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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 ]
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.
Pages in category "Ghost towns in California" The following 136 pages are in this category, out of 136 total. ... List of buildings in Bodie, California; Bodie ...
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 ...
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 ...
HABS CA-1922: Sam Leon's Bar Sam Leon was owner of the U.S. Hotel until it was destroyed in a 1932 fire. In 1937 he opened a bar in this location. Joe Hahner Barber Shop Joe Hahner was the last barber to work in Bodie. Firehouse Bodie was subject to frequent fires, most notably in 1892 and 1932.
Closer to home, there's a historic ghost town in California's Bodie State park. People flooded Bodie during the gold rush of the late 1800s, but when the promise of riches faded, the place found ...