The Historic Remains in Goldfield Ghost Town | Goldfield, Nevada
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- Опубликовано: 3 мар 2021
- The ghost town of Goldfield, Nevada was once the most populated town in the state. Now with only a couple hundred residents, we tour some of the remaining buildings from this early 20th century boom town.
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Located in Esmeralda County, Nevada is the town of Goldfield. As described in the name, Goldfield was created due to the mining of gold nearby. The mineral was first discovered in 1902 and the mines quickly were producing large amounts of ore. As expected, population rapidly boomed and soon it was the largest town in the state of Nevada with a population of about 20,000 at its peak.
Some famous names even have ties to Goldfield. Both Virgil and Wyatt Earp were once residents of the town, the former serving as deputy sheriff in 1905. His term was short as he died of pneumonia and Wyatt left soon after.
Like many towns built around mining operations, the population dwindled just as fast as it grew. By 1919 the largest mining operation ceased operations and moved on. Furthering the population's waning was a fire in 1923 caused by a moonshine still that destroyed much of the town. Some of the more famous buildings today which we visit survived the catastrophe including the Goldfield Hotel and high school.
Historical buildings in the town are easy to spot as they have plaques. When touring the town be sure to stop by the visitor center or go online for a map and description of each site.
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Welcome to the Cactus Atlas! We are Glenn and Amy and invite you to join us as we visit all sorts of locations across the American West. We tour both natural and man-made attractions.
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I have driven through Goldfield many times and stopped only to see the old hotel. Thank you for the most detailed tour of Goldfield that I've seen on RUclips.
Our pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it! One of these days we'd like to go back as we actually feel like we only scratched the surface. 😅
Part of my favorite car movie of all time was filmed in the Goldfield Hotel. The radio station KOW in Vanishing Point, where Cleavon Little was the DJ, was filmed there!
Very cool! Have not seen it but not surprised given how cinematic the hotel looks to be. 👍
Such a fun place to visit, thanks as always for bringing us along. And wow, those cars were out there. Creepy.
Thank you! Yeah... lots of interesting things to be found in those cars. 😅
Thank you for doing this video. You can park on any street in Goldfield and parking is allowed next to the highway in the business district. The Goldfield Hotel was built in 1907-8 and opened for business in 1908. It was last open during World War II and has been closed since then, the owner Red Roberts died recently and the building is currently for sale. Many of the historic buildings are open to the public during Goldfield Days, which is the first weekend in August. You should have gone inside the courthouse building, as it was open because you were here on a Monday. The building is filled on both floors with antiques and historic items. The Sheriff's office has a ball and chain on the floor. The Clerk/Treasurer would likely have given you a tour of the building. The Art Cars were built for Burning Man years ago. You could have also gone through the Mining District to show the head frames and other buildings up close. You should have visited the Santa Fe Saloon, Nevada's second oldest bar, which has been in business since 1905, and the railyards and old houses around it. Also I would have included the Mozart Tavern, Rabbit Spring, Alkali Hot Spring and the historic Goldfield Cemetery. The most popular attraction in Goldfield is much newer though, the International Car Forest of the Last Church. That deserves a whole video on its own. About 300 people live in Goldfield, but many are gone for the winter months due to the cold. Be thankful you did not meet any Goldfidiots.
A lot of those we didn't have time for in prior visits but several we did and are included in other videos such as the International Car Forest, Santa Fe Saloon and cemetery. Too much to cover in one video. 👍
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My sister watches mr beets. Hes 94 now. The beets garage was his dads. They're house was next door. He has told us lots of stories of his time in goldfield. He remembers when the high school closed and he said he had to drive with his sister 27 miles to tonopah.
Oh wow! I can't imagine hearing stories like that. That's awesome! Thanks for sharing! 😊
@@CactusAtlas yea its pretty cool. He lives up in washington state now.
I think a World famous prizefight happened there around 1905-10 or so, an African American fighter beat a "Great White hope" guy. Pressed tin "Brick" and "Stone" were often used c1900-50, and would be seen in "Boomtowns".
That little train was called a donkey.. for mining.
Interesting history! And weird old cars! That one with a tongue!! I don’t even want to guess what else you saw there..so many historical structures!
They're wild cars, aren't they? And yes, LOTS of historical buildings. Very different from some of the others visited during that trip. There will be a drastically different one in the next week or two!
Great trip, so much left to see. Sounds like a return trip is in order!
😅 You're not wrong! Glenn's been saying that since the day he came back!
I did time there in their old "jail" which was actually the brig of a battleship which they buried and built the courthouse on top of. I was so disruptive and menacing that the deputies wound up calling the NDOC to come get me or they'd release me so the dept of corrections made a special trip with me being the only convict passenger on the bus straight from Goldfield to Indian Springs at High Desert on New Years Eve 2001 - 02 which is not cost effective for the state of Nevada but I left them with no choice.
I was being held there along with 2 other inmates from the Tonopah prison camp as all three of us had been kicked out of camp back to prison for whatever reasons - mine just happened to be extremely aggressive behavior towards staff and multiple little infractions numbering around 10 notice of charges in the span of a little over a week in camp. I wasn't enjoying the time there with the mouthy staff and mandatory work assignments, just "busywork" responsibilities each day so I tried to get kicked out back to prison through little acts of subversive and rule-breaking behavior.
I can recall that "jail" being so old and shot-out that if I were to describe it with no embellished descriptions I'd be called a liar by anyone who hasn't been incarcerated there.
It was dark, dank and dripping water with the "shower" room consisting of a garden hose dropping into the room for a shower and too many other little details like that which add up to paint an incredible picture, but I swear on my skin that shit was that crazy, at that time.
Meals were brought in twice a day from a local restaurant such as Arby's or Burger King etc since there was no jail kitchen nor enough inmates to staff a kitchen if there were one.
No phone access, and only 1 TV which was out in the deputies' area beyond the bars of the brig which was placed on a channel and left that way for the day, pretty much or until a deputy returned and was in a good enough mood to switch the station for us.
I immediately went to work stripping my mattress of the threads inside the lining to construct a proper fishing device which I proceeded to use for the purpose of pulling the deputies' belongings into the cellblock and ate one's lunch his wife had (obviously) packed for him.
Pulled some other items of various degrees of value before the deputies returned and screamed at me to cuff up so they could retrieve their items however I refused and dared them to attempt to force me to comply.
I was in the best shape of my life at the time and only 21 years old so they didn't want none and called the NDOC to come get me instead.
True story.
Lasted maybe 48 hours total in that facility before the town's deputies tapped out and submitted to my patented brand of disruptive behavior, honed from an early age in schools from Vegas to Nashville and Wichita to Denver starting in the year 1986.
I idolized John Bender of The Breakfast Club as a toddler and modeled myself after that character. I lived it until recently and finally calmed down around 6 or 7 years ago.
Now I'm just full of stories from my experiences across 4 decades of bucking the system, unwilling to be told what to do and I have some pretty good tales that I'm currently compiling for my biography.
This Goldfield experience will certainly be included in much more detail and more context for the way I chose to treat the staff at the camp and that jail.
They had it coming, believe me..
That is a really neat ghost town. I enjoy historical places and enjoy visiting them myself. Buildings this old I am sure is haunted by those of the past. Thanks for taking us along.
Glad you enjoyed! Yeah, the hotel has a reputation as one of the most haunted places in Nevada I believe. Some really gruesome stories from it.
Neat ghost town 👍 and art cars 😀
Thanks! It's a fun place to explore. 😄
Love all of your videos, thanks a lot for the information and many greetings from Germany.
Anytime! Thanks for watching! ☺️
What a great trip! Nice video.
Thanks so much! 😄
Awesome place and great video! Just subscribed!
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Joe Gans vs Battling Nelson September 3, 1906 World Lightweight Championship Goldfield, Nevada
Ghost Adventures has investigated The Goldfield Hotel 4 times. With the most recent investigation in 2021.
Staying at the Clown Motel in June, I might have to do a slight detour down to Goldfield!!
Awesome! One day we're hoping to fit in a stay at the Clown Motel but didn't manage during this trip (stayed at the Mitzpah for the historic aspect). Did check out the cemetery though! Because who doesn't love a cemetery next to a hotel packed with clowns? 😂 But yeah... Goldfield is definitely worth a stop and the time to wander about town. There's old buildings everywhere.
I stayed at the clown motel for a few days...if it's the one next to a graveyard?..it was scary,..lotsa knocking noises in middle of the night.. had the room closest to the Cemetary...very restless!!
We have visited this in 2019 and plan to stop in may2023
It's a fantastic little town to explore. We've been a couple times now and always seem to find something new. 👍
Don’t forget the dinky diner
Still haven't made it there unfortunately. One day! 👍