Bodie

Bodie is a phantom Ville located in California, on the Eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, in the Comté Mono, to approximately 120 km in the south-east of the Lake Tahoe, at an altitude of 2550 Mr. ³

Discovered

Gold was discovered in 1859 by the prospector W.S. Bodey who gave the name to the city. In this month of November 1859, Bodey perished in a snowstorm after a voyage of provisioning to Monoville.

In 1876, the Standard Company discovered a gold deposit, which transformed Bodie into a camp of extraction insulated including/understanding some prospectors.

Built during the Gold rush in California, the city reached a population of 10.000 inhabitants in 1880 (second town of California at the time) before being gradually abandoned following two fires. It is considered that there at present remains + 5% of the buildings of time (those are maintained by rangers). It is today a State Historic Park and National Historic Landmark .

See too

Satellite sight

To look at the photographs satellite of Bodie

External bonds

Bodie.com

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