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Photo postcard looking west on Main Street, Gilman.
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Gold Park and Holy Cross City were the major mining camps in the Holy Cross Mining District. Man with shovel at center foreground. "Apparently, there were two mills at Holy Cross City. The first, located just below the town, on the west side of the road, was called simply the Holy Cross Mill. It was owned by the Gold Park Mining and Milling Co. which also maintained a similar installation down below. ... Both mills were connected by a direct 2...
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MacDonald Knight sitting on a parked car in the snow at Gilman. He's holding a camera and is underneath a sign for Coca-Cola. Front: "sitting on top a parked car" [Gilman]
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View of Gilman, Colorado, from the highway in winter. Company housing is visible in the center of the photo. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Verso: "Don headed for Evening Star Mine at Gilman" Behind Don [wearing his head lamp] is a stack of mining timbers.
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Gilman, Colorado, December 25, 1948, taken from the "u" turn in Hwy. 24. Autobiography of Mayo W. Lanning, p. 30: "Gilman was close to the top of Battle Mountain at 9,000 feet above sea level. Since a great deal of my day was spent in the mine I was several thousand feet lower, but the only time Trudie got below this was when we drove down off the mountain. Over the top and about 3-4 miles away (mostly down), was Red Cliff and Turkey Creek, both...
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An unidentified man standing at the back door of the bachelors' quarters in Gilman. Behind him [follow the arrow] is the Gilman Hospital. Both Alan Knight and Patricia Knight Hoffman were born in that hospital. Front: "Hospital where Trish and Alan were born, Gilman looking north" Verso: "Back door of bachelor house in Gilman"
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Climbing Fancy Pass to the Holy Cross Mining District. From left: Harold Stoner, Buster Beck and MacDonald Knight. The Holy Cross District covered 100 square miles of the intervening country between the headwaters of Cross and Homestake Creeks. Gold Park and Holy Cross City were the major mining camps. Verso: "Big'un Stoner, Buster Beck, Don Knight climbing Fancy Pass 1939" "Harold Stoner was known by his Missouri Family as 'Big'un.' He had...