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Colorado ghost towns were abandoned for a number of reasons: Mining towns were abandoned when the mines closed, largely due to the devaluation of silver in 1893. Mill towns were abandoned when the mining towns they serviced closed. Farming towns on the eastern plains were often deserted due to rural depopulation.
Gilman is an abandoned mining town in southeastern Eagle County, Colorado, United States.The Gilman post office operated from November 3, 1886, until April 22, 1986. [3] The U.S. Post Office at Minturn (ZIP Code 81645) now serves Gilman postal addresses.
Red Mountain Town, as it would become known, formed part of the Red Mountain Pass mining district between Silverton and Ouray. Alongside the Ironton , Guston , Sweetville, Rogerville, and Park City, Red Mountain Town formed a corridor through which the Silverton Railroad narrow-gauge ran, delivering ore to be processed in and transported from ...
The boom did not last, and by 1922 most of the mines were again closed. Among the biggest producers was the Nabob Mine, [6] where a new shaft was sunk in 1906. [7] The town struggled on for a while, with the last inhabitants leaving during the Depression. By the 1970s only an old mill and a few building foundations made of stone were left. [5]
Uravan (a contraction of uranium/vanadium [2]) is a former uranium mining town [3] in western Montrose County, Colorado, United States, which still appears on some maps.The town was a company town established by U. S. Vanadium Corporation in 1936 to extract the rich vanadium ore in the region.
Leadville is a former silver mining town that lies among the headwaters of the Arkansas River within the Rocky Mountains. The Leadville Historic District , designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961, contains many historic structures and sites of Leadville's mining era.
Tomboy is a ghost town in San Miguel County, Colorado, United States. [1] Tomboy was a mining town located 2 mi (3.2 km) east of Telluride. At an elevation of 11,509 ft (3,508 m), Tomboy is one of the highest ghost towns in the United States. [2]
A historical marker near the old townsite recognizes the lodge, which was existent until 1966. [5] In the 1890s, Kokomo was at the highest elevation (10,618 feet) of any incorporated town in the state. [8] The town reached zero population in the 1960s when the land was bought by Climax Molybdenum Company to use as a tailings dump. [9]