Silver Plume - Colorado Ghost Town

SILVER PLUME

NAME: Silver Plume
COUNTY: Clear Creek
ROADS: 2WD
GRID: 2
CLIMATE: Cold winter with snow, mild summer
BEST TIME TO VISIT: Summer

COMMENTS: On I-70, current residents, Semi-ghost.
REMAINS: Many original buildings.

The Pelican mine gave rise to this town in about 1870. A neighboring mine, the Dive, was so close the owners of the mines fought daily about each other encroaching on "their" vein underground. Silver Plume had its own newspaper, the Coloradoan, and it was reported the town was menaced by fire on numerous occasions. A story is told of one of the miners that worked there who's fiance was found dead on the eve of their wedding. He came west to forget everything and escape and after mining all day would retire to whisky and his violin. Townsfolk would come outdoors each night to listen to him play. One day, as the last note rang out, so did a gunshot. The townsfolk found him dead with one bullet through his heart and burial instructions nearby. To Clifford Griffin, we hope you are now reunited with your fiance. Silver Plume Courtesy Dolores Steele Silver Plume Courtesy Dolores Steele Jail - 1875 to 1915 Courtesy Dolores Steele Church Courtesy Dolores Steele Wonderful, interesting cemetery on the steep side of a mountain Courtesy Dolores Steele Silver Plume Cemetery Courtesy Dolores Steele Silver Plume Cemetery Courtesy Dolores Steele	Town of Silver Plume from the Georgetown Loop train station Courtesy Dolores Steele School, now museum Courtesy Dolores Steele Silver Plume Hose Co. - 1886 Courtesy Dolores Steele Old Grocery Store Courtesy Dolores Steele The weathered false-front buildings have been stabilized. Courtesy Dolores Steele Knights of Pythias Hall Courtesy Dolores Steele Plume Playhouse Courtesy Dolores Steele Silver Plume Courtesy Dolores Steele Town of Silver Plume Courtesy David Johnson

The Pelican mine gave rise to this town in about 1870. A neighboring mine, the Dive, was so close the owners of the mines fought daily about each other encroaching on "their" vein underground. Silver Plume had its own newspaper, the Coloradoan, and it was reported the town was menaced by fire on numerous occasions. A story is told of one of the miners that worked there who's fiance was found dead on the eve of their wedding. He came west to forget everything and escape and after mining all day would retire to whisky and his violin. Townsfolk would come outdoors each night to listen to him play. One day, as the last note rang out, so did a gunshot. The townsfolk found him dead with one bullet through his heart and burial instructions nearby. To Clifford Griffin, we hope you are now reunited with your fiance.