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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.
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.
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.
And the town near Hildebran, N.C., called District 12, which was used in "The Hunger Games," was also up for sale earlier this year for $1.4 million. %Gallery-152289% More on AOL Real Estate :
Although small even for an underground coal mine, in 1961, the Calumet Mine was the county's leading producer. [2] The name Calumet refers to a type of ceremonial pipe . [ 3 ] The hamlet never did grow large enough to have its own post office and was abandoned by the 1970s.
This mining city was once home to 5,000 people before becoming completely abandoned nearly one hundred years later.
Eagle Mine is an abandoned mine near the ghost town of Gilman and about one mile southeast of Minturn, in the U.S. state of Colorado. [ 1 ] Mining began in the 1880s, initially for gold and silver but focusing predominantly on zinc during later stages of its operation.
Near Aspen, Colorado, the mining town of Ashcroft had 2,000 residents and 20 saloons in 1883 but was abandoned 5 years later. Here's a look at it now.