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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.

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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.

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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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