BODIE
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NAME: Bodie
COUNTY: Okanogan ROADS: 2WD GRID: 1 CLIMATE: Snow in the winter, year-around road BEST TIME TO VISIT: Spring, Summer or Fall |
COMMENTS:
No current residents. Go north
from Wauconda WA, on Toroda Creek road towards Curlew. Bodie
can be found on the east side of the road next to the creek,
about 15 miles north of Wauconda. More information about Bodie REMAINS: A few old log buildings left beside the present road. |
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Bodie was established as a mill town about 1900. At one time it had a store, post office, cookhouse, bunkhouse, and hotel. Almost every resident worked for the Perkins Milling Company. A giant stamp mill processed much of the ore taken from the Golden Reward, Bodie and the Elk (later the Golconda) mines. Business was good up until the late thirties when the mill and the town was shut down In 1962 the mill burned. Submitted by: Ed Page Bodie can be found about twelve miles south of the Canadian boundary in northeast Okanogan County. It was named for nearby Bodie Mine eventually but to start with it was called Toroda and is still referred to today as the Second Toroda by the locals in the area. A post office was established in May of 1898 as Toroda. Then almost a year later in January of 1899 it was renamed Bodie.The Postoffice was re-established again in 1906 but was finally closed in 1911. Today there are still old buildings on both sides of the road. (T38N R31E Section 3). Submitted by Maggie Rail. |
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