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Calico is a ghost town in the Mojave Desert region of Southern California. It became a silver mining town in 1881. It quickly grew to have a population of 1,200 people and over 500 silver mines. In 1907 the silver and borax mines were all closed. The last original inhabitant of Calico before it was abandoned, Mrs. Lucy Bell Lane, died in the 1960s.
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