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Calico, a ghost town located in Yermo halfway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, was once a very productive silver mining town, home to over 3,000 people in the 1880s. The decline in silver prices killed the mines in 1896, and the town shriveled to nothing. Today's Calico is a 1950s reconstruction by Walter Knott (of Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park) on top of the original building foundations, donated to the County of San Bernardino in 1967. Lane's General Store was run by Lucy Bell Lane (1874-1967), nicknamed the Queen of Calico. While Lane had initially left Calico in 1899 after the mines' closure, she returned for good in 1916. Her residence during the boom years was located across the street from here, while she lived in the store itself between 1916 and 1920, and for the rest of her life, lived in Calico's old courthouse. Calico's peak population was over 3,000 in the 1880s. Today's population at Calico: 9. |
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