The Strange Case of an Abandoned California Town Bought for Over 20 Million – Idealist / News

nobody really knows Ecology Mountain HoldingsThe Californian company that paid $22.5 million, about 20.7 million euros, for the DI property and mining rights. Eagle Mountain, a small town that has been abandoned since the 1980s, It is located in the middle of California’s Mojave Desert on the outskirts of Joshua Tree National Park. It was previously inhabited by approximately 4,000 inhabitants for 40 years until it was abandoned in 1983.

The plans of this company, of which only it is known that it has a domicile in Cerritos, a city on the US border with Mexico in California. The Eagle Mountain Townhouses were built by the Kaiser Steel Mine Company in 1948 for iron ore workers and their families. in his best years It had 4,000 inhabitants with 400 fully furnished houses.

With air conditioning. It had a canteen, bowling alley, school and assembly hall for 350 people.

But with the energy crisis of the 1970s, demand for steel began to decline and they began cutting costs at the mine. Kaiser announced plans to phase out the mine in the early 1980s. Eagle Mountain residents were completely evicted in 1983.

The cafeteria and school are still open to other residents of the area, and there is still some life in it.Opening of Eagle Mountain Correctional Facility, a prison for non-dangerous convicts. However, in 2003 there was a riot with deaths and the prison was closed.