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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S6P_the-fossil-beds_Florissant-CO.html
Explosive volcanic eruptions, a quiet freshwater lake, towering redwoods. A picture of this valley 35 million years ago is revealed by studying the rocks that are here today.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZDO_victor-city-hall_Victor-CO.html
Like a Phoenix, Victor rose from the ashes of the great 1899 fire better than before. The flimsy wooden structures, built in hast during the boom years of the gold rush, were replaced seemingly overnight by the majestic sturdy brick buildings seen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYZ3_the-old-homestead-house-of-myers-avenue_Cripple-Creek-CO.html
The town site of Cripple Creek was laid out shortly after the discovery of gold by Horace Bennett, a Denver realtor, with his partner, Julius Myers, naming the street after each of them. Bennett Avenue became the main street of the town and of fin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYZ0_old-homestead-parlour-house_Cripple-Creek-CO.html
Situated just below Cripple Creek's fashionable business district, the Old Homestead anchored Myers Avenue's "entertainment trade." On a street flanked by saloons and one-room "cribs" where individual "ladies" could ply their trade, this brothel w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYYZ_fairley-bros-lampman-building_Cripple-Creek-CO.html
Furniture retailers C.L. and D.B. Fairley joined undertaker Oscar Lampman to finance the construction of this building. The Fairleys opened a branch of their Colorado Springs store here; Lampman acted primarily as an investor. The Central Drug …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVKQ_labor-wars_Victor-CO.html
Miners Win 8-hour Day Underground gold mining was difficult, dangerous, labor intensive work. Two major labor conflicts between the Association of Mine Owners and the Western Federation of Mines (WFM) Labor Union changed Victor and Gold Camp fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVK2_lowell-thomass-victor_Victor-CO.html
Tomkins Hardware/Victor Museum In 1900, the Victor museum building was the Tompkins [sic] Hardware Store, part of the Reynolds Block. At one time the offices upstairs served as the Mining Exchange. In later years it became the Hackley Store …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVK0_the-bawdy-side-of-town_Victor-CO.html
Fortune ClubThe Fortune Club was a famous gambling house and saloon and it was reported to also be home to one of the area's most talked about Red Light Social Clubs with rooms for rent on the second floor - later the Fortune Club Hotel/B&B. Ha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVI8_fire_Victor-CO.html
Up In FlamesVictor was founded in 1893 at the foot of Battle Mountain - a stone's throw from where the richest gold mines in the Gold Camp were eventually located. Underground mining was very labor intensive so, like many gold rush boom towns, Vic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVI6_north-3rd-street_Victor-CO.html
On this corner, an electric street car (the Low Line) turned off Victor Avenue onto N 3rd Street to continue its trip to the Independence Mine and around Battle Mountain. In the early 1900s, the miners commuted to work via these streetcars for a n…
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