GOLDFIELD

NAME: Goldfield
COUNTY: Teller
ROADS: 2WD
GRID: 5
CLIMATE: Cold Winter, mild summer
BEST TIME TO VISIT:
Summer
COMMENTS: Highway actually goes through the site.Town is lived in by current mine employees, businesses in Victor and gambling facilities in Cripple Creek. Easy access right off Hwy 67 and Teller County Rd 81.
REMAINS: A few buildings.

This town was originally established by the owners of the Portland Mine in 1895 and by 1900 had a population of 3500 people. A strong union town, the city was heart of the labor wars from 1895-1903. 3/4 of all ore from the entire mining district was shipped here as the town was on such level ground. $30,000,000 in gold was produced from the Portland mine by 1911. Begun as Independence, Goldfield reached a population of 3000. One can still visit the sites today right on the highway.

October 1903. Camp Goldfield of the Colorado Militia, just below the Portland mine, was the result of labor difficulties in the district. The mine owners and the miners had continual problems until about 1905 when the miners who were giving the owners trouble were shipped out of the district. (Colorado Historical Society).

Submitted by: Linda Stoll


Goldfield
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Goldfield
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City Hall
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Goldfield
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An empty old Victorian house sits on a hill in Goldfield, Colorado
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A ruined home made partly of brick, partly wood frame
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A crubling house in Goldfield. The old town hall is at the far left, next to two other abandoned homes
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City limits, Goldfield, Elevation 12000
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House overlooking the ghost town of Goldfield
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One of several old homes that sit vacant
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Almost gone!
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A collapsed home in Goldfield. Several of them are like this
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Falling home in Goldfield
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There are a lot of these "boxcar" looking ruins. I haven't a clue if they were used as housing or what. But there are half a dozen in the ghost towns of the Cripple Creek mining district. This is on highway 81, across the road from the main part of Goldfield
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Downtown Victor, Colorado
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Several ruins on a hill in Goldfield
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What remains of somebody's old home
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Decaying old house in Goldfield
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Wood house in Goldfield
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Boarded up and surrounded by chicken fence
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Rundown old home in Goldfield
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A typical ruined house in Goldfield
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Goldfield
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Goldfield
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Goldfield
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Goldfield
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Goldfield
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Goldfield
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Goldfield
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