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The town was founded as a gold mining camp, after a "rich strike" was discovered west of Fort Collins [1] in September 1886 between the Seven Mile and Elk Horn creeks. [3] [4] This resulted in a rush of miners to the area along Manhattan Creek. [3] [5] The town was platted in 1887 [6] [7] and a post office opened in March of that year.
The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 (as Vicksburg Mining Camp); a part of the town is maintained by the Chaffee County Historical Society as a museum. Four miles farther up the same road on which Vicksburg is located is another old mining camp named Winfield .
Kokomo is a silver- and gold-mining ghost town in Summit County, in the U.S. state of Colorado. [3] Before being depopulated in the 1960s, Kokomo was at its height home to over 10,000 people. [ 4 ]
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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.
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.
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