Ghost Town Palmetto, Nevada, Doug Berry
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- Опубліковано 6 бер 2024
- Doug Berry of the Eastern Sierra Region of California and Nevada visits the remote mining ghost town of Palmetto, Nevada. Kelli Zuniga, the curator of the Mineral County Museum of Hawthorne, Nevada comes along for this adventure into the remote American Outback of the Great Basin. The area is the border between the Sunbelt and the Snowbelt at around 37 Degress North Latitude 15 miles from California. Lida, Palmetto, and Esmeralda County Nevada.
Great find with that flower! I like that you can find ruins on Nevada so easily. The gravesite was an interesting find.You were brave enough to go into that tunnel 😮 I enjoyed your tour of the area 😊
Thank you Princess, I love your video work showcasing nature too! You are getting so good!
@CalNeva Thanks, Doug 😊
Although ruggedly beautiful, the areas you both take us to, sometimes seem so remote.
That town, where only about 12 people reside, is really intriguing. It appeared to be far from other towns. Learning about the Howard Hughes connection was amazing. **🔥Thank you, as always, for the interesting, informative, and entertaining info you share with us, Doug.👏🏻 I totally agree with you. The remains of that building in the ghost town, seem to be defying the laws of gravity.😳 The small, burial site of those two, little lads has been there for around 120 years. It makes me sad. Why are they out there all alone?😔🙏🏻 Thankfully, folks still appear to show their respects for these two, young children.🌟💛 What a YUMMY, picnic lunch Kellie prepared, including those, chocolate cookies.🤗🎊
Thank you, Doug for another TOPNOTCH video. AS ALWAYS, it was so enjoyable from beginning to end.
🏡🙏🏻👏🏻🌻☀️ My first comment didn't post.🙃
Thank you again Rhonda! The area even surprised us with all the snow being so close to the hotter type of desert. I got attacked by a cactus not too far from there, so don't be surprised when you see it in an upcoming video. Clipped it with my heel, and then it flipped onto me. Ouch! The cholla cactus was to blame. Working on electrical on the house: so many upgrades and repairs...but it needs them. I have a fig start growing in the windowsill that just started leafing out....keeps my mind hopeful for the spring. Hope you and your family keeping warm. Will send you all the animals for your front lawn after my jackpot.
@@CalNeva I know. That snow did seem pretty amazing. YIKES, a cactus... I can only imagine.😖 I admire you. You always are working on upgrades, or busy with a household project. It's great that you are a jack of many trades.🤗 I, too, am looking forward to Spring.🌞🌻
🤭I love it. Oh, there are days, Doug that I'd like to see the reactions of those stuffy, old New Englanders', of which I AM ONE🙃😉, if I did put that menagerie on my front lawn. I bet the Historical Committee would soon be knockin', on my door.😡 Have a restful, relaxing evening, Doug.👏🏻👏🏻
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@@rhondaz356 Ha! I love those animals! 🦬🐱🦸🐴🐻🫎🐐🐏🐂🐎🫏🦌🦫🦨🦔🦦🥁
Thanks for reposting this tour!
In the middle of a masonry
hut project,I have a
renewed respect for for the
Skill and labor Involved in those historic structures!
I think there's a old mine
Somewhere in the Lida area!
Though not being a resident
In the region you cover, the area is still deep under my skin!
Yes Tim, I was thinking the same thing about how much hard work went into building all the mine structures, retaining walls, buildings, and so on. They had to make due with what was on site; impressive tough bunch them hard as nails men of yesteryear!
You Doug and Kellie make the best videos. I could watch them for days. Thanks so much for sharing your adventures out in Nevada...👍😊..There's a town about an hour south of me named Palmetto Georgia, but we pronounce it Pall-Metter...lol..😊
Hello my Georgia friend and supporter! Thank you again, that means a lot to Kellie and I. Have been slacking a little because many home improvements as of late...but we have more videos in the works coming your way. There is also a lot going on here in Nevada area lately, such as a new lake in Death Valley, Snowshoe Thompson event, a huge new snowstorm in the Sierra and many others...so we want to get out there and cover them for everyone. Have a great one!
All of these ghost towns just off the Nevada 266! Some amazing stuff as it is a road well less traveled. Might have to
loosen your belt after eating lunch and especially all those cookies Kellie made Doug. LOL
Hi Steve, hope all is well in Illinois! It is true, I needed to loosen my belt after eating all those cookies. In fact, I may have to institute a dieting plan they were so darn chocolatey good!🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪
Another great video of a peaceful, beautiful and historic area few will ever visit. Kelly seems like a great gal with a good disposition that enjoys seeing remote places. Lucky. 🤠👩💼
Goldfield, Lida, Deep Springs, Westgard Pass, Big Pine, Mojave, Willow Springs to Los Angeles were part of the Midland Trail. See "Midland Trail - First Transcontinental Auto Trail - Legends of America." The 1924 map is a bit out of focus but enlarged one can make out the names in addition to the article. Note on the 1924 map at Mojave the road jogs West then South from Mojave to get to Willow Springs. Which is the opposite side of the hills where Route 14 currently runs. In the article be sure to click on the "signs" that were used. on the Midland Auto Trail. Once the capacity to keep the Lincoln Auto Highway from Reno to Sacramento open in winter became technically practical, this major auto route around the Southern Sierras in winter via Tehachapi fell into disuse. Which means the road East from Big Pine to Deep Springs through that narrow one lane segment was once a major transportation artery in the days of the Model T. 😲
Excellent information Joseph! I appreciate the time you took to educate me about some of this fascinating road history in our area. I am going to check that out further for sure!🚙🛻🚓🚛🚚
Got to say,hwy 266 has to be one of the most remote roads I've been on in Nev. !
Just drove through from Ca.,
didn't stop anywhere.
Thanks for the roadside tour!
Those early masonry workers could sure fit it together!
I wonder if those remnant blocks were a harder type tuff!
That's our kind of road Tim; less traffic and more exploring opportunities! It sure beats I-5, stay safe out there my friend!
Hi Doug and Kellie,
Thanks for another great trip into the wilderness. I “Googled” the two little boys - one died of diphtheria. The younger boy died one week later and assuming of the same. The story says the younger boy is actually buried in Silver Peak. The family
arrived from Santa Rosa, Ca. In search of silver. There is more information in an article written in 2013 titled “A Grave In The Desert”.
All the rains we recently had softened the hard earth in my yard so I have
been able to create a small vegetable garden and a “Secret Garden” path. 😊
Be careful out there! We don’t want you to “disappear”! 😫
Those chocolate cookies look yummy!! 😋
Really good detective work Dana! I looked and could not find that information I am embarrassed to report. Sounds like a great start to the vegetable patch, as you know your area is great for a garden as the season is long (ours is so short). I paid over $2 for one greenhouse 🍅 tomato, but it was fairly tasty. I should grow some too to cut down on my overdrawn produce budget! Soon it will be time for another road trip out of the valley for you...and of course, "It should be fun!"
Thank you Dana for this information, I've been trying to find something on this for ages!
I will look up that story. Thanks again!
@@CalNeva i do enjoy researching ☺️
I planted the small Rova tomatoes and zucchini. I already know I will be sharing them. I’m looking forward to a road-trip.
I want to drive up to central Oregon to visit cousins; not sure when; perhaps in May.
@@danacalifornia9453 I bet those Roma's will be DElicious! An Oregon road trip like that to see family and friends sounds like it should be a good time and a great memory. That could be a good month to go.
@@Brother_D_therail A GRAVE IN THE DESERT
Posted on November 16, 2015
Just short of the ruins of Palmetto, Nevada, is the grave of Clyde Marshall Hart, born on May 7th 1903 and who died of diphtheria on December 3rd 1906. Apparently his 2-year-old brother Kenneth also passed just five weeks later. That is according to the official records, although the Blair News, a local newspaper of the time, reported that the boys died just a week apart.
Clyde was two years old himself when his parents, Victor and Lydia, moved to Palmetto from Santa Rosa, California, no doubt hopeful of making that big strike and never dreaming they would lose both their sons so tragically. The marker only mentions Clyde, and people have often assumed that Kenneth was buried with him. However the little boy lies alone, his younger brother having died and been buried in Silver Peak, another town to the north west. The Blair News reported that Mrs Hart had ‘been quite ill for several days prior to starting for California, her illness being aggravated by the mental anguish of the loss of the children in so short a time.’
After burying their children, the Harts continued back to California; Lydia gave birth to a son, Alan, almost exactly a year to the day after Clyde’s death, and a daughter, Evelyn, in 1910. Both Lydia and Victor lived into old age, Victor dying in 1958 at the age of 80 and Lydia living until she was 97 and they are buried beside each other in the Oddfellows Cemetery in Sacramento. Having lost two children so young, it must have been a consolation that their son and daughter lived long and full lives. Alan died in 1994 and Evelyn just nine years ago aged 96. Did the family ever come back to Palmetto to visit the grave or was it too painful a part of their life?
At some point in the past, someone decided that the little boy’s grave should not just disappear into the landscape. It’s highly unlikely that his parents erected the railings and definitely not the original headstone which mistakenly gives Clyde the initial ‘W’, as well as inscribing the wrong year of death.
I thought at first how odd it was that there are no other graves in the area, but because Palmetto existed for such a short time - the silver that was struck lasted barely a year - it could be that the little Hart boys were the only people to die out in this lonely place. But the toys and paraphernalia on the grave (I left a toy car) show that they are not forgotten.
You 2 have Fun. - closing gravesite scene, reminded me of a non- sensical poem oft recited by my own dear old dad, Whitey.
It was midnight on the ocean,
Not a streetcar was in sight.
The same day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight.
Back to back they faced each other,
Drew their swords and shot each other.
A deaf policeman heard the noise,
and came and killed the two dead boys.
Very interesting Steven, and I mean that. Brrr, cold wind here today, winter hanging on.
@@CalNeva - feel the pain. - almost Spring, heading up to P'ville early next week. Did you see that Snowshoe T. event is On, has started,, to finish in Genoa on Sun. ?
@@1d1ane Oh perfect, Kellie and I will be in that immediate area this Sunday! Excellent timing; thank you Steven!
@@CalNeva Good Luck
😮 Brother Doug, you are not going to believe this...I am speechless. I couldn't even post a comment right away!
After your last video of Gold Point, I was going to contact you and ask if you could take a trip over Lida summit to Palmetto and see if you could find the graves of the two little boys near the road! Every time I went through there I would stop to pay my respects except one time I couldn't seem to find it. It is not that easy to spot. I wanted you to see if Kellie could do some research on the history of the boys? It has been a mystery I've dwelled on for years now! This is one of your videos that not only was fun, but absolutely blew my mind !!! 🇺🇸
Hi my Brother! Happy you enjoyed it. No, we didn't read your mind it was a complete serendipitous coincidence, and good luck for you! I think it was a good idea filming the old leaning ruin of mud bricks, if just to document it before it falls into oblivion. You have certainly been around if you have been through Palmetto, and that more than once!🇺🇸
@@CalNeva That's my route to the White Mtns. from here. I have stopped and explored Palmetto before, but not as extensively as you and Kellie. Always in too much of a hurry to get to my camp!
I sure hope Kellie can get some information on the little grave site, I am really interested in knowing the story behind this.
By the way, the cookies 🍪 looked delicious 😋 !
Dick, check out Dana of California's comment...she did a good job of finding more info on the two boys buried along the highway.
@@CalNeva Just saw that, thanks Brother!
@@Brother_D_therail Already gone, I ate every single one of them.