Gregory Tailings (Ruins), State Highways 269 & 119, Black Hawk, Gilpin County, CO
Summary
Significance: Remnants of the first gold lode vein discovered in Colorado. The wood cribbing retaining the tailings is laminated in some places, a previously unused cribbing construction unique at the time to the Gregory Tailings.
Survey number: HAER CO-39
Building/structure dates: ca. 1903 Initial Construction
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000246
Tags
Date
1903
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Gregory , John H
Ziegler, William
Casto, Joseph
Wood, James D
Smith, H P, A
Butler, C H
Hunter, James
Defree Brothers
Wilkerson
Archibald
Bates
Narragansett Company
New York & Colorado Company
Briggs-Gregory Company
Blake, Norman
Location
Black Hawk, 39.79693, -105.49389
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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