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Nederland Colorado Town site - Ghost town
Can you believe it. This towns celebrates the "Frozen Dead Guy Days". That is another story in itself. The small brick buildings in the photos have since given way to progress. A parking lot now occupies the space where they were. So much for progress.
As you may have guessed this town got it's name because a Dutch mining company bought the Caribou Mill and Mine. They renamed the town Nederland in about 1874. The town actually was a agricultural area supporting Central City, Black Hawk and the surrounding mines. It was also fortunate to see three different "strikes" renew the town. First it was Silver at Caribou, then Gold at Eldora and finally the dreaded black iron. The miners cursed the stuff as it was always found in the Silver mines. Somewhere along the line they figured out the "black Iron" was really tungsten and another boom began.
Photos courtesy of Joan Sinnwell August 2005
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