Calico ghost town and former silver mining town in San Bernardino County, California, United States. Located in the Calico Mountains founded in 1881, which was California's largest silver producer in the mid-1880s. Calico had over 500 mines and in 1890 the estimated population of the town was 3,500, with nationals of China, England, Ireland, Greece, France, and the Netherlands, as well as Americans living there. Calico produced over $20 million in silver ore over a 12-year span. When silver lost its value in the mid-1890's, Calico lost its population. The miner's packed up, loaded their mules and moved away abandoning the town that once gave them a good living. It became a "ghost town."
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