I loved this video so much. Once upon a time in another life (30 years ago ), I lived in Marquette County. So beautiful - thanks for an amazing tour!

Interesting video about a little-known place. I'm almost 70 now and we visited Fayette (pronounced Fā ett) every summer as a child 50 to 60 years ago. It wasn't much of a going concern. Most of the buildings were just foundations or stone walls then. The town has been mostly restored over the years to part of its original glory. Looks much better than when I was a kid, too. Fayette celebrated its centennial in 1967 and its sesquicentennial in 2017. It was very important in the history of the westward growth of the United States.

@charlesstockford6003

8 ай бұрын

Some of the old locks are from me. I had a bunch of rentals in Saginaw with the real old style locks 1875 and up. I sent them to the park after seeing it in 1972.

What an incredible sight! Hard to believe it’s been preserved so well! Thank you for sharing Sally!

Standing at the dock on the town side of Snail Shell Harbor, the view of the cliffs and the water has to be the most beautiful view on earth. There is nothing like it.

Hi sally! It’s gail 😃 just realised I don’t comment on your vids so thought I’d do so now, enjoying your video with my morning coffee, thank you for the content! Love it. Have a great weekend 🇬🇧🇺🇸❤️

Another cool UP mining ghost town is Old Victoria south of Ontonagon.

My favorite KZreadrs Sightseeing Sally and Marty! I love your videos and the information they contain. This reminds me of a colonial village! Awesome.

Love the History and the UP of Michigan. Thank you for the tour.

Nice! the buildings look well preserved!

What an incredible town - I’ve added this to my bucket list. It’s not all that far a trip.

I have been subscribed for quite a while, and I don't know how I missed this video. It is a great one! Thanks ...... Danny in Alabama

Awesome video, Sally! ❤️

This is definitely not untouched. It has had decades of refurbishing. When my grandparents starting taking me to Fayette, in the early 70s, it was untouched. Weeds to my chest and junk everywhere to trip on.

How cool Sally. It is beautiful up that way. We used to camp near Ironwood along the lake. No cell there. Who need that? With such views. Thank you. Give the pups a hug for me. 4 thumbs up!

I really liked this vid.Sally..Those old homes were built to last.and glad their getting some help to last even longer.Altho I enjoy seeing thing from the past.I wouldn't have wanted to live back in those days.Thank you for taking us back .if only for a brief moment..

Cool tour of the ghost town 👏

Very cool! It would be awesome to be a caretaker of a place like that. Thanks for sharing.

A wonderful video Sally love them ghost towns they're so peaceful stay healthy and safe 🌺👍🏆✌️

@SightseeingSally

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Duane, maybe that’s why so many ghosts hang out there, no noise to deal with 😜 ✌️

@duanelogan9633

3 жыл бұрын

@@SightseeingSally Lol 😆

Sally Rocks. Happy Thursday everyone. Great job girl 👍🎙🎮👀

@SightseeingSally

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!! 😁

Very cool! Added to my bucket list:)

Thanks for sharing

When I was thered about 12 or 14 years old, back in the early 1950s, the state had this property on back tax sale, when quite a few people gathered to bid on this land. The state then decided to keep the property. At that time there were many houses still left, but vandles burn som down. Fayette was at time in very bad shape. My dad along with a banker from Detroit had decide to turn it into a resort. But with the state eventually turning it into a State Park, thorted that idea. I had been ther a couple of times before the Tax Sale had occured. When the forest had been depleted to make charcoal, and that used to melt iron ore into Pig Iron, and shipped out on ships to other places.

Love all these old ghost towns.

Looks chilly in the UP. Unless this is older footage, of course. Thanks again, sweet Sally!

@SightseeingSally

3 жыл бұрын

It was quite chilly for sure!

Been there 3 times in the last 40 yrs. They do an awesome job keeping this place in great shape !

Amazing. Some of those buildings look like you could put a coat of paint on them and move right in.

I was there back in May. Very cool place to visit!

Beautiful!

Looks like a good place to go visit some time. Nice video thank you, hope Mabel stayed warm. The UP was stolen from Wisconsin.

@SightseeingSally

3 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome, glad you enjoyed it. I bundled up Mabel in her sweater and wrapped her up like a taco in her heavy fleece blanket before popping her into her bag.

What a BEAUTIFUL PLACE!!

That is a beautiful place !

I grew up going there, my grandma lived in Garden. My family came from Canada, my ancestor Antoine Deloria came and built the kilns. I’m glad you showed this.

@robertcolpitts4534

8 ай бұрын

Did he happen to build kilns for anyone else in the area?

@kathryndeloria1834

8 ай бұрын

@@robertcolpitts4534 Possibly I don’t know. He had a lot of different business ventures in the area. Also think prior to Garden, he had land up by Marquette.

@robertcolpitts4534

8 ай бұрын

@kathryndeloria1834 - The reason I ask is because my dad found a bunch of charcoal kilns at Point Aux Barques (aka Barques Point) about 8 miles south of Thompson. There was a village there in the late 1800s, probably with a sawmill.

The hotel had a two story outhouse. I never knew they existed until we visited there a couple years ago.

love your sunglasses😎

I was there many years ago and have been to a lot of places, but this was the first time I felt " entities" . Hermannsville is a cool place to. The IXL company.

My neck of the woods Love it

If y’all are still in the area, the four seasons resort on the Menominee river is where I’m staying a really neat country club built in 1905 👍🤠

Appears To Be A Delightful Spot To Poke Around

Grey skies, hardly no one else around and a chill in the air. I'm suprised you didn't see any ghosts! 👀 👍👍 👀

Very impressive ! Sally !!! Best I have ever seen ! Nice !!!!!

@SightseeingSally

3 жыл бұрын

I agree with you Glenn, this place has to be one of the best preserved ghost towns in America.

@glennjudd2467

3 жыл бұрын

@@SightseeingSally turn 74 today ! Always wanted to go & see bodie in calif ! This place is amazing !

@SightseeingSally

3 жыл бұрын

Happy Birthday Glenn!!! Me, too. I’m hoping to explore Bodie next time we’re in California.

@glennjudd2467

3 жыл бұрын

@@SightseeingSally never made it there , but I always wanted too! Road trip you where on was amazing & now michigan ! This amazing find !

@glennjudd2467

3 жыл бұрын

@@SightseeingSally thanks for the birthday wishes ! Celebrate alittle on Tuesday with friends !

You're amazing in every way!! Where's Marty? Don't you watch missing 411? 😆 Please be careful 🙏❤

We went there in junior high on a class trip. Can’t believe they’re still standing

Aloha sally. A real ghost towns it’s very pretty.

Did they mined out the iron till its totally gone ,???or something else happened?? It's a neat tiny town . Enjoyed the tour.!!

@browngreen933

3 жыл бұрын

This was charcoal iron furnace using local hardwood trees. Later it was found more cost effective to ship the iron ore further down the lakes where coal was readily available for smelting purposes. The iron ore still hasn't run out, although the high grade stuff is gone.

@robertcolpitts4534

8 ай бұрын

@browngreen933 - It was a combination of things: reduced shipping costs due to larger capacity ore boats and the opening of the Poe Lock at Sault Saint Marie, changing and more efficient large-scale iron and steel production methods and technology, depletion of the high-grade ores that charcoal furnace smelting was more suited to, plus the depletion of the hardwoods that were required for the charcoal all contributed to Fayette's demise. It was a perfect storm. In the end, the operation was too slow, too inefficient, and too uneconomic to continue.

the pup,s are cute!

I agree with your observation that the old abandoned horse-drawn wagons are disappearing. I'm an old fart and I remember those beauties were all over the place when I was a kid.

i was there 40 years ago. i wouldn't exactly say it is untouched but if people are in the area it's worth stopping in.

Well taken care of for sure. National Parks is where people mysteriously vanish. National Park Service has never released 'what happened to Stacy Arras?'

@SightseeingSally

3 жыл бұрын

I’m not sure if they ever found her. I could be wrong, tho. I just did a quick Internet search on her name so maybe I missed something.

Nice time of the year to visit there. Winter up there is a whole different story. I once knew someone who was born and lived up there his entire life. He said the only month of the year he had never seen it snow was July.

@SightseeingSally

3 жыл бұрын

I believe it! The UP is the gateway to the North Pole lol 😂

@robertcolpitts4534

Жыл бұрын

The UP is sometimes called the "Poor-Man's Alaska".

Love old Fayette.

No railroads through Fayette. That RR trackage was abandoned many ago.

I was there probubly 30 yrs. Ago and I think things have been rebuilt , these buildings back when I was there I don't recall seeing .

It's called Fayette but you do a good job thank you

Hello to the Superintendent!

I always wanted to go to the upper peninsula I know it gets alot cold and longer than the bottom.... I look at it on the map as a flying dragon that I want to ride lol

My summer house was close, been there twice, went in warm weather. Tour Nahma?

There actually have been a few gold mines, only one that I could confirm location/actual existence of was Ropes gold mine in ishpeming but not much there

First silly thanks you my dear sweet Sally see you soon

@SightseeingSally

3 жыл бұрын

Lol congratulations on being first Donna!

I am a new viewer and also an "Amateur" with tech. I have tried and tried to find your "Amtrak" video.I can't find it.Thanks.

Wonderful location for a Zombie Apocalypse movie/show.

My mom grew up there. Never been there myself.

is this town open to the public to visit??

Got there before the bug invasion. Black Flies and Mosquitos. What a horror we Michiganders have to deal with!

@erbewayne6868

Жыл бұрын

The state bird of the up.

I liked Stuben. Population 15. Airport too.

Check out Victoria Vill. A well preserved miming village near Mass City, Greenland, MI by Victoria Dam. Preserved by neighbors and local historians no charge but you may like to donate to the tour guide who lives on the ;premises.

Many many years ago. I saw a Wendigo there. Swear to God.

That use to be a cool town. Where was Marty in this one?

A lot of the buildings should be painted.

Sally any friendly ghosts like Casper!

When we mine cooper we are also mining gold

@erbewayne6868

Жыл бұрын

Silver

Isn't it, "Fay ette"?

Without watching the video,the lawns look mowed,so someone is mowing the lawns.

hi!! sally you doing ok and marty! this delta variant sucks.

Sally looks like American Civil war Town!

It's not untouched. They have restored multiple buildings over the decades. It looks much different than it did 25 years ago. The iron smelter building, for on example, now has a roof. That did not exist.

@SightseeingSally

Жыл бұрын

It’s untouched by the ravages of time

@SightseeingSally

Жыл бұрын

Untouched by vandalism

The town name is pronounced Fā-Et

.....interesting. But who were the people that lived here. I believe they were immigrants. They were very poor. The children went barefoot. And the adults had drug problems. It was a very dirty place to live.

I have learned something this time. I never knew there was a ghost town in upper Michigan.