Uncovering Texas Ghost Towns - Lost Hopes and Deserted Dreams

foreign [Music] [Music] thank you so I wonder what store this used to be mind that wash your head oh wow all right some furniture all the shelves for the store I guess yeah the detail on some of these what the furniture yeah yeah I don't know a great deal about this town really there's not an awful lot in the history books just that it was established a mile down the road and relocated here in 1907 because there was already a church here which is the church that's just across the way oh yeah that old French are too worried her eyes always kind of spooky when you hear the the wind yeah look at all of the extra wood wasps nests hahaha oh would you take a look at this well it's a well I wonder how many animals or Pete have gone down there and can't get out please I don't see the bottom this is an ice creamed in porch on the back well I guess they lived would they have lived Kelvinator they normally lived in the shop didn't they in those days yeah that most of the time it was upstairs this doesn't happen it doesn't have one upstairs I guess maybe the back of the house could be and that's it all right go in the uh this door so that bird's nest that's falling down bird or Rat's Nest yeah somebody looks like they've tried to have a fire in here on the floor yeah all right what's next let's take a look at the old school so this is the Sanko robot go ahead quirky roadside attractions the head got vandalized and stolen a few years ago fun pick [Music] another fun pick [Music] all right school school now I'm not sure when this school was closed the drought ended to production of cotton plus they had a terrible infestation of boil weevil so I don't know when this was built I don't date anywhere no I couldn't find anything about it online either so lockers I'm taking it I would say so those are nice actually yeah it's just mine the floor yeah the floor is not so good oh this one's really nasty in fact I'm not even going to go in there no there's a bunch of stuff in here though and I'd love to go through it yeah the furniture there's clothes well they had a big issue with vandalism in this place in this area I mean somebody Set Fire to the other yeah you can see that the fire marks there and then you had the head of the robot yeah again but what's cool about these I love the old style the large windows is that uh close it's like the is that the other side goes out to the hallway yeah I guess a little closet then oh man these rooms are just trashed the floor and I it's really sad isn't it yeah so again similar same style and it's funny it's breaking at the same spots exciting yeah on stage up there so I wonder if this was like their Assembly Hall could have been and then they just had the two classrooms and it can't be a very big um you know it wasn't a large school it wasn't a large population in town right so yeah maybe Assembly Hall in two classrooms well look how many lockers there were I know that's and it's on both sides so oh can I get a date no it's just like an advertising little magazine oh so no date well look I mean even the chair's been set fire too yeah I just don't freaking get it okay what's next just we'll just check out the church now this was the reason why this town was relocated here because of the church so yeah this is the church now the town moved here in 1907 like I said I don't know whether or not this is the original 1907 church right couldn't find out anything else about it but again locked up tight because of vandalism vandalism yeah I need to see somebody has still has tried to break in I don't get people anyway so yes but that's it I do have a fun fact about this place okay so firstly this used to be a prehistoric Native American camp and the town was named after a Comanche chief Seneca true story [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] look at the state of some of these headstones you can tell they're old Stone dates back to 1847 which was when this actually was a town so 29 families came over from France and established this settlement uh the oldest gravestone was that of a child in 1847. um and then the town the railroad bypassed the town and of course in the 1900s and everybody up and left yeah railroad was so significant to these small towns I mean some of these can barely even read them anymore a lot of weathering 18 here we go settler in 1846. Joseph rudinger and his wife Marie huh and this one oh here we are she was 18. the first death upon arrival of the settlers May 25 1847 carrying smaller children over streams she became ill and died on the above date her father and mother are also buried here Joseph and Maggie knee Brown so 1847 that's the oldest grade that one says 1846 though yeah anyway they ended up building this church in 18 in the 1860s I mean it's beautiful it is amazing the the architecture the windows I love that look s detailed tools yeah and you can actually see the Chisel marks so this is sandstone Limestone and Timber now I don't know what they would have had to have quarried the Rocks yeah and then shaped them isn't that amazing I mean look at the Arches I love the how it picks up to like the diamond Arch and that Cornerstone or not that's not a Cornerstone it's a opaque there's a name for it and it's gonna I'm gonna forget it but that's the integral part of it I just again this is another spot where it looks like medieval architecture and I love that look unfortunately a fire destroyed the inside I think in around 1910 yeah the town was already deserted by then but you can see Nature has just absolutely taken over inside because there used to be a Schoolhouse here and a post office back in the day yeah but this is uh really amazing it's amazing that you can still see all the Chisel marks I know that's yeah there's so many of them just little chip chip chip chip chip Chips huh shall we try to walk around the front side yeah you can see some timber in there as well you can also see the metal that's holding it together it would have been nice to see the uh the inside walk before the fire yeah oh look at this angle you can actually see it's bowing oh yeah the front's kind of now are all the internal supports are gone it's going to start probably just caving in and that's where you've got the timber window and I guess this would have been the main entrance yeah this would be the main entrance here Dom I think that means Department of Ministries if my memory serves me correctly that means do optimo Maximo to God the best and greatest ah interesting yeah yeah true story so this is the Royal sweet and Inn pretty amazingly foreign [Music] did you know this was built in 1926. in a Spanish eclectic style and it casts Stone detailing [Music] yeah and as you can see here it was constructed in a u-shape because it could see the remnants of these palm trees apparently it also had fish ponds plus it contained a bank cafe shops and even offices [Music] thank you apparently it used to be called the Camino Real Hotel which translated is Royal Road and that was because the old Spanish road which ran from Mexico to Louisiana came right through here now I have read it closed in the 50s and was left totally abandoned and wasn't reopened at all 1997 which was the first time since the Cold War however I've also read that it was open in the late 70s 1970s so there's lots of conflicting information online foreign also apparently inside there were 20 guest rooms with four apartments and plus the cafe but caught fire mysteriously in 2020 but they say nobody was inside [Music] thank you but I would have loved to have seen it how it was when it was first built wouldn't you [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign foreign [Music]