Goldfield - Colorado Ghost Town

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 Courtesy Dolores Steele Goldfield Courtesy Dolores Steele City Hall Courtesy Dolores Steele Goldfield Courtesy Dolores Steele An empty old Victorian house sits on a hill in Goldfield, Colorado Courtesy D.Squat A ruined home made partly of brick, partly wood frame Courtesy D.Squat A crubling house in Goldfield. The old town hall is at the far left, next to two other abandoned homes Courtesy D.Squat City limits, Goldfield, Elevation 12000 Courtesy D.Squat House overlooking the ghost town of Goldfield Courtesy D.Squat One of several old homes that sit vacant Courtesy D.Squat Almost gone! Courtesy D.Squat A collapsed home in Goldfield. Several of them are like this Courtesy D.Squat Falling home in Goldfield Courtesy D.Squat 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 Courtesy D.Squat Downtown Victor, Colorado Courtesy D.Squat Several ruins on a hill in Goldfield Courtesy D.Squat What remains of somebody's old home Courtesy D.Squat Decaying old house in Goldfield Courtesy D.Squat Wood house in Goldfield Courtesy D.Squat Boarded up and surrounded by chicken fence Courtesy D.Squat Rundown old home in Goldfield Courtesy D.Squat A typical ruined house in Goldfield Courtesy D.Squat Goldfield Courtey Linda Stoll Goldfield Courtesy Linda Stoll Goldfield Courtesy Linda Stoll Goldfield Courtesy Linda Stoll Goldfield Courtesy Linda Stoll Goldfield Courtesy Linda Stoll Goldfield Courtesy Linda Stoll

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
Courtesy Dolores Steele

City Hall
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Goldfield
Courtesy Dolores Steele

An empty old Victorian house sits on a hill in Goldfield, Colorado
Courtesy D.Squat

A ruined home made partly of brick, partly wood frame
Courtesy D.Squat

A crubling house in Goldfield. The old town hall is at the far left, next to two other abandoned homes
Courtesy D.Squat

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
Courtesy D.Squat

Almost gone!
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A collapsed home in Goldfield. Several of them are like this
Courtesy D.Squat

Falling home in Goldfield
Courtesy D.Squat

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
Courtesy D.Squat