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Leadville, circa 1880, with the Eighth Avenue Motel in center of photo, and mining works visible on hill beyond Leadville. Painted bird's eye view of Leadville, 1882. Leadville was founded in 1877 by mine owners Horace Tabor and August Meyer at the start of the Colorado Silver Boom. Tabor's house was also built in 1877, at 116 E. 5th Street. [17]
EarthCam, Inc. is a company based in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, United States, that provides webcam content, technology and services. Founded in 1996, EarthCam.com is a network of webcameras offering a complete searchable database of views of places around the world.
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.
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Ski Cooper is an alpine ski resort in Colorado, one of the oldest in the state.Opened as Cooper Hill Ski Area in 1942, the ski area served as the training site for the 10th Mountain Division, based at nearby Camp Hale during World War II.
Lake County Airport (IATA: LXV, ICAO: KLXV, FAA LID: LXV), also known as Leadville Airport, is a county-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) southwest of the central business district of Leadville, a city in Lake County, Colorado, United States. [1] High-altitude tests performed for Bell 429 helicopter
The pass traverses the Continental Divide north of Leadville in a gap between the northern end of the Sawatch Range to the west and the northern end of the Mosquito Range to the east. It connects the headwaters of the Arkansas River to the south with the upper valley of the Eagle River (in the watershed of the Colorado River) to the north.
The Twin Lakes and the Twin Lakes CDP are located about 15 miles (24 km) south of Leadville, the county seat. The CDP is bounded on the east by U.S. Route 24 (US 24), on the south by Colorado State Highway 82 (SH 82, and on the north and west by County Highway 24. About 4 miles (6 km) west of the CDP is the original community of Twin Lakes ...