Bodie Gold Bonanza of 1877
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County Barn, Bodie, California.
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| Coordinates: 38°12′44″N 119°00′44″W / 38.21222°N 119.01222°WCoordinates: 38°12′44″N 119°00′44″W / 38.21222°N 119.01222°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | Mono |
| Founded | 1876 |
| Elevation | 8,379 ft (2,554 m) |
| Population (2015) | |
| • Total | 0 |
| Time zone | Pacific (UTC−8) |
| • Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC−7) |
| Area codes | 442/760 |
| Website | Bodie State Historic Park |
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Bodie Historic District
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Map of Bodie, as of 1880
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| Location | California |
| Nearest city | Bridgeport, California |
| Architectural style | Various; Southwestern U.S. frontier-style, late-19th to early-20th century. |
| NRHP reference # | 66000213 |
| CHISL # | 341 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | October 15, 1966 |
| Designated NHLD | July 4, 1961 |
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, about 75 miles (121 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe. It became a boom town in 1876 and following years, after the discovery of a profitable line of gold, and suddenly attracted several thousand residents. It is located 12 mi (19 km) east-southeast of Bridgeport, at an elevation of 8379 feet (2554 m). The U.S. Department of the Interior recognizes the designated Bodie Historic District as a National Historic Landmark.
Also registered as a California Historical Landmark, the ghost town officially was established as Bodie State Historic Park in 1962. It receives about 200,000 visitors yearly. Since 2012, Bodie has been administered by the Bodie Foundation, which uses the tagline Protecting Bodie's Future by Preserving Its Past.
Bodie began as a mining camp of little note following the discovery of gold in 1859 by a group of prospectors, including W. S. Bodey. Bodey perished in a blizzard the following November while making a supply trip to Monoville (near present-day Mono City, California), never getting to see the rise of the town that was named after him. According to area pioneer Judge J. G. McClinton, the district's name was changed from "Bodey," "Body," and a few other phonetic variations, to "Bodie," after a painter in the nearby boomtown of Aurora, lettered a sign "Bodie Stables".
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