Bakerville, Colorado
{{short description|Ghost town in Clear Creek County, Colorado}}
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Bakerville is a mining ghost town in Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States. It is located west of modern-day Silver Plume, south of I-70 near the fourteener peaks of Grays and Torreys.
Description
Bakerville is located south of I-70, along Stevens Gulch Road, which runs towards Grays and Torreys to the South. The location is where Quayle Creek, flowing from Grays and Torreys, feeds into Clear Creek, which flows from the Continental Divide.{{cite web|url=https://digital.denverlibrary.org/digital/collection/p15330coll22/id/66235/|title=Bakerville, Colorado|publisher=Denver Public Library Special Collections|access-date=16 February 2021}} The town is roughly {{convert|5|mi|km}} east of the entrance to the Eisenhower Tunnel and {{convert|8|mi|km}} northeast of Montezuma. The site currently includes a parking lot and several small structures.
History
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The settlement was founded by three men: John Baker, William F. Kelso, and Dick Irwin, in 1865 to support their mine. The town and Baker Mine were named for Baker, while the mountain the town sits below was named for Kelso.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.historycolorado.org/sites/default/files/media/document/2018/ColoradoMagazine_v17n3_May1940.pdf|journal=The Colorado Magazine|title=Colorado Place Names (B)|volume=XVII|number=3|date=May 1940|access-date=16 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307205132/https://www.historycolorado.org/sites/default/files/media/document/2018/ColoradoMagazine_v17n3_May1940.pdf|archive-date=7 March 2021}} By the late 1860s, the town sported several log cabins and fences built from timber logged off of Kelso Mountain.
In 2010, Clear Creek County opened a portion of paved trail connecting Bakerville with the Loveland Ski Area. This trail addition was part of a larger project of bike and pedestrian trails ranging from where U.S. Route 6 enters eastern Clear Creek County from Jefferson County to the Bakerville portion that merges with the Continental Divide Trail and leads into Summit County.{{cite web|url=https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=c1b858e2adbf4889afd2f2fd061a2766|title=Clear Creek County Greenway|publisher=Clear Creek County|location=Idaho Springs, CO|access-date=7 March 2021}} Bakerville never had a post office.{{cite book|title=Colorado Post Offices 1859–1989|first1=William H.|last1=Bauer|first2=James L.|last2=Ozment|first3=John H.|last3=Willard|date=1990|publisher=Colorado Railroad Historical Foundation|location=Golden, Colorado|isbn=0-918654-42-4}}
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See also
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- Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area
- Front Range Urban Corridor
- List of ghost towns in Colorado
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References
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External links
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- [https://www.colorado.gov/ State of Colorado]
- [https://www.historycolorado.org/ History Colorado]
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Category:1865 establishments in Colorado Territory
Category:Former populated places in Clear Creek County, Colorado
Category:Geography of Clear Creek County, Colorado
Category:Ghost towns in Colorado
Category:Mining communities in Colorado