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coal mining
7 Porch Notes tagged “coal mining,” from counties across Colorado.
History and culture - Gunnison County
Crested Butte's old town is a coal-era historic district
The core of Crested Butte is a recognized historic district whose false-front wooden buildings date from its days as a coal-mining town with a large immigrant workforce.
Read note ->History and culture - Huerfano County
Coal and the railroad drove Walsenburg's growth
Walsenburg is older than the coal boom, but coal mining and the rail lines that hauled the coal out drove the town's growth and still shape the towns and land you see in Huerfano County today.
Read note ->History and culture - Weld County
Carbon Valley's town names still remember coal
Dacono, Frederick, and Firestone grew from coal-town origins in southwest Weld County, a history still visible in Carbon Valley place names.
Read note ->History and culture - Routt County
Coal and the railroad shaped the towns of the Yampa Valley
Routt County's towns grew up around ranching, coal, and the arrival of the railroad, which helped shift the county's center to the Yampa Valley and Steamboat Springs.
Read note ->History and culture - Boulder County
Lafayette and Louisville grew up on coal, not gold
The eastern Boulder County towns of Lafayette, Louisville, Superior, and Marshall began as coal-mining communities, a very different heritage from the gold and silver camps in the mountains.
Read note ->History and culture - Garfield County
New Castle was a coal town, and an old mine fire still smolders underground
New Castle grew as a coal-mining town, and after a deadly 1896 mine explosion, an underground coal-seam fire has burned in nearby Burning Mountain for over a century.
Read note ->History and culture - Las Animas County
The coke ovens west of Trinidad explain how this county was built
Stone coke ovens and old company towns along the Highway of Legends are physical reminders that coal mining shaped where people settled in Las Animas County.
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