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Cripple Creek Historic District [3] is a historic district including Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States and is significant for its gold mining era history. It developed as a gold mining center beginning in 1890, with a number of buildings from that period surviving to this day.
Battle Mountain mines, Cripple Creek in 1898 Sunset in Cripple Creek in 1899 with Mt. Pisgah – the conical peak at left Looking east on Bennett Avenue, early 20th century. For many years, Cripple Creek's high valley, at an elevation of 9,494 feet (2,894 m), was considered no more important than a cattle pasture.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Logan County, Colorado, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
This list of cemeteries in Colorado includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
Gold Camp Road follows the former railroad from Colorado Springs to Cripple Creek called the "Short Line". In the 1920s the railroad was converted to a car toll road, eventually becoming a free public road. In 1988, tunnel #3 collapsed and was never repaired.
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Cripple Creek is about 3.6 miles southwest of Pikes Peak. Tornado damage to a home near Cripple Creek, Colorado after an EF1 tor Rare high-elevation tornado confirmed at Pikes Peak in the Rockies
[9] [10] Colorado Springs was a transfer point for people and goods to and from other areas of the country via the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. [11] The Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway completed an alternate route to Cripple Creek and Victor, traveling through the mountains south of Pikes Peak, called the Short Line in 1901 ...