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Cerro Gordo

  • Address: Cerro Gordo Rd
  • Vicinity: 8 mi dirt road E of Keeler, fairly steep in places
  • US County of Inyo County in California
  • Type: Ghost Town


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1865/00/00 Pablo Flores begins mining and smelting silver ore near the summit ofBuena Vista Peak.
1868/00/00 Mortimer Belshaw begins hauling wagon loads of silver from Cerro Gordo to Los Angeles. He also built a smelter in Cerro Gordo and a wagon road up the mountain which he operated as the Yellow Road as a toll road.
1959/00/00 Operations end at Cerro Gordo c 1959 when all machinery was removed and taken to Candelaria, Nevada.

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Particulars for Cerro Gordo:
Locale Type Ghost Town
Physiographic Mountainous




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