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Cripple Creek

Cripple Creek was the site of the last and greatest mining boom in Colorado, attracting tens of thousands of people to the western flank of Pikes Peak in the 1890s. After it was destroyed by fire in 1896, the town and surrounding mining district reached…

Midland Roundhouse

Located at the corner of South Twenty-First Street and US Highway 24 on the west side of Colorado Springs, the Midland Roundhouse is a relatively rare example of a surviving nineteenth-century railroad roundhouse that has been adapted to a new use. Built…