10 Miles to Bodie (abandoned) Ghost Town CA
Video footage of gold rush ruins...
Duane Eddy ♠ (Ghost) Riders In The Sky - instrumental with video footage of Ghost Town Bodie CA
*Famous Photos Back Roads, USA
Bodie State Historic Park is a genuine California gold-mining ghost town. Even though only a small part of this isolated ghost town
remains today as Bodie State Historic Park, it appears that its citizens simply got up one day and left town.
Welcome to the Hotel California, you can stay any time you like, but you can never leave...
Bodie (/ˈboʊdiː/ boh-dee) is a ghost town 10 miles from Mono Lake Vacation Rental Wild Rose Station in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States, about 75 miles (121 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe that can trace its beginnings to 1859 when a group of gold prospectors set up a mining camp. In 1859 William (a.k.a. Waterman) S. Bodey discovered gold near what is now called Bodie Bluff. A mill was established in 1861 and the town began to grow. It wasn’t until 1876, with the discovery of a profitable find that the town started to take off. Growing from a small settlement to a relatively large town of 7,000 by 1880 growing to as high as 10,000 in its hey day, the town was known as a wild western town, where murders, shootouts, barroom brawls, and stagecoach holdups were regular occurrences. Bodie bustled! but In 1917, the Bodie Railway was abandoned and its iron tracks were scrapped. The last mine closed in 1942, due to War Production Board order L-208, shutting down all nonessential gold mines in the United States, and Mining never resumed…Today it looks much the same as it did over 50 years ago when the last residents left. Here, there is a typical landscape as seen in westerns!! Tattered curtains remain in some of the homes, and the general store is still stocked with goods. There are pool tables in the bar, with remnants of old bank safes and cars to be found scattered about- a far cry from 1879 when more than 60 saloons and dance halls lined the streets. There were buildings, mining factory, church, bars, shops, miners’ houses and many kinds of buildings on the side of a mountain gently-sloped.
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Click to viewDuane Eddy ♠ (Ghost) Riders In The Sky - instrumental with video footage of Ghost Town Bodie CA
*Famous Photos Back Roads, USA
Bodie State Historic Park is a genuine California gold-mining ghost town. Even though only a small part of this isolated ghost town
remains today as Bodie State Historic Park, it appears that its citizens simply got up one day and left town.
Welcome to the Hotel California, you can stay any time you like, but you can never leave...
Bodie (/ˈboʊdiː/ boh-dee) is a ghost town 10 miles from Mono Lake Vacation Rental Wild Rose Station in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States, about 75 miles (121 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe that can trace its beginnings to 1859 when a group of gold prospectors set up a mining camp. In 1859 William (a.k.a. Waterman) S. Bodey discovered gold near what is now called Bodie Bluff. A mill was established in 1861 and the town began to grow. It wasn’t until 1876, with the discovery of a profitable find that the town started to take off. Growing from a small settlement to a relatively large town of 7,000 by 1880 growing to as high as 10,000 in its hey day, the town was known as a wild western town, where murders, shootouts, barroom brawls, and stagecoach holdups were regular occurrences. Bodie bustled! but In 1917, the Bodie Railway was abandoned and its iron tracks were scrapped. The last mine closed in 1942, due to War Production Board order L-208, shutting down all nonessential gold mines in the United States, and Mining never resumed…Today it looks much the same as it did over 50 years ago when the last residents left. Here, there is a typical landscape as seen in westerns!! Tattered curtains remain in some of the homes, and the general store is still stocked with goods. There are pool tables in the bar, with remnants of old bank safes and cars to be found scattered about- a far cry from 1879 when more than 60 saloons and dance halls lined the streets. There were buildings, mining factory, church, bars, shops, miners’ houses and many kinds of buildings on the side of a mountain gently-sloped.
Photos: Ghost Town Bodie CA
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