Inside Chloride, Arizona's historic ghost town that's not quite frozen in time...

A living ghost town: Eerie footage offers a fascinating glimpse inside Chloride - Arizona's oldest inhabited mining town with just 400 residents and once the setting for the little-known Jack Nicholson film The Rebel Rousers Established in 1864, the silver-rich town was once home to around 50 mines and 2,000 residents Despite its small size, the town has a few attractions that attract visitors, including a hotel and restaurant The settlement was also the setting for the Rebel Rousers film 1970 bikers The Rebel Rousers, which starred Jack Nicholson

By Sadie Whitelocks for Dailymail.com

Updated : 9:17 PM BST, 9 July 2023

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Abandoned train tracks, weathered wooden shacks, dusty roads and rusting pieces of machinery.

Chloride in Arizona has the makings of a ghost town, but it's actually one of the oldest continuously inhabited mining towns in the state .

Established in 1864, the silver-rich town was once home to around 50 mines and 2,000 residents, but today the population stands at around 400 residents and the miners are long gone.

Despite its small size, the town has a few attractions that attract visitors, including a 16-room hotel, a steakhouse serving hard-hitting libations, a grocery store 'Antiquities, a two-cell former prison and Arizona's oldest operating post office, handling mail since 1862.