Anaconda - Colorado Ghost Town

ANACONDA

NAME: Anaconda
COUNTY: Teller
ROADS: 2WD
GRID: 4
CLIMATE: Cold winter with snow, cool summer
BEST TIME TO VISIT: Summer

COMMENTS: Near Cripple Creek.
REMAINS: The old jail and a few crumbling ruins.

Anaconda was a composite of three other mining camps: Squaw Gulch, Mound City and Barry. Once a bustling city of over 2,000 persons, the town was supported mainly by the Mary McKinney mine that yielded more than eleven million dollars in gold. It is said the mine was so rich ore was plowed out by ox teams. Anaconda had its peak in the mid 1890s . Huge log barriers holding back ore slack from the highway mark the site of Anaconda together with the old jail and a few crumbling cabins. Submitted by Henry Chenoweth.

Anaconda was a composite of three other mining camps: Squaw Gulch, Mound City and Barry. Once a bustling city of over 2,000 persons, the town was supported mainly by the Mary McKinney mine that yielded more than eleven million dollars in gold. It is said the mine was so rich ore was plowed out by ox teams. Anaconda had its peak in the mid 1890s . Huge log barriers holding back ore slack from the highway mark the site of Anaconda together with the old jail and a few crumbling cabins. Submitted by Henry Chenoweth.

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