Black and white photo of old horsedrawn carriage located in Bodie Ghost Town in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California.
This aging horse drawn carriage is protected by the elements in an old building in the old gold mining town of Bodie, California. Bodie State Historic Park is a genuine California gold-mining ghost town. Visitors can walk down the deserted streets of a town that once had a population of nearly 10,000 people. The town is named for Waterman S. Body (William Bodey), who had discovered small amounts of gold in hills north of Mono Lake. In 1875, a mine cave-in revealed pay dirt, which led to purchase of the mine by the Standard Company in 1877. People flocked to Bodie and transformed it from a town of a few dozen to a boomtown. Only a small part of the town survives, preserved in a state of "arrested decay." Interiors remain as they were left and stocked with goods. The park is northeast of Yosemite, 13 miles east of Highway 395 on Bodie Road (Hwy 270), seven miles south of Bridgeport
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Location: Bodie State Historic Park, Sierra Nevada, California
Photo credit: © Robert Bush / Alamy / Afripics
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