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The U.S. Department of the Interior recognizes the designated Bodie Historic District as a National Historic Landmark. Also registered as a California Historical Landmark, [3] the ghost town officially was established as Bodie State Historic Park in 1962. It receives about 200,000 visitors yearly. [8]
Joe Hahner was the last barber to work in Bodie. Firehouse Bodie was subject to frequent fires, most notably in 1892 and 1932. The California Conservation Corps rebuilt this building in the 1930s. Wheaton and Luhrs George H. Wheaton and Nicholas C. Luhrs operated a general store here in the 1880s, which was later purchased by James Cain in 1898.
Bodie State Historic Park is a California gold-mining ghost town. The town once boasted 2,000 structures and roughly 8,000 people when gold was discovered in 1875. But the town was a bust by 1881 ...
Bodie Ghost Town. The former town of Bodie, California, now shows up on maps as Bodie State Historic Park, where visitors can visit what's left of a Gold Rush boomtown kept purposely in a state of ...
The mining town of Bodie, California is now a preserved ghost town in Bodie State Historic Park, designated a National Historic Landmark. [2] Roads to Bodie and beyond it allow ease of exploring the Bodie Mountains and Hills.
Welcome to Bodie, California. The once bustling mining town, known for it's shootouts, bar room brawls and stagecoach holdups is now just a shadow of itself. It sits deep in the desert, almost as ...
Early winter in the Bodie Hills, 2017. The ghost town of Bodie is now located in Bodie State Historic Park. The preserved California mining district is also designated a National Historic Landmark and a California Historical Landmark. It became a California State Historic Park in 1962 and was opened to the public. [4]
Bodie termination Bodie and Benton Railway route Mono Mills termination point in 1914. As the Bodie Railway & Lumber Company, the railroad was established in 1881 to link the gold-mining town of Bodie to the Bodie Wood and Lumber Company's newly built sawmill, Mono Mills, 32 miles south of Bodie along the eastern shore of Mono Lake.