Calcium borate (borax) was found shortly after. In 1881, John McBryde and Lowery Silver discovered silver ore in the dusty mountains near Wall Street Canyon. In the 1950s, it was reinvented by Walter Knott, the very man who brought us Knotts Berry Farm. Just outside of Barstow in the Mojave Desert-designated the state of California’s official “silver rush ghost town” in 2005-Calico started its life as a lawless 19th-century mining camp. Who knew a deserted, rough-and-tumble mining boomtown in the Wild West could be so delightful?Ĭalico is a desert ghost town, theme-park style.
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