This land is your land — until a foreign mining company wants it,” writes the owner and caretaker of a historic 19th-century ...

California, USA. If one looks very closely at Google Maps, pretty much in the middle of nowhere, the town of Cerro Gordo can be spied. The place is now known as a “ghost town” as it is all but ...

A businessman named Mortimer Belshaw is the man who really put the town on the map, though ... of silver and lead in California. “If you look at the history of Cerro Gordo, it was really ...

This is a story about the history and future of an evil town. Cerro Gordo is a settlement of bloodstained brothels, skeletons and busted up pianos on the wind-battered southern slope of the Inyo ...

It is possible to buy entire towns these days. A little over a month after a 19th century ghost town in California called Cerro Gordo went on sale, Brent Underwood bought it for $1.4 million ...

The marketer and his partners bought the Cerro Gordo ghost town for $1.4 million in 2018 with the goal of transforming it into a remote tourist attraction. Visitors would enjoy gourmet meals ...

A 19th century ghost town in California, that includes an abandoned hotel, church and bunkhouse, came on the market earlier this month. Cerro Gordo, which means “fat hill,” sits south of the ...

It is possible to buy entire towns these days. A little over a month after a 19th century ghost town in California called Cerro Gordo went on sale, Brent Underwood bought it for $1.4 million ...