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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.
Rosa Elizabeth White (January 1855 – 1911/1912), known as Rosa May was a prostitute during the late 19th century and very early 20th century who lived in the Virginia City, Nevada and Bodie, California areas. A local legend states that she selflessly nursed sick miners during an epidemic and succumbed to the illness herself.
The Bodie Hills is a low mountain range in Mono County, California, in the United States. [2] The highest peak is Potato Peak at an altitude of 10,220 ft (3,115 m). [1] The Bodie Hills are between Bridgeport and the Nevada border, where they become the Bodie Mountains in Mineral County, Nevada.
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Bodie, California, a ghost town in Mono County; Bodie, Washington, a ghost town; Bodie Hills, a low mountain range in Mono County; Bodie Island, a barrier peninsula that forms the northernmost portion of the Outer Banks; Bodie Mine, the patent gold mine which spurred the relocation of Bodie, Washington; Bodie Mountains, a mountain range in Nevada
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.
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.