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Bodie (/ ˈ b oʊ d iː / BOH-dee) is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States. It is about 75 miles (121 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe , and 12 mi (19 km) east-southeast of Bridgeport , [ 6 ] at an elevation of 8,379 feet (2554 m). [ 1 ]
In 1859, gold was discovered in California by a group of prospectors, including a tin manufacturer named W.S. Bodey. And the Gold Rush began.
Abandoned after economic busts and other disasters, ... Bodie, California A reverend described Bodie in 1881 as "a sea of sin, lashed by the tempests of lust and passion." At its peak, the gold ...
Town Other names County Latitude/Longitude Founded Abandoned Status Remarks Agua Fria: Mariposa: 1850 1862 [1]: Barren [2]: Truly was abandoned after a fire burnt down the town in 1866.
Bodie Ghost Town (Bridgeport, California) 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 ...
W. S. Bodey (c. 1814 – 1859 [1]) was a prospector from Poughkeepsie, New York who discovered gold in Eastern California. He is notable as the namesake of Bodie in Mono County, California . Biography
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 ...
Arrested decay is a term coined by the U.S. State of California, to explain how it would preserve its Bodie State Historic Park. A more common application of this concept is the preservation of war ruins as memorials. Eastern State Penitentiary, March 2011 The water tower in Vukovar, 2005. Heavily damaged in the battle, it has been preserved as ...