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    Breckenridge main street, Summit County

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    Colorado Digitization Project
    National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum
    Date
    1898?-1908?
    Keywords
    Mining towns
    
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    Abstract
    Photograph of Main Street in Breckenridge, which was probably taken between 1898 and 1908, showing several of the store buildings as well as some of the houses that were located just beyond the end of the street. Breckenridge was founded in August 1859 when a party of prospectors including Ruben J. Spalding, George E. Spencer, and William H. Iliff discovered gold while panning the placer gravel deposits in the Blue River. When Iliff spread the word about his discovery in Denver, hundreds of men stampeded into the Breckenridge area. In 1860 the prospectors organized the town of Breckinridge, which they named after the Vice President of the United States, John C. Breckinridge. When Breckinridge later became a brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, Union supporters changed the spelling of the town's name to Breckenridge. The placer mining lasted about three years before the gold played out, and by 1868 there were only about twenty or thirty cabins in ...
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