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The Golden Burro Cafe and Lounge is a restaurant in Leadville, Colorado. In 2023, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places. [1] History
In 1936 a fire broke out in the building's bar, caused by a cigarette dropped into the upholstery by a patron. [13] In 1955 the building was sold for $20,000 USD to Evelyn Furman, a resident of Leadville. [14] [15] Furman maintained the building, opening it occasionally for tours and performances, until her death in 2011. [15]
The Leadville strike of 1880 was the first major labor conflict in the central Colorado silver boomtown, shutting down most of the area’s mining district from May 26, 1880. [ 12 ] According to one historian of the era, "The outpouring of the precious metal from Leadville transformed the struggling Centennial State into a veritable autocrat in ...
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.
He graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1884, and was admitted to the bar the same year. He returned to Leadville and commenced the practice of law. Taylor served as superintendent of schools of Lake County in 1884, and as deputy district attorney in 1885. He moved to Glenwood Springs, Colorado in 1887 and resumed private ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 09:25, 19 March 2023: 2,592 × 1,944 (1.38 MB): Steve Morgan {{Information |Description=The Golden Burro Cafe, at 710 Harrison Avenue in Leadville, Colorado, was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2023.
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.
Adams graduated with a degree in law in 1876, and was admitted to the bar the same year. [2] In addition, he was involved in several businesses, including the Adams Mining Company of Leadville, Colorado , which included his brothers Michael Adams (1845–1899), a member of the Canadian Parliament , and Samuel Adams (1846–1928), a member of ...