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Cornucopia
Ghost town · United States
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 45.008, -117.193
Why it was abandoned
⛏️ Gold rush
Detected automatically from the text: Cornucopia is a ghost town built during the gold mining boom of the 1880s in Eastern Oregon, United States.
History
Cornucopia is a ghost town built during the gold mining boom of the 1880s in Eastern Oregon, United States. The town was officially platted in 1886 and was a mining town with various levels of success until it was abandoned in 1942. It is now primarily a tourist attraction as a ghost town. It is located east of Baker City high in the mountains of Pine Valley almost due north of Halfway, Oregon, on Oregon Route 86.