The Abandoned Town of Lily, South Dakota
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Welcome to the abandoned town of Lily, South Dakota. It was dissolved in 2017 due to a population of 0. Now one, possibly two residents live in the town with all other buildings completely abandoned. Join me for a day of exploring the lost memories of this historic South Dakota town.
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There’s a lot of dead towns in at area of the country N. And S. Dakota Montana a lot of them were railroad towns that have died off over the years. This town of lily still seems relatively intact and a pretty solid little town. Thank you for sharing.
One heck of a baseball team with all the kids born after WW2!!
The railroad doesn't go through there anymore. It is north of there close to Highway 12.
The way the world is going, I think a lot of these abandoned towns might come back to life
So sad 😞 beautiful trim in the home . I hate when lovely old homes are left to rot .
All I can think about when I see places like that are all the good times that must have been had there. It's so sad to see them end up like that and vandals come in and destroy what isn't theirs.
Thanks for the tour.
Where do you think our government is going to put all these people coming across our border? Makes you wonder.
I agree. Families settled, children raised, schools and churches places of happy gatherings. Also real life sadness and losses, but meaningful life stories.
My thought about vandals is that they have among the lowest level of character and self-respect, leave alone respect for others.
@@privatepilot4064 you don't move to places like this if you're afraid of work.
@@privatepilot4064 I can guarantee you that the people crossing the border aren't the ones vandalizing these places
Pretty little place. Sad. You wonder what happened to the 4 that lived there in 2010. .. if they died, or were dying of loneliness 😔
Thank you for sharing.
So many stories.
I appreciate your mind Dray. Great video!!!
😊 thank you for sharing
Sounds like a dream I wish I could live there
So sad
So sad no one ever saved the cool old Nativity. 😞
Very interesting vid, wonder what it is like in summer and is that car valuable?
If I could point out one thing; although you found it latched, you left that outhouse door unlatched (tongue not in receptacle) when you casually pushed it shut. Tut tut..
Now it will just swing slowly in the wind with an eerie creaking sound as it bangs ominously against the doorframe.......sparking a distant memory in the last couple who live there of the young mysterious traveller who tramped through Lilly one winter's day so many years before...
Your imagination is strong. I wonder if that door is flapping in the wind right now.. although I’m pretty sure I latched it properly after i stopped filming. At least I think I did. I guess I’ll have to go back in the summer to find out. Thanks for watching!
Taggers suck. Who goes to a defunct town in the middle of nowhere to spray lame tags in a ruined house?
America is a huge continent probably why some of these places are abandoned.
do you think if someone put in the effort a town like this could be revived in the future?
At least the buildings seem mostly intact and in relatively good shape haven't been destroyed yet by idiot graffiti artists and other assorted lowlifes, vandals, wreckers and thieves.
I'm driving out there right now to salvage that bench vice at 6:27 ....is that a dake arbor press over by the door I want it too
I’m curious. If this was an unguided tour through this deserted town, why was a light bulb lit in the garage where that old Ford was parked?
funny the roads are plowed
My Norwegian grandmother met my French Cdn. grandfather as he came up to hand glean the grain crop (start in Kansas and work north in crews) HHH, eh? Admire the man. If not for the Chicago police clobbering the Democratic Convention and beating the crap out of the kids, HHH would have been President.
do they even have internet there? prolly not for 4 people. likely using phone lines for dial up modems.
Satellite perhaps?
@@DraysWorld might be the only option.
Cell probably works. That's all you need, plus perhaps a bidirectional amplifier, and a yagi antenna pointed at the nearest tower. In flat territory or high elevation, you can reach out dozens of miles to the nearest tower.
THe only house there, who do they pay their electric bill to and water bill to? Hmmm
I currently have properties in Lily and do not appreciate you opening doors and filming in properties you do not own or have permission to go inside. Your intent might be OK but at the same time you may attract thieves. We have had our share. Some kids drove up from SF 10 days ago and were caught taking signs. If a door is closed do not open it.
John 3:3
“Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
King James Version (KJV)
you turn the handle to open the door but dont turn it to shut the door so the wind can rip the door off????
Just because he doesn't show it on camera it does not mean he did not close it.
Worst vice president, until now.
perfect place to lead a quite life away from the modern lunatics in the society
You make a great point, however if in need of emergency services, how far a drive to the nearest Hospital?
One of the comments hinted that it would be a good place to [ get away from it all] and I agree. No where for folks like antifa and similar minded WOKE groups, to get their 15 minutes of fame.
Too far to drive to get supply’s ,makes no sense to live there anymore
Yes but probably no internet except starlink.
@@jj-eo7bj too far to drive is pretty much the exact point.
I have lived in Lilly all my life, my parents lived, my grandparents, and my great grandparents. We love Lilly.
I love it too. You live in a special place in the world. Thanks for watching
Spelling? 😆You sure you live there?
Jesus has blessed your family for generations. ❤
What street you live on
WOW!! BRO!! I love SD!!! & I LOVE THIS VIDEO!!! I would live in Lilly!! Very cool video!!! Thank you!!!
My mom and dad taught school there just before World War 2. Wow! I wish they were still around to see this.
A few of my relatives were early settlers of Lily (Anders and Moses Moseson), thanks for the memory
My Father's Final Parish was at the Lutheran in Lily-Butler, he passed away in May of 1978, they lived in the Parsonage on the east of the Railroad Tracks.
The Railroad stopped running in the late 1970's
Church still there my mom bought it for Buffalo Plains Historical society. He funeral was there
I went to a dance there at the legion hall while on military leave, summer of 73.
Cool!
Brilliant narrator, stays silent sometimes and let's the images tell the story., very moving.
Thank you.
In the early 1970's I worked with a fellow named Henry Graber on a road construction crew, the other guys said he was the mayor of Lily, he was a great guy.
So sad to see decaying homes where good folks once lived & thrived!
Hi. Being from South Dakota, I will offer the pronunciation of Pierre - the state capital. It is "Pier" as in what goes out into a lake to tie boats to. Good video.
Seeing all of the homeless people living on the streets in so many cities makes me wonder if something could be done to solve two problems…
If a homeless person “homesteaded” an abandoned property for a period of time, making it livable let them remain there.
Nice idea, But amenities,Post office,shops,buses,Police
Only if it's a sanctuary city or state
No!
The homeless require someone to support them. They wouldn’t fend for themselves
What is the HOA😊
It would have been nice if you showed the date on the newspaper and the price on the gas pump.
That's what I was thinking as well.
The land takes back the barns, houses, and towns.
All I had to do was see the inside of the outhouse and the smell immediately returns to my memory!
It seems to me that these towns die out because the best of their young people move away looking for greener pastures. When that happens a town is doomed.
To add for my earlier entry. Good job on reporting on this town. I am a little sad watching this again but change is always happening. Even if you wish it didn't. Good job.
No stores, no gas stations, no schools, no internet, no hospitals. Why would you live in a place like that? Most people move to where things are.
Shouldn't educate them except farming,20 years ago my dentist was Irish known for fixing the roads after he numbed my gum i asked him who fixes the road's in Ireland? He smiled the English
@@Johnketes54 Not everyone wants to be a farmer.
@@l.a.3479 Your missing the point, You don't give them a choice,By keeping them off school damages their education or some other means so farming is what's left,It's morally wrong but often the farm is home and a source of income, How do we manage to get so many beggars and druggies? Fool's who ventured into the city? For a better life and ended up homeless
Wish you had got a closeup of those gas pumps. Would like to have seen what gas was selling for when the station closed.
They were smashed. No way to tell
It truly bothers me to see great places like this die off.
Beautiful city. I’ve never known a city could be dissolved by a court. Thank for the vlog!
City? This is/was a small town.
@@dopedrums ok 👍🏾 thanks for info! 😒
County governments usually have a local government formation process, whereby towns or cities may apply to become incorporated. The people wishing to form the new incorporated town must show the town is viable and provide the services (police, fire, fire, water, etc.) for
It’s population. In the inverse, the county may disincorporate a town or city when it can’t meet its obligations or has been shown to be corrupt.
@@slee2819 thank you
@dopedrums no,it's a hamlet! A village is next up,on the list, then a town,then a city which some claim must have 70,000plp to qualify!
This is neither its a dead hamlet,not even a pisshole !
To qualify as a pisshole, one has to be traveling along a designated route to and fro, and stop for refreshments and take a piss!
When there's not a lot of traffic or none,it's definitely not a water hole to stop and piss!
In this case, it's a dead hamlet,but someone is flying your us flag,and plowing the main drag!
But the price of real-estate here would be cheap!
Don't forget your 4 corner country hamlets that used to exist with a gas station,a general store,all gone !
never been there personally but ive been around it. i had a teacher who grew up there though. great video!
As an illinoisan I've always enjoyed traveling thru the great plains states, in the western parts the land is virtually unchanged except irrigation in some places. It's so peaceful and people are very friendly. I hate to see our history in that part of tge country get abandoned.
Hermosa imágenes del exterior, ya se nota el abandono en las casas. Es una lastima que la economía defina donde se establece la gente y no donde quiere vivir. Gracias por compartirlo..
This was so sad….I LOVE South Dakota and have spent a good part of my life there.
It’s an interesting state to explore. Thanks for watching
The interesting thing is that it's the only abandoned town in the state to be officially dissolved ad far as i can see. Most other abandoned towns in the state were from when we had the gold boom and most were out in the hills. Though a few kept going for a while. There is one called Spokane up in the hills. It was abandoned around the 60s I think. Better check it out before its gone, the past few years some buildings have collapsed
Thank you!
You have great content! Thank you for showing us around.
Pierre, SD is pronounced "Peer." Don't ask us why lol. Great video! Thank you for immortalizing a small part of home and history.
Noted.. thanks! Thank you for watching!
Getting there requires driving I assume. I guess some adult aged person borrowed daddy's car to go buy paint spray and do something useless.
Thank you and God Bless the souls of Lily, South Dakota. Great adventure.
I would love to live in a town like that. Kind of makes you wonder if old abandoned homes like the ones you found could ever be renovated and lived in again. Thanks for the video.
Some of them probably could. But some of them are likely best for a viewing, then raising.
I've lived in a small rural village, with just a gas station and coffee bar,it had 2 billiards tables in back,surprisingly!
The Blythewood general store had an old fashioned mail crib where she worked behind the screened in cage!
Those of you need to realize,although this village life had some basic groceries, that city life is completely different from living out in the sticks! In town,you can probably walk to your corner store or grocery store and buy "just one item,be it bread pop,chips or smokes!
This all changes when you are out in the boonies you buy 3 or 4 leaves of bread,3 bottles of pop,or a case,and likewise some other things so you don't burn up your gas and vehicle chasing just one item!
Vehicles,need 2 one is your daily driver the other is your backup buggy,in case # 1 breaks down and you need parts or get to the hospital.
If it's not plated ,in an emergency, all that matters is that you keep starting it once a month, and move it around so it gets lubricated.(You probably should plate it!)
Don't let it get low on gas, and keep your battery charged just in case.
Living in the stix requires a totally different mentality!
You have to fix your problem yourself,9 out of 10 times!
@@davidrussell8795 I could totally do that. I'm retired, and I've got a routine established where I do major shopping once a week to ensure I have everything I need. I prepare meals and freeze them so I'll have food for almost an entire month, and I'm used to living alone so I don't get depressed. My car is a little one, and older, but I keep it up and get it repaired when necessary. As long as I'm within perhaps an hour of a major-ish city, I'm good. If you know of a small town that has older yet decent housing, I'm all ears! Thanks for your advice!
@DraysWorld the word "razing" is how you spell it,(not raising)demolishing old buildings!
Yet ,I think the word itself gets ya thinking you'll be building! a new building!
Pierre in SD is not pronounced pee-err, it is pronounced peer.
I love old towns! It is sad to see that people spray graffiti on old buildings!
Thanks for the share!
There is signs of on going farming in Lily. While it may no longer exist as a town, there is still life there.
That there is. There’s at least one family living there and it appeared one other property possibly occupied, likely during the summer farming months Thanks for watching
Very cool! I live close to Lily and had no idea it existed. Very cool.
would have expected more Lutherans and very few Catholics!!
I love the respect you showed to all the buildings.
Just ran across this video as I was scrolling through RUclips.Thanks for sharing this. I live not far from Lily now and have been meaning to go check it out and learn some of the history.Really enjoyed your video.
Thank you for watching!
What ! No dollar general. Only a matter of time 😂
You’re probably right. Thanks for watching!
Waubansee townsite,ks is also a Landmark
Awesome video but who owns all that beautiful property and buildings? For the life of me I can't understand how that works.
I assume the state takes the tax burden once the owner passes on, leaving the houses to decay.
it's probably abandoned by the heirs of folks that died there. i've seen that in my own family.
Better than any city living if you ask me all the big digragatuo. Violence Litter and substance abuse you could live a clean life there and be a proud up standing citizen
Great video, only wish you did this during the summer
Me too. It was freezing that day.
I live about 30 miles from this town and never even heard of it. Might go check it out some time
I bet it’s great without the snow.
The upside is the homeless will never go there
Love how you go inside of places and document everything you can. Awesome video!
Thanks for watching
I remember Lily in 1980s going through there during wheat harvest
I bet that was a sight. Thanks for watching.
Do you have 1980 pictures of town to share?
Lily looks a lot like the farm towns we have in Manitoba. The Interlake region in particular has nearly identical communities, all in various states of liveliness. Take a look at the village of Fisher Branch on Street view; it looks like what Lily would've looked like if it were still thriving today.
Things return to dust over time and memories fade. "If this short life is all there is to hope for, then the soul is to be pitied." Thanks for sharing.
So sad, a beautiful little town.
Cool video, I enjoyed it. Keep up the nice work.
I guess I am wondering who owns the land and the farms that were formally owned by the people who lived there?
thanks for not talking the whole video. I appreciate that
It is pronounced Peer not Peeair
I'll have to visit there...the price of gas looks awesome!
Great place to move to if you just want to get away from people... must be cheap land and taxes
Unfortunately property taxes are high in S.Dakota.
thanks for such an interesting tour, I google earthed the location, so remote and historic. A very enjoyable doco. cheers from NZ
Thanks for watching!
Elevators popped up every 7 miles on rail lines because that's the max distance a farmer could get his grain to it in a one day's travel. Naturally towns grew up around those drop off points. With larger machinery came larger farms and these small towns died. That is sad.
Even in what was a small town. People come in and vandalize the place
Not so much here as other places more populated luckily.
😔
norwegian grandma is from the Black Hills. got a little frenchman in her from New Hampshire. It wasn't cold enough so they homesteaded in Canada. I had the honour as the oldest to actually work in the fields with them.
the american peoples are lucky tyo live in america, for making visited to the all city abandonned
I Don't see, why you'd say it's a town?? It's MORE like a Hamlet/ Village, then anywhere close to being call a town.
I wouldn’t mind living there. If there is still water/sewer/electricity to the town then I would buy a plot and perhaps build a home using a USDA loan
This is what I like seeing and finding is places that's hidden in plain view
I bet you could homestead that house if you wanted!!!!!
Needs a little work but you’re right
We call it "Pier". No quicker way to identify an out of stater then how they pronounce the name of our capital.
Yep..we have alot of abandoned towns here in South Dakota..thank s for covering our lovely state!
Thank you for watching!
From what I have heard about South Dakota, it sounds like a great place to live especially with the current Governor Noem in charge. But I am also old enough (74) to remember Laura Ingalls Wilder's book
"The Long Winter " when it was EXTREMELY cold with EXTREME amounts of snow. For my part, I would want a good supply of food stored up.
It was extremely cold that day of filming. I was well protected with good gear, thankfully. As I was wandering around, I imagined the pioneers and how they survived those long winters. Thanks for watching.
I'm 67,but when my gramma Russell was alive back on the 60s before she died and probably through her rural country life,she canned a lot of fruits and vegetables.
The cupboards went to the ceiling 8" by 10'ish long.
Large family!
These were the storeage cupboards she filled with food stuffs.
Today,we rely on 1 or 2 weeks worth of groceries ,between paychecks!
Recent snow storms kept a lot of ppl home,but food runs out!and drinking water!
Like in a movie where a retired cop hijacks a bus! His favorite line was"Always be prepared Jack!".
The apocalypse is here!
Yes. My Grandmother who lived in the rural Tri '- state area of N.C., Tenn., & Geo. also canned. I believe that is something that would be of benefit to us today.
@earllutz2663 The only problem with canning is you need to do it right or you could end up with bad rotten, dangerous food with bacteria or Salmonella in it!
Salmonella kills,or can make you very sick!
So,you need to know what you're doing,and date the bottles and use them up.
Really? She’s an anti-mask during a pandemic fanatic.
Lily is just straight north of me, just 2 hour drive. Sad to see old towns like this.
No gas in a remote town,can be a real problem! No ev charger here!!our local gas station closed, nearest one is a good 20 miles away! Scary if you don't have extra gas and a ride if you don't know anybody in town!
Very beautiful. Very sad. America slowly disappears.
Why are you touching everything you see! There are plenty of germs and dirt everywhere.
Dray are you blk ? If so please be aware that the authorities have been notified .
I love South Dakota . If I had it all over to do over , I would have stayed and lived there . I was stationed at Ellsworth AFB
. Rapid City . Had a friend from Sioux Falls 340 miles from Rapid on interstate 90 . I dated a girl from Spearfish “ Got a friend who lives in Sturgis. ! Love SD
Lol glad to see we're not the only things that fall apart as they age😮 thanks for the footage
i have a passion to take drives and take photos of all sorts of things one is the old houses/farmsteads that have been abandoned. I had a dream and always thought going from county to county and take photos of abandoned houses and towns. No idea how many counties there is in South Dakota but what an adventure that would be. In reality would assume could go to the county seat and find out who built the house/barn etc when they were built a lot of information is still available.
I love learning that history
West of watertown SD another small village guess it would be called the name is Tinkertown. Years ago it was a little spot along hwy 212 what a place to stop. It was full of antiques including an old time player piano they would always fire up. Out side they had a slab of cement and used it for dances. if my memory is correct it has been closed since the later 70`s.
Dates on newspapers? Price of gas on gas pumps? Specifics
@DraysWorld - I'm curious as to why you went exploring this little town in winter. There would have been more to see and explore if it wasn't covered in snow. I live about 6 hours north of there.
I was in Sioux Falls area for an event during that time and had an extra day to explore.
Apparently not from SD. The name of the State Capitol is pronounced Peer by locals.
(FWIW, I can't bring myself to call Prescott, AZ "Presskut".)
Florida is home. Lots of interesting names of towns here I hear mispronounced often as well. Thanks for watching!
Looks like a Wonderful place. Nice and peicful.