Tumco Historic Townsite - Abandoned Gold Mining Town in California
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Driving back from doing errands in Blythe, California, I spotted a sign for Tumco Historic Townsite. Tumco, previously known as Hedges, was a small gold mining town at the edge of the Cargo Muchacho Mountains. The town was abandoned in 1905, resurrected in 1910, and then abandoned again some years later. Today there are only ruins to reveal the history of this old mining town.
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That was a short interesting history lesson. Thanks for sharing
Very cool.
Great video Robert
Very interesting. I will have to visit that next year.
I would love to experience walking through there. Thank you so much for sharing!!!
What an interesting site. Thanks for sharing!
The memory of vital lives being lived. Truly amazing, another amazing video Robert. Thank you so much for including us. It is greatly appreciated. Blessings to you.
Hi Robert, I just found your channel. Lot!s of good stuff. Happy travels
Looks like an interesting place to visit, thanks for the video!
Absolutely awesome video! It was good to see Debra in your video. Y'all take care. Wishing you both healrh, happiness and safe travels!
I love this kind of stuff, Thanks
I love old, abandoned towns with Interesting ruins to leisurely explore. Thanks for sharing this, Robert and Deborah. The shot of the sunset at the end is awesome!
Very interesting, I love places like that.
This was a fun find as we were literally just driving down the road in the middle of nowhere and said, "hey, what's that over there?" LOL It was a cool place to walk around and explore.
Thank you for sharing with us Robert.That was beautiful.Love the sunset.Be safe my friend.
I love this stuff! History is so interesting to me. Thank you for sharing
Amazing! I love to explore places like this and try to inagine what year long ago the area had people, buildings, and was a thriving community!
Thanks for sharing!!
Thanks for sharing your day with us! I agree with you Debra these pits need grates or something on top!
Great content! Amazing that you can walk around and really immerse in it. No barriers, chains or fences - thanks for sharing! I am enjoying your journey, Robert!
Hi from PA! Loved the video ! Love learning new things and that sunset- wow! Your the best! Glad you and Debra had a good time! Hi Debra! Take care
Very cool place. I love old towns like that. Think of people who lived there.
Very interesting, thanks for taking us along! I am surprised there was not a. Cemetery there!
Wow another beautiful video, thank you Robert and Debra, so interesting and what a way to start the new year ,never heard of that place but I learn something new every time I watch your videos, hugs to you both
Charmaine Beutel I agree with you. His videos are the best. I watch them over and over.
Great video! We went to Tumco yesterday, but didn't realize all that was there until I watched your video. Going back today and gonna walk farther in this time. Thank you!
Awesome! I'm glad you found it helpful. We stumbled upon that place by accident and just had to stop and explore.
"Leave no trace" would've dictated that the nails and ceramic bits should be properly thrown away. But after enough time passes, what was once trash is now artifact. So glad you & Debra show such respect, taking nothing but pictures.
Sweet!
Wind or not ... I am SO glad you shared this! I see we filmed each other a few times. Too funny! :)) I sure wish they would put wire guards or something over the open pits. I fear animals falling in. What an AWEmazing historical site and a wonderful day. Thank you Robert! Oh, and great music. ;)) KOKO!
Forget the animals - I fear ME falling into one of those pits. Haha. Just kidding about the animals, of course.
Debra Dickinson long story sorry. Many years ago, while sailing the North Channel of Georgian Bay on lake Huron. I was hikeing in the wilderness and came across a very narrow and deep crevasse in granite. Maybe a foot wide and ten feet deep. In the bottom were the bones of countless animals. As I was alone, I sat on the edge for some long time thinking about what I was seeing. It was soon clear, a perpetual trap! The smell of the dead would attract a new victim, who, trying to find an easy meal would in turn become the next. As this was in a solid granite ridge, nothing could be done. That was 40 years ago and I think of it to this day. Edit: sorry for a depressing story, but some things I can't forget.
"Picture Picture" as Irene would say. :)) Very nice day of exploring.
Adventures with Jane There are some things you shouldn’t share...this Comment is one of them. Debra is very sensitive and compassionate. I would think this kind of Comment can only depress her. Please don’t subject her to these kinds of Comments. I’m sure you mean well but please don’t do this to her. Thank you.
I didn't find it depressing at all, I think it was a really fascinating discovery. You're probably one of of the few people in the world that have found or seen something like that. Thanks for sharing your story.
And a woman in the 6 degree weather in Missouri appreciates the little clips of heaven in California. You are living the dream. Thanks for sharing Robert and Deborah. 💜
I lived over there and moved to Missouri six years ago. You are living the dream in Missouri trust me
This is very cool to see again! I used to live at Gold Rock Ranch, many years ago, and that fancy Tumco site sign was not there. Everything else looks pretty much the same ... haha! Great job on the photography! I see it was WINDY when you were there. It was *ALWAYS* windy out there when we lived there ... wind, Wind, WIND! Thx for sharing! Gold Rock Ranch (if it's still there) had a wonderful little museum that contained MANY artifacts that were collected from Tumco way back when. They also had two or three of the buildings put together that our friend used to live in. The owner burned them down! I have videos on my channel of the fire, if you're interested. Cheers!
We were just driving along that road when we happened to see the sign and stopped out of curiosity having no idea what we would find!
Very interesting historic site! I wonder if the ruins of the basement belonged to the towns general store...Thanks for sharing. :)
Thanks for the tour, you can picture a busy little town long ago.Enjoyed it and look forward to more. New subscriber by the way!
Thanks, Jay! Welcome to the channel.
That is so cool! This is the type of thing Irene and I treasure so much. Seeing all the bit and pieces of forgotten lives. You can have so many thoughts about everything and everyone who passed that way. Love how you and Debra respect the place! 😊 --Mark & Irene
Adventures with Jane imagine how hard it would have been to live back then. Those were some hearty people!
Chasin' Simplicity every times we walk through a place like that it's exactly what I imagine. If you listen you can hear the old stories.
Adventures with Jane so true. I first experienced that feeling on the old battlefield in Fredericksburg va. Recently I was able visit some areas around Savannah Georgia and felt the same thing. Bonaventure Cemetery and an Old British fort further south. Some of my favorite places to document.
Chasin' Simplicity subscribed to your channel! 😉
Toooo bad you didn't find a giant gold nugget!
That was really a great little tour, thank you both for showing it to us. If you haven't been, in spring/early summer, you should go check out Bodie ghost town on the east side of the Sierras about an hour north of Lee Vining, the eastern entrance to Yosemite: www.bodie.com/
Totally awesome! I love places like that and comparing old photos to what is now. Some of those rock piles looked like grave sites. And I like how you don't take things with you. Does my heart good to see that. One of the things I want to do is seek out places where Timothy O'Sullivan took photos. He's a lesser known old west photographer. His photography is outstanding. If you like that sort of thing, google him. You may see some photos of places where you've been. Your videos make me itch to get on the road!
Lori Smith That's how Robert and Debra roll respecting their environment. Love that about them. Thanks for the advice on O'Sullivan. Will check him out
Cool place. Were those grave sites, with the mounds?
That is my best guess. I thought from a distance they were ruins of buildings, but when I walked closer they appeared to be graves.
Very interesting. Nice video.
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Thanks, PassinTime! It was just a delightful experience in part because it was complete serendipity. Pretty cool history at that place too.
Hi im from the valley I just bought a metal detector, does anybody ever go gold hunting to this place? Id love to go!
I know a few people who have metal detectors and enjoy doing that. It is something that I have not yet tried, but would probably find interesting and enjoyable!