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Once an important site for processing precious metals from mines in Park County’s Buckskin Gulch, the Paris Mill is now abandoned, despite the fact that the nearby Sweet Home Mine is currently producing rhodochrosite, a rose- colored gemstone and the official Colorado...
Reiling Gold Dredge is one of the most important surviving reminders of Summit County’s early twentieth-century gold dredging era. Located about 2.6 miles east of Breckenridge in French Gulch, the dredge was built for the French Gulch Dredging Company during the...
Rock Creek Stage Stop was built in the 1880s by James and Katherine Gates and is a unique two-story log structure near Gore Pass in Routt County. Over the years, it served many roles, including as a family home, hotel, post office, and stage stop. Located along an...
After a devastating fire in 1888 destroyed more than 30 buildings in Salida, a group of local businessmen organized an Opera Association and spent $30,000 to construct the Salida Opera House. The building was dedicated on January 1, 1889, at which point the local...
Founded in 1874 as a supply and service center for hard rock mining, Lake City is now a community with a year-round population of less than 400 and a tourism-based economy. Key to Lake City’s heritage tourism efforts are its beautifully preserved commercial district...
This building housed German POWs and Jamaican Farm Workers. It is believed to be the last building standing associated with either themes.
Koch Homestead is one of the most important surviving historic resource clusters in the Hunter Creek Valley near Aspen. Set within a beautiful high-country landscape now managed as part of the White River National Forest, the homestead reflects the earliest period of...
Lafayette Head Home & Ute Indian Agency is a rare and historically significant site in the San Luis Valley that reflects the cultural convergence, political change, and territorial development that shaped early Colorado. Built in 1855 by Lafayette Head, the...