The Rise and Fall of Saint Elmo Colorado | ABANDONED
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
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Saint Elmo, Colorado, once a thriving mining town nestled in the Rocky Mountains, experienced a meteoric rise and a swift fall that left it an evocative relic of the past. Established in 1880 during the silver boom, it quickly burgeoned with over 2,000 residents, bustling with saloons, hotels, and a vibrant community. However, as silver veins depleted and the allure of other mining opportunities beckoned, Saint Elmo's prosperity began to wane. By the early 1920s, the once-bustling town had dwindled into near abandonment, with only a few hardy souls remaining. Today, Saint Elmo stands as a hauntingly preserved ghost town, its deserted buildings and abandoned streets a testament to the fleeting nature of boomtowns in the rugged frontier.
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Thank you for keeping your channel pure and not succumbing to AI and it's tragic attempt at narration. Content is on point.
Leadville not leedville. Fantastic video, thank you for making it.
Hahaha I live in Leadville and for a second I was like "Is there a Leedville somewhere I don't know about?!"😂😂
@@MrZombiekiller23 beautiful town, I hope to move there someday.
@@Amigafurenjoy! The winter is pretty grand.
Speaking of Leadville, the National Mining Museum there is excellent, and put together by those in the industry, mostly from the past. Great displays on history, geology, and mining engineering. Most of the industry is in South America and elsewhere these days. Old mining towns in Colorado are often ski resorts today., such as Aspen. Telluride, and Crested Butte. Recreation and tourism dominate now, but the mining history of these areas is very interesting too.
Ugh, tourists...
@@ChewyToeNailsThere would be only more ghost towns and economic hardship in Colorado if not for tourists
@@Aquatarkus96 Agreed. But, still. Ugh...tourists
Been there many times, there is so much beauty in the Rocky Mountains. B&W pictures don't do the mountains justice. Great watch.........
At 3.33 it should be 1864 rather than 1964.
3:33
Minor typo.
Not so minor to the people that were slaughtered…
Might want to also mention the Ute’s as they were pushed out of the western rockies by mining. There are museums in most of the small towns scattered throughout the Colorado Rockies. They can probably deliver better information than a book or two…
@@Jayman5281 fair enough
@@Jayman5281Death of people doesn't meant he typo is major issue
Thank you for making more videos of the Midwest, west, and other areas. You listen to your subscribers and make good changes. I like the "Socash" way of history.
If you ever get the chance to visit, check out the guest house. Not an original town building, but has a great story. It was built pretty recently by one guy over the course of ~13 years (I believe he's still alive and living in the house). He used a ton of recycled materials from a closed down local high school. The windows are door frames are made from the old bleachers, and the kitchen counter tops are all the old blackboards. The incredibly nice lady who runs does bed and breakfast told stories of being able to see all the old chalk marks from the teachers before they vanished away from years of cleaning. Decorated with a ton of vintage relics and shelves of cool things he found during construction. My favorite was a revolver skeleton from the 1800s he dug up when first starting the house.
Love your channel. Very informative, very cool
I really enjoyed this video ❤❤❤
Excellent work. 🙌
8:24 it is Leadville as in the mineral lead. South Dakota has a town named named lead (leed) as in a lead for a horse.
😢 this makes me miss Colorado. Camped a few miles away from St. Elmo a few years ago, and it was divine!
Chipmunk colony across from general store. They climb all over you.
Never ceases to amaze me the stuff people will gamble away 🤦🏼♂️
i have been up here many times over the years to use the jeep trails that are in the area, St Elmo is a nice little hidden gem. and there's a nice hot springs resort in the area
@7:34 There is also a Forest City, Iowa where they manufacture Winnebagos.
Seen dozens of vids and stories about the railroad and especially the Alpine tunnel, don't recall any mention of St. Elmo. Thanks.
TREMENDOUS DOC! love it. TY
Leedville. As someone who works in Leadville that was hard to grease hear.
Gilman is a crazy place -
LEEDville? No @8:24
LEADville (like the element Pb, what you make fishing weights out of)
For reasons unknown my grandparents future mother and my uncle vacationed in St. Elmo in the 1930's - I still have photos taken at the time. I assume there was nothing much left - this would have been about 1939.
8:25 Lead-Ville not Leed-ville
Still waiting for the videos exploring popular urban myths.
lol, no thanks!🙅♂
@@douglasharley2440 Is that your argument, or your emotional reaction?
@@oslonorway547 both.
@@douglasharley2440 I didn't think it was enough, ma'am. You need more hormone replacement and a larger plug to train your hole. Either that, get a daddy in your life.
Finally!!!😊
Nice to know the Pope canonized a beloved Children’s Television Network character. 😂
Liked and subscribed. My channel has new videos of the smoke in Garden Valley Idaho. I hear some of Colorado is getting it also.
There is literally nothing mysterious about it.
This is all quite common in mining areas lol
St. Elmo's fire!
😂
Do one on Nucla.
Sand creek massacre was in 1864, just saying...
Sand Hill massacre in 1964?
Silver rush, not gold rush
He bet his brother’s mine and lost, so he doubled down and bet his brother’s mine?
buy a home there? 330,00 real progress
That’s plaasser mining
@@rogerpenske2411 Placer mining, unless you're using a German term?
Placer mining, unless you're using a German term?
Still way too woke in Colorado .
"Everybody needs to be woke. Ha-ha-ha! Cackle, cackle, cackle! Giggle, giggle, giggle!"
politics rotting your brain
@@kingtrav Politicians pass laws and implement programs that affect us daily.
Agreed. However you are probably looking for the "It's pointless politics" channel.
This is the "it's history" channel..
@@culturematters4157 Wow no kidding?! This is a video about the mining history of a ghost town and Colorado, and the first thing on their mind is how "woke" the state is. Brain rotted to mush.
Just camped above st Elmo’s at the alpine tunnel trailhead a few weeks ago. Took a buddy there for his first time, absolutely amazing area.
Since we’re talking Colorado, how bout some history on Wolf Creek Pass
or Central City.
Cañon City....
-Dinosaur Bones War
-The Cotter mine where the yellow cake was processed for the bombs dropped on Japan
-Movies Mecha Location of the early 1900's
-Fed Pen that held unibomber etc.
-Great Prison escape turned into a movie.
-Royal Gorge Bridge
Etc
Etc
Creede would be interesting too
Same goes for Trinidad/Walsenburg/Ludlow. Site of an armed labor insurrection, one of the most recent ones in American History
Besides the CW McCall song... 😉
This reminds me of when I first visited Telluride with my Dad back in the mid '50s. We stayed with his friend in his house which was next door to the old Telluride Brewery.
It was an empty town back then with maybe 100(?) residents. The abandoned buildings.were not locked and one could go into most of them and look around.
Obviously, that changed dramatically when the ski area construction began!
I really appreciate this one Ryan! Thank you for your work!
My pleasure!
They had Iron Man?
😂heard that too uh
I suspect the people that live in St Elmo today would take issue with it being called a ghost town.
Ain't nothing up there but tourists and summer cabins
@@kyledavidson8712 and a ridiculous amount of chipmunks.
Cañon City, Colorado....
-Dinosaur Bones War
-The Cotter mine where the yellow cake was processed for the bombs dropped on Japan
-Movies Mecha Location of the early 1900's
-Fed Pen that held unibomber etc.
-Great Prison escape turned into a movie.
-Royal Gorge Bridge
Etc
Etc
Does this mean we are going to get more videos about Colorado? Please!
Shut up we don't need any more Californians.
It was sustainable until the government is involved, now look at what is happening with the country almost a hundred years to the day,ie great depression
History repeats itself.
If you want to know the future, looks to the past.
1920's:
-Pandemic (Spanish Flu)
-Great Depression
-Dust bowl
-Locust plague
-political upheaval amd unrest
-War
The reason the area was developed was because the government forcible cleared the land of natives and fixed the price of silver. When the Sherman act was repealed is when the economy collapsed. It was never sustainable without the government.
The reason it is a popular spot today is because the local gov plows and maintains the road to get there, and the USFS maintains the trails around the town for ATV and snowmobile use. It literally all functions because of the government.
@@zacharyshacter395 good information
1964?
I've taken my kids there several times and they loved feeding the chipmunks
The current owners of the mercantile - the large building with the red tin roof- are close friends of mine.
Theres no railroad into gunnison now. Bring that backkkkk
Oh its a ghost town I have spent many a night there and rest assured it is ghostly. boo
Can't believe I missed this one... There are so many of these ole' towns.. I'll hopefully catch it next time around! Thanks
Always wondered about St. Elmo Thank you
Been to the site its a intresting location
Cool to see a place in my state! =)
I love the ghost towns of the Rockies!