An entrepreneur has documented the progress he has made in rebuilding a California ghost town that he purchased to develop into a tourist attraction.
Cerro Gordo—meaning fat hill in Spanish—was a mining town that began operations after a man named Pablo Flores discovered silver at the site in 1865. By the next decade, it had become one of Los Angeles’ largest suppliers of silver and lead.
The abandoned town was purchased for $1.4 million by an investment group led by hospitality entrepreneur Brent Underwood and his friend, PR firm founder Jon Bier, the LA Times reported in 2018.
