Tag
ghost towns
3 Porch Notes tagged “ghost towns,” from counties across Colorado.
History and culture - Park County
South Park City in Fairplay is a town rebuilt from Park County's lost mining camps
South Park City Museum at the west end of Fairplay's Front Street is an open-air museum of historic buildings moved in from the county's vanished mining camps.
Read note ->History and culture - Custer County
Rosita and Querida: vanished silver camps
Rosita and Querida were busy silver camps east of Silver Cliff in the 1870s and 1880s, where thousands once lived among hills that have mostly returned to grass and timber.
Read note ->History and culture - Huerfano County
Huerfano County's vanished coal camps, treated with care
Names like Pictou, Rouse, Walsen, and Cameron mark places that were once busy coal camps in Huerfano County, and most are now quiet sites best understood through archival and official sources.
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