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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.
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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 ...
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 ...
Two were killed in a crime of passion, three died of mysterious illnesses, and Bodie was officially a ghost town by 1950. A number of ghosts supposedly inhabit the buildings, and it is also said ...
Bodie: Mono 1876 N/A: Semiabandoned Declined slowly from mining profits decreasing since 1914 ... List of ghost towns in California. 3 languages ...
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]