Abandoned Isolated Homestead - Nevada

hello everyone it is steven and andrew from pin in the atlas this road here we've been hiking up for about three miles now it looks very nice in this section although where we had to park tonto it became impassable though we must say andrea did an impeccable job driving through the boulder fields learning all the time with my off-road skills now saying that we're high in the spring mountains in southern nevada and we're in search of i don't know whether or not it's a miner's cabin or an abandoned homestead i have very little history on it it's was built i think in around the 1920s 1930s and that's all i know let's explore here we've rounded the corner a little bit you can get a glimpse of the view down into the valley in those distant mountain ranges i think death valley is over there somewhere so it's a nice i would say 75 today a breeze which you can hear in the background of course gusts pretty strong at some points but it's a nice cool breeze nice for a hike and there is what we've come to see now first impressions i don't believe this was a miner's cabin this is a house [Applause] i mean miners could have been here i'm just saying it's you know when you hear the term miner's cabin you think of like a little one room kind of shack easily built thing this was built sturdy and this is this is a home this is an actual homestead i mean you've even got animal shelters over there which we'll explore later yeah but i still think a miner must have lived here because there are tailing piles and this was a mining place back in the day one part of the porch see the roof down to the other end that's just starting to come down a little bit i don't know if you notice we'll take a closer look right here these are railroad ties it's got some uh that's like clay type of mortar in between for insulation look at this stone step very welcoming and it's i mean it's concrete it's embedded in concrete it is a very pretty rock and then all cement floors so we'll start in the right and then work through product of denmark to be kept cool metal bed frame another paneling on the walls too now this was the room with the view and you can see outside there's some i don't know if that was an extension of the porch the roofs come down so this must have been a bedroom is that the closet there yeah i've got a couple of shelves unless it was a dining room because the door leads maybe not maybe this wasn't a kitchen no there's a shower and a toilet so they had plumbing wow and then look at this fridge naturally so they must have had some sort of electricity or i must have had some power of some sort out here and we'll walk back into this room the front door he walked into is on the left there's a bed frame there a fireplace well i noticed there's virtually zero rat and mice poop it looks like a little ammo box where people have leave a note on any suggestion great place amazing views come all come all the way from new jersey look at these pillars the work they did in here there was a there was a lot of love that went into building this place so these are open so do you think that could have been the kitchen i'm getting that impression it would make sense if there's a bedroom on that side with the bathroom bathroom and this could be but i can't see any plumbing anywhere and i would have thought that if they've got a bathroom they would have had plumbing although there was some sort of cabinet or something over there to the right yeah and you can see there's damage there was damage in that corner and put a post to try to help it then i will carefully try to step outside here there's some more cabinetry out here got a few plates on there and there's the remains of a table down there and see that's the roof that's collapsed right in front here then there is an oven out here also so maybe the kitchen was out here then there's more cabinetry the sink there you go that would be the kitchen so would this be this might be the dining room that's home and then you've got the main room and then the bedroom very possible out front we're just taking another look at this wrap around porch and we are in the mind andrea is correct that this was the dining room as you see there it's also got a step leading outside so they could come out here in the front porch very very well designed home it's a shame to see it like this and that's something i tend to think about when we come out to these places also is if somehow you could reach back in time and bring these people to the present and show them what's become of their home it would have to be absolutely devastating but it makes you wonder what happened to the people that lived here i mean it's gorgeous beautiful scenery they picked one hell of a place to put this they've got a natural water supply yes there is a spring which we will endeavor to discover i don't think we'll be able to find the source that i think goes way up into the mountains i'm sure it does too and then this section this was the the kitchen and then even back this look at the the uh chimney look how well built the chimney is the brick very sturdy the more to the bricks the way they built this that they even that the porch will come up show you a little better these were this was screened in porch this had to be absolutely incredible and there's even i know somebody's graffitied on it but there's still an intact window as well in the bathroom unfortunately the tree just clipped the side of it that's what took out the uh the wraparound porch on that side then there's this here do you think this could have been a cold seller i believe so coat storage yeah i'm getting that vibe [Applause] it does appear to go oh it just stops right there it goes under a little bit that rock there but that's um let's see if i can zoom in a little there that's about it you see underneath that rock it just that pretty much stops right there so in the earth it looks like it was covered so cold storage is probably a good assumption we will check these out in a minute first andrea found a little building down here it looks like it could have possibly been like a chicken coop or something oh yeah it was what's that chicken chicken coop got all the boxes oh yeah and being made of stone like this you know they could run around inside and there wouldn't be any coyotes or animals would have more difficulty getting them and look at the oh that railroad tie is bending that's not going to last for much longer but a lot of love even went into their chicken coop this building here you see the backside of it and the roof's completely gone there all falling down full of bb holes got another bed frame here so i'm guessing this could have been a type of workshop maybe i don't think it was a workshop i think it was more animal pens more animal pens yeah because of the chicken wire there is chicken wire everywhere and also this kind of out here is like a little coral so maybe they had pigs goats we'll come around that side that's all fenced off oh you're right look at this so this is one of those shoots where they would load the animals into a trailer take them on down the mountain so i wouldn't have thought they had cattle i would have thought it would be more it could be like you said pigs sheeps goats maybe sheeps sheep look at the old chair frame well that's neat i'm in ore this place is amazing i know there's so much to to take in all the because it's things that you start to think about they had to bring all this material up here [Applause] back in the 20s 30s whenever this was and we didn't even make it in tonto i know yeah today brand new technology we had a hard time thanks now that big barrel that would have been some sort of water barrel wonder why why would it have been cut like this perhaps they cut that open for to get the rain water into we'll have it like a water barrel maybe because it's too deep for a feed feed barrel that could have been somebody could have come later on and done that that's strange very unusual so that would be a water container yes yes there's a pipe coming from it you think there's any water still in it let's see andrea has found that's a tobacco tin yes or cigarette tin or something tobacco tin a few cans there now i wonder also whether or not they would have grown any vegetables seeing they were so self-sufficient they had enough fertilizer because they could use the donkey poop to fertilize that is true this area could have been like a garden gardening area as you can see we have hiked up to those trees in search of the source to the spring we can hear it in certain sections but as you can see here the trail ends it becomes quite uh quite thick to get through there we don't have the proper clothes on at this point so i might try to hop back and see if we can climb down a little bit to show you some of the water where we heard it found a little path heading down towards the water it's not much but there you have it there's the stream it's a little better to see it on the way back the piping that they've ran from the spring around the corner there there's some timbers that have fallen down from erosion but that ran back to the homestead that's where they got their water source that view is just [Music] breathtaking so getting back to them growing their own food they've got wild sage here this smells i just want to eat it it smells delicious and then they've got the juniper berries which they can use and the cactus which bears fruit so you can have the cactus fruit so there's quite a lot of stuff that i wish you could see it smell this smell that pop it in your tea [Music] so i've just stumbled across this it's not it's metal but originally it had a wood surround so i'm not sure what that was it's the last building here which we believe is more pins for the animals since sustained some heavy damage some critters living up in there rat nest are all open then this has taller taller gates taller fence and it this is the one that runs out to the uh goes out to the run where they would put the animals into trailers all right everyone we would like to thank you for coming along with us to explore this abandoned homestead i hope you've enjoyed it as much as we enjoyed exploring it and on that note get out there go and explore put another pin in the atlas and we will see you on our next adventure bye [Music] so [Music] you