Abandoned Gold Rush Hotel - the Bayley House

Jeff finds and talks about the abandoned Bayley House, a Gold Rush era hotel near Auburn, California that turned out to be a financial mistake because of a changing railroad route.
#bayleyhouse #goldrush #auburncalifornia
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[@dianebenzler9133]

Having been born in California, I love California history and the history of the southwest.

[@lornahardin4563]

Me too, I have lived here in Garden Valley 49 years, 20 minutes from the Bayley House, they have projects to raise money to save it. You all should come to the Christmas Winter Faire the 2nd Saturday every Dec.

[@brianfergel2229]

I've lived throughout Stanislaus, Sacramento, and Merced counties (Central Valley) all my life. CSUS (Stanislaus) graduate & all. The cold is intensifying. Every year it's colder. Al Gore & his global warming Scare! was an insignificant precursor.

[@campfire52]

Thanks again Jeff and Sarah. I love seeing the old and obscure (and sometimes almost forgotten) tidbits of our history and heritage. You do an amazing job of picking the sites and bringing them to us through your videos. Always interesting and always leaving me with the desire to see what you are going to bring next. I am looking forward to the next one.

[@donaldhubbs4399]

THANKS...LIVED AND WORKED IN THE GOLD COUNTRY FOR 50 YEARS AND NEVER HEARD THIS STORY...WATCHING FROM THE PHILIPPINES...

[@spaceystacey9963]

Another great video, I love that you show old pictures of the property and you did proper research

[@napili5470]

I've been going by this building all my life but never knew it was a hotel. It use to say something like a grange hall. Thanks for the lesson.

[@cwb0051]

I Loved This, Thanks for taking us along...I was thinking of All the Wasted money on these wars that we will never win, Should be going to Save these Wonderful Old Buldings, Saving OUR History! Once they are Gone, their Gone!

[@jbenziggy]

Thank you very much for watching!

[@garymckee8857]

Agreed our country spends too much on destruction on not enough for the common good.

[@kcgunkerstein5061]

Such a shame that beautiful historical structures stand neglected, hopefully they are able to restore it to its original beauty. Thanks for the quick video Jeff

[@lindalucas3757]

Thank you for sharing Jeff n Sara

[@richardyoung4616]

Great job Jeff, you have a knack for finding interesting places.

[@jbenziggy]

Thank you, sir! Glad you like our channel!

[@marbletowntv1791]

Another great educational history lesson.. Thank you for taking the time to film it!

[@marlahatwig7539]

Thank you that is a pretty cool video of that Mansion or house well I mean Hotel thank you very much for posting it I really enjoyed it I love looking at places like that pretty cool take care and God bless

[@jbenziggy]

That's wonderful! Thanks for watching!

[@raymondcoggins297]

So cool

[@jamesminear2336]

Only been down that stretch of 49 a very few times... guess I flew right past it!! Thanks for stopping by and discovering another piece of History!👍👍

[@jbenziggy]

Very cool! Thank you, friend! We appreciate your support!

[@marcieconant5559]

Jeff, thank you for yet another excellent video. I think the Bailey Hotel should be restored as a museum. It's interesting to see how hotels and other businesses fail when you simply move a railroad.

[@tangie777uk]

Love your channel,always so interesting.Thank you

[@jbenziggy]

We really appreciate knowing you like it!

[@muhammadsalaam]

Another great episode! Can't wait for another. Keep up the great work, Jeff!

[@dsinavich5141]

Great vlog . Very beautiful historic buildings . Thanks. Deborah Canada

[@karenutah8286]

I lived in Pilot Hill for 9 years! Thanks for sharing and taking me back home even just for a few moments! ❤️

[@jbenziggy]

You are very welcome! Thanks for watching our shows!

[@Enginero1]

Great video. Always interested history. I love the USA and the histori about USA.Bye from Greece!!!!

[@jbenziggy]

Glad you are enjoying our videos from Greece! That's wonderful to hear!

[@WalkwithHistory]

Very cool!!! Taking a gamble in life. Sometimes it pays off and sometimes it doesn’t.

[@jupite1888]

What Fantastic Videos, American History And Movie History Done As it Should Be Done. Always Wait For The Next Video. Thanks

[@jbenziggy]

jupiter2 thank you very much! We strive to please!

[@scottlebaron2994]

Jeff, you did a real nice job of putting together an interesting and informative video on the fly. Keep up the good work.

[@jbenziggy]

Thanks a million, Scott! Your words of affirmation are most encouraging! We are plugging away!

[@doloresvargas6450]

I like the creative style of story telling.Tony

[@alexhaley3424]

I’ve been on the inside a few times in the past 2 years. Creepy but so beautiful!

[@StevenSchoolAlchemy]

Cool beans

[@Corgis175]

Never know what you'll discover riding around. Would be great if they could restore it.

[@MyBearbutt]

When I was 14 back in 74 I went in there . It was a cool place to explore . It was run down back then and closed up. Got a fright by a ghost going up the stairs while I was going down . Lived in the area till 2003.

[@jbenziggy]

It looks scary even during the day! LOL! Thank you very much! This growing channel always appreciate the support!

[@HistoryHunterSarah]

I would have loved to explore inside. It was locked up tight.

[@Smithsgold]

Thanks for the history lesson

[@jbenziggy]

Our pleasure!

[@01sapphireGTS]

Cool post. In my part of the country there are historic buildings "everywhere", but I never grow numb to them.

[@jbenziggy]

Thanks. What part of the country are you in? Back East?

[@01sapphireGTS]

@@jbenziggy NorthEast Ohio. "Old" things in Ohio are late 1790's-1820. It wasn't "legal" to settle in the "Western Reserve" (of which Ohio is a part) until the late 1790's. Anything east of the Ohio River has the potential to be much older (Colonial). We do a lot of relic hunting and privy digging here and there is still a good bit of old standing architecture around every corner.

[@alexhaley3424]

If people plan on exploring here please be careful! The stairs on the inside are falling apart and are dangerous to climb. (The cellar/basement stairs are the worst). The last time I went here was probably the last time I ever plan on going. It was 2am and I was with two friends. We were getting ready to go inside and heard this loud, piercing screech/scream that sounded like no animal I’ve every heard. It scared the absolutely life out of us.

[@carolynpurser7469]

Discovering rhe older videos. So sad to see this once beautiful structure fallen into such disrepair.

[@pigoff123]

Thank you for an amazing stop.

[@jbenziggy]

You are welcome! Glad to hear you liked it!

[@micheldjebaili1842]

Thanks you... comme toujours belle vidéo merci

[@marklawson8346]

A nice little do a upper 😟 maybe not but it would be a shame for this history to disappear Great video Jeff keep them coming 👍🏻

[@markfrench8892]

Excellent video. Thanks for sharing.

[@jbenziggy]

Thank you for watching!

[@johnkelsey2482]

Excellent.........

[@jbenziggy]

Thank you!

[@pamelaattrux336]

Thanks love history great that they will to restore it

[@giggles8458]

Very nice, thanks.

[@richwhite4331]

Another Great Informational video!! If your ever in Dayton Nevada (its right off hwy 50 below Virginia City) check out the Union Hotel. A fellow and his wife purchased it a couple of years back and have done an incredible restoration on it. My son and I got the "cooks" tour by the owner who was very gracious and he shared some really interesting stories about the history of the Hotel. Would love to have you do one for History Hunters!! Thanks---Great Job!!

[@jbenziggy]

Great idea! I have been hoping to get over there!

[@briannave7326]

Great video, hope it gets restored.

[@lindsaymacpherson8782]

Hope one day you get to show us this house restored to its former glory

[@TheSpaghetti64]

I've passed by that house many times during my trips to the Gold Rush country. I remember seeing it in the late 1960s and the verandas were still on the front of the building.

[@jbenziggy]

Tom Betts I had been by it before too but never noticed it until this month! Hopefully it can be restored but it looks expensive! Thanks for watching and trust you will join our list of subscribers!

[@TheSpaghetti64]

@@jbenziggy Somewhere on the Internet or You Tube is a video of a paranormal ghost investigation. It wasn't that long ago and they go through the entire house and basement so you get a good idea of what the place looked like from the inside. I hope it is restored someday also but time keeps going by and it just continues to sit there and deteriorate.

[@sandygriffith8385]

I enjoy the history of the videos.

[@gemcisar2595]

Just the kind of getaway people are looking for now. Hopefully time to be brought back will come.

[@haroldtakahashi8875]

having had a great friend named bailey, i've known about bayley's folly since the mid-60s...before you could go flying down 49...and, ya gotta say it's pretty pilot hill, since cool is just up the road a piece...it would be an interesting fly-over for a drone...

[@royramey5659]

Drove past this place for decades and never new the story

[@Stellablue1982]

My Dad used to party there in the 70’s with his friends. They’d sneak in and hang out- he told us some pretty spooky stuff. He’d take me & my siblings there to creep us out. Before the barn was turned into a wedding venue- it must have been used to slaughter livestock. In the early 90’s there were hanging meat hooks and dried blood on the walls. Used to scare tf out of me.

[@billsail2460]

Very nice! How do you find these things? What city are you based in?

[@jbenziggy]

Just a little research from little ol' Stanislaus County!

[@vasquezthegreat]

I’ll need to visit this spot, it’s only 40 mins away, in my county. So much to explore up here, I’m a newbie, feels like I’m in a new state, Bay Area transplant..

[@dianebenzler9133]

I'd love to in that place and look around.

[@jbenziggy]

We wish we could have gone inside too! Thanks for watching!

[@johnshaft5613]

I don't know about restoration. They have been claiming they are restoring the place since at least 1995, and it still looks exactly the same as it did then. Sort of like the "Crazy Horse" statue near Mount Rushmore. Nothing ever happens.

[@jbenziggy]

That’s what I thought. Sad to hear but I suppose money is hard to come by in an age in which the bullet train is costing more than $90 billion and nowhere close to being done.

[@fountainbiker]

Nice Mansion, needs to be brought back to life with millions of $$$$...

[@KowboyUSA]

Wonder what the barb wire topped security fence is for. Too many "ghost hunters" maybe.

[@HistoryHunterSarah]

The fence has warnings that it's electrified too. Too many vandals likely. I searched for a way in. No such luck.

[@KowboyUSA]

@@HistoryHunterSarah Yikes!

[@alexhaley3424]

@@HistoryHunterSarah it’s actually not but there’s signs saying it is. I had a friend dumb enough to touch it when we went inside a bit over a year ago.

[@caligoldsg]

I'm so jealous I wanna do stuff like this

[@CaliforniaFly]

Hotel California, don't go in there Jeff and Sarah! You'll never leave...

[@jbenziggy]

Ha ha ha! Don’t worry. That song always gave me the creeps! LOL

[@CaliforniaFly]

@@jbenziggy Glad you guys have a good sense of humor. There is a Hotel California in Oakland. The last I heard was that it was going to be converted to living space for homeless people. That was around 2010 I think. It was in pretty bad shape. Now I have something to research for the evening.

[@freshone625]

I’ve driven by there a hundred times, now I know what it is!

[@jasonmarshall7983]

If you look at that one oldest picture of the Bailey house you can tell that it has been re-facotted with a new layer of brick and if you look out back you'll see the original wall on the corner of the building where it was facade with newer brick it doesn't fit the narrative at all it just goes to show that that house is way way older than they're saying why would they end up re-facing that house if it was and then they re-brick the outside there's nothing about it to say it's a Folly it's it's not a Folly that's one of the key buzzwords that they use to get you to not think it's important all lies I've been to the place I went there recently and I saw that back wall

[@elchoya8770]

should have flown your drone around it.

[@jbenziggy]

It was a bit windy that day for a drone! But I like your suggestion!

[@TheSeanm102]

hey jeff did I just see you on a old episode of pawn stars selling a signed postcard of buffalo bill

[@HistoryHunterSarah]

That was him! He was also on another episode with a Kennedy letter.

[@TheSeanm102]

@@HistoryHunterSarah cool thx

[@jbenziggy]

Did you see the other episode where I tried to sell a letter signed by JFK? He didn't buy that one either!

[@patm5165]

What town is this?

[@jbenziggy]

Placerville area

[@deborahdugger6099]

Where on Hwy 49?

[@jbenziggy]

Southeast of Auburn. If you Google Bayley Barn it will take you right to that property.

[@jasonmarshall7983]

No construction photos

[@deborahdugger6099]

Could be a capped well..

[@priestesspos6629]

Actually, he was given an insider's tip that the railroad was going to go through the area. He bought the land and built the hotel. He thought he was going to become rich off of it. When the railroad failed to happen, he was left with this.

[@jbenziggy]

Yes and he got burned big time. LOL

[@markpedroza7294]

Mr Bayley must've been irked that the railroad moved from El Dorado county to Placer county.

[@jbenziggy]

No doubt he was dumbfounded! He was well off though.

[@carolhofhine560]

That house would be neat to restore if you had the money.

[@AmiJurgl]

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