That place is listed as a hotel. 7 bedrooms and 7 baths, 4,726 sq. ft. Now, hold on to your hat and sit down! Listed for $1,249,000. Sutter's Creek is so pretty and quaint. I like it. The Serbian church and graveyard are so pretty and interesting in Jackson. Thanks.
Thank you for profiling these towns. I have been to all of them many times before, however not recently. The Preston Castle and Youth Authority facility was where my mom worked as a senior youth counselor (lieutenant level) while the facility housed youth offenders, up to age 24. She lived in one of the small houses on the grounds, which was right next to the castle. The state only charged the officers tax on the house, which was $360 a year! I have many photos of this house, taken back in the 80s to the 90s. We toured the castle a few years ago. The gold country is a very special place to my hubby and myself with many great memories we have together. From Sacramento CA.
Sitting here in Mumbai, India and watching your videos. This virtual tour with you continues to be a stress buster for me, there is a something in your narration which takes me to mindfulness meditation mode.❤❤
Thank you for sharing the tours of the gold rush towns. These towns are very beautiful and well maintained. I’d like to visit them one day. Looking forward to your tour of Northern California.
I knew exactly where you were when I saw the thumbnail. Oddly enough, I "discovered" Preston Castle thanks to Rob Lowe. He and his sons explored the place on the premiere episode of their show "The Lowe Files". (FYI, the castle is open for tours on weekends) Highway 49 is such a great drive along the foothills and through the Gold Rush towns, especially in the springtime when everything is so green. I'm headed up to the area next week with stops in Yosemite and Calaveras Big Trees. Speaking of Yosemite, have you been? You were so close on this trip it would be a shame it you missed it. Anywho, thanks for the tour...until next time, happy trails!
John Sutter was actually responsible for events that led to the Ca gold Rush as gold was discovered at his Mill. Unfortunately it also led to his 2nd financial downfall that Joe eluded to. I had to do a report on him back in 6th grade…in the 80’s. I hadn’t even thought of it till now. Great video Joe, my wife and I always enjoy watching them.
Great presentation Joe and Nic. These are great California towns and treasures. Say what you want about California these are some healthy towns and communities. Fun fact: The California state highway signs are a tribute to the 49ers…gold miner shovel. Hence the designation of highway 49.
WOW that is one beautiful place. 77 Main St Sutter Creek 1.25M 7 bd 7 b, built in 1857 fireplace in each bedroom. Big open airy rooms just beautiful. Thanks for sharing and safe travels.
I enjoyed the rural gold rush towns. This is my first time commenting on your shows. Me and my husband like them all! I'm not to savvy on how to do this stuff. Hope I did it right!
When I was in high school in Oakland, California, in the mid-1950s, that castle in Ione was the Preston School of Industry, a reformatory. My counselor told me I could wind up there if I didn't change. That scared me straight.
I'm loving your tours! I used to take day trips to Sutter Creek with my elderly mother when she was still alive. She used to love to get ice cream in town. On the way to Sutter Creek, there is a daffodil hill that is covered with yellow blooms in the spring and up the hill from Sutter Creek is a railroad museum with an old train that you can go on a ride through the forest. Sutter Fort is in downtown Sacramento. It is restored as a full fort and is a museum. There are exhibits and re-enactments, and a gift shop there. I think that it was the National Hotel that is supposed to be very haunted. My brother-in-law stayed there one night,booked and paid for by his company to do a job nearby. He did not believe in ghosts until he stayed there. He called us the next day to ask if he could stay at our house in Sacramento until he got the job done.
I was interested to see the main street of Sutter's Creek. The architecture was very similar to Australian country towns of the same vintage. Corrugated iron roofs are very common here.
Loving these country towns. Plenty of history from what you have told us Joe. I'm a little behind on your trip but loved this one. The buildings and factories of yester year💯🦘🪃🇦🇺🦘🪃
I enjoy Joe and Nic road trips I can't put in a few words but that I never tired and always wanting more, please keep up the good work and Thank you Joe and Nic, may you have a safe and enjoyable trip.😊PS would you pick me up some red wood seeds I liked to grow 🪴 some trees.❤😎
curious if you guys went to Solvang and the Madonna inn on your way up Cali?? check out any of the Missions, there are 21? Hearst Castle? Winchester house? fort Sutter (patty Reed's doll)? Bridgeport with the long covered bridge? Redwood trees?... and so much more.. lol
Have you visited the rest rooms, especially the men's restroom at the Medonna in? We used to stop there on our drive from the San Fernando Valley to Paso Robles to visit my parents. We always picked up one of the white chocolate cakes to share with family. My sister and I used to bicycle the Solvang Century every year!
Yes, there are 21, and I've been to about 7. Knights Ferry also has one of the 4 covered bridges in California. Sadly, it's now closed to foot traffic!
@Joe & Nic's Road Trip Valcano 🌋 street what a name 😊 . 🏫🏭💒🏛 buildings may be old but still in very good shape ⛪. I wanna ride 🚆. Watchout for the rattle🐍 Joey alking up to that chruch/school.
Joe; Wife and I saw the Cal. gold rush show...I saw the castle and searched...We are now Watching ." A Haunting at Preston Castle..Made in 2014....on Tubi, Roku..free..it is rated 3.7 in IMBN..terrible, but we are in the castle..let me know if you read this..An old Philly guy.. .
Great to see our Mountain Communities featured. As I live in one myself, I can tell everyone out there it's a totally different California Experience. We absolutely dislike going to any of of Metro Areas. You haven't had a true California experience by only visiting SF and LA. You have only a concrete jungle experience.
My parents retired in a cabin just outside of Jackson, CA. We used to stay in bed & breakfast inns in both Jackson and Sutter Creek when we visited them. Never did visit Ione- or see the "Haunted Castle." Thanks so much for the tour- brought back memories 🙂
Watching these little towns makes me sad. I used to live in Sacramento and these were my wonderful day trip excursions. I loved Sutter Creek the most....so darling and clean with great shops and restaurants. I am sad but happy to see them again. Thank you so much!!. I've been to a wine tasting event at the Preston castle and always did the annual wine walk in November in Sutter Creek.❤
Come visit us in Stanislaus County :) We have BEAUTIFUL sights to see :) some of the towns are super tiny and adorable like Ripon, Escalon and Newman. I’m from Patterson which is just off the Highway 5. Moved up her from Los Angeles about 10 years ago and I’ll never go back! Unfortunately they’re building housing out here and CITYING UP the country. I do t want Bay Area trash out here… stay with all the dirty libs in the Bay!! Bay bay go away don’t come back any day!!!
Thank you for highlighting this overlooked part of NorCal and western history. I grew up less than an hour from there and visited countless times in my growing up. Nice shot of Rancho Mistake-o at the end.
Thank you Joe for the posting.I live in a small town up in the Sierras an hours drive south of Sutter Creek, and have seen the signs for Ione and have never been there so thank you...now I don't need to visit.(On another note, Orson Welles, the actor and of the movie Citzen Kane fame, was incarcerated in the "castle" for while as a young man). Be safe out there....
Wow thx for this excellent tour. Went to California years ago but never that part of California so it was all new to me!!loved this vlog. Have a close friend that lives in Northern California. To bad u Could not show us more of the castle. That would have been really cool. God bless and safe travels.
Come and see it on your next trip out to California! There are so many interesting places along Highway 49 to see. I've driven (not all at once) hwy 49 from Oakhurst where it ends all the way up to Downieville.
It's a very beautiful building to explore. I went to the grand opening a few years ago, and it was quite the experience to see how massive it is, and the outbuildings nearby were just as incredible. You get a sense of how they were taking troubled boys, and helping them to be better. Including Merle Haggard. There's also one gargoyle left on the tower - it used to have 4.
Just discovered your RU-vid last night - seeing how sad the Bay area has become (orgininally from SF). I now live in Jackson discovered Amador County about 25 years ago and have spent most of that time lving here. You did a very nice snap shot of our community - Thank You. Sutter Creek is our best perserved. Historical Society would love your tour. There is still an operating mine in Sutter Creek. You did miss Amador City (Pig Turd Alley) population of 200 lol. I will follow your travels. I have been able to see much of US, work travel so will be wonderful to see you guys walk through these hidden American treasures and also see how our country is suffering as well. Blessings on the Road
Your best video guys, and that’s saying a lot! Great and interesting footage and historical info. Fantastic! Your architectural savvy is really handy. Love your stuff.
That's one of my favorite parts of the state. Remember, that a lot of retired folks live in the area. PS: the tin roofs are protection against wildfires.
There's no such as "haunted!" There are demonic spirits possiby.... Terrible how children were treated back then. Even if they were troubled. Not all parents are loving, caring, compassionate and more than likely, Godly examples towards their children ❤❤
OR...it was a different time where life was MUCH harder and most everyone was poor and the ideas of "spare the rod and spoil the child" were near universal amongst the lower classes. They who looked at their children not as the dolls and gifts we do today, but as potential breadwinners.
Oh, yes there is. I've been to many places where you can feel the presence of those that don't want to leave. Preston is one one of many places where it's been proven. Whaley House in San Diego, and the Myrtles Plantation are two of the best known examples of a haunted building. The Birdcage Theater in Tombstone is also a very haunted place, along with many places in Virginia City Nevada, Donner Memorial Park, etc... I also know of someone who was in the Columbia State Park Museum and thought she saw a docent walk in while she was closing out the register. She went to look for him, and saw no one.
@@genshenhaiku404Child Labor Laws didn't exist until the 20th century, so you went to work as young as 8 or 10 depending upon where you lived. Also, the technology we have was non-existent.
Cool that you got Rancho Seco at the end...Jackson is family's home town...National Hotel used to have 2 bits a beer night...lol...They had thought about reopening the Kennedy Mine, but clearing the years of water would have effected the water levels on the neighboring watershed...
Thanks for the video, you could spend another month in California, there's so much to see! As far as the Rancho Seco cooling towers in the last moments of your video: All power-generating equipment has been removed from the plant, and the 425-foot high (130 m) cooling towers remain a prominent part of the local landscape as the tallest buildings in the Central Valley.
Nice walk through of the towns. The last walk through of the correctional facility historical building looks awesome. Too bad you didn’t get a close up of it. It kinda reminds me of here in SoCal, of a former boys correctional facility as well name Fred C. Nelles in Whittier. From pictures of the past the building looked beautiful. I believe it was demolished due to damage of an earthquake or something if I remember correctly reading from their website. They did build brick houses after. Unfortunately due to unfortunate circumstances at the center regarding the youth, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger closed it down. Later the city bought it and demolished most of the infrastructure but leaving a few buildings, maybe for historical reasons being it was once labeled a CA historical landmark. The land now is a retail area with restaurants. I’m definitely going to have northern Ca with sacramento on my list to visit. Thank you
Excellent video. You are the master. Up north I hope you visit weed and mt. Shasta. Hydraulic mining really hurt the land in California but beautiful preservation and use of buildings.
@JoeandNicsRoadTrip you all are awsome. I only have a few channels that I look forward to and this channel is gold. Be safe a n d looking forward to the next vlog.
Wow . What a neat old brick building. Thx for the tour. I m traveling the country and visiting many places I would never have seen and I dont even have to leave my house thanks to your channel .
I was in a building like right out side of Philadelphia. It was 1980 and just closed for good 2 months ago. We had 2 stores and the basement was used as classrooms for the school. It was called the Philadelphia Protectory until the 1970's. St.Gabes was the new name being run by Christian Brothers.
Not sure where you are headed next but if you are heading north, would love to see a tour of Cottonwood. Its pretty historical and small. Grew up there but never really studied the history of it.
I've been through Jackson a number of times, but haven't been to any of the other towns in many decades. My paternal grandparents had ties there, and I still have a second cousin living in, I believe, Amador City. His father was a doctor in Jackson. One of these years I'll have to take a road trip up there and explore off the beaten path.
When we lived in Manteca, CA, all my kids went to school at Golden West Elementary. Manteca is not too far from this area, but down in San Joaquin Valley, towards the bay area. (Above Modesto.)
You guys are nowhere near there but you love architecture. Check out scottys castle. Its in death valley but it's awesome and if you walk up this huge hill his grave is sitting up there with a big cross on it
What a story you could tell your grandchildren after staying in the Juvenile detention center, I lived in paradise on the outside but in hell on the inside.
Yea, I'll stay in Florida with all the inflationary real estate. Can't see paying high State taxes in California. Another great travel video Joe & Nic, keep up the fantastic work
During your travels in N. California , I hope you guys make it to Ferndale. So many amazing old Victorian houses. From Ferndale heading north to the Oregon/ Washington border, is one of our favorite areas of the U.S. we have traveled there for years.
Well Joe you had me on this one (Sutter Creek) till I checked out the house - 1.249 Million Dollars so I'll have to pass. Everything else about this town is perfect, small population - neat history and downtown - low crime and a good location. It is indeed an impressive town! Again another nice video that is high quality and very interesting!
Another great video. The castle house is just unbelievable. Very impressive and ominous. I wonder if those small houses were for the staff. You are heading into some beautiful country. Thanks so much.
The homes were for the staff, the Warden, and there's a wagon building below the Castle. Along with the Visitor Center for families to visit their boys, and a separate building for the really bad ones who were transferred to the prisons after age 18. It's an amazing place to visit.
Fire was a big hazard in the Foothills, so they also have the metal doors and dual brick construction buildings. Check out Columbia State Park to see more examples of a Gold Rush Era town. Coloma, where gold was discovered is also a great place to visit.
Hi you didn't see the ghost in your video when you was walk at the by the abandoned House up by the Haunted Mansion It was to your right after you read what the sign about don't drink the water.
P.S. I forgot to mention, maybe someone else has, there were a few famous people who spent time at the Preston Castle, Merle Haggard, Rory Calhoun, Rochester (Eddie Anderson) ~ Jack Benny's butler on his TV show. My husband & I were kettle corn vendors at one time and did a Halloween event at the castle. Another vendor had some connections so she was able to give us a personal tour of the inside of the castle, spookier than the outside!
I was there for the Grand Opening a few years ago, and was able to explore the basement and first floor areas. They have tours of the second floor, but the third is off limits due to damage.
Yes, the National Hotel is still a hotel. Several of the mines have had major disasters. The Kennedy Mine is huge. We live in Ione. The reason for the high average income is because of the Mule Creek Prison, which is right outside of town. The economy around here is actually pretty good. The Castle hosts lots of events and has the guard fences is likely due to vandalism. They have a huge Halloween event there.
In 1948 a family friend and his family lived in an apartment located in the Preston tower, I spent that summer with them, not a place I would want to return to.
I love your videos. Nice to see parts of the USA i don't know. I am from germany and i used to visit the southern states, especially TX what is my favourite :)
@@JenniferBristol I knew that ,but haven’t seen it . I repaved the basket ball courts back in the 80s but never made it inside .but thanks for sharing 👍
@@markive9907 Very Cool ! When you look at the front of the building, it's supposed to be near the Intake Entrance on the right. I took a picture of that area, but didn't see it immediately. I'll have to look for it again when I go back.
@@JenniferBristol thank you 😊 if it was anyone else I wouldn’t care , I’m 62 and Merle Haggard has always been my favorite musical artist 👍 I want to go on a tour ,I think they usually have one toward Halloween as they say it is haunted 😊
Been to Preston Castle many times. They are working on restoring it . We have made donations to it and my daughter has a brick with here name on it there for the save the castle foundation. Also been on many tours of of the castle and learned all the history to bad it wasn’t open when you were there.
