In 1948 California built a city for 4,000 miners. Today it is one of the largest ghost towns in the US
California needed huge amounts of iron to fuel its post-war industrial expansion. His solution was as ambitious as the moment: to build an entire city in the middle of the desert to house the workers who would extract that mineral. For decades it functioned as a self-sustaining community. Today, its empty streets continue to remind us of the extent to which an industry can build (and erase
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California needed huge amounts of iron to fuel its post-war industrial expansion. His solution was as ambitious as the moment: to build an entire city in the middle of the desert to house the workers who would extract that mineral. For decades it functioned as a self-sustaining community. Today, its empty streets continue to remind us of the extent to which an industry can build (and erase) a city.
A city born to feed the steel industry. In 1948, the EMP