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

By the 1890s, “Fat Hill” had gone to the ghosts. The last reported gunfight in Cerro Gordo occurred on Dec. 29, 1892. French-Canadian engineer and former postmaster of the town Billy Crapo ...

Cerro Gordo, like all the ghost towns on our list ... When Goldfield, Arizona, was established in the early 1890s, the fields of gold that surrounded it were so endless that some believed it ...

"Here," perched on the edge of Death Valley, eight miles up a winding dirt road, is the abandoned mining town of Cerro Gordo, California. Population: Brent. Correspondent Luke Burbank asked ...

YouTube creator Brent Underwood and his investor friend, Jon Bier, owner of boutique public relations agency Jack Taylor PR, bought Cerro Gordo from family owners in July 2018 with plans to turn ...

Brent Underwood moved from Austin to the abandoned mining town of Cerro Gordo, California, in 2020. He spent three years living there alone working to bring a relic of the past back to life.

A blizzard dumped 5 feet of snow, trapping the Florida native alone just after he arrived in Cerro Gordo, the California ghost town he purchased in 2018. Then a fire ripped through a century-and-a ...