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El Paso Lode, Headframe, 1.5 mile east of Cripple Creek, Cripple Creek, Teller County, CO
Summary
Significance: In 1890 the Gold King Mine was created when prospector Robert Womack excavated a 48' deep shaft and struck a rich vein of gold-bearing ore. Womack's discovery sparked the interest of other speculators, and by 1893 the Cripple Creek Mining District was the focus of a major gold prospecting rush to south-central Colorado. Womack's mine came into the ownership of the El Paso Gold King Mining Company, who constructed the original headframe and surface facilities in order to expand mining operations at the Gold King Mine...
Survey number: HAER CO-92-A
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Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Radford, Casie, delineator
Location
colorado, 38.74666, -105.17831
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
