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253 Gate to the Cemetery
254 Bodie
255 3 Year Old Evelyn Myers
256 Solomon B. Burkham Headstone
257 Solomon, Kathryn and Harlan Burkham Headstones
258 James B. Perry Headstone
262 County Barn
263 Post Office/Dechambeau Hotel and Odd Fellows Lodge
264 Post Office/Dechambeau Hotel
265 Odd Fellows Lodge
267 Inside Bar of Dechambeau Hotel
268 Cart
269 Morgue
270 Boone Store and Warehouse
273 Gas at the Boone Store and Warehouse
274 Gas Pump
275 Ore Cart
276 Firehouse
277 J.S. Cain's Front Window and Bottles
278 J.S. Cain's Front Door
279 Residence of James Stuart Cain
281 Rocking Chair in Miller House
282 Sewing Machine in Miller House
283 Bed Frame and Wash Bowl in Miller House
285 Broken Down Car
286 Broken Down Car 2
287 Broken Down Car 3
288 View Out of Front Window of Broken Down Car
289 Barbed Wire with Barn in the Background
290 Tub in the Fields
291 Tub in the Fields 2
295 Methodist Church
296 Wheel Barrow
297 House in Bodie
298 Outhouse
299 Engine
300 House in Bodie 2
301 Machinery
302 House in Bodie 3
303 The Wheaton and Hollis Hotel
304 Clock and Teacups in School House
305 Inside Schoolhouse
306 School House
307 House in Bodie 4
308 House in Bodie 5
309 Green Street
310 Hose Shed
311 Ore Carts
312 Bodie Bank Inner Safe Lock
313 Bodie Bank Inner Safe
314 Bodie Bank Ruins Safe Entrance
318 Town Jail
319 House in Bodie 6
320 Decorative Metal Sheets on Outside of House
321 Broken Bottles
322 Bodie 2
323 Bodie 3
324 Window with White Curtains
325 Bell's Machine Shop Saw
326 Bell's Machine Shop
Ward's Cemetery, the Masonic Cemetery, the Miner's Union Cemetery and the Chinese Cemetery.
Only those accepted as respectable were buried inside the fences.
Genuine California gold mining ghost town.
Evelyn, Beloved Daughter of Fannie O. and Albert K. Myers, born May 1, 1894, died April 5, 1897.
Solomon B. Burkham died Jan. 13, 1904. Aged 49 years, 16 days. A native of West Virginia.
Solomon B. Burkham died Jan. 13, 1904. Aged 49 years, 16 days. A native of West Virginia.
Kathryn Lee 1892-1912
Harlan V. 1888-1914
James B. Perry, a Native of Ireland, died June 9, 1896, aged 63 years, Late Supervisor of Mono County.
Last used to store county road maintenance equipment.
Post office was erected by Postmaster George Putnam.
Odd Fellows Lodge instituted March 11, 1878.
This building served as the Post Office then as Grandma Johnson's rooming house and later as the Dechambeau Hotel.
No. 279 (IOOF), used the upper floor of this building.
Wonderful line of barstools in the bar of the old hotel.
It has huge wheels doesn't it?
This buidling was last used as the morgue, note the caskets inside.
Erected in 1879, this building served as a general store.
It was owned by Harvey Boone, a direct descendant of Daniel Boone.
Kerosene and gasoline were hauled toBodie from Hawthorne and Carson City.
The only gas pump I've seen in a mining town!
Ore cart from the gold mine.
The big fire of July 25, 1892 wiped out all but a few buildings of the town's business district.
Old bottle lined up on the inside window sill of the house.
Beautiful front door with a unique black handle.
Who arrived in Bodie when he was 25, entered the lumber business,
and put barges on Mono Lake to transport timber to the Bodie mines.
Everyone here seemed to have rocking chairs.
They all had sewing machines too...
You don't see bed frames like this anymore, many other houses had similar ones.
Amazing looking car in the middle of a grassy field.
Amazing looking car in the middle of a grassy field.
Amazing looking car in the middle of a grassy field.
Amazing looking car in the middle of a grassy field.
Roll of barbed wire left behind, along with an abandoned house in the backgroud.
A bath tub outside in the fields.
A bath tub outside in the fields.
Was erected in 1882 and is the only church still standing in Bodie and the only Protestant church erected.
A lone wheel barrow left in the dirt.
Beautiful house still standing in Bodie.
An Outhouse which is barely being saved from falling over.
An engine left behind, with an extremely rotted car around it.
Beautiful house still standing in Bodie.
A giant wheel used in machinery in the mines.
Beautiful house still standing in Bodie.
In 1885-1886 this was the U.S. Land Office run by M.T. Cody, the father of Ella Cain.
Inside the school house, a small clock and teacups left behind... Alice anyone?
A white chair in front of a piano or organ with a religious painting on the wall, and phonograph horn in the bucket.
Built in 1879, was originally the Bon Ton Lodging House.
The first school, located two blocks up the street, was burned down by an early-day juvenile delinquent.
Beautiful house still standing in Bodie.
Beautiful house still standing in Bodie.
A main road running through Bodie.
This shed is at the very top of a hill behind the modern day ruins.
Ore carts from the gold mines.
The inside workings of a safe in the Bodie bank.
Hall's Safe from Cincinnatti.
The remains of the bank vault. It was robbed on September 1, 1916
by four men who got away with $4,000 in money and jewelry.
Only one prisoner is known to have escaped. Bail for "guests" was $5.
Joseph DeRoche was taken fromthere by the Bodie "601," a vigilante group, and hanged.
Beautiful house still standing in Bodie.
Sheets that were on the outside of many of the buildings.
Bottles left behind on what looks like a rail road tie.
Genuine California gold mining ghost town.
Genuine California gold mining ghost town.
Beautiful, yet tattered, white curtains in a window.
Bob Bell, son of Lester L. Bell, was born in Bodie and worked in it's mines.
In later years he helped stabilize and restore Bodie's buidlings for the Department of Parks and Recreation.
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253 Gate to the Cemetery
Ward's Cemetery, the Masonic Cemetery, the Miner's Union Cemetery and the Chinese Cemetery.
Only those accepted as respectable were buried inside the fences.
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