the decades. It looks much different than it did 25 years ago. The iron smelter building, for on example, now has a roof. That did not exist.
It’s untouched by the ravages of time
Untouched by vandalism
Sally looks like American Civil war Town!
The town name is pronounced Fā-Et
.....interesting. But who were the people that lived here. I believe they were immigrants. They were very poor. The children went barefoot. And the adults had drug problems. It was a very dirty place to live.
I have learned something this time. I never knew there was a ghost town in upper Michigan.