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
- PC: Calico Ghost TownIn 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.
- That changed in 1881, when prospectors discovered silver in the mountains nearby and the area quickly attracted miners, traders, labourers and business owners.
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- PC: Calico Ghost TownIn 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.
- That changed in 1881, when prospectors discovered silver in the mountains nearby and the area quickly attracted miners, traders, labourers and business owners.
Sources: Times of India