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Eagle Mountain, California. / 33.85750°N 115.48722°W / 33.85750; -115.48722. 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 ...
The Cerro Gordo Mines are a collection of abandoned mines located in Cerro Gordo in the Inyo Mountains, Inyo County, near Lone Pine, California. Mining operations spanned 1866 to 1957, producing high grade silver, lead, zinc ore, and more rarely gold ore and copper ore. [1] Some ore was smelted on site, but larger capacity smelters were ...
Declined slowly after the Great Flood of 1862. [3] / 37.18000°N 121.98000°W / 37.18000; -121.98000. Already declined to less than 100 residents, Alma was demolished during the 1952 construction of the James J. Lenihan Dam. Currently the few remaining structures are underneath the Lexington Reservoir and can only be seen during low ...
782. 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. Located off Interstate 15, it lies 3 miles ...
Coordinates: 121°58′44″W. "Holy City is For Sale". Holy City is an unincorporated community in Santa Clara County, California. Once considered a Utopian community in the 1920s and 1930s, it is now considered a ghost town. [1] The town is located in the Santa Cruz Mountains, off State Route 17 on Old Santa Cruz Highway. [2]
Bodie ( / ˈboʊdiː / 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]
California. County. Inyo County. Elevation. [1] 6,302 ft (1,921 m) Panamint City is a ghost town in the Panamint Range, near Death Valley, in Inyo County, California, US. It is also known by the official Board of Geographic Names as Panamint. [2] Panamint was a boom town founded after silver and copper were found there in 1872. [3]
Dog Town (also, Dogtown and Dogtown Diggings) is a gold rush era ghost town in Mono County, California. It is located at 38°10′13″N 119°11′51″W / 38.1701984°N 119.1973749°W / 38.1701984; -119.1973749 , on Dog Creek, near the junction of Clearwater and Virginia Creeks , about 6 miles (10 km) south-southeast of Bridgeport ...