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Rise and Fall of Cerro Gordo
Rise and Fall of Cerro Gordo by mojavedesert.net Cerro Gordo, on the western slope of the Inyo Mountains about seven miles east of Keeler and thirty miles south of Independence, was the first major...
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Cerro Gordo: California Ghost Town (images)
Great images and history about Cerro Gordo from: GhostTownGallery.com Go to their full site
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High & Dry: Caretaking the Ghosts of Cerro Gordo
story by KCET, photographer Osceola Refetoff and writer/historian Christopher Langley In the daylight, I found Cerro Gordo, a mining camp that dates back to the mid 1870s, a charming rustic collection...
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Old Ghost Town Is Getting a New Lease on Life
LA Times, Cecilia Rasmussen, Times Staff Writer CERRO GORDO, Calif. — Some say ghosts walk the dusty streets of this abandoned silver-mining town. With a murder a week in the 1860s and ’70s, bloodshed...
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A great site with lots of links and news about Cerro Gordo Mines, compiled by Digital Desert. The “fat hill” produced silver, lead and zinc for a century. At its peak over 1,000 people lived here...
View ArticleOwens Valley History talking about Cerro Gordo
taken from Owens Valley History site. Situated near the summit of Buena Vista Peak at an elevation of 8,500 feet, the isolated mining outpost became known as Cerro Gordo, meaning “fat hill”, the...
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