Central City/Black Hawk Historic District - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Central City/Black Hawk Historic District - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Central City/Black Hawk Historic District (formerly just the Central City Historic District) is a National Historic Landmark District that encompasses the developed areas of Central City and Black Hawk, Colorado, United States. They are adjacent former gold mining camps in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in Gilpin County, Colorado. For a time, the area was known as the Richest Square Mile on Earth,History of Central City and was the largest urban area of the Colorado Territory in the 1870s. Read more on Wikipedia
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