A Forgotten Ghost Town in New Mexico 

Ha! We grew up western dancing there on the occasional Saturday night to the tunes of local fiddle players on the wood floor of the old school house. Part of the recent 'old west'.

Love my state of New Mexico. So much history and still so many unexplored areas

cant believe that gas sign is still there

I have an uncanny love for the southwest, particularly New Mexico. There's so much history that I feel gets forgotten and left behind. I can't wait to see what y'all stumble upon! Thanks for taking us with you on these trips. They are so informative and wonderful.

Hello you two wanderers, Cactus Jim from Hillsboro here, I had the pleasure of meeting you'all Saturday afternoon, and low an behold I've watched some of your Texas videos, wish I woulda connected the dots when we were talking! I hope your video for Hillsboro is as fun and interesting as this one! Continue doin your thing, your both naturals at it, I'll be following ya from here on forward, Adios amigo en Amiga! Gracias

Great to be with Marty and Sally

Keep up the good work. I miss being a historical archaeologist. Once I retire from the railroad I will finally have the time to go back doing what I love.

Around 1962 I went to a country dance in this schoolhouse with my aunt and uncle. Acoustics were great. Cattlemen and their wives and kids drove more than an hour to attend these dances. I also went to a dance in Yeso New Mexico in that old schoolhouse. At the country club in Carrizozo and also one in Artesia. I was a lucky kid.

Anne and I were fortunately able to visit Lake Valley a dozen years ago. Since them she passed away and I doubt if I will ever be able to visit my favorite state again. Enjoy New Mexico. It is indeed the Land of Enchantment.

Thanks!

As always it is great to get underway with you two. Learning a lot of history and having fun along the way!

Love your vids. You and Marty are a great pair with your knowledge and curiosity. I always try to imagine living in those times. Thank you.

Megninese? 😆 your videos lighten my day. Thank you for that 💜💙💜💙 I wish you could post every day 😹🤣

I was also one of the fortunate ones who got to go to the dances in Lake Valley in the late 70’s, early 80’s. It was so much fun. Thanks for the blast from my past.

another very good video filled with history. thank you. so many stories of people's lives that have passed before us. You really take us back in time to a simpler time thanks!

Ok I'm 64 and my health is failing. Oh I have stories. Pure silver has a nickname. Horn silver. Southern Utah was populated by early Mormon homesteads. The story starts near cove fort. Early settlers built homes with rocks. And the fireplaces were made of the same. Now the story is south and west towards Franklin a home fireplace in winter finally got cold enough the rocks started bleeding. And puddles on the floor the fire was so hot. Brigham young had issued the order none were to search for any metals or treasures in the mountains. They were to homestead ranch and farm. Well the puddles were taken south to cedercity. Pure horn silver. So the settlers defied Brigham's orders. And searched for the source. They found a cavern with Spanish tools and marking. In the candle light they also saw a room of pure silver porter Rockwell was sent to stop them and this story faded into families history journals. But silver burro shoes are found all over southern Utah. And horse shoes. You see silver was easy to find for the conquistadors. Iron was very hard to find yet refine the iron ore. Soo. Go. Find it.

So the man-ga-nese got married in the bridal chamber to princess silver chloride. Cool.

Another outstanding video. Thank you. I noticed there was still some good stuff could still be used.

Hello Sally and Marty Marty is right 420 would have been a good break LOL thank you guys for another great video 🏆🏆👍✌️

I enjoy your video's and keep them coming. Also I like your hat pins to. Thank you Sally and Marty ☺️.

As always....another great video!🙂👍

Another wonderful “nickel” tour…👍🏻💖👍🏻 I truly enjoy each and every video…

I loved school too! And, we plan to roadtrip in April and will go through NM (Route 66 adventure)

Since you're in the southwest, consider checking out Cochise county in SE AZ. A number of ghost towns plus some pretty unusual towns such as Tombstone, Bisbee/Warren and Patagonia.

Sooooo interesting Sally. Thoroughly enjoyed this vid.

Thanks for that video it was very interesting.

Love your videos on all the old towns. Very interesting. Thank you and Blessings😁🙏

Yet another wonderful video. Thank you.

You're a great storyteller Sally! Love the way you're able to break the story up and keep us engaged until the very end!

Thanks for going to N M for us and showing us this miner town. The history lesson is much appreciated

great video sally and Marty, sally your quirky personality.and narration are fun to watch , lake valley is really cool ,looks relatively intact , thanks again guys for a fun and historically interesing video of lake valley i totally enjoyed it and look forward to the next adventure

Thanks Sally for bringing us interesting stories of Lake Valley!

Very interesting !.I would live there! Nice !

My son and I went to Lake Valley approximately 3 years ago. You left the part out about the school bell. Somebody stole the school bell in the fifties and it was returned in the late eighties.

Great show! Thanks for sharing. Sierra NM has some kinda energy that is so addicting. I’m from TX but my heart is stuck in NM. 👍🤩🤠

Sally visiting Heisenberg country!

Some of it is definitely private property! Good observation to share. I had friends who lived there on a ranch. I lived 2 ranches over. Thanks for the video. We use have 4H dances at the school ( late 90s).

Great narrative and photographs /W video Thanks

Have you checked out Folsom, New Mexico? It has some really cool stories about it and a manned little museum. Definitely worth driving there.

Quite interesting thank you for sharing

🤠👍Man nan ga neece! See? That wasn't very hard. Or was it? 🤔 Thanks Sally! Thanks Marty!

This is the best sight seeing show I've come across. You two do a really good job... Awesome couple, too. I can feel the love.

New Mexico is beautiful... Love it.

Great research. I live 40 miles from LV…never been there, just drove ny….…it’s on my list now.

The museum must be fairly new. I visited Lake Valley a few times. I think the last time was in 2009 and the museum wasn't there yet. Thanks for sharing your adventures with us.

But, Sally, you be the star.

The old car looks like an old Hudson Terraplane, maybe. Thanks for the video. Regards from Ody Slim

While living in El Paso in 1965, I first visited Lake Valley. There were one or two people still living there, before the BLM put a caretaker there. It is a fascinating place

WELCOME (again) to New Mexico (US) When I move to Albuquerque... y'all will have to stop by. Thank you for this great video... Love it.

That metal bucket brings back memories when I was a kid I picked pears for summer back then you had you had to know someone to work at a gas station or fast food.

Good music

I love New Mexico! I visited a few ghost towns there. I need to check this town out next time I am in the state.

The car looks like a 1935 Plymouth 4 dr sedan

The Bridal Chamber silver was so pure they reportedly mined it with blow torches!

om going to Retire to NM. I just bought a 1000 acres ranch. Looking forward to moving there in the near future

I'm glad I found your channel the narration and history is very informative. Thank you.

The entrance to the Bridal Chamber used to be open in the 1970s. As you drive north on Hwy 27, after you pass the 2nd dirt road into Lake Valley (the west one), go a half mile further and stop where a dirt road takes off to the left. There, a couple hundred yards to your right (easterly), you can see a steep, sharp little embankment. That's where the opening was.

I love New Mexico and am glad to be back! Small town livin' in Mountainair! I really enjoy your videos!

Fascinating history. Love to see old west towns and learn history . Greetings from banffshire n. E . Scotland. Very much malt whisky country . Glenfiddich and macallan distilleries here as well as many more .

Very interesting video Sally & Marty!

👍up on the 4-20 Marty ☺️

Got a town for ya. Uravan Colorado. I'd ratrod that car

The Land of Entrapment! Lol. Come to my town of Lordsburg, New Mexico and you can see shakespear ghost town.

M-A-R-T-Y!

12:21 Awesome!!! I'm one of those odd ducks too. 🦆🤪 I am healing from that now though, once I realized the level of indoctrination. Your zippered flannel ROCKS! 🎸 Be well. Love & Light 💫🕊️💖

Partial polish her also, Sally. The most challenging aspect of my life has always been the 7-10 split.

I can't believe that Conoco sign is still there

If you're into silver, you might want to check out Silver Reef here in Southwest Utah near Leeds. Not too far from Zion NP.

And you’re wearing Engineer boots! 😎

Love my New Mexico ❤️🕊️❤️

This episode brought to mind a book I read years ago, " Black Range Tales" by Jim Beckworth ( don't hold me to the spelling of the author's name). It is an autobiographical account of prospecting for silver and gold in 19th Century New Mexico.

I love the Southwest!

Haha! #1Baby!

We used to hunt that area. Got my first mule deer in a small valley.

Where is the caretaker??? The state used to have one there. Hopefully that was not eliminated by covid. Someone needs to be there to prevent theft and vandalism.

Nice marty I like that double pooper

I love you two ,...... keep up the great videos !!!

Hello Sally and Marty... You'r within a couple of hours of where I live and yes that is a location I've been meaning to get to. I just discovered your channel, looks interesting so I subscribed.

Great place! Was there a few years back , good place to sit and let the world go by! I believe the car is a 1935 (about) Plymouth , the cemetery across the highway is also interesting

Id say the car was late 1930’s

I adore your videos, they make my day ！

I love school too. And skipping! It's actually really good exercise and alot more fun than jogging. Can you imagine if people went skipping instead of jogging? Would be so fun. Love the video, Thanks Guys! 🤠

I live in ABQ. I need to take a trip down there.

Good video and explanation

Check out Shakespeare New Mexico . It’s an amazing museum of a ghost town south of silver city .

Drs still made house calls in the late 80s. When my daughter was sick my moms doctor came over to check her out.

Really Interesting!!

They used to have many years ago, country music and dances on a Saturday night. Nice to see a young man maybe 4 or5 years old take his cowboy hat off, bow and ask a lady for a dance.

1935 Plymouth PJ. The Yale lock is most likely after market.

While in Nevada did you happen to get up to Jarbidge ? Supposed to be the most remote town in the lower 48. Lots of history there also.

Don't know if you've been to this area before but Sirocco New Mexico would be an interesting place to go one reason that it's interesting that there's hardly anything there that there is a beautiful River and there is a School of Mines College which is interesting at that would be there cuz there's nothing else there but it is the home of the Hilton family of the Conrad Hilton Hotels have where they first got their start out of their small business which is mostly all gone

Wow I live in truth or consequences which is in sierra County where Hillsboro is at

Awesome 👏

Google says the red paint had cadmium in it

the door's off--but its not your vault...

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I've been there many, many times. I guess they don't have dances at the old school house anymore?

I love 💕 what I have seen in videos of NM , really hope to take a vacation there with my wife next year as I have never visited the State. I have heard stories of crime in America's Southwest now, can you give me any information about where we might visit in the Albuquerque Area that would be relatively safe" I realize crime is everywhere, my son was murdered in rural Tennessee while picking up Pizza in that parking lot by a drug addict already convicted of felonies, he received only seventeen year sentence and will probably serve much less" but the reason I ask You is tourist agencies are not really familiar with the areas, you are. I would appreciate anything you could help me with. The planned trip would include the small town Southwest of Albuquerque you introduced us to, Albuquerque itself, maybe Nellis Air Force Base. Thank you both for reading my comment, any help appreciated 👍

We use to drive past there

Minor correction: At 1:13 you say the town reached its peak with a population of 1000, but the sign shown at 1:16 says the town had a population up to 4000.