Cripple Creek District Museum
Established | 1953 |
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Location | 5th & Bennett Ave. Cripple Creek, Colorado |
Coordinates | 38°44′49″N 105°10′20″W / 38.74686°N 105.17221°WCoordinates: 38°44′49″N 105°10′20″W / 38.74686°N 105.17221°W |
Type | History museum |
Website | cripplecreekmuseum.com |
The Cripple Creek District Museum is a museum located in Cripple Creek, Colorado. Founded in 1953 by Blevins Davis and Richard Wayne Johnson, the Museum has five historic buildings: The 1894 Colorado Trading & Transfer Company building, the 1895 Midland Terminal Depot that was used as a depot until 1949; a turn-of-the-century Assay Office, the former one-room home of French Blanche LeCroix from the town of Midway, and a miner's cabin circa 1890–1930.
Today the Museum has four living areas illustrating life in the Victorian Era, an Art Gallery, a 15-minute video on the , and numerous displays exhibiting photographs, maps, newspapers, books, wagons, minerals, mining equipment, the history of businesses, lodges, churches and schools, thousands of furnishings and personal items belonging to former pioneers to the District, information on towns and camps within the District and Teller County, and a Museum Gift Shop with hundreds of books and unusual items.
References[]
- ^ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday/venues/Cripple_Creek_District_Museum.html
- ^ http://www.csindy.com/colorado/cripple_creek_district_museum/Location?oid=1146767
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-01-07. Retrieved 2009-11-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ HighBeam
- ^ HighBeam
- ^ http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-32766872_ITM
External links[]
- Cripple Creek District Museum - official site
- Museums in Teller County, Colorado
- History museums in Colorado
- Mining museums in Colorado
- Colorado building and structure stubs
- Western United States museum stubs