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Titel: Äldre inlägg (arkiv) till 2005-01-04
Skrivet av: Chuck Maki skrivet 2004-11-29, 04:24
evidence for a town of Independence, Colorado:
from: Stampede to Timberline, The Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Colorado by Muriel Sibell Wolle
p. 245 Independence: It is much more thrilling to approach this ghost town from the top of Independence Pass than from the Aspen side, for just as you begin to round the upper curves of the ledge road, west of the summit of the 12,095-foot pass you see far below, a little group of weathered cabins. 'That's Independence,' said Boyd, who was driving. 'It once had a population of 2000, and now look at it.'...Independence was a gold camp of 1879, which went by many names, such as Chipeta, Mammoth City, Mount Hope, Farwell, and Sparkill, until Dick Irwin and the miners named it Independence after the Independence load which had been struck on the Fourth of July.
So yes, it's quite near Independence Pass, on the Aspen side of that pass which puts it in Pitkin County.