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Mount Massive, 10.6 mi (17.1 km) west-southwest of Leadville, at 14,428 ft (4,398 m) is the second highest summit in the Rocky Mountains and state of Colorado, and the third highest in the contiguous United States. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city of Leadville has an area of 1.1 square miles (2.9 km 2), all land. [43]
She lost the mine in 1927, when it was sold to satisfy a debt, but the new owners allowed Baby Doe to stay in the cabin. In the winter of 1935, after a snowstorm, some neighbors noticed that no smoke was coming out of the chimney at the Matchless Mine cabin. Investigating, they found Baby Doe, her body frozen on the floor. [3] [4] [5]
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.
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The trail as it passes near the Matchless Mine, north of Leadville. The Mineral Belt National Recreation Trail is an 11.6 mile all-season biking/walking trail that loops around Leadville, Colorado, and through its historic mining district. The trail's setting is quintessentially Colorado Rocky Mountain landscape.
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Real estate values have continued to increase, which is in sync with the market in Colorado. According to Trulia, [20] Leadville has seen an increase of $46,000 (26%) in the median home price in the last year. Similarly, in the last year the price per square foot has increased from $131 to $188.
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.