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The Leadville strike of 1880 was the first major labor conflict in the central Colorado silver boomtown, shutting down most of the area’s mining district from May 26, 1880. [ 12 ] According to one historian of the era, "The outpouring of the precious metal from Leadville transformed the struggling Centennial State into a veritable autocrat in ...
Ski Cooper is an alpine ski resort in Colorado, one of the oldest in the state.Opened as Cooper Hill Ski Area in 1942, the ski area served as the training site for the 10th Mountain Division, based at nearby Camp Hale during World War II.
The California Gulch site consists of approximately 18 square miles in Lake County, Colorado. The area includes the city of Leadville, parts of the Leadville Historic Mining District and a section of the Arkansas River from the confluence of California Gulch downstream to the confluence of Two-Bit Gulch. [1]
The highway leads north 31 miles (50 km) over the Continental Divide to Interstate 70 (I-70) at Minturn, and it runs south through Leadville 35 miles (56 km) to Buena Vista. Colorado State Highway 91 has its southern terminus in Leadville North and leads north-northeast 22 miles (35 km) to I-70 at Copper Mountain.
Leadville was the site of a Boot Hill Cemetery, which is perhaps the "most documented" of those in the Old West. [7] [8] According to an eyewitness: "At the foot of Chestnut street, a little distance from the Leadville Smeltering Company's works, in an acre plot of ground unfenced, and with the carbonate-like earth thrown up into little heaps.
The reservoir lies south of SH 82, outside the CDP. SH 82 leads west across Independence Pass 40 miles (64 km) to Aspen, while US 24 leads north to Leadville and south 20 miles (32 km) to Buena Vista. The altitude of the Twin Lakes area ranges from 9,200 feet (2,800 m) to over 9,800 feet (3,000 m), all of it somewhat lower than Leadville.
Lake County Airport (IATA: LXV, ICAO: KLXV, FAA LID: LXV), also known as Leadville Airport, is a county-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) southwest of the central business district of Leadville, a city in Lake County, Colorado, United States. [1] High-altitude tests performed for Bell 429 helicopter