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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]
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.
Dry Lakes Plateau is a 3,340-acre (1,350 ha) historic district including 65 archeological sites, in the Bodie Hills, California area. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002 for its potential to yield information in the future. [1] [2]
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 ...
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
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.
The Bodie Mountains are a mountain range primarily in western Mineral County, Nevada. [ 1 ] They extend westward into Mono County, California , where they become the Bodie Hills with the mining district and town of Bodie, California.
Bodie, as seen from the hill looking to the cemetery. Mono County was formed in 1861 from parts of Calaveras, Fresno and Mariposa counties. A portion of northern Mono County contributed to the formation of Alpine County in 1864; parts of the county's territory were given to Inyo County in 1866.