Mining - Bodie, California

A well-preserved ghost town, now a California state park, just a few miles from the Nevada line across from the Sierra Nevada. Before the state line was properly surveyed, Bodie residents would also vote in Aurora, NV for Nevada candidates while Aurora residents would similarly vote in Bodie. Once it was ascertained that the state line ran between the two camps, this informality came to a close. Bodie was a gold producer, and one of the first to be electrified and to use the cyanide process, both in the mid-1890s.

A well-preserved ghost town, now a California state park, just a few miles from the Nevada line across from the Sierra Nevada. Before the state line was properly surveyed, Bodie residents would also vote in Aurora, NV for Nevada candidates while Aurora residents would similarly vote in Bodie. Once it was ascertained that the state line ran between the two camps, this informality came to a close.…  (read more)

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