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SUMMARY:Maturango Museum 2024 Annual Auction and Dinner
DESCRIPTION:Maturango Museum 2024 \nAnnual Auction and Dinner\n       Saturday\, September 28\nKerr-McGee Center Doors open at 5:00 p.m.\nMake a difference…\nand have a great time doing it! \nSponsor pamphlet Auction 2024fx
URL:https://maturango.org/event/maturango-museum-2024-annual-auction-and-dinner/
LOCATION:Kerr McGee Center\, 100 W California Ave\,\, Ridgecrest\, CA\, 93555\, United States
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SUMMARY:Private Tour of Bodie State Historical Park
DESCRIPTION:The Maturango Museum has arranged for a very special private tour of Bodie State Historical Park ghost town on Saturday July 20th by Chris Spiller\, a longtime Bodie volunteer and tour guide for the Bodie Foundation. We will meet in the Bodie parking lot at 10:00 am and will begin a two-hour tour learning a bit of the history and some revealing stories of what life was like in a booming gold mining town at its peak and during the long decline into what is now a “ghost town”. At the conclusion of the town tour\, we will walk through the stamp mill learning firsthand how the gold was extracted from the rock. At the conclusion of the tour\, participants will have the remainder of the day to explore additional areas in and around Bodie with Gary Staab ( a former Park Aide) or on their own. \nParticipants should keep in mind that Bodie is a semi-arid at an elevation of 8\,400 and weather can be somewhat unpredictable with both heat and thundershowers all in the same day. It is best to dress in layers with sturdy walking/hiking shoes. Although Bodie sits in a bit of a basin\, about half the town lies on a slope\, including the Stamp mill. Be sure to bring ample water for this tour as there is no water available in the town. As with all eastern Sierra activities\, hats and sunscreen are also highly recommended as well as good sunglasses. \nDogs are permitted in town BUT ARE NOT allowed on the stamp mill tour. \nFrom U.S. 395\, State route 270 (7 miles south of Bridgeport) is the turn off for Bodie. Go east 10 miles where the pavement ends and continue 3 miles on a dirt/washboard road to Bodie. 4-wheel drive is not necessary\, but vehicles should be in good running order and tires in good condition. There are no services in Bodie\, so be sure to come with a full tank of gas (or charged battery) and bring your lunch. Picnic tables are available on the far north side of town. \nMotel accommodation may be available in most of the communities from Mammoth Lakes to Bridgeport\, but reservations made in advance are strongly recommended. \nYour online ticket purchase ($170 members\, $225 non-members) includes a donation to The Bodie Foundation. The Museum fee does not include the State Park entry fee for Bodie. That fee is $8.00 per person and be advised Bodie does not accept any kind of federal or state park passes. This tour is limited to 20 guests.
URL:https://maturango.org/event/private-tour-of-bodie-state-historical-park-and-mono-lake-tufa-state-natural-preserve/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Museum Events,Tours and Trips
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SUMMARY:The  Town\, the People\, and the Gold- Bodie\, CA
DESCRIPTION:Bodie\n“The town\, the people and the gold – the history and tall tales from a California ghost town” \nOn November 9\, 2023\, at 6:30 pm\, Gary Staab will give a presentation on the ghost town of Bodie and the adventures he had there as a State Park aide. \nIn the summer of 1859\, W. S. Bodey and ‘Black’ Taylor filed a claim after finding a placer deposit in the hills 10 miles north of Mono Lake\, in what became known as the Bodie Mining District. This single and seemingly meek gold strike was to become the focus point of many prospectors over the next 15 years\, each searching for that vein of gold that would make men rich. Meanwhile\, other strikes like those in Virginia City\, Aurora\, and Cerro Gordo competed for men and women seeking fame and fortune throughout the 1860s and into the 1870s. \nAlthough the mining activity was slow compared to other mining districts\, it was relatively consistent. That all changed in 1875 when a very large deposit of gold ore was discovered by accident. Prospectors came by the hundreds\, followed by saloon keepers and business proprietors of everything imaginable while investors stood in line to capture some of this newfound wealth coming out of the hills around Bodie. This bonanza gave birth to a town of 1\,000 buildings and 7\,000 residents within two years that included a Chinatown on the north end and a horse race track on the south end of town. \nArrastras were replaced with state-of-the-art stamp mills with equipment that was transported from San Francisco via train and mule teams. The boilers used to power this equipment in the mills and mines required 20 cords of firewood each day that had to be harvested and brought to town by the Chinese and their mules. In 1881 a railway was built to bring wood up from the south side of Mono Lake to keep up with the demands of a growing community. However\, within the first 12 months of the railway’s operation\, Bodie’s population declined as new gold strikes became scarce. \nBodie’s decline progressed with the help of two large fires and economic downturns resulting in mining being reduced to only the most productive of the mines on Bodie Bluff. In the face of economic hardships and a dwindling population\, the Standard Mill and Mining Company sought out more efficient and less costly methods to operate and extract gold. In 1892\, the mines and mill were converted to electricity and two years later\, the cyanide process was introduced to recover additional gold. \nAll mining operations ceased in 1942 by order of the U.S. Government and most of the remaining people in town left to seek new employment. A handful of residents remained until the State of California purchased the town site and designated it a Historical Park in 1962.
URL:https://maturango.org/event/the-town-the-people-and-the-gold-bodie-ca/
LOCATION:Maturango Museum\, 100 E Las Flores Ave\, Ridgecrest\, CA\, 93555\, United States
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