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Central City is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Gilpin County. [7] The city population was 779, all in Gilpin County, at the 2020 United States census . [ 5 ] The city is a historic mining settlement founded in 1859 during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush and came to be known as the "Richest Square Mile on Earth".
The Weekly Register-Call is the oldest weekly newspaper in Colorado.It is published by Robert Sweeney in Black Hawk, Colorado.The newspaper was originally known as the Miners' Register (also Daily Miners' Register), which was changed to the Central City Register (also called Daily) on July 26, 1868, and after an 1870s merger it has been known as the Register-Call
By the time the Territory of Colorado was formed on February 28, 1861, Central City was already the largest city in the entire territory, though Denver was made the state capital. The Central City/Black Hawk area was a basically continuous arc of mining camps and urban development, with a population of more than 3,000 at its height in 1870.
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A small town Colorado newspaper has hit back at a man who stole all print copies of an edition which featured a story about the alleged rape of a teenage girl, accusing him of harbouring a ...
The Central City Parkway is a four-lane, 8.4 miles (13.5 km) highway in Clear Creek and Gilpin counties in Colorado, United States, that connects Interstate 70/U.S. Route 6/U.S. Route 40 (I-70/US 6/US 40), immediately south of Central City (and about 3 miles [4.8 km] east of Idaho Springs) with Nevadaville Road and Nevada Street in the historic mining town and gambling area of Central City.
(Survey of local news existence and ownership in 21st century) Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) "a service of the Colorado State Library... includes more than 2,000,000 digitized pages from more than 500 individual newspaper titles published in Colorado primarily from 1859 to 1923" and, with publisher's permission, some newer ...
Teller House is a historic hotel in Central City, Colorado.Built in 1872, the building now serves as a restaurant. The bar at the Teller House is well known for The Face on the Barroom Floor, a painting of a woman's face on the wooden floor, done in 1936 by local artist Herndon Davis, as a joke after being fired by the Teller House.