We’ve all heard of Wall Street, Boston, Hollywood, London, and Manhattan, but did you know Colorado has a Wall Street, Boston, and Manhattan too? Wall Street in Boulder County and Manhattan in Larimer County were small mining towns in the late-19th and early-20th Century, Boston, in Summit County, was a seasonal mining camp in that same era. London (there were actually two “North” and “South” London) were a pair of camps located a mile apart on Mosquito Pass in Park County, and were inhabited until the 1930s. Hollywood began it’s short life as a suburb of Victor, Colorado in Teller County, and was swallowed up by Goldfield as that town expanded. The names of these tiny communities represented the high hopes of the miners and their families who once called them home- High hopes that faded and vanished when the veins of gold and silver played out.
Wall Street still has a small population and is home to a quaint mining museum housed in the old Assay office. All that remains of Manhattan is a tiny cemetery, high on a hillside, with the graves of a handful of miners killed in an underground explosion in 1892 which spelled the town’s doom. What remained of Manhattan’s structures were burned to the ground by the Forest Service in the 1930s, and only a few photos remain. Boston, high above timberline, surrounded by snow-capped spires of rock at the head of Mayflower Gulch between Copper Mountain and Leadville still has a scattering of cabins, the fragile remnants of the log boarding house, and rusted relics of mining machinery.
Wall Street, Colorado- Boulder County
Wall Street
Wall Street in the boom days
The monstrous chlorniation mill used for seperating gold from host rock at Wall Street- The first of it’s kind in the United States, and cutting edge technology in it’s day
Remains of the chlorination mill today
The “fancy house” at Wall Street, heavily damaged in the floods of 2013 and since torn down
A glimpse of Boston, Colorado in Summit County, located high above timberline
Boston
Relics of yesterday in a miner’s cabin on the trail to Boston
Boston
The awe inspiring setting of Boston, Colorado
Boston
The boarding house at Boston
Boston
Hollywood, Colorado- A far cry it’s more famous namesake!
Hollywood
Hollywood
Hollywood
London, Colorado
Boarding house at London
London
Mosquito Pass from the inside of the mill at London
Miner’s cabin at London
This tiny, hillside cemetery is all that remains of Manhattan, Colorado
Grave of George Grill, one of the miners killed in the 1892 Manhattan explosion
Another Manhattan burial
Manhattan
A tiny fleck of gold from Manhattan Creek
Manhattan at it’s peak around 1890
Manhattan, Colorado in better days
Manhattan circa 1930
Manhattan around 1930- It had been abandoned for 30 years by the time these photos were taken, the Forest Service burned the buildings shortly after, nothing remains today
Manhattan, Colorado
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