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Leadville is home to a campus of Colorado Mountain College. At an elevation of 10,200 feet, CMC Leadville is the highest elevation college campus in the United States. At an elevation of 10,200 feet, CMC Leadville is the highest elevation college campus in the United States.
Oro City, an early Colorado gold placer mining town located about a mile east of Leadville in California Gulch, was the location to one of the richest placer gold strikes in Colorado, with estimated gold production of 120,000–150,000 ozt (8,200–10,300 lb; 3,700–4,700 kg), worth $2.5 to $3 million at the then-price [clarification needed ...
Colorado Springs: A comprehensive university with selective admission standards 11723 6606 [1] 87 13 Public 4-year ... Leadville Residential Campus, Leadville;
The Colorado Community College System is a public community college system in the U.S. state of Colorado. Created by legislation in 1967, it has 13 member institutions and serves more than 163,000 students annually.
The City of Leadville, Colorado has been the highest elevation incorporated city in the United States since its incorporation on February 18, 1878. The Town of Winter Park, Colorado has the highest elevation within the municipal boundaries of any town in the United States at 12,060 feet (3,676 m).
The Leadville residential campus was one of the first Colorado Mountain College campuses, built in 1967. [17] CMC Leadville is the highest elevation college campus in the country, [ 18 ] at 10,152 feet above sea level, with views of Colorado's two highest peaks, Mount Massive and Mount Elbert .
The Colorado Midland Railway (reporting mark CM), [1] incorporated in 1883, was the first standard gauge railroad built over the Continental Divide in Colorado. It ran from Colorado Springs to Leadville and through the divide at Hagerman Pass to Glenwood Springs and Grand Junction.
Ute Trail became a wagon road in the 1860s providing transport to Leadville mining camp. [1] In 1872 the old wagon road through Ute Pass started at Rainbow Falls, or Ute Pass Falls. [7] The Colorado Midland Railway had tracks through the Ute Pass to Leadville and Aspen beginning in 1888. Service was later extended to Cripple Creek.