December 27, 2008 Dansk tekst til venstre English text on the right Dagens baghave: Backyard of the Day: Tumco, Imperial County, California Tumco, variously known also as Hedges and "Ghost Town U.S.A.", is located off Ogilby Road in eastern Imperial County, California   Hvis man kører til venstre fra vores campingplads på bjerget, kommer man ned i byen. Hvis man kører til højre kommer man ud i Sonora ørkenen. Og der tog vi ud i dag, for vi pissefryser, al'så! Så vi bestemte os til at køre ud til Tumco, en spøgelsesby som April aldrig har set. If you go left from our camp in the mountains, you go down to the city. If you go right you go out to the Sonoran desert. Which is where we went today, 'cause we're freezing our butts off, I tell you! So we decided to go out to Tumco, a ghost town that April never got to see.       Tumco ligger for foden af Chocoladebjergene, i den del, der kaldes Cargo Muchacho. Cargo Muchacho bjergene er "unge" bjerge, og siges at være dannet mellem for 251 og 65,5 millioner år siden. Tumco is situated at the foot of the Chocolate Mountains in the part called Cargo Muchacho. The Cargo Muchacho Mountains are "young" mountains, said to be formed between 251 and 65.5 million years ago.     Der er i dag meget lidt tilbage af Tumco, som var den første egentlige by i Imperial Valley. Der blev fundet guld her af Peter Walters omkring 1883, og byen, som dengang hed Hedges, sprang hurtigt op, efterhånden som guldgraverne kom styrtende, og havde over 3000 indbyggere i 1890erne. Hedges blev stort set forladt i 1905, da minedriften ophørte. I 1910 blev minerne kortvarigt genåbnet under navnet Tumco, forkortet fra "The United Mining Company." Byen genvandt aldrig sin tidligere glans, og har været fuldstændig forladt siden 1949. Very little remains of Tumco, which was the first city ever established in Imperial Valley. Gold was found here by Peter Walters around 1883, and the town, which was then called Hedges, quickly sprang up as gold prospectors rushed in from near and far. It had a population of more than 3000 in the 1890s. Hedges was largely abandoned in 1905, when mining was discontinued. In 1910 the mines were briefly reopened under the name Tumco, short for "The United Mining Company." The town never regained its former glory, and has been completely abandoned since 1949.

Der stod gamle huse her i mange år, men elementerne og hærværk har gjort, at der ingen bygninger er tilbage i dag. Man skal se godt efter, for at se, hvor de har stået. There were old houses here for years, but because of the elements, combined with vandalism, no buildings remain today. You have to look carefully to see, where they once stood.       Mineskakt ~ Mine shaft     Huse kommer og huse går, men spil'me, konservesdåser varer evigt! Houses come and houses go, but gosh darn it, a tin can lasts forever!

Coke is it.     April & Bear

Tumcos to kirkegårde ligger her stadig... En for protestanter og en for katolikker. Tumco's two cemeteries still remain... One for Protestants and one for Catholics.

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