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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.
Read note ->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.
Read note ->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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