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Calico is a ghost town and former mining town in San Bernardino County, California, United States.Located in the Calico Mountains of the Mojave Desert region of Southern California, it was founded in 1881 as a silver mining town, and was later converted into a county park named Calico Ghost Town.
Hart was a short-lived gold mining town located in the Mojave Desert, in San Bernardino County, California. It existed between 1908 and 1915, and was located on the northeastern edge of Lanfair Valley near the New York Mountains. The area is now in the Castle Mountains National Monument, administered by the National Park Service.
The Mojave Desert has several ghost towns. The most significant are the silver and copper-mining town of Calico, California, and the old railroad depot of Kelso, California. Some of the other ghost towns are more modern, created when U.S. Route 66 (and the lesser-known U.S. Route 91) was abandoned in favor of the construction of Interstates.
Dedicatory plaque at the site of Ragtown and the Buckeye Mining District. Ragtown was a mining town, now a ghost town, in the Mojave Desert, San Bernardino County, California, United States. John Sutter found gold in the Bagdad-Chase area in about 1898. [2]
Atolia is a ghost town in the Mojave Desert near Randsburg, in northwestern San Bernardino County, ... who organized the Atolia Mining Company in 1906. [1] [2]: ...
Calico Ghost Town; Calico Peaks; Calico Print—publication; Local history. Borate and Daggett Railroad ( site) Waterloo Mining Railroad ( site) Francis Marion Smith ( mining) Related. Mountain ranges of the Mojave Desert; Protected areas of the Mojave Desert
Hensher, Alan (2005), "The Historical Mining Towns of the Eastern Mojave Desert", in Robert E. Reynolds (ed.), Old Ores, Mining History in the Eastern Mojave Desert, California State University, Desert Studies Consortium and LSA Associates, Inc., pp. 22– 27
Zzyzx Road is a 4.5-mile-long (7.2 km), part paved and part dirt, rural collector road in the Mojave Desert. It runs from Interstate 15 generally south to the Zzyzx settlement. The nearest populated area is the small town of Baker, 7 miles (11 km) north on Interstate 15. Las Vegas is the nearest major city, approximately 100 miles (160 km ...