Abandoned Ranches Along The Stage Coach Route, Nevada

hello again it's andrea and steven from pin in the atlas we've come down some more dirt roads in nevada and we've come across this historic site yeah this historic ranch is now owned by the national forest service so it's on public land so we are not trespassing and it used to be a stagecoach stop now obviously this ranch is a lot newer so this isn't the original stagecoach but there are a couple of other buildings that do seem to date back to that period so let's take a look you might have been able to hear in the background some thunder you can see the clouds are rolling in it's really dark so we're going to try to rush through this a little bit so we don't get don't get caught in the rain yeah oh i don't think we'll be doing much of an exploring side it is absolutely loaded with rat poop but let's see obviously the kitchen area that kind of looks like at 1960s got the old butler sink it's nice and bright see some playing cards in the drawer there you can see some old wallpaper on the wall but my goodness me what a mess oh yeah there's a hot water heater back there old fly trap and then yeah the uh the floors are pretty pretty disgusting and they're actually wet with urine so we're not going to go too far yeah i won't spend too much time in here uh don't even think we'll even attempt to go in that room no that's true there you can see through the how the the wall meets the roof line it's completely open to the elements so gotta be infested with mold rats and this looks like it was a bedroom it's an old coat hanger on the floor oh yeah and that floor is pretty clean so we can just go in there but that's strange isn't it how they've got that it's a unique way to separate the rooms well i think this must have been new because if you look on next to the window you can see there's wallpaper behind and newspaper and the rats have had a good go at the curtains but i can't see any dates on the newspaper no pretty wallpaper and then the bathroom a water closet no that's just a wardrobe oh that's really infested with mold mold and rats pretty disgusting what a shame so um yeah they've put this cladding over the top of the original woodwork repurposed it resealed it maybe yeah look at the the lino see now that floral lino dates back to the 50s 60s definitely [Applause] yeah i don't know the date on this particular building as i said i do know that it was it or it is a historic site it was originally built in the 1880s along the stagecoach route right [Applause] and there's a little building over there let's run over and see what that is we have arrived and this would appear to be cold storage with this stone work look how solid these are with the old latch and there's loads of egg boxes in here old egg carton and you've got two little storage containers uh areas at the back right almost looks like that was a fireplace i don't think it was but it just kind of looks like it yeah it almost looks like it's charred behind there too neat old blocks and you see the roof construction very cool there you go on the center of your screen that's the building we just explored looked at a little cold storage here's the main house that we went through first off and then right behind it on this side we're gonna go take a look at that building now let's take a look inside this one you can see some string hanging from the rafters this was the old window box you can see uh where the window frames used to be right let's wonder if this was a workshop yeah i'm not sure i was uh it was the local sheriff that told us about this place and they were saying that unfortunately the original owners who donated it to the um national forest service aren't too happy because it hasn't been taken care of but that's between you and me don't tell anybody wow oh wow yeah this is definitely a uh old saucepan there so would this this would have been a workshop of some sort it definitely looks like a workshop the sturdy benches all the shelving well they have put i don't know whether or not these are new i mean these are round nails so again that dates to the 19 1900s not the 1800s but i'm wondering 20 and prior i believe it was it's all square nails and you can see wow it's just uh that sturdy old cabinet's completely infested what a shame yeah that's a nice temperature in here compared to outside this is a really neat place unfortunately a lot of the stone work has also started falling in that's just with weather yep an old collection of uh i don't know if those are super old but a bunch of glass bottles and things they're in a plastic bag so i wouldn't say they were that old now as i said i don't know when people stopped living here um i think it was back in the 70s but uh the sheriff didn't seem to know a great deal about it no you can see there used to be a stove in here originally there was a hole cut in so maybe this maybe originally this was one of the original parts of the stagecoach and this could have been maybe somewhere for people to stay there are windows yep there is a stove or there was a stove i mean who knows not be able to tell now because it's overgrown so much but this was the old corral because this was originally a stagecoach stop so and as you know that was the uh the first class way to travel back in the old west but i'm sure you can imagine how bumpy and dusty and gnarly those trips were so this would be where the stagecoach would pull up the horses would get fed and watered and rested before the next journey that they take yeah that's why some of them would only go up to 20 miles a day there the stagecoach stops are 20 miles apart roughly that was the older loading section that would be for cattle though wouldn't it yeah it seems like it's at quite a steep angle very peaceful and very quiet now that's the road we've come up so just a little further along the rain has started but we found another ranch you know although this is still on the stagecoach route uh i'm not sure whether or not this was a stagecoach stop again can't find an awful lot out about this totally abandoned on national forest land so let's take a look we'll start here at the shed and the wind's picking up too temperature has dropped drastically as well and the wind's picked up it's very simple i don't know what those are in the corner looks like uh dirt that would have been like in a planting pot or something still remained its shape and you've got a strange window that comes up and you've also still got the tent canvas canvas yeah so maybe that's what it was originally or maybe they just put the canvas on to you know protect it against the weather make it a little a little more weatherproof and it's on concrete blocks so i'm wondering whether or not it was moved here from another location on the ranch yes this is quite strange there's three of them there's that one the one andrea's standing on and this one here they just look like curbs and then they stop this is very strange let's take a look at the uh old corral oh there's like an old water trough over on this side center of balance forklift oh this uh this shed actually is two rooms it goes back there's another window so maybe it wasn't a shed at all maybe it was a cabin looks like to be a hole in the roof or maybe the uh and there's a mattress old spring mattress so and it's got had glass windows in side's in much worse shape and there's a like a loft hatch an attic room so maybe these were cabins originally it could be another old mattress frame um yeah and i've noticed again there's um more cloth behind i can't imagine them doing that just for an old shed so there's dep there's shingles on the side and uh metal roof so they put a lot of work into this this i don't think was a shedding i think andrew is correct and also those windows they're sash windows they're the ones that they push up they wouldn't have those in the shed no so this was definitely a cabin of some sort there's that old cabin we were just in we've made our way down to the the corral to a pan you can see the uh all the logs that they gathered to do part of the fence and the backside is all stone so that again makes me think that that obviously dates back a lot earlier unfortunately some people obviously have no respect and they've used the old stone wall to build a campfire yeah which is a shame yeah people just are very disappointing now i wonder whether or not this would have been for cattle though this bit wouldn't it because they've also got one of those uh loading docks yeah they've got the run to load them up into trailers over there this is very cool though all the history yeah it's not really really old though is it 1940s maybe i just love this rock walls it's like where did these stones come from they had to bring them a long way to build this wall and here get a sense look down it get a line of sight see how straight it still is the next stone cabin you see the roof is completely collapsed and there's a lot of dirt on the floor now i wonder then with the dirt that's what they used as roofing material they did it kind of like a thatch with straw and mud yeah perhaps there's an old stove pipe in the corner so this would have been one of the original cabins or maybe the original farmhouse yeah and again the stone construction seems to last for quite a while just see if i can see any dates anywhere apart from a little bit of a few people have carved their names but apart from that i can't see anything walking around to the outside and show this very large window that's huge i mean i'm not going to stand on it because i don't want to destroy it but size comparison that's up to my knee and i'm five foot three and a half and that half an inch is very important so that's a good five foot window yeah yeah i definitely think the more i'm looking at this i'm thinking that this would be dating back late 1800s early 1900s and part of the original state well if it was a stage stop which i think it was because it's 10 miles from the last one yeah and they were every i know 20 miles but they were also every 10 miles and this was the difference was one was the stage coach i think was every 10 but wasn't it the um like the mail service the wells fargo was every 20 or something difference the pony express pony express was every 20 miles so yeah an original we like and now for the main house we've got a nice cement patio and continues into the house now this is uh obviously cement floor these are breeze blocks so a lot newer and there must have been some sort of attic space i've got a nice opening there large window here it's very cool in here cracks they've been filled that in nice couch yeah that's not original no and uh the mattress here nothing behind the door no lead paint so what pre-60s when did they stop using red paint [Applause] i am not sure on that one i'm walking on the carpeting first little room got wood floor this is that little out place not the outhouse but uh a few newspapers in the corner looks like the rats have gotten to those pretty good though another one there they're not really legible i don't even know if we could attempt to get a date from any of that i don't particularly um want to touch that no and then some shelves one last room back here it looks like with the fireplace so this obviously would have been the main front room with the fireplace it's very strange layout yeah it is it doesn't seem to have it like a proper front door because normally you would enter into either the main living area or a kitchen right which we don't see where the kitchen would be unless it was in here which is very strange then you can see how they built this just like with the one buys and a couple two by fours for the doorway so there we are outside looking at the uh i don't know if that's the front of the house or what but it shows that little opening to the to the roof probably was some good ventilation up in there at one point and over here to the left no trip would be complete without a trip to the outhouse let's take a look now this one looks like it's probably just a single cedar it is got some blocks up there for those who have got a little bit shorter legs because that's quite quite tall the old seat it smells like fresh spray paint and it's also got toilet roll maybe someone's been camping out here because we're on national forest land so maybe someone with the campfire and then they've used the loo maybe that's going to do it for us exploring these old historic ranches yeah let us know what you think this one's very strange it doesn't have a front it doesn't really have a back very peculiar no personality whatsoever no definitely not anyway on that note get out there go and explore put another pin in the atlas and we will see you on our next adventure [Music] you