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Randsburg, California
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Randsburg grew from the 1895 gold strike in the Rand Mountains and was named for the Witwatersrand district of South Africa; by 1900 it had banks, churches, theaters, saloons and a newspaper. Today about a hundred people live along Butte Avenue among boarded-up fronts and a few open businesses, so it is called a living ghost town. The Rand Desert Museum on the same street holds mining artifacts and old photographs.
Most businesses and the small museum open on weekends; the Old West Days festival is in September.
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