Bodie State Historic Park

Machinery

steam hoist and air compressor.

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Head Frame

hoisting device of the Red Cloud Mine, used for transporting miners into and out of work sites underground as well as ore and waste rock.

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Dolan House & Methodist Church

10,000 miners lived here after the 1878 gold rush.

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McDonald House

#3 on the tour.

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Dolan House

#1 on the tour.

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D. V. Cain House

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McDonald House

#3 on the tour.

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Metzger House

#4 on the tour.

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Automobile Engine & Parts

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Sawmill

#7 on the tour, used mostly for cutting firewood.

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Automobile

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Reddy House

#15 on the tour.

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Belding's Ground Squirrel

Citellus beldingi

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Sam Leon Bar & Barber Shop

#32 & 31 on the tour.

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Firehouse

#33 on the tour. despite having a firehouse and plenty of water, a fire in 1892 wiped out most of the town.

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Lottie Johl House

#35 on the tour.  Lottie began her career in the red-light district, but achieved respectability as a painter and the wife of a local butcher.

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Gas Pumps

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Wheaton & Hollis Hotel

#37 on the tour.  The building served as the U.S. Land Office, power company office and finally a boarding house.

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Boone Store & Warehouse

#36 on the tour.  Boone was a direct descendent of Daniel Boone.

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Boone Store & Warehouse

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Boone Store & Warehouse

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Ore Car

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Ore Wagon

heavy axles, wheels and bottom doors.

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Swazey Hotel

#53 on the tour.  Also served as a clothing store and casino at various times.

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Cart

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Wagon

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IOOF Hall

#57 on the tour.  Odd Fellows Lodge No. 279 met upstairs.  Undertaker downstairs.

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Post Office

#56 on the tour.  Also served as Grandma Johnson's rooming house and later as the Dechambeau Hotel.

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Truck

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Green Street looking West

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The Standard Mill

Between 1860 & 1941, the Bodie Mining District produced roughly $100 million in gold and silver.  The Standard Mill was the most successful of 30 mining companies.

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Klipstein, Dolan & Hoover Houses

Theodore Hoove, brother of Herbert Hoover and general manager of the Standard Consolidated Mining Company lived in the larger house behind.

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Frank Quinville House

#40 on the tour.  Home of the blacksmith for the Standard Mine and Mill.

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Fouke House

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Outhouse

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Dr. Street's House

#41 on the tour.

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Carriage Frame

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J. S. Cain Residence

#6 on the tour.  Home of the town's principal property owner.

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J. S. Cain Residence Window

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Stove, Miller House

#5 on the tour. Open to the public.

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Bedroom, Miller House

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Sewing Machine & Bed, Miller House

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Bedroom, Miller House

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Kitchen, Miller House

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View

view from near one of the cemeteries.

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Sierra Nevada Mountains

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Mono Lake & Craters

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