Nolan, Texas. It's a few miles south of Sweetwatet, Texas. In early 1980's, my dad worked in surrounding area of this now ghost town called Nolan. My brother and I would go and work with my dad. At that time it had one small store that sold newspapers, sodas, motor oil, and my favorite: Mrs. Baird fried pecan pies. It had a school called Divide. I'm curious what the school mascot was?
I attended several 6-man football games in that area in the 80s. I believe Divide's field was the one that sloped toward one sideline at such a steep angle that covering a kickoff before it rolled out of bounds was quite a challenge. As they backed up for each re-kick, eventually half the the distance to the goal line became less and less. I saw one kick take place from the 2 1/2, and heard from the coach that the team he'd scouted the previous week had to kick from the 1 1/4.
100 miles each direction of Terlingua, all desolate adobe ruins all over. Native artifacts, lots of native history. East and west along the Rio Grande river. To the west of Terlingua To Candelaria! Beautiful! Great video!
@@beyond_civilization Lived in Presido for 3 years. Beautiful! Walked all over that place! If you go, see the national park. Have to see Santa Elena Canyon. State park see Cuevas amarillas(native capms) 5 tinajas. Natural watering holes. So many sites.
A friend of mine's uncle owned land just north of Terlingua, back in the late 1980's. He bought around 80 acres of land in the late 40's early 50's. The land was part of a ranch with access to 1 million acres to hunt on. He built a small hunting cabin on part of the land that was around 5 miles or so off of TX118. The ranch would maintain the dirt roads to the properties on the ranch. While we were there to go hunting, my brother wanted some alcohol from the liquor store in town. He had to use the payphone at the local grocery store to call a number on the door. The owner lived behind both stores in a trailer park. There were quite a few trailers and mobile homes behind both stores.
Kinda hard to call Terlingua an actual ghost town. Some people still live there, and there are a couple of bars, restaurants, and a crude motel and numerous vacation rental cabin complexes in business there. It is a fascinating place to visit.
@rescue270 heck that's more then my town has. No motel at all no restaurant. There is a bar, but it been closed for years. The two stores, a circle K would out them to shame. Honesty I don't see how they Stay open they with have nothing. And don't understand why there are two. Nit enough business for one. Oh, yeah there is a Cafe. Forgot about it. As for the 2 stores. A vending machine with soda would be just as well. And one with snacks. I'd say it needs a real store. But there just isn't the business if someone would put one in. Heck even a dollar store is too much for the town. 200 is people and very few visitors
@@texasgina They actually have two chili cookoffs... ...at the same time! Apparently the two founders of the original cookoff got crossways with each other over something and parted ways amidst much shouting and profanity. One guy kept the cookoff rights as his own. The other, not to be outdone, started his own chili cookoff a mile or so down the road and holds it at the beginning of November, just like his furious ex buddy does his cookoff. Love-hate relationships are kinda the norm in isolated desert or island communities.
Very well done! I owned and operated a Texas ghost town website a few years ago, and your presentation includes a couple that were on my website. Glad to see folks are still exploring them.
Woodmen of the World was a fraternal organization that paid death benefits to members families (there’s still an insurance company with the name that grew from this group). One of my great grandfathers was a member and his tombstone has the woodmen logo carved on it.
Look into Sanco, Texas! Really cool ghost town. I believe it has a school house, a church, and general store. 44 miles north of San Angelo Texas, and actually just 11 miles east of a town you mentioned in this video, Silver Texas.
I think he's only interested in the low hanging fruit, like Terlingua, which is really not a ghost town at all. Sanco might require a lot of work to research.
Its funny because in the early 2000s Pecos was about to be a ghost town. I looked at property there at that time. And kick myself for not buying. Then a good 10 years later its is alive again. And today 20 years later its going good.
Here are a few more: Lake Belton in Belton, Texas, may contain the remnants of several ghost towns, including Sparta, Bland, Tennessee Valley, and Old Aiken. The towns were inundated by water in 1954 when the Leon River was dammed to create the 12,385-acre reservoir. As water levels drop, the towns may reappear, and some people have seen lost items washing up on the shores. However, park ranger Arty Johnson doubts that Sparta will be visible because there's at least 50 feet of water above it.
Im amazythat i havent heard of some of these. Ive researched a lot of texas ghost towns while also visiting some including a few you listed. Huge fan kf Shafter and Silver!
Great video! This is such a big state, I'm sure there are still many, many others out there that are forgotten about. I live about an hour's drive from Concord and Aldridge. The Concord Cemetery on Hwy 63 is supposed to contain many of the graves of those that were relocated. The rumor was (or is) that not all of the bodies were relocated, just the tombstones. The Aldridge sawmill is always a fun place to hike to. If I'm not mistaken, after the last fire there, the sawmill was rebuilt with the concrete structures that are there today. Supposedly, and depending on which book you read, it stayed in operation until they literally ran out of timber to cut, causing the town to go under just before the Great Depression. Looking forward to your next video. There's always something new to discover, even in our own backyard.
Interesting! Yeah, I never get tired of visiting Aldridge. It has the best of both worlds: nature and history. Thanks so much for your positive feedback and support! 🙏🏻
Terlingua isn't dead by any means, just small, and unless it's middle of winter lively due to Big Bend traffic. Marfa and Alpine are the only real civilization within a few hundred miles of there and the park.
Agreed! Especially Terlingua. No matter how many times I go and how many hours I explore it, I always feel like I've just begun to scratch the surface.
Man, you've really discovered some gems. I pass by a few of these places when I travel and always think I should stop and explore. Which ghost town has been your favorite so far?
Thank you! I still feel like I've only scratched the surface. But my favorite would have to be Terlingua, hands down. It's more than just its touristy downtown area; there are so many lost ruins all around the site in the desert. Every time I visit, I still find new ones! 🤯
@@beyond_civilizationI've heard of Terlingua is really another ghost town dusty and so it's beauty still remains ❤ I stay a little bit away. Houston Texas
@@beyond_civilization sort of kidding, but we used to pick up our mail there, drive 7 miles, in the 60's and 70's. West Texas has a bunch of those old brick schoo buildings, every 10 miles or so. My father told me he could manage a team of mules at 5.
@@beyond_civilization A lot of those schools were built from 1910ish forward to the 40's, Model T and A days, 40mph, people bought local. And in 1960, in America, white were 90% of the population, blacks 9% and asians and mexicans in the 1% category. West Texas was maybe 10% mexican, I was in the 1st grade. No laws then on required passing in school, 85% mexican drop out by high school. Schools integrated with blacks about 1965, before that schools of their own. Most dropped out by high school, all had the father at home, most farm laborers. Different world back then, in about every way you can think of - racially, economically, morally, the way people looked at money and debt. Probably 85% of girls were virgins at 18, less in boys, but still high.
What about Westminster, Texas? It's a modern ghost town NE of Dallas which was established in 1860 and even became home to a college for many years. It was dis-incorporated in 2005.
I've been to Aldridge! It's easy to go to and there a hiking trip to it. Something really interesting about it. The original sawmill was made of wood and was burned when. They the rebuilt it all with cement buildings with rebar. It was considered really nice when it was completed.
Grand parents own a place at Lake Ivie, and fished there all my life in the summer time, the last big drought they had you could drive into Leaday. There was a lot more stuff revealed to as well when down. Cool that it made it first on this list, San Angelo, Menard, and Ballinger pretty much killed all the towns like that and the construction of the damn to provide water to San Angelo.
I wish more TH-camrs would use Google maps the way u do. Well done. I would recommend minimizing the zooming, panning and video fast play as I'm getting motion sickness😂. Seriously though, those types of edits need to be reduced.
All of these seem to be in central, west or south texas. There are many up in north texas as well. Although probably not as old because they were fighting Comanche! Lol
Beyondcivilization, How about Sam Fordyce,Tx. It was located near the town of Sullivan City,Tx near the Mexican border. It was a train depot/town in the early 1900's.
Thank you! Some of them are, others are not. There's just so many locations, it's hard to lump them all together. For private property, I usually either ask for permission, or deploy the drone for some aerial shots, so yes, some of these places may be on private property. Let me know if you'd like to know about a specific town.
ha, my parents live in Pontotoc, TX. You guys pronounced the name wrong, btw. The cemeteries are not abandoned, either (though they are exceptionally pretty!)
@@beyond_civilization No worries! There is absolutely no way anyone could guess the pronunciation. It sounds like "pon" (like "upon") "ee" (like the beginning of each) "tock" (like the sound a clock makes). So, pon-ee-tock. Absolutely the most podunk pronunciation possible.
If you don’t mind me making a suggestion, could you read the story a little bit slower? I’m a new subscriber and I noticed that you were going fairly quickly reading that.
Oooh what fun! Touring dilapidated buildings in the middle of Nowhere.. let's go in the summer in 110 ° and 98% humidity .. How fun is this gonna be! 🤗
Terlingua, Shafter, Indianola? Okay, those are the obvious ones, except Terlingua is not technically a ghost town anymore. Now do some research on the less stereotyped ghost towns, the ones no one has ever heard of before.
You seem like a peach of a person. Take your own advice and create a video with all of these never heard before ghost towns. Or you could…..I dunno….STFU.
Terlingua is a tourist trap now. I have spent a few nights hanging out on the Front Pourch with my buddy Hollywood picking guitar with the musicians of South County. I lived in Alpine back then.
@@beyond_civilization Coffeeville is a ghost town in northeastern Upshur County in East Texas, United States. It is one of the oldest settlements in East Texas. Thurber is an unincorporated community in Erath County, Texas, United States (near the Palo Pinto county line), located 75 miles west of Fort Worth. It was, between 1888 and 1921, one of the largest producers of bituminous coal in Texas and the largest company town in the state, with a population of over 10,000.[2] The population of the community is 48 per the 2010 United States
The town of Thurber is Not a ghost town it has an old part of the city that is dilapidated and collapsing but it is still a living city with its own community And businesses!!! 🤠👍
This guy is full of it , central Texas doesn't have mountains. Down around Austin there is what they call the hill country, but they are are from being mountains.
Nolan, Texas. It's a few miles south of Sweetwatet, Texas. In early 1980's, my dad worked in surrounding area of this now ghost town called Nolan. My brother and I would go and work with my dad. At that time it had one small store that sold newspapers, sodas, motor oil, and my favorite: Mrs. Baird fried pecan pies. It had a school called Divide. I'm curious what the school mascot was?
I live close to Nolan and the remnants of a football field has a sign that says Trojans.
Never heard of “sweetwatet”?
I attended several 6-man football games in that area in the 80s. I believe Divide's field was the one that sloped toward one sideline at such a steep angle that covering a kickoff before it rolled out of bounds was quite a challenge. As they backed up for each re-kick, eventually half the the distance to the goal line became less and less. I saw one kick take place from the 2 1/2, and heard from the coach that the team he'd scouted the previous week had to kick from the 1 1/4.
100 miles each direction of Terlingua, all desolate adobe ruins all over. Native artifacts, lots of native history. East and west along the Rio Grande river. To the west of Terlingua To Candelaria! Beautiful!
Great video!
I totally agree; that place NEVER gets old for me. Thanks so much for watching! 🙏🏻
@@beyond_civilization
Lived in Presido for 3 years. Beautiful!
Walked all over that place! If you go, see the national park. Have to see Santa Elena Canyon. State park see Cuevas amarillas(native capms) 5 tinajas. Natural watering holes. So many sites.
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A friend of mine's uncle owned land just north of Terlingua, back in the late 1980's. He bought around 80 acres of land in the late 40's early 50's. The land was part of a ranch with access to 1 million acres to hunt on. He built a small hunting cabin on part of the land that was around 5 miles or so off of TX118. The ranch would maintain the dirt roads to the properties on the ranch. While we were there to go hunting, my brother wanted some alcohol from the liquor store in town. He had to use the payphone at the local grocery store to call a number on the door. The owner lived behind both stores in a trailer park. There were quite a few trailers and mobile homes behind both stores.
You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a ghost town in west Texas.
What does this mean?
Kinda hard to call Terlingua an actual ghost town. Some people still live there, and there are a couple of bars, restaurants, and a crude motel and numerous vacation rental cabin complexes in business there.
It is a fascinating place to visit.
Plus, they have the chili cooking contest
@rescue270 heck that's more then my town has. No motel at all no restaurant. There is a bar, but it been closed for years.
The two stores, a circle K would out them to shame. Honesty I don't see how they Stay open they with have nothing. And don't understand why there are two. Nit enough business for one.
Oh, yeah there is a Cafe. Forgot about it.
As for the 2 stores. A vending machine with soda would be just as well. And one with snacks.
I'd say it needs a real store. But there just isn't the business if someone would put one in.
Heck even a dollar store is too much for the town.
200 is people and very few visitors
@@texasgina
They actually have two chili cookoffs...
...at the same time!
Apparently the two founders of the original cookoff got crossways with each other over something and parted ways amidst much shouting and profanity. One guy kept the cookoff rights as his own. The other, not to be outdone, started his own chili cookoff a mile or so down the road and holds it at the beginning of November, just like his furious ex buddy does his cookoff.
Love-hate relationships are kinda the norm in isolated desert or island communities.
Most of those photos are of the Study Butte mine.Six miles from Terlingua. Which is no longer a ghost town. Amen.
I used to deliver groceries down there to the general store. That town stayed packed with tourists.
Just subscribed! Love the content! Our history is crumbling before our eyes. Good that, you at least are making us aware of them.
Thanks so much for subscribing! 🙏🏻 I agree that it is up to us to preserve our incredible history. 👍🏼
It would be nice if you slowed down the zoom in on the map so we could see where you are. Leave some landmarks too.
Very well done! I owned and operated a Texas ghost town website a few years ago, and your presentation includes a couple that were on my website. Glad to see folks are still exploring them.
Thanks so much! These amazing places just never get old. 👍🏼
Woodmen of the World was a fraternal organization that paid death benefits to members families (there’s still an insurance company with the name that grew from this group). One of my great grandfathers was a member and his tombstone has the woodmen logo carved on it.
Wow, well that makes sense now. Thanks for the clarification! 👍🏼
My Great Grandfather has a Woodman of the World tombstone
Leaday is close to me. It was a very emotional issue to flood it with OH Ivie lake. Many locals had lived there, grew up there. 😕
I can only try to imagine. I'm so sorry. 😔
Look into Sanco, Texas! Really cool ghost town. I believe it has a school house, a church, and general store. 44 miles north of San Angelo Texas, and actually just 11 miles east of a town you mentioned in this video, Silver Texas.
Never heard of it, but it sounds fascinating. I'll check it out, and thanks for the tip!! 🙏🏻
I think he's only interested in the low hanging fruit, like Terlingua, which is really not a ghost town at all. Sanco might require a lot of work to research.
Sanco was a pleasant surprise. It's definitely worth visiting
Its funny because in the early 2000s Pecos was about to be a ghost town.
I looked at property there at that time. And kick myself for not buying.
Then a good 10 years later its is alive again. And today 20 years later its going good.
Yep, born there, went to school there, now it's BOOMING thanks to oil and gas. 🙂
How many of them are on private property? Seeing 90 % of Texas is owned by ranchers, farmers or corporations.
Here are a few more: Lake Belton in Belton, Texas, may contain the remnants of several ghost towns, including Sparta, Bland, Tennessee Valley, and Old Aiken. The towns were inundated by water in 1954 when the Leon River was dammed to create the 12,385-acre reservoir. As water levels drop, the towns may reappear, and some people have seen lost items washing up on the shores. However, park ranger Arty Johnson doubts that Sparta will be visible because there's at least 50 feet of water above it.
Wow, that is fascinating. Thanks for sharing that; I'll have to check it out. 🙏🏻
Im amazythat i havent heard of some of these. Ive researched a lot of texas ghost towns while also visiting some including a few you listed. Huge fan kf Shafter and Silver!
Great video! This is such a big state, I'm sure there are still many, many others out there that are forgotten about.
I live about an hour's drive from Concord and Aldridge. The Concord Cemetery on Hwy 63 is supposed to contain many of the graves of those that were relocated. The rumor was (or is) that not all of the bodies were relocated, just the tombstones.
The Aldridge sawmill is always a fun place to hike to. If I'm not mistaken, after the last fire there, the sawmill was rebuilt with the concrete structures that are there today. Supposedly, and depending on which book you read, it stayed in operation until they literally ran out of timber to cut, causing the town to go under just before the Great Depression.
Looking forward to your next video. There's always something new to discover, even in our own backyard.
Interesting! Yeah, I never get tired of visiting Aldridge. It has the best of both worlds: nature and history. Thanks so much for your positive feedback and support! 🙏🏻
Terlingua isn't dead by any means, just small, and unless it's middle of winter lively due to Big Bend traffic. Marfa and Alpine are the only real civilization within a few hundred miles of there and the park.
Great updated presentation as I sit here and wonder when the house I live in now will be like those ghost town homes in the video...
You never know, especially nowadays. 😅 Thanks so much for watching, QueensJack. 🙏🏻 Hope you're doing well! 👋🏼
@@beyond_civilization I'm still on this side of the Grass, can't complain about that....
My grandma was born in Channel , Texas it was a mine city near Laredo , tx . Channel Texas doesn't exist anymore.
The Terlingua Chili Cook-off keeps the town alive!
I wanna explore all. Amazing how cemeteries and abandoned go hand to hand.
Agreed! Especially Terlingua. No matter how many times I go and how many hours I explore it, I always feel like I've just begun to scratch the surface.
@@beyond_civilization there's always more there than didn't know.
It's also amazing how thriving and vibrant cities and cemeteries also go hand in hand!!! 🤨🙄😒
Exum is close to the Red River. All that is left is a weigh station.
Saw the Short, so had to watch the full video. Good info on these towns.
All these towns destroyed by reservoirs remind me of the Quabbin Reservoir here in Massachusetts
Man, you've really discovered some gems. I pass by a few of these places when I travel and always think I should stop and explore. Which ghost town has been your favorite so far?
Thank you! I still feel like I've only scratched the surface. But my favorite would have to be Terlingua, hands down. It's more than just its touristy downtown area; there are so many lost ruins all around the site in the desert. Every time I visit, I still find new ones! 🤯
@@beyond_civilizationI've heard of Terlingua is really another ghost town dusty and so it's beauty still remains ❤
I stay a little bit away. Houston Texas
You forgot Tokio, between Plains and Brownfield. Remains of a school, store, service station, church, mechanic shop, post office.
I'll check it out. Thanks so much for the tip! 🙏🏻
@@beyond_civilization sort of kidding, but we used to pick up our mail there, drive 7 miles, in the 60's and 70's. West Texas has a bunch of those old brick schoo buildings, every 10 miles or so. My father told me he could manage a team of mules at 5.
@JKent-ry9yg That's so cool! Hey, I'll take any tips I can get. I'm always up for learning about more Texas ghost towns. 😂👍🏼
@@beyond_civilization A lot of those schools were built from 1910ish forward to the 40's, Model T and A days, 40mph, people bought local. And in 1960, in America, white were 90% of the population, blacks 9% and asians and mexicans in the 1% category. West Texas was maybe 10% mexican, I was in the 1st grade. No laws then on required passing in school, 85% mexican drop out by high school. Schools integrated with blacks about 1965, before that schools of their own. Most dropped out by high school, all had the father at home, most farm laborers. Different world back then, in about every way you can think of - racially, economically, morally, the way people looked at money and debt. Probably 85% of girls were virgins at 18, less in boys, but still high.
I worked at Newgulf back in the day. It was a sulphur mine. It dried up in the mid 80's.
What about Westminster, Texas?
It's a modern ghost town NE of Dallas which was established in 1860 and even became home to a college for many years. It was dis-incorporated in 2005.
Can you guys tell me how Orla Texas got it's name? That is my grandfather's name, but they never lived anywhere near West Texas. Thanks.
Very interesting. Thanks for the video.
Thanks so much for supporting my channel. 🙌🏻
@@beyond_civilization you're welcome
Love it!!! Terilingua is definitely my favorite, but this makes me want to check out indianola bc I'm in Galveston (so not as far as the others lol)
That's the good thing about Texas! You've got historical places everywhere. 😂👍🏼 Thanks so much for watching! 🙏🏻
Great video! Loved the content! Im now a new subscriber.
Thanks so much for subscribing! 🙏🏻 There's definitely more content on the way. 👍🏼
Bluffton is now on 261 wich contains a post office and the Bluffton store. That's my post office lol
I've been to Aldridge! It's easy to go to and there a hiking trip to it. Something really interesting about it. The original sawmill was made of wood and was burned when. They the rebuilt it all with cement buildings with rebar. It was considered really nice when it was completed.
I never get tired of visiting Aldridge! Thanks so much for watching and commenting. 👋🏼
Thank you! I live near Oak Forest.
It's so peaceful out there. Thanks for watching, and have a great weekend! 👋🏼
How about Catarina ,Texas? Its south of Carrizo Springs.
It's mentioned at #6
What about Annarine between Olney and Archer City 17:27
How about calaham that is now underwater at the bottom of choke canyon between tilden and threerivers ?
It's definitely on my do to do list! 👍🏼
In the town of Leaday you show. Picture of an old Pontiac car. Where was that taken. I never saw that car near the town
Fowelerton and Caterina are not ghost towns .. they are on any map! I just went through them last week!
I just subscribed thank you so much i love history and Texas is very interesting 🤔 to learn about ❤
Texas never runs out of things to see.😁 Thanks so much for watching and subscribing!! 🙏🏻
Catalina has new structures recently and is kept alive by oil field traffic.
Grand parents own a place at Lake Ivie, and fished there all my life in the summer time, the last big drought they had you could drive into Leaday. There was a lot more stuff revealed to as well when down. Cool that it made it first on this list, San Angelo, Menard, and Ballinger pretty much killed all the towns like that and the construction of the damn to provide water to San Angelo.
You left out Study Butte which also mined cinibar
Very interesting. Will sub.
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Liked and subscribed. Very cool channel. I'd love to hang out and do some metal detecting in those ghost towns.
Thanks so much, Jason! 🙏🏻 That would be fascinating; no telling what you would find. 😮
@@beyond_civilization we can split everything down the line. 80/20
Nobody mentions Mobeetie or Plemons. Tascosa is now Boys Ranch. Lots of towns died because of the railroad or Interstate 40😢
Very interesting, thanks.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it. Thanks so much for watching! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I wish more TH-camrs would use Google maps the way u do. Well done. I would recommend minimizing the zooming, panning and video fast play as I'm getting motion sickness😂. Seriously though, those types of edits need to be reduced.
Those are some great tips. Thanks for sharing them; I'll definitely keep that in mind for my future videos. 👍🏼
All of these seem to be in central, west or south texas. There are many up in north texas as well. Although probably not as old because they were fighting Comanche! Lol
Beyondcivilization, How about Sam Fordyce,Tx. It was located near the town of Sullivan City,Tx near the Mexican border. It was a train depot/town in the early 1900's.
That sounds promising; I'll look into it. Thanks for sharing it! 😊👍🏼
@@beyond_civilization You're welcome. Be safe.
Great video. Excuse the question, are these public lands? If I wanted to visit in my motorcycle as a day excursion, could I?
Thank you! Some of them are, others are not. There's just so many locations, it's hard to lump them all together. For private property, I usually either ask for permission, or deploy the drone for some aerial shots, so yes, some of these places may be on private property. Let me know if you'd like to know about a specific town.
@beyond_civilization Thank you so much for your answer. WhenI make my pick I might ask a couple of questions. 😁
Cool video
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Love the history of this. 🙏🏻💕
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Awesome video thank you. I would never kayak around the Brazos river 🐊🐊🐊
Thanks so much!! 🙏🏻 I try to do it in winter whenever possible. 😅
Great videography!
Thanks so much, my friend! 🙏🏻
Nice video
Thanks so much for watching! 👋🏼
ha, my parents live in Pontotoc, TX. You guys pronounced the name wrong, btw. The cemeteries are not abandoned, either (though they are exceptionally pretty!)
Greetings from Houston! 👋🏼 And sorry about the pronunciation. How do you pronounce it correctly?
@@beyond_civilization No worries! There is absolutely no way anyone could guess the pronunciation. It sounds like "pon" (like "upon") "ee" (like the beginning of each) "tock" (like the sound a clock makes). So, pon-ee-tock. Absolutely the most podunk pronunciation possible.
@beckyerocks hahaha fair enough; makes me feel better. Thanks for the help, and have a great rest of the week! 🙏🏻
If you don’t mind me making a suggestion, could you read the story a little bit slower? I’m a new subscriber and I noticed that you were going fairly quickly reading that.
Understood. I was doing it to try to prevent my viewers' attention from wandering. 😅 But I'll try to go slower next time. 👍🏼
Electric city and Beverly hills
I've been thinking about reestablishing a church in Terlingua ...
Ok...
@@HospiceChaplainTx
If weed is part of every service you'll have a very strong flock of parishioners.
@@rescue270 🤣 maybe I can add a Munchy shop too...
@@HospiceChaplainTx
You'll be a millionaire in two years...
@@rescue270 it would all go to the church there and the people's needs , none for me...
how do you have time do travel to all of these places?
Great question! Lol it's been a project many years in the making, one destination at a time. 😅
@@beyond_civilization Cool I enjpyed the video, keep them coming
This is what time is for.
@JavierBonillaC lol, I love this comment! 😂🙌🏻
Oooh what fun! Touring dilapidated buildings in the middle of Nowhere.. let's go in the summer in 110 ° and 98% humidity ..
How fun is this gonna be! 🤗
Very interesting and thanks 8.26 k
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Well done
Thank you so much for watching! 🙏🏻
Texana, Texas is another ghost town. its now called lake Texana
Coldwater near Stratford!
I'll check it out. Thanks for the tip! 🙏🏻
Would have been a nicer video if it showed where these ghost towns were a little better. Other then that I enjoyed the video.
I'll keep it in mind for next time. Thanks so much for the feedback! 🙏🏻
Shafter got shafted.
Terlingua, Shafter, Indianola? Okay, those are the obvious ones, except Terlingua is not technically a ghost town anymore. Now do some research on the less stereotyped ghost towns, the ones no one has ever heard of before.
I own land in terlingua
To send a signal by flag by waving it. Wigwag.
You seem like a peach of a person. Take your own advice and create a video with all of these never heard before ghost towns. Or you could…..I dunno….STFU.
Terlingua is a tourist trap now. I have spent a few nights hanging out on the Front Pourch with my buddy Hollywood picking guitar with the musicians of South County. I lived in Alpine back then.
How can a list of “ghost towns” in Texas not include Thurber in West Texas or Coffeeville in East Texas?
Good question! I've never heard of those, but I'll look into them. Thanks for the tip! 🙏🏻
@@beyond_civilization Coffeeville is a ghost town in northeastern Upshur County in East Texas, United States. It is one of the oldest settlements in East Texas. Thurber is an unincorporated community in Erath County, Texas, United States (near the Palo Pinto county line), located 75 miles west of Fort Worth. It was, between 1888 and 1921, one of the largest producers of bituminous coal in Texas and the largest company town in the state, with a population of over 10,000.[2] The population of the community is 48 per the 2010 United States
@@cjones32853That sounds really promising; I'll look into them. Thanks again! 🙏🏻
He's never heard of it, but the title of his video is "... top 20 ghost towns ..."
The town of Thurber is Not a ghost town it has an old part of the city that is dilapidated and collapsing but it is still a living city with its own community And businesses!!! 🤠👍
Good materials but you just go over them very fast! So make video less enjoyable! I like it.
Thanks for the tip!🙏 I'll keep it in mind for next time. 👍🏼
@beyond_civilization I appreciate you, as a teacher my students always saying same thing to me
She failed. She could have called it DeyLee.
How in the world is the cemetery private property? So wrong!
Everything is for sale in Texas 🙄
It's probably for the best. It's protected.
There are plenty of cemeteries that are private property
You'll find there are numerous private cemeteries containing only the dead of the families who own the land and the graves there in!!! 🤠👍
TEXASMUDNECK SAY
HOW ABOUT VOSS TEXAS??😊
Looks really interesting! I'll look into it. 👍🏼
GET REAL. THIS IS SOMALIA AND MOGADISHU NOT TEXAS.
This guy is full of it , central Texas doesn't have mountains. Down around Austin there is what they call the hill country, but they are are from being mountains.
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As usual. the A I narration sounds ridiculous, but an interesting show anyway.
Can't believe Thurber TX. didn't make the list
We love eating at The Smokestack, great chicken fried steak! We also drive 80 miles to go to Mary's in Strawn!
Thurber is not an actual ghost town it has numerous people who still live there and several businesses including New York Hill and a Museum!!! 🤠👍