An unknown company bought an entire ghost town in California for $22,5 million

Unlike other California ghost towns, Eagle Mountain never truly died. Now an unknown buyer has bought the city for $22,5 million to add a new chapter to its storied history. SFGate.

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The road diverges in yellow plains along the outer edge of Joshua Tree National Park. Two lanes in the middle of the desert leave Interstate 10 about an hour and a half from Palm Springs. They converge at the entrance to Eagle Mountain, a California desert ghost town that has been attracting attention since its 1983 closure.

Oasis in the desert

Eagle Mountain, formerly owned by Kaiser Steel, was a palm-lined oasis for about 4000 residents.

Most of them worked in the mine. Workers drilled, blasted and dug nearby mountains in search of iron ore. At their peak, they broke daily production records, but after only a few years of bad results, the mine closed and the population left.

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The city rose from the arid thickets in the late 1940s and prospered for one or two generations. Although it is mostly empty today, the fate of the city is not as barren as it seems.

Deal details

The "For Sale" sign at the entrance to the city, promising valuable rocks and minerals, may have worked.

According to the documents, the real estate and mining rights were sold on April 17 for about $22,5 million.

The seller was Ontario, Calif.-based Eagle Mountain Acquisition LLC, apparently the last of the various Kaiser subsidiaries to own the town over the past 40 years. The buyer is Ecology Mountain Holdings, LLC, with even more limited public information beyond a business address in Cerritos, California.

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Ecology Transportation Services, known for its big red rigs, is also headquartered in Cerritos.

A playground for Hollywood and the curious

Several workers permanently live in the empty town to keep an eye on Eagle Mountain. Green palm trees stick out from the street they live on, while the rest of the city remains covered in dust. One night in the silence, one worker heard intruders in the dark. A shotgun blast scared them off.

The 600 m long city is home to several hundred abandoned buildings that were once the homes, businesses and community centers of a small, idyllic village. Children rode bicycles along the landscaped streets and played under the vast blue sky.

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Since then, Hollywood has come to Eagle Mountain when it needs a surreal backdrop. The climax of Christopher Nolan's Tenet was filmed amidst the mechanical wreckage of a ghost town. But mostly the city has become a destination for the curious and plagued by incursions. YouTube is filled with videos of intruders crossing the border to gawk at the decrepit remains.

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