Colorado Porch

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silver

3 Porch Notes tagged “silver,” from counties across Colorado.

History and culture - Mineral County

Creede grew up around a silver rush, and the town still shows it

Creede began as a late-1800s silver boomtown, and that mining past explains the town's setting in a narrow canyon and the old workings in the hills above it.

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History and culture - Pitkin County

Aspen began as a silver mining camp

Aspen grew out of a 1880s silver boom in the Roaring Fork Valley, and the 1893 silver crash that followed shaped the town long before skiing arrived.

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History and culture - Summit County

Montezuma is a tiny silver-mining town that is still its own town

Montezuma, high up the Snake River valley past Keystone, began as a silver-mining camp and remains a small incorporated town today.

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