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methodist church, bodie, california -- The church was built in 1882 and is the only one left in Bodie. bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California. Bodie became a boom town in 1876 after the discovery of a profitable line of gold; by 1879 it had a population of 7,000–10,000. The town went into decline in the subsequent decades and came to be described as a ghost town by 1915. As a bustling gold mining center, Bodie had the amenities of larger towns, including a Wells Fargo Bank, four volunteer fire companies, a brass band, railroad, miners' and mechanics' union, several daily newspapers, and a jail. At its peak, 65 saloons lined Main Street, which was a mile long. Murders, shootouts, barroom brawls, and stagecoach holdups were regular occurrences. Bodie had a Chinatown, the main street of which ran at a right angle to Bodie's Main Street.[19] At one point it had several hundred Chinese residents and a Taoist temple. Opium dens were plentiful in this area.

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