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Eagle Mountain is a ghost town in the California desert in Riverside County founded in 1948 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser.The town is located at the entrance of the now-defunct Eagle Mountain iron mine, once owned by the Southern Pacific Railroad, then Kaiser Steel, and located on the southeastern corner of Joshua Tree National Park.
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.
Abandoned Abandoned after not enough silver was found in the region Bend City: Inyo: 1863 After 1872 Abandoned the 1872 Owens Valley Earthquake caused the Owens River to flow away from the town, driving the last remaining residents out Bestville: Siskiyou
Salton Sea, California: Before. In the mid-20th century, Colorado River overflow flooded the Salton Sink, creating the Salton Sea in the middle of the California desert, near Los Angeles.
Slab City is located on roughly 640 acres (260 hectares) of public land, [9] near the east shore of the Salton Sea.It is 100 miles (160 kilometers) northeast of San Diego, 169 mi (272 km) southeast of Los Angeles and about 50 mi (80 km) from Mexico. [10]
Alan Hensher, Ghost Towns of the Mojave Desert: A Concise and Illustrated Guide, California Classics Books, Los Angeles (1991) ISBN 978-1-879395-07-7; Ghost Towns.com - Bagdad Webpage about Bagdad, CA with numerous photographs. Bagdad, California Brief history of Bagdad, CA.
The name appeared as "Zzyzx Springs" in Dmitri Borgmann's 1967 book Beyond Language.In 1977, Borgman noted his source as being "an old, undated map of San Bernardino County published by the Automobile Club of Southern California" and repeated his description of the settlement as being "a hydrologic feature and privately owned spa in San Bernardino County, California, about 8.5 miles south of ...
Gold Town (on topographic maps) or OarVille [1] is a former settlement in Kern County, California. [2] It was located 9.5 miles (15 km) north of Rosamond, [3] at an elevation of 2,713 feet (827 m). [2] Today, Goldtown exists only as a grid of dirt roads and a few abandoned buildings and mines in the desert off the California State Route 14.