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Leadville (/ ˈ l ɛ d v ɪ l / LED-vil) [9] is a statutory city that is the county seat, the most populous community, and the only incorporated municipality in Lake County, Colorado, United States. [ 1 ] [ 10 ] The city population was 2,633 at the 2020 census . [ 7 ]
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 city of Leadville was founded near to the new silver deposits in 1877 by mine owners Horace Austin Warner Tabor and August Meyer, [6] By 1878 Leadville had become the county seat of Lake county. The name Leadville probably was chosen for the town because lead was the major mineral in both the placers and in the lode mines.
This discovery propelled a rush of miners to the area. The town of Leadville was founded a year later by mine owners Horace Austin Warner Tabor and August Meyer. [5] Mining, mineral processing, and smelting in and near Leadville produced gold, silver, lead, copper, manganese, and zinc for more than 130 years.
The Matchless Mine in Leadville, originally owned by Horace Tabor, known as "The Silver King". The Colorado Silver Boom was a dramatic expansionist period of silver mining activity in the U.S. state of Colorado in the late 19th century. The boom started in 1879 with the discovery of silver at Leadville.
The Leadville Railroad is a tourist railroad based in Leadville, Colorado, United States. [1] [2] The Leadville Railroad has operated as a tourist Railroad in Leadville Colorado since 1988. Their season starts on Memorial Day weekend and runs though the 1st of April. [3] [4]
Leadville In February, Climax, Colorado's 400-ton molybdenum mill went into production. [22] 1917 coal Hastings The Victor American Hastings Mine Disaster, which killed 121 miners in Las Animas County on April 27, was the worst mine disaster in Colorado's history. [23] 1915 zinc Lake County
Currently it is a Colorado State Historic Site and is operated as a Victorian era museum by the state under History Colorado, together with Dexter Cabin. The two are located within the Leadville Historic District, which is itself a National Historic Landmark. The restored house serves as an example of the "Elegant Eighties". [4]