Silver City Ghost Town — Bodfish

Silver City Ghost Town is on OK MAP because it preserves more than twenty mining-era buildings moved to Bodfish from historic Kern Valley settlements and camps that were disappearing or being destroyed. Visit Bakersfield documents the composite town's preservation history. It is not a naturally abandoned town in its present location, so the pin is labeled as a historic ghost-town collection rather than a lost settlement.

What ODDKNOWN records

Silver City Ghost Town is on OK MAP because it preserves more than twenty mining-era buildings moved to Bodfish from historic Kern Valley settlements and camps that were disappearing or being destroyed. Visit Bakersfield documents the composite town's preservation history. It is not a naturally abandoned town in its present location, so the pin is labeled as a historic ghost-town collection rather than a lost settlement.

Source classification: documented · Status: documented.

Sources & references

1. Visit Bakersfield — Silver City Ghost Town