Cripple Creek Historic District - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Cripple Creek Historic District - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Cripple Creek Historic District Victor and Cripple Creek History is a historic district including Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States and is significant for its gold mining era history. It developed as a gold mining center beginning in 1890, with a number of buildings from that period surviving to this day. The mines in the area were among the most successful, producing millions of dollars of gold in the 1890s and supporting a population of 25,000 at its peak. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961. and Read more on Wikipedia
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