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Colorado ghost towns were abandoned for a number of reasons: Mining towns were abandoned when the mines closed, largely due to the devaluation of silver in 1893. Mill towns were abandoned when the mining towns they serviced closed. Farming towns on the eastern plains were often deserted due to rural depopulation.
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.
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.
The Colorado and Wyoming Railway company extended its line to Tercio in 1902. Coal mined near Tercio was used mostly to produce coke which was transported by rail to Pueblo, Colorado to be used in the Colorado Fuel and Iron steel mill. [6] By August 1902 Tercio was a company town with 100 houses for employees and expanding rapidly.
Vulcan, Colorado, circa 1896. Vulcan was the most productive mining town to appear along the Gunnison Gold Belt, a gold-rich greenstone belt that spans over 25 miles (40 km) across southern Gunnison County and adjacent Saguache County. Multiple gold strikes resulted in mining operations and short-lived mining camps throughout the belt.
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Nevadaville (also Nevada City and Bald Mountain) is an extinct gold-mining town in Gilpin County, Colorado, United States. [3] The community is now largely a ghost town , although not completely deserted.
Russell Gulch, is a former mining town, now largely a ghost town, in Gilpin County, Colorado, United States. [1] Although the population was once much larger than today, and most of the larger commercial buildings stand empty, the town is not completely deserted.