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San Juan County

Historical Society

 

Silverton, Colorado

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All photos courtesy of the San Juan County Historical Society, all rights reserved

Old Hundred Boarding house, ca 1908

Underground in a mine.  Split track leads into two drifts, ca 1930

Fourth of July in Silverton, ca 1898

Mounted field telephone in Cunningham Gulch, ca 1906

Labor Day hand drilling competition, ca 1936

Ben Harwood, a pioneer in San Juan County

Boarding house at Gladstone

A card game in the Manhattan cabin in Poughkeepsie Gulch, ca 1915

Some scenes for the movie "Run for Cover" were filmed on Blair Street, ca 1954

Silverton by moonlight, 1917

Old Hundred Boarding house,          Cunningham Gulch

San Juan County Jail, now the Historical Society Museum

Overview of Silverton, ca 1925

First cabin in Silverton, built 1874 by Francis Marion Snowden at 13th and Snowden Streets

The J. Brice Patterson family, ca 1904

The Mayflower Mill, last and most advanced of the big mills built in the San Juans, ca 1929

Tram bucket on the Mayflower tram between mine and mill

Mayflower Mill tram house, ca 1965

To contact us:

Archive: 970-387-5609

Museum: 970-387-5838 (summer)

Email: silvertonarchive@aol.com

San Juan County Historical Society

P.O. Box 154

Silverton, Colorado  81433

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