The Ghost Town of Granite, Montana - "The Silver Queen"
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It’s remote. It’s empty. And it’s sitting high up on the top of a mountain in the Flint Creek Range of the Rockies.
Granite is the home of unique ruins, a sprawling mill site, and what were once two of the longest aerial trams in the United States. Come along as we explore the ruins of this old mining town that was once one of the biggest cities in Montana, and at its height was the largest producer of silver in the world, earning this town the nickname “The Silver Queen”. This is the story of Granite, Montana. In this video, we explain the ruins of the mill site and what's accessible of the mine, as well as Main Street Granite, home of the Miner's Union Hall.
Visiting Granite was suggested to me by my friend, Alan Patera, who runs an excellent magazine called Western Places. He hasn’t done anything on Granite yet, but maybe this video will help to convince him. His work can be found here: westernplaces.net/
Just want to say a quick thanks to Tom and Emma for going out to these places so I can live vicariously through them and add places to visit to my list.
Keep up the good work guys.
Just think about the state of mind of the people that came to this town in search of a new life. Maybe they were headed west in an attempt to escape the civil war that was or had been raging back east. With silver being discovered in 1865, that would have been the last year of the civil war so I'm sure people were seeking a different place to live hoping to escape those horrors. Great video Tom, I really enjoy these videos and hopefully one day I'll be able to visit Philipsburg as it looks like a really interesting place to explore.
Can only imagine the relief those people felt when they finally had their destination in sight after that long journey. Even though most of them probably just earned a living through hard, intense labor.
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It was probably better than what they had back home.
Never any mention of most titillating aspect--whore houses, they were as integral and important as a bank.
The image at 26:25 that overlays the town onto a modern image of the area blows my mind. It's incredible how so much history is lost so easily. If I were to walk through that area today I simply couldn't imagine that there was once a massive town there. You'd think there would be more left over given just how many buildings were there.
I used to have a house that had a chimney like the one in Mae's cabin. It was for the kitchen stove, which was a wood-burning stove. That type of chimney is rare to see anymore. The house I had was built in 1892 in Oregon.
I love the ghost town series. So many places I will probably never able to visit myself, with so much interesting history. And the decay is always so fascinating.
Your of overlays of photography with the old plats and surveys look awesome! a great way to convey data!
Seriously! Context like the overlays make these kinds of videos 100% more compelling.
Thank you so much Tom, Emma and crew for documenting all this history, the history of the lives of ordinary men and women who built America. Your channel is a treasure!
My sister was married to an electrician who worked in the silver mines around Coeur D’Alene Idaho & I’ve got a beautiful memory from visiting there in the mid 1970’s
I pretty much say this every time I watch one of your videos, but seriously, they are just so well done. Full of artistry, integrity, well paced, lovely to look at, full of incredible information. My thumbs up isn't just a like. It is utter admiration and complete appreciation.
The photographer did a good job on his drawings. 👍
Always quality
The most underrated historical places channel in all of TH-cam. I absolutely LOVE your Ghost Town series and anytime you go anywhere of a notable event and overlay the maps and old photos and what not. Thank you!
I'm not sure how to describe how interesting this is, as someone who grew up in the wild west, these towns are so full of history it makes me long to know the story of the people. Another splendid video Tom.
Ah yeah I like when I get a new part time explorer just in time for my lunch break
Doing the same right now!
I'm actually from Montana and visited granite a few times. Thank you for putting this history into a palatable format. I was always curious about knowing this information but never had the patience to listen to a poor audio quality professors presentation that brush over granite cuz their focus is on the greater mining operations in Montana. Really appreciate you taking the time to put this out and happy I found your channel the more I work through the interesting videos you've put out
If you like long form content, you’d enjoy the audiobook of Fire and Brimstone. It’s about the 1917 mine disaster in Butte. Before the Berkeley pit lol
Stay safe while exploring these ruins, what would we do without you ? ;)
Lovely video, very nicely done.
So cool. Thanks for the fabulous video 🎉❤😊
It's always amazing these huge towns that were all over the States and all of it was cleaned up and removed. Like where is this town? Where did it go? It's crazy!
It's especially interesting to me as someone half English, the US was formed less than 250 years ago, and we have places like this that popped up and were totally wiped away for the land to be used again and all that, when in many places in Europe, you can still find people living in houses *or Castles* and castle towns that were built well before the US mining settlements!
It's interesting to think about the reasons why civilizations do or don't do something
Phillipsburg looks beautiful , wonderful video and part off why I love the West ... is expressed by you. I thank you : Chris
36:05 that’s definitely a strange chimney design, very interesting!
Thank you for a most interesting and detailed history of Granite.
It's a great explore! I've spent whole days there. Thank you for filling in so many blank spaces!
Well done as always, thank you again.
Never clicked this fast before XD
This video my friend is very comprehensive , I went there years ago , had plenty to drink in Phillipsburg at the brewery . I live east of granite for 34 years now . been to quite a few ghost towns in montana . love your work. PS. You should go to Bannack. THANK YOU FRANK FROM MONTANA......
This is one of the few really, really good historical channels on TH-cam. Every single one of your episodes are feature length, documentary quality films and I love them all. I have yet to watch a lot of them, but that's good, as I treasure these tales. This isn't just one of the best historical channels on American history on the tube. It's one of the best overall historical channels on the tube, due to the sheer quality of work you and the team put into these. Thank you so much for yet another great video, I am looking forward to hearing more of the US that once were.
Thank you for the kind comment!
The east coast of AmeriKa has 100's & I would bet near 1000 disappeared towns FAR FAR less remains of them.. MANY absolutely nothing.. A few remained on Google MaPS per 2008.. I would visit them.. Just a spec on the google maps and NOTHING there what so ever.. One, I remember because I grew up next to it.. It was a town called Heverly, Pennsylvania. As a Preteen there was an eerily old decrepit coal tipple there.. by mid teens is was torn down & NOTHING there for a decade.. By my mid 20's a Federal program came in and built a Half way home for ex cons. Maybe dozens reside there and a few workers... The place is 4 Miles on either side from any type of town civilization.
Great video! The Coolidge mine, nearby, is a lot more remote and lessor known. Very cool hike but with some mosquitos.
Outstanding presentation and location.
Thank you very much 🙏
The partial chimney was quit common in the late 1800s and the early 1900s. My family owns a house in western Ks that has one and another abandoned house in central Kansas has one as well.
Who doesn't like Wild Bill, who built such an amazing snowman? Long may he live on
clicked as fast as possible!! thank you for your work 😊
My wife, dog, cat and I explored Granite in 2015 on a cross country move from Florida to Alaska. It was one of the highlights of our trip and we spent an entire day between the Phillipsburg historical society and the actual visit to the town. Places like this are special to American history, and play an important yet underappreciated role in our story. Walking down the streets and what used to be streets, while holding photos like the ones you showed is a very surreal experience.
Love the small into video...I absolutely love these videos ..very relaxing
The half brick chimney was common, it would have been used with a wood fired cookstove, or a wood/coal heating stove. A single wall steel chimney would have been used between the cook/heating stove and the brick chimney, and entered thru the small hole at base of brick chimney. Back then a brick chimney thru the roof was the best protection against chimney fires, the bricks being great insulators.
Oh cool, TH-cam likes to recommend this stuff to me instantly.
finally a video from you, also a long one. looking forward to watching it
This is my favorite side of Montana and I like to remind out of staters about it. Montana isn't a travel destination or a summer home, it's a grave full of broken dreams. So don't let it get any more expensive for the locals that do live here.
Thank you for the Western Places plug!! These are perfect Christmas presents for a very specific type of person. Love the channel.
I absolutely love this channel.. it's a great production.. in-depth history.. everything you need all in one place.. thank you for all your hard work... It's always a pleasure to be here and always relaxed when watching your productions...10/10 Tom and Emma and co .. waiting for the next one.. I wish you all a very merry Christmas and all the best success for 2024.. Happy Christmas everyone.
“Big Slim” ❤
The size of some of those wooden beams is incredible.
The trees that they were cut from would have be absolutely enormous. BIG ancient trees, amazing.
I’m interested, did you notice any termite damage done to those surviving wooden structures?
So melancholic to see what our forefathers accomplished coming to ruin and decay.
Very interesting. And as always, so very well narrated. Thank you for what you do.
Did you find any pieces of the silver stones laying around!? Looks like a fun place to visit, Thank you for sharing.
This was an exciting explore, since there are still many structures. Thanks for all the interesting information. ❤😊
Fantastic story. Really enjoyed it. I sure wish Tom and Emma could make it to a tiny ghost town in North East Washington State in Okanogan county Washington, called Bolster. Be very interested in a deep dive of that town.
Thanks for sharing Montana with the world! There is so much history lost in our mountains. Hundreds of ghost towns returning to nature with little or no info on many of them. Nearby Butte MT is the City that electrified America with its copper.
America enjoyed the growth of industrialization on the backs of our boys who pulled the valuable ore from deep in the earth. Much like mines all over the country.
Amazing amount of work went into this video. I enjoyed every bit of it.
Really fantastic work Tom, well done!
Love your vids!!! Thanks for posting :)
Very cool, interesting & fascinating documentary! I've never heard of Granite or Phillipsburg before, but now I'm glad I have! As a complete newbie to archeology like this, I can understand why so many people enjoy visiting, exploring & learning about these kinds of places.
Love your ghost towns
Thank you
Another winner!! I love these explorations -- all the different types. But the ones about old mining towns are especially fascinating to me. My dad was a self-taught geologist/prospector/miner and so this sheds some light on my family history.
Another great video, well documented.
I lived in a national forest area in NoCal years ago, first a log cabin, then what we called a frame house. That chimney with the wood under it is a fire waiting to happen. Snob Hill, lol. Usually one sees Montana as all hilly and prairies like. Mining is so dangerous even today, not an easy occupation and always dangerous. TYSM for this!!
Thanks for another great video.Very interesting to learn the history and stories of these old towns.
I stumbled across your channel about 6 months ago and I have enjoyed every minute of them. I instantly subscribed. I enjoy how you bring history to life with the way you explain it.
Thank you very much.
Love to see you do one on the four towns that were destroyed to make the quabbin reservoir in Massachusetts
Great video! Your videos tell the most nuanced and engaging stories. Tom, if you’re ever around California’s Central Coast, the ghost town of New Idria is a special example of a mercury boomtown that had a huge impact on the industries of the west coast in the early 20th century, and I think it’d be right up your alley.
The ghost town videos are fast becoming my favorite series of videos that you create, thanks for all the work and time you put into these!
I love these videos you have done an amazing job!
You do an amazing job on your videos. The massive deadly rockslide video was one of my first ones I've watched. Now i just want to binge watch them all. Maybe if i get a sick day sometime soon i can do that! Thanks for the history lesson
That was so interesting, even fascinating! How I do love your channel, Tom.
Love your content and how well it’s put together. Thank you for keeping these places, and the people who got to experience them, alive.
Great explore and history lesson, thank you for taking us along. ... Merry Christmas🎄
Great episode as always. Really enjoy your ghost town content and the thorough research you do of the site history. Well done!
Cool video. A step back into history. I love this stuff! Thank you.
I would just like to say that you're really doing an excellent job. The well put together combination of your footage coupled with the historical maps, drawings and photos makes the videos a pleasure to watch. Your narration is professional with just a smidgen of well placed humor. Always very interesting. Thanks for taking us along on your historical explorations. May your hardwork continue to bring you increased success.
I love the tours around the ruins and the old pics and drawings.
These videos are incredible. The attention to detail and the emphasis on history make them a step above. You guys do amazing work.
I have traveled many places in the world yet never had time to visit you make that much easier thank you
Outstanding video!!! Incredible history. Thank you for what you do Tom and Emma!!!!
I do a lot of mine exploring, but sometimes its hard to find detailed historical documentation behind some of the locations. This is pure American history, thank you for giving us this fascinating story
Thanks for all your hard work. I find ruins also to be interesting. Amazing just how quickly these buildings vanished.
What an amazing video! You did a wonderful job of documenting Granite. The research alone put into the video must have taken a very long time! Thanks so much for sharing it with us!
Your vids are top notch, thank you for sharing. Learned a lot today. Amazing what the miners did. Building that tram just itself in insane.
What a beautiful old place.lots of interesting history, and fascinating to listen to. An excellently put together video as always. Very well filmed and presented. You really should be a professional documentary filmmaker and presenter. Well done keep up the great content.
I just found this channel and have been binge watching. He's a great narrator and has such interesting explorations. Thank you!
Wow, your videos are addictive. Script and narration is so captivating. This is one of my favourite channels in all of TH-cam.
I was able to visit P Burg when we were assigned to a forest fire near there in 1988. We were from southern Arizona and felt like we stepped back in a time machine. What an amazing place. Thank you for the great videao. What an amazing history
Really awesome video. I LOVE all the video and info on these old towns.
Your videos have inspired me to re-explore my own family history. My grandmothers aunt was Bernice (bitsy) Dombroski. One of the first 3 women to work in a mine in Oceola Mills PA. She recently passed away. Idk why im so fascinated. But i am. Thank you for your hard work and inspiration to those of us who just watch.
I appreciate this video. It's keeping me calm while I'm stranded in the middle of nowhere during sundown waiting for a tow. 🙏 Thank you
I really like the way you faded to old photos into the current view. Also the drone view superimposed on the old plat map. Very well done!
O how i love history like this! Thank you so much for al the work, it is so interesting.
Really enjoyed another video. Would love to see this place in person. Thanks for posting.
This is PBS quality (a big compliment, I think). It’s so good to find channels like this!
Amazing video and i appreciate the research alongside the photos of what where and curent. Great job!
In the middle of watching this video and had to stop to write this comment. I’m a history junky and love to watch videos such as this one. The quality, thoughts and research went into this is superb. Narration, cinematography and information delivered beautifully. Thank you! .
Thanks for taking us along on your trip. Very Interesting.
What incredible work documenting this wonderful history. You do such amazing work telling the history and setting the environment of the time. Wonderful graphics really shows how the town looked and was situated on the land. The last elderly couple and then widow who lived there alone in to the 1960s would have been fascinating to get her history and story on video too bad that never happened. Thank you for all your amazing work.
Your story of Granite history is beyond "over and above". Beyond excellence. Thank you very much. Looks like you used Sanborn maps for town building details.
I have been to granite many years ago. Infact, my oldest brother used to be the elected Sherriff of Granite County. It is interesting to see your video of it with all the detail. The town was in a lot better condition when my wife and I went up there, 4-wheeling. That was in about 1979. Thank you for making this video. I am a recent subscriber. I found your channel through the algorithm.
Another great video.
Always thank you very much to everybody of your crew.
I live in Missoula and have been to Granite Ghost Town only a couple times- the last time being 10 years ago. I have learned so much from this video. I had no idea how populated Granite once was. Thanks for doing such an interesting and informative video. And yes, Phillipsburg is quite the quintessential American small town.
My wife and I were stationed at Malmstrom AFB for a few years. We did get out and explore, but not as much as I would have liked. We often spent weekends snowboarding at Showdown , a little past Monarch. There were several little hole-in-the-wall towns that we drove through on the way. However, after a full day on our boards and butts, there was little enthusiasm to check these historic towns out. Garnet was a neat town we visited once. My daughter and I explored a bit while my wife chose to nap in the car. Summers in Montana were incredible.
We have since retired in North Central Texas. I am certain there are a lot of abandoned and historic towns and buildings. I drive through one sleepy little town called Clairette with three of its old buildings near the road. If only those walls could tell me their story is what often goes through my mind, and then quickly back to focussing on the road. One of these days I'll pull off the road and see what there is to see. Thank you for sharing your videos.
Thanks, liked this a lot. One thing to keep in mind about old mining towns, the stamp mill never stopped. There was noise and vibration 24/7/365. Never quiet, even at midnight:30.
Thank You for a walk through the past, fascinating, well done. I truly enjoyed it.
Thanks for the great history trip of Granite. Love videos like this one.
I love this video of Granite.. I've tramped thru that area for quite a few summers. Love that whole area.
Thx for a nice storytelling. Well filmed and presented, really fond of your layering old photos until today. Nice.
Brilliant, superbly paced and narrated, fantastic, 10/10