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    Building in Fairplay, Colorado

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    [Building in Fairplay, Colorado].
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    Colorado Digitization Project
    National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum
    Date
    1941?-1951?
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    Buildings
    
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11124/10049
    Abstract
    Slide showing a building in the town of Fairplay. Slide NMHFM-348 shows that this building is located across the street from the Sheldon Jackson Memorial Chapel. Fairplay was established in 1859 when placer gold was discovered at the junction of Beaver Creek and the South Platte River. The founders of this new camp called it "Fair Play" referring to the treatment they vowed people would receive there as opposed to that of a nearby gold camp. During the 1860s, Fairplay developed into a supply center for the surrounding mining camps, and in 1867 it became the county seat. After most of the town burned to the ground in 1873, it was quickly rebuilt and most of the new buildings were made of stone. The Fairplay district's small placer claims were consolidated in the 1870s and only intermittently worked through the 1890s. Dredging operations started in 1922 and continued intermittently into the 1950s. Although Fairplay began as a mining town, ranching and farming were of greater ...
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