"The dredges were going after gold that had been eroded through time by the forces of nature and had been brought down into the valley floor. Larry Crispell of the Breckenridge Heritage Alliance explains. Getting to that gold required a new form of mining -the dredge. Then the shaft mines, but there was money to be made on the valley floor. "That is a very rich history, a very rich story for Breckenridge."įirst came the placer mines along the streambanks. "Breckenridge was founded on the discovery of gold," says Wendy Wolfe, who sits on the Breckenridge town council. These are the tailings piles from the numerous gold dredges that operated in the area up in the early half of the 20th century. (CBS4) - They're scars left over from a bygone era - huge piles of torn-up earth that lie in the valleys surrounding Breckenridge.
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