My Second Ghost Town: Caribou, Colorado, near Boulder
My second ghost town! Photos and some history of the stone ruins at Caribou, Colorado, a former silver mine in the Rocky Mountains about five miles from Nederland in Boulder County.
…food and travel stories by Karren Doll Tolliver
My second ghost town! Photos and some history of the stone ruins at Caribou, Colorado, a former silver mine in the Rocky Mountains about five miles from Nederland in Boulder County.
My first foray into what I hope is a long-running series: ghost towns. First up, Dearfield, Colorado, founded by O. T. Jackson in 1910. It's the site of a former African-American agricultural colony that thrived until the Great Depression and Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Here are photos of the ramshackle remains.