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In 1881, silver turned California’s Calico into a 3,000-person desert boomtown. By 1907, falling prices had turned it into a ghost town
In California's Mojave Desert, Calico now appears as a quiet collection of weathered buildings surrounded by dry hills and open scrubland. Its setting gives little indication that the settlement once supported a busy mining community.
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Calico Ghost Town: How a thriving silver town in the Mojave Desert collapsed in just 12 years
Calico, a once-thriving town in California, saw its fortunes rise with a silver rush that began in 1881. Unfortunately, the gold rush faded by the 1890s as silver prices…
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In 1881, silver turned California’s Calico into a 3,000-person desert boomtown. By 1907, falling prices had turned it into a ghost town