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Verso: "Gold Park and our cabin and ore bin, Mom [Sophie Knight] and Don" [copy made in 1984]
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Verso: "Don, Tom, Sam Anderson, and Harold Stoner at Gold Park cabin loading ore from the Glengarry Mine to be hauled to the Leadville smelter."
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Dick Morgan, panning for gold, and Doc Dewey, standing. Morgan was one of the pioneer prospectors in the Red Cliff region. They are panning near Gold Park on the Homestake Creek.
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Gold Park and Holy Cross City were the major mining camps in the Holy Cross Mining District. Man with shovel at center foreground.
"Apparently, there were two mills at Holy Cross City. The first, located just below the town, on the west side of the road, was called simply the Holy Cross Mill. It was owned by the Gold Park Mining and Milling Co. which also maintained a similar installation down below. ... Both mills were connected by a direct 2...
5. Tom Knight
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Tom Knight, standing on the foot bridge that crosses Homestake Creek in Gold Park.
Front: "on the foot bridge across Homestake Gold Park;" verso: "Tom."
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Verso: "Tom & Anderson at Gold Park cabin"
Tom Knight, on left, and Sam Anderson at the Gold Park cabin. To the right and behind the cabin is the ore bin. Ore was packed out on burros from the Glengary [Glengarry] mine to the ore bin and then transported by truck from there to Leadville.
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Standing at the Treasure Vault Mill, looking downstream at Cross Creek.
Front: "Cross Creek from Treasure Vault;" verso: "Treasure Vault Mill looking down stream"
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Gold Park and Holy Cross City were the major mining camps in the Holy Cross Mining District.
"Apparently, there were two mills at Holy Cross City. The first, located just below the town, on the west side of the road, was called simply the Holy Cross Mill. It was owned by the Gold Park Mining and Milling Co. which also maintained a similar installation down below. ... Both mills were connected by a direct 2 1/2 mile long flume that bypassed the...
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MacDonald Knight on left with Harold Stoner and pack burros. This was the first prospecting trip in 1939. Knight taught school during the year and had his summers free to prospect.
Front: "1st trip in '39 Gold Park, Don, Stoner"
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Verso: "Pete Mann who ran the pack string 12 miles from the Glengary mine to Gold Park; 22 tons packed out summer 1939"
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MacDonald Knight and friends, prospecting in Gold Park.
Front" "H.C.City gold rush '41;" Verso: "shot in Gold Park"
12. Mill
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The mill building at Holy Cross City.
Gold Park and Holy Cross City were the major mining camps in the Holy Cross Mining District.
"Apparently, there were two mills at Holy Cross City. The first, located just below the town, on the west side of the road, was called simply the Holy Cross Mill. It was owned by the Gold Park Mining and Milling Co. which also maintained a similar installation down below. ... Both mills were connected by a direct 2...
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Gold Park and cabin with burros tethered under the trees. The burros were used to pack ore out of the Glengarry Mine.
Verso: "Gold Park and burros 1939, packing ore from Glengary"
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MacDonald Knight standing at the door of his cabin at Gold Park. To the left and behind the cabin is the ore bin. Ore was packed out on burros from the Glengary [Glengarry] mine to the ore bin and then transported by truck from there to Leadville.
Verso: "our shack at Gold Park, ore bin in back of it; end of the line for pack string from the Glengary 1940 Don"
15. The Young Family
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Fanny M. and Eben P.Young, parents of Eben Young, Jr., in their first home in Gold Park, where they were early settlers. Their home was the second cabin built there. On the wall are pictures, skis and a fishing pole.
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Walter Hyde cabin at Gold Park, which is up Homestake Creek, south of Gilman.
Walter was born on September 4, 1872, in Fairplay, Colo. In the early 1880s, the Hyde family settled at the mouth of Lake Creek. Water was a prospector and was a miner in Utah for many years. In the 1930s, he lived in Gold Park, mining in that region. When his health deteriorated, he spent most of his time in Red Cliff. He died in Denver in 1942.
His sisters were Laura...
17. Gold Park Mill
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The Gold Park Mill building, taken in the 1890s. Along with Holy Cross City, Gold Park was a small mining camp located in what is today the Holy Cross Wilderness.
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The Pelican shaft house at Gold Park. The shaft was created around 1881. A pile of rocks and sandbags are visible near the building.