Telegraph City - A Ghost Town and a Shipwreck
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For five years, I've wondered about the location of the graves of Lauriston and Lilian Davidson, lost in the sinking of the SS Atlantic in 1873 off of Halifax, Nova Scotia. They were on their way to visit their uncle, John Umphelby, in the small ranch town of Telegraph City, California. In the hopes of finding the site of their graves, I've traveled across the country to explore the ruins of the ghost town of Telegraph City.
I thought I was the only one who valued the little gestures like that - and I am so glad to find that I'm not alone. Those ladies will have appreciated it. They will have appreciated it very much; not just that a couple of wanderers happened upon Telegraph City one sunny day, but that you stopped and thought of them.
It is refreshing to an old man to find the youth doing, with far more impactful intent, the kinds of things i did in my younger years not fully knowing why i was doing them only that i should !:-)
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Absolutely agree with you, it's very important to not just forget for their sake and historically important.
So many small cemeteries were forgotten entirely in middle of fields. Only some guy on a brush hog knows about them. I ran across many native sites in fields here in Oklahoma
Telegraph city is probably one of my favorite ghost towns that you’ve covered. It’s so desolate, yet there’s still just enough left for it to be interesting 👍
I see you everywhere.
Bringing your artifacts almost made me cry. We are here for just a moment in time, likely to be forgotten. Trying to find these graves is so beautiful, giving these two women some recognition well after a century after they lived. Another great video from you
history is important. And we will be forgotten eventually. We are only here for a moment in a universe set to end.
The recreation/animation of the barn was incredible. Would love to see more of that sort of thing.
That windmill still pumping water is top quality
You speak so clearly that the auto generated captions are perfect 👍
That’s a rarity!
Fantastic re-creation / animation of Telegraph’s main barn. Production very well done overall…as usual. 👍 feels like we are going back in the Time Machine. Love it
Just curious….the train would have brought the two ladies into Sacramento….then John could have hauled them down to Stockton. Did you check old graveyards in Sacramento and Stockton? Maybe graveyards running near the Sacto depot and then an old city graveyard in Stockton. It would be hard for John to personally haul the bodies in their coffins all the way down to Farmington, etc. you told the story very well. I’m so sad with about this one. Might even go looking myself.
Great idea.We wish you good luck with that.Hope that someday we'll find out about the 2 Ladies.
Thank you.🤗
I actually saw another piece on shipwrecks …..took notes on this shipwreck once I heard the deceased names. I wanted to text you back on this piece. Now I can’t find my notes. But it was about people that died on a shipwreck off of Nova Scotia …I think. Anyway, included in the list were these two ladies. They are buried THERE, in the city where the shipwreck was salvaged and bodies recovered. I saw the gravestones. They never were put on a train. Hope this helps your story.
Such a tragedy. On a different note the windmill has proven to be built to last. Impressive. RIP to the fallen. Excellent video.
I was really hoping you would make this video, ever since I watched your documentary about the sinking of the SS Atlantic and the mother/daughter duo that never reached this town! I'm really excited about watching this!
Thank you so much for remembering people lost to time and creating a channel for like-minded thoughtful people. I explore the country often and run across old homesteads and pioneer Cemetaries. It is impossible for most of us to understand the isolation and toil that these people must have endured. I am saddened when I see graves that have not been visited in at least many decades and it's obvious that there is not a soul left on earth who knows of these forgotten people. You once again put a little meaning in their short time in this world. Thanks again!
Hi I am from Australia and I like watching about history from every town and country because history can never be stop or blocked.
Most of the walls around here (Lleyn Peninsula) in Wales were built by the soldiers of the Napolionic Wars. We've even nicknamed them "Napoleons Walls" . Many stone round houses built by the ancient celts are still up. So yeah my ancestors The Welsh were good builders, we built things to last. 🏴🏴 Cymru am Byth.
Its nice to see a fellow Welshman here! Cymru am byth! 🏴🏴🏴
Hello, Wales, your words and information have traveled far and I have read them here in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Thanks.
Awesome! I was just watching the Uncle Sam Mine / Alum Creek video! This was kismet
Hi Tom my background is from Lebanon when I was there with my mum and my sister my older brother took us to some places to see history it was so beautiful that was like 20yrs and since than I travel to other countries to learn other cultures and history just been there seen and touch the history wow is feels special for some reason like every stone
I appreciate that gesture in the end. I think it truly does mean something.
8:03 - it isn't a true ghost town without that sound
I’m in tears that you showed so much respect to these ladies and their stories, going as far as parting with some of your own personal artifacts so that their journey can finally be completed. That is incredibly touching
7:54 Love that place already...and that squeeky rusty windmill, pure perfection.
I live in Calaveras County, it’s awesome to see people covering such a small town!
As a South African from a small town i really enjoy you're documentaries
I'm so glad I found this channel.
Bringing those bits of Atlantic there was such a meaningful thing to do.
I only recently found your channel but it is always a pleasure to watch your videos. I look forward to this one after I finish "the terrifying wreck of the SS Atlantic"
M'lady and I truly appreciate what you, and your crew, do. Substance with sustenance. Thank you all. 💕 from Jen & I.
This town is 30 minutes away from my home town. So cool to see the local history, thank you for all you contribute to keeping these memories preserved for us.
I'm subbed to this channel after some of the excellent ghost town and hiking videos, this video was excellent! Lots of mystery and lots of beauty and stillness. More of this 🥰
So cool. I grew up in California and I visited a friend in Sonora all the time when I was a teen and never heard of this ghost town. Awesome video.
7:24... just wow! Brilliant job!
Your style of videos is impeccable :) love from a big fan
Your videos are always informative!
I live about 20 miles from Telegraph City. So interesting. Thanks so much. Eugene was a significant stop in transportation of supplies via wagons to the southern mines; from the Port of Stockton to Sonora.
Again, beautifully produced and presented!
What a great story...thank you! And you are a great storyteller
HEY MAN, you should check out the remnants of the USS Garnet (PYc-15). She was a yacht in the 1920s and was bought by the U.S. Navy during ww2 and used as a coastal patrol ship. She’s now beached at Smith River, Oregon. She used to be a tourist attraction and gift shop but now it’s just a derelic ship on the side of the freeway. She still really beautiful and has great history.
Wow the before/after photos were very cool.
Much work and skill AND thought went into this.
And in an artistic way.
What an age we live in I wish my videos were a tenth as good as you!
I have a mental block but it’s nice to see someone who has a mind that works properly
And has not taken that for granted.
Great job brother man.
My great great grandparents started there family in Telegraph City around 1853 to 1870, the Suits Family. lived on Sherly road. My great great, grandfather too was a 49er from Weedsport NY, by 1871 my family became one of the founding families of Santa Monica, CA. My great great grandmother was from Scotland. My great great grandfather boards a clipper named Belvedere and sailed 212 days from NY to San Francisco
I wonder if those hollow headstones were castings of old stones that have broken. I was at an old graveyard in Spain where crumbled headstones were copied in fiberglass and reset. Who knows, some missing stones might be in the process of being restored. Just a wild guess.
Thank you so much for a very heart felt interesting story , I enjoyed it as I enjoy all of your videos.
Thanks! I thoroughly enjoy your work and dedication to quality storytelling
Thank you very much!
I can't believe how lazy people can be to view this wonderfully done video and not put a like. Put a LIKE!
Right? Especially if you’ve watched one of Tom’s videos before. You know it’s going to be outstanding, so just click the “Like” before you start watching so you don’t forget!
@@Lucinda_Jackson i make that my SOP with top notch creators !:-)
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Me, too! I can’t afford to do Patreon, so I make sure to like before watching, comment after and watch ads all the way through on my faves and/or channels that don’t have a zillion viewers. Then I usually go back in after I close out just to be sure I liked. Very occasionally, I’ll find one not showing as liked so it’s my fault-safe. 😄
Thank You Sir, for all you do to bring us such fascinating content!
Grasshopper city love it amazing touch at the end with the placing of the relics nice indeed
Great video. I'm in love with that windmill. Amazing that it is still there with its mournful squeaking sound
Fascinating story … great job!!!
Great information and entertaining. Good audio and video quality. Big fan 👍
truly appreciate your work . excellent
The moment you said they were coming over on the Atlantic I said ‘oohhfff’ out loud… all those poor people. Glad you found a two-for-one crossover to do a video, always impressive and intense research and great videos!
It's a fascinating story.. and a sad one in which we may never know where mother and daughter are buried... But my gut instinct tells me they were buried in Nova Scotia, unless you can find a record of their bodies being claimed and transported elsewhere..
You add to the length, breath and depth of Living Memory. God bless you !:-)
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Great video and correct sliced bread was invented here in Chillicothe, Mo in 1928.
It is my guess that Lauriston and Lilian are both buried somewhere around Halifax. As refrigeration was not possible back then, bodies were usually buried near where they died. Even as late as WWII, GI's were buried near where they were killed. I suspect that the marker may now be missing or the pair just not have yet been found in a cemetery near Halifax.
Excellent if heartbreaking story
Thank you Tom, excellent work.
Nice. Just stumbled across this. I was actually here last summer. 2 calf's had actually gone under the fence. There were people on horses about a half mile away. The guides knew the ranch and said they would call about the calf's? Thanks for the history lesson. A lot of old western movies are/were filmed on ranches around this area? No power lines or cell towers are in sight.
Although you may not have found the gravesites you were searching for, you still made a great video. Did not disappoint. Just gotta keep looking.
This is some of your best work Tom, hope you are able to find the graves
I used to drive by Telegraph City on my way to Copperopolis when friends lived up there. I thought that Telegraph’s history was amazing!
Fascinating story and so we’ll put together! She is buried at
Camp Hill Cemetery
Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
dude that's crazy, I live only an hour away from telegraph city and have been to it multiple times, I learned about it from your SS Atlantic documentary, I would've loved to meet you guys when you were recording this video
Very quaint and touching story
Just started a job at usps and man after getting home from 12 hr days this shit helps me unwind! God I love this channel
I've just discovered your channel and very much appreciate the work you put into your videos. Do you think you might cover any Lake Superior or Great Lakes wrecks in the near future? I'm from Duluth and it'd be wonderful to see something from our area covered on your channel. Anyways, great work on all your videos!
i cant articulate why, but i love the sound of that rusty old windmill still spinning after at least a century; something melancholic but still persisting in spite of it all??
Great work👏🏻 great channel👍🏻🤘🏻🥇
Brilliant Channel. Very enjoyable.
Has SS Eastland story ever been covered here?
What a great job on this video!!
That’s cool I live near here like 30 minutes away and I think I drove right by that cemetery in Eugene when you were there!
Also, thanks for the superb content.
I live close to where SS Atlantic grounded. Dove the area back in the 80's also.
I took a college course in California history some years ago and it was fascinating to me.
Great video! I like your detective work and you have a pleasant personality. Keep it up!
Thanks for the great video. It is a desolate place, that's for sure. It is certainly beautiful, too.
Great story. Thanks
There’s many small towns (or what’s left of them) with gold rush roots in the area and cemeteries just as old that could be worth a look also. Milton, Linden, Peters, Copperopolis & Angel’s Camp are all nearby. Some are along historical freight/stage routes that would’ve also been used to get to the Telegraph City townsite, or in the case of Copper and Angel’s, nearby larger towns with maybe a specific religious denomination cemetery where they could also be found.
This gentleman has true class...
I ran into a small cemetery out in the woods of east Texas where I live. It's about a mile from my house and there are about 17 headstones in it. They date back to the late 1800's to early 1900's. The majority of names are from the McKinley family. The ages range from a couple of infants to around 80 years old. I have not been out there in a few years, but it always fascinated me to go out there and look at. So peaceful and quiet. There is also strange and tragic history with the land the cemetery is on. One story, I remember well, is in 1983 a young family was murdered execution style in a trailer about 100 yards from the cemetery. A mom, a dad, and a 24 month old were shot and killed over what is said to be a drug debt. The case was cold for around 10 years when suddenly there was an arrest made. The soon to be ex-wife of killer went to the police and told them that her husband executed the family. He was tried, convicted, and put to death by the state of Texas a few years later. I knew a girl from school who lived on that land back in the late 70"s. When the trial came up in the 90"s, her and her mother were notified to show up for jury duty for that case. But since they were loosely tied to the case, they were not picked for the jury. There was also a story from the early 70"s of a guy who stole a backhoe and parked it beside his trailer house on that land. The police were called to the property and discovered the backhoe. They were in the process of getting a warrant to arrest the guy when a shootout took place. The backhoe thief was killed in the shootout. Just some weird and strangely connected events related to a small cemetery out in the east Texas woods.
Great video as always one day you will find them
The poor old windmill is screeching for a drop of oil
The gearbox on those leaked alot and required regular filling.
But hey its still hangin in there
Love Ghost towns. Ive explored 3. One of which is sunk 65 feet under a lake. Very good and very sad. There is even a Church down there.
Hello from Ireland .I have watched several of your videos and I`m hooked.Have you heard of the Mexico disaster.A Norweigan three masted schooner that ran onto some little islands off the Wexford coast in 1914.It`s a very dramatic and sad story and one your followers might like to hear.There is plenty of information about it on the net.I`m subbing ,I love these old stories .That your not letting them be forgotten is importamt work..
I love those dry stone walls they look just like the ones scattering the English peak district and North Wales
A Welshman built those awesome stone walls? Well colour me shocked (not)!
This was a great video and puts another location on my bucket list to visit. I would recommend a visit to another small town in California, Kernville. The original town location ruins and the cemetery that also has many immigrants from Britain.
You're really good at this. You should do airlines, too. Please, please do a video on the Tenerife disaster!
Dry stone walls! They make me feel like you could almost be in Yorkshire/North of England.
This is fascinating
You are a honorable person .
Very interesting. TFP. We have extensive dry stone walls in the basalt country of rural Victoria, Australia. Here, they are associated with Cornish and Welsh settlers. Surprised to see you openly handling shipwreck relics, it being forbidden to remove anything from an historic shipwreck site here.
Ask; Crime pays Botany doesn't, what the trees and plants are. He'll help, he's a nice guy.
I enjoy your videos. Have you ever done one on the destroyer accident off Honda point California where 7 US destroyers crashed on the rocks in 1923 ?
Good job !
TBH the photo of the grave looks like a scene setup in a photo studio with a backdrop. It could have very well been considering if the bodies were unclaimed someone hearing their story, or the newspaper itself, could have felt altruistic enough to make a headstone for them to encourage claiming the bodies.
Would love to see you do the Brother Jonathan. Ship wreck, missing gold and a giant light house. Great book about the lighthouse by Dennis Powers.
If the mystery is ever solved, please let us know!
Being in the tri-state area you should checkout the SS Morro Castle disaster in Asbury Park, NJ! There’s still a memorial site there by Convention Hall detailing the tragedy but would be cool for you to uncover some more info in a video and maybe visit as well 😄
Very Interesting
My 81 year old Navy vet dad has a request for you: Would the Wreck of the old 97 from the Hank Snow song be the type of thing you'd consider making a video on? I looked to see if you happened to already have it on your channel, so if I missed it, pls forgive me for asking. And if it's not your sort of thing, then thank you anyway for your time, and for the great videos you do put out! I love your content!
I think that's a great idea. Please tell him that I will try to get down to Danville if I can and put something together. I have an old 33 record of it. Thanks for watching!
@@PartTimeExplorer - Thank you so much for even considering it, even if it wouldn't happen to work out. We both appreciate it and look forward to whatever you happen to put together! Thanks again for such informative & enjoyable content!
@@PartTimeExplorer I'll tell you a story - I'm from England. Some years ago I met an American engineer down in Cornwall and asked where he was from. He replied he was from a little town in Kentucky that I'd never have heard of called Danville. When I replied that it was where Jeff Broady wrecked the old 97 on the Stillhouse trestle he was amazed, saying he didn't expect a Limey to know the song, let alone the true story. Some bits of US history are safely part of global culture!
Love it man!!! You are the same as me
It seems to me that the expense of transporting two bodies across the USA would have been impossible and the cost of going back to East just to bury them may have been more than they could handle. It may have been a choice between investing in next years crop or going to claim the bodies. I have a feeling they were buried on the East coast with funds from good samartians and eventually forgotten about as nobody came to clean the gravestone.