Shafter, a Silver Mining Ghost Town in West Texas
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Shafter? I just discovered it a few days ago driving from Presidio to Marfa. This is a very interesting place to stop and explore. It was once a prosperous Silver Mining town of 4,000 people but now only has a population of about 30. Join me as I tour this place for the first time.
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Amazing! I’m loving all the west TX visits. Places like that and the cemetery really work the imagination. Thank you! Oh I like the music😎👍🏻
Wow--that's a really cool graveyard. My grandmother liked graveyards, I never understood why until I got older.
Occasionally when relatives were in town while growing up we would drive around and visit the grave sites of ancestors generations back...the older folk would read or recall accounts of their lives, accomplishments and even failures. I was fascinated at the stories and it gave me a great respect for what it was to live before all the modern technology we had even back then.
Last time I visited the town, the memorial boards were outside covered by shades. Now they are indoors in what looks like a newer cinder block building. Wonder what year that was constructed.
very interesting share 👍my friend nice scenery👍
That was the town that the satellite landed in at the start of the Andromeda Strain movie 50 years ago just one of many filmed out there that most people don't know were done in the Big Bend.
This town was named after a Union soldier that won the Medal on Honor. William Rufus Shafter, later a General and had the nickname of Pecos Bill for his time in west Texas.
Shafter CA is also named after Gen Shafter.
@@lifewithjosef there is also a Lake Shafter in Gaines County Texas that is named after the General.
My great grandfather George Harold worked at mining company store in the 1912 to 1925. Pancho Villa use to cross over to Shafter and buy Susie's there.
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My father work the silver Carlos balderrama😊my mother live there with all her sister until we move to El paso
I have a friend that still lives full-time there in Shafter, he's a retired school shop teacher from Presidio
That was GREAT. We stopped in Shafter on the way back from Big Bend to El Paso airport. We wanted a place to eat lunch and as we were driving along we saw this patch of green in an otherwise sea of tan. What a cool little ghost town and that was after we had stayed in another cool little ghost town--Terlingua. Love your videos!
Very enjoyable and a great presentation thanks 😊
I like the music
My grandmother told me a story a very long time ago. My grandmother was the oldest of her siblings. They went to visit an aunt of hers that lived in Shafter. Grandmother was 7 or 8 years of age when this happened. She was intrigued and scared of walking into her aunt's house because it had wooden floors. I was laughing so much because she had stated that she had never seen wooden floors in her life. She was crawling on all fours like a cat, well, she and her siblings because she thought she was going to fall through the floor.
Used to be a roap bridge,my dad was born there.
Awesome! I’ve wanted to explore this part of Texas so much! Thank you!
Thank you so much for sharing your Shafter adventure with us. Very interesting ghost town. To bad that so much of the ruins are off limits.
Camp out at night time, and you'll hear voices and see shadows.
great job
"Not many water sources..." Should explore Ft Stockton's city park with the Pecos River. Or off I-10, Balmorhea (bal muh RAY) and their state park and giant pool. Cibolo Creek - which you found - is pretty extensive, actually. But thanks for the great video.
Oh, another interesting stop might be the salt flats between Ft Stockon and Pecos. The roadview is small but it's a fairly large area. Once New Mexico blocked off most of the Pecos River, lotsa West Texas town dried up... places like Big Lake used to be name for good reasons. Texas did sue NM successfully. NM pays Texas in dollars. Not in water, though.
Elephant Rock is a little ways out of town… also supposedly there is a Silhouette of Lincoln in the rock formations along that highway toward Presidio but I have never been able to make it out.
I live these old towns and buildings. I’ve driven around Shafter several times and it’s such a cool place.
I believe one of the properties you show was up for sale recently. I almost bought it.
Great videos. Thanks for posting.
Ghost towns have always interested me. Shafter is interesting. Thanks for sharing.
100 bucks said you explored the ruins off camera so there was no evidence. Not nice of you to not show us what you found lol. Greqt video bro ❤
Thanks for another great glimpse into the vast and wonderful state called Texas!
Is this the village where they filmed Andromeda strain.
Yes!
Headed there next week. Taking the long drive from Marfa to Marathon.
i used to go swimming there in the 80s!
What a neat little ghost town!!! Thanks for sharing!!!
My grandparents Cortez
awesome uploads bub
I would've named it 'Sterling'....they could keep the 'Shaft'....lol...
We stopped there last Spring. Neat place to get out and take pictures. There were two highway patrol cars looking for speeders between Shafter and Marfa so beware!
Thanks!... I drove by once about 10 years ago. Never knew there was so much there.
The church is gorgeous! The cemetery is nice, too, but there are so many cacti I'd be afraid to move around much!
Wow, really cool. Might have to visit while we are in the area in January 2022.
Another spot for our west Texas trip.
Wow I plan to check that place out
Do you encounter snakes?
Dose anybody own it
Shafter? I just met her!
Not gonna lie, the same thought crossed my mind when I was recording it