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James Marshall discovered gold in the American river and the word spread so everyone rode in wagons to California and tried to get as rich as they could.

However the rich rode a train and every 8 miles a new mining town popped up and they mined for gold. Many of those towns were abandoned because they moved to California to get even richer with gold to sell. The abandoned mining towns are now known as "Ghost Towns," towns without life living in the buildings.

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