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Shenandoah-Dives Mining

Shenandoah-Dives Mining Company

Added by yongli on 09/21/2016 - 15:34, last changed on 08/27/2022 - 08:20
The Shenandoah-Dives Mining Company was active in the San Juan Mountains from the 1930s through the 1960s. As one of the largest mining operations in the region during the twentieth century, the company’s history exemplifies the boom and bust cycles and labor strife that were common in Colorado’s...

Silverton

Added by yongli on 02/01/2017 - 14:17, last changed on 11/12/2022 - 10:10

Silverton

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Silverton is a historic mining town established in 1874 in Baker’s Park in the heart of the San Juan Mountains . After the Denver & Rio Grande Railway (now the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad ) reached the town in 1882, the surrounding region experienced a mining boom that lasted...
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