McGill & Osceola

On our way back from driving the Success Loop we stopped in the small town of McGill and visited the Drugstore and Soda Fountain which is a National Historic Landmark.

When the owners retired they just closed the door and walked away leaving everything inside.   It’s a fascinating place and Dan, the volunteer on duty that day was full of information about almost everything in the store and the town.   Including that atomic tests had taken place in Nevada and that if your parents had been involved in the tests and you could find a prescription in the store then you were eligible for some sort of government payout. 

McGill Drugstore & Soda Fountain, Dan the volunteer at the soda fountain, which sadly is no longer operational.

Back on another dirt road we looked for the ghost town of Osceola in the Snake Mountain Range.   The ruins weren’t accessible as quite a few of the mines are operational again and they’re all marked private.  

We could easily see the new workings of one old mine.   A conversation with a passing trucker told us they were looking for Copper.

In Osceola Cemetery we found the gravestone of Charles Henry Odgers, born in Cornwall in January 1848 and died in Osceola in December 1903, that’s a long way from home.  

Have fun, we are!