Ghost town of St. Thomas, Nevada

[@deathvalley1592]

THIS IS A VERY INTERESTING CHANNEL WITH VERY GOOD DETAIL. IMPRESSIVE. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!!

[@GhostTownWonders]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@thegreenman7]

I just discovered your videos Sir, and I'm loving them!!! I love history and I appreciate your efforts to keep these stories alive! Thank you very much!!! Keep em coming!!!

[@GhostTownWonders]

Glad you enjoy them. I am truly happiest when i am out discovering these sites and doing the associated research to create these videos

[@tombrown1281]

the actual HISTORY of nevada is being lost. Thank you for doing these videos.

[@FetchTheSled]

I'm lovin' it!!

[@scm50able]

Great documentary . Great narration. Those photographs are immaculate. Thanks.

[@GhostTownWonders]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@scm50able]

@@GhostTownWonders , yes I really did. Thanks.

[@markthomas4083]

Great music, I love McDonalds coffee also. Video was put together well, thank you. Easy on the soul!

[@GhostTownWonders]

Glad you liked the video. I really enjoy the process of making them.

[@user-pp4nd7vw8m]

Fantastic narration, footage,background music and research! Enjoyed and subscribed!

[@GhostTownWonders]

Thanks so much. I am glad you liked it. I enjoy the whole process of creating these videos.

[@user-pp4nd7vw8m]

@@GhostTownWonders It sure does show! Look forward to viewing more!!!

[@ReddWebDev]

Great video and great music -- We lost the towns of Warland, Tweed, Ural, Volcour, and Yarnell when they built the Libby Dam on the Kootenai River in northwest Montana back in the late 60's early 70's -- One day, if Lake Koocanusa ever draws down to a critical point behind the Libby Dam I'd like to go see the towns we lost in 1972. I think it would be pretty exciting to see the towns I haven't seen since I was 12. On a good day, when you're out in a boat on Lake Koocanusa, looking through the bottom of a Mason jar, you can see the train trestle at the bottom of the lake at Warland.

[@GhostTownWonders]

Glad you liked the video. Thanks for watching and sharing your story.

[@charliepearce8767]

Good video.. Thanks.

[@chet2201]

Great History

[@phyllisbonner8900]

Very nice presentation. My first time to watch your video, but will watch more.

[@GhostTownWonders]

Thanks so much. Glad you liked it.

[@dennislipper2750]

I really appreciate the research you do on all your locations. It all adds interest to your videos, better than most.....

[@GhostTownWonders]

So glad you appreciate the work that goes into each one of my projects. Thanks for watching.

[@cowboygeologist7772]

Wow, great video! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge of this town.

[@GhostTownWonders]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@sarahstrong7174]

Thankyou. Most interesting & enjoyable video.

[@GhostTownWonders]

Glad you liked it Sarah.

[@daniell6317]

Thanks, that was facinating.

[@skipstein744]

Thanks for a great adventure of St Thomas. Interesting.

[@GhostTownWonders]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@janakatzfey5568]

Great information!

[@susanbrown4297]

Thank you so much. I love stories like this. Very interesting.

[@GhostTownWonders]

Thanks. Glad you liked it.

[@lizzyrivera3478]

Awesome video 👍 Thanks for sharing photos and information. Have a great day from Wednesday afternoon here in 🇵🇭 Always be safe and healthy. God bless ❤️

[@GhostTownWonders]

Thanks for the kind words Lizzy

[@richardrichard9953]

Great video. I like all of the pictures that went along with The documentary

[@GhostTownWonders]

Thank you very much!

[@ghoward6797]

Great video thank you

[@GhostTownWonders]

Glad you enjoyed it. I love making these videos.

[@G.151]

I worked at Echo Bay Resort from 1994 until 1996. Hard to believe all the water has vanished. Lake Mead is a AWESOME place. Pray for heavy rain....

[@lindawoody8501]

We have been getting some monsoon rains the last 10 or so days in Mohave County, AZ so maybe also up the line on the Colorado in the Grand Canyon? I think so. We've regained now about the same water level of 7/20/2020 which is not much but something to delay the loss a tiny bit. Bought some time. I hope the downstream use lessens and we get a good snow upstream in the headwaters of the Colorado for the sake of Lake Powell and Lake Mead.

[@kekmountain2882]

Cool. So thorough!

[@coolmoodee]

Thanks for the video . I've always been into the west and history. I need to pay that area a visit sometime.

[@GhostTownWonders]

You should! It is well worth the trip. Glad you enjoyed the video

[@ms.fravell7606]

I'm amazed at how it's so torn apart where the stone and concrete work is like lumps of it here and there .

[@GhostTownWonders]

Perhaps much of it was torn down and salvaged. There was very little of the rubble next to the buildings.

[@uncleericrocks]

Well done 👏

[@GhostTownWonders]

Thanks. I am glad you liked it. I enjoy making these videos

[@clsybear]

Great video

[@GhostTownWonders]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@gregordonnaghchaid26]

Nice job. I was nearby a couple of years ago but after the long bumpy road I wasn't willing to take the hike. Your research encourages me to return. Interesting that all the hoopla back then results in nature having it's way regardless.

[@GhostTownWonders]

The road sometimes is better than others. You should try again. It is worth the trip.

[@alejandradelpilarpizarroar5423]

I love all these places where you can find the ruins 🏚️of towns that once existed, it, s all over the United States 🇺🇸 l love it, its history and its geografy and its people obviously best regards from the beautiful city of La Serena in Chile 🇨🇱, by the way my name is Alejandra Del Pilar Pizarro Araya and from today l will be your number one fan

[@GhostTownWonders]

Thanks for the kind words Alejandra. It makes me happy that you enjoy these videos.

[@martymathews8163]

Well done, loved it, subbed.

[@GhostTownWonders]

Awesome, thank you!

[@jennitobiasson5974]

My Great grandmother Verna Chadburn grew up there, born in St George, and lost her twin brother at age 3mos in st Thomas, she was one of the last known residents who lived in Logandale until her passing in 2014. I believe you may have gotten a lot if the images from her daughter in law, my grandmother Beezy Tobiasson , Glade Tobiasson's ( Vernas son )wife, a local history pro i suppose, lol. Great place to live, and be a part of the rich history. I'm also a lifer here. Love it.

[@jennitobiasson5974]

One of the original buildings still stands in downtown Overton. The Jones place, was hauled by mule when the water came.

[@GhostTownWonders]

Jenni, that is awesome. Thanks for sharing. Glad you liked it.

[@johnmeyer3730]

I have extended family from St Thomas who are buried in Overton. Thank you.

[@cheycasters]

Man O man there is nothing like a Desert sun shiney day .........

[@daviddunn5264]

Nice work 👏, I hope McDonald's is supplying you with that coffee as much as you advertise for them ... lol

[@FindingNorcal]

Coool!!

[@richardrichard9953]

This reminds me of the town of Mormon Island which is at the Bottom of Folsom Lake in Sacramento calif.

[@thejewishredneckprepper4675]

Just subscribe. Enjoyed the video. I shoot ghost town videos in Ga and Sc. Shalom

[@lindawoody8501]

As someone on another channel noted, the National Park Service or Hoover Dam folks have put sign boards up in St. Thomas itself. They must believe that the water will be down for a very extended time so it would be fiscally sound to add the signage and craft a trail to the town's ruins. Sad case of it all both as a dead town and the now lake in trouble.

[@GhostTownWonders]

Yes, very unfortunate about the level of the Lake. A mega drought in the southwest.

[@billyedwards6101]

Cool

[@GhostTownWonders]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@junepeterson4078]

Nice

[@GhostTownWonders]

Thanks June, glad you liked it.

[@alejandradelpilarpizarroar2542]

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[@GhostTownWonders]

Glad you like them!

[@slimpickins6557]

Typical government over reach to charge taxes.Vote to leave except 2 was a great way to tell them where to put it.Things haven’t changed much. Great presentation.

[@d.l.hemmingway3758]

Did St. Thomas get abandoned because younger folks left to find work elsewhere?

[@GhostTownWonders]

No. It was abandoned because the filling of Lake Mead caused it to be underwater. Due to the severe and chronic 20 year drought in the SW, the lake level continues to lower and has exposed this town again.

[@d.l.hemmingway3758]

@@GhostTownWonders sound like the fate of the original town of Milford, KS. They moved it up the road and up the hill from its original site. They also left the original buildings where they were and built a whole new town.

[@gracieg7601]

I just started watching what was going on with lake mead a few months ago. I know that when something like that happens it effects us all. Not just the one area or state. I was at lake Meade back on 1978-79. We had an occasion to be in Vegas for BMX racing They used to have there. They had whst was called Grand Nationals. Seems like it was in October. I didn’t like being in Vegas cause I’m not a gambler or drinker. My child was 8 and 9 when we went there. We were from Texas so we had to fly. I was glad when they stopped having them there. They moved them to Oklahoma City then Amarillo Texas. Anyway when I found out Mead was losing water and there was a town that was destroyed because of the Lake I was Astonished. It all seems so wasteful now. Lake mead didn’t need to be so large in my opinion. I didn’t like that.

[@GhostTownWonders]

Yes, very scary to watch Lake Meade disappear. I have been in Las Vegas for 32 years and remember when the lake was full.

[@jedclampett6466]

Another account of unlawful taxation.

[@jacquelatourcaptainunderpa8475]

If La Angeles had another water supply lake mead would rise again they are sacking it dry.

[@GhostTownWonders]

Unfortunately Lake Mead and the Colorado River water system was over allocated since the original pact was agreed to in 1922. This is a highly variable system and cannot sustain the continued demand due to population growth. At this time no state is taking more than its agreed to allocation. The issue is that we have been in a megadrought now for the last 20years and we continue to add population to each of the states. The Bureau of Reclamation has performed many studies and can only guess as to what the future holds for the health of the Colorado River system.

[@jacquelatourcaptainunderpa8475]

@@GhostTownWonders its unfortunate that they even put a funnel in the lake to get more water out of it.

[@marthagomez7335]

Not many people live in Nevada and Utah. Cold winters, hot summers. Extreme weather. Little or no water. Not much grows. I bet land must be cheap there. It was Mexico. Taken in 1846-1848

[@jeepinjohnny2898]

Yo - GTW. I sure enjoy your vids but NOT the background racket (music) WHILE YOU TALK.

[@GhostTownWonders]

Jeepin Johnny. So noted. I always struggle with that idea.