Tag
silver mining
4 Porch Notes tagged “silver mining,” from counties across Colorado.
History and culture - Clear Creek County
The Georgetown Loop is a railroad built to climb a wall
The Georgetown Loop is a restored narrow-gauge railroad that loops over itself to climb between Georgetown and Silver Plume, with a historic silver-mine tour on the route.
Read note ->History and culture - Pitkin County
Ashcroft is a preserved ghost town up Castle Creek
Ashcroft was an 1880s silver camp in the Castle Creek valley that briefly rivaled Aspen, and its remaining buildings are now a cared-for historic site.
Read note ->History and culture - Gunnison County
Gothic: a silver ghost town turned research station
Gothic, north of Crested Butte, boomed as a silver camp, emptied into a ghost town, and was reborn as the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory.
Read note ->History and culture - Pitkin County
A standard-gauge railroad once climbed over the divide to Aspen
The Colorado Midland Railway reached Aspen in the late 1880s by tunneling under the high country near Hagerman Pass, helping the silver town boom before the line was abandoned.
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