- Central City/Black Hawk Historic District
Infobox_nrhp2 | name =Central City/Black Hawk Historic District
nhld=yes
caption = Restored historic buildings in downtown Black Hawk
location= Central City and Black Hawk,Colorado
lat_degrees = 39
lat_minutes = 48
lat_seconds = 4
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 105
long_minutes = 30
long_seconds = 27
long_direction = W
locmapin = Colorado
area =
built =1859
architect=
architecture=
designated_nhl=July 4 ,1961 cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=150&ResourceType=District
title=Central City/Black Hawk Historic District|date=2007-09-11|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added =October 15 ,1966 cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body =U.S. Bureau of Land Management
refnum=66000246The Central City/Black Hawk Historic District is aNational Historic Landmark District that covers Central City and Black Hawk. They are adjacent formergold mining camps in theFront Range of theRocky Mountains in Gilpin County,Colorado ,United States . For a time, the area was known as the "Richest Square Mile on Earth". [ [http://www.coloradovacation.com/history/centralcity.html History of Central City] ]The district was designated a
National Historic Landmark onJuly 4 ,1961 .cite web|url=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/66000246.pdf "Central City-Black Hawk Historic District", July 1990, by Rickey L. Hendricks and Julie A. Corona] |1.36 MB|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination|date=1990-07|publisher=National Park Service] cite web|url=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/66000246.pdf Central City-Black Hawk Historic District--Accompanying 40 photos, 7 from late 1800s and 33 from 1986-1987.] |8.22 MB|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination|date=1990-07|publisher=National Park Service]History
On
May 5 ,1859 ,John H. Gregory discovered a rich deposit of gold in hard rock, the first such discovery in the Rocky Mountain region. Thousands of miners flooded intoGregory Gulch in the next few months in thePike's Peak Gold Rush . Several mining camps were thrown up near the Gregory Lode, and these camps eventually coalesced into Central City and Black Hawk. The area around the Gregory Lode quickly came to be known as the "Richest Square Mile on Earth". By the time theTerritory of Colorado was formed onFebruary 28 ,1861 , Central City was already the largest city in the entire territory, though it lost out toDenver for State Capitol.Recently, the area has approved casinos and has seen a resurgence in attention and funds as a result.
ee also
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Black Hawk, Colorado
*Central City, Colorado
*Front Range
*Gilpin County, Colorado
*Pike's Peak Gold Rush
*State of Colorado References
External links
* [http://www.gilpinhistory.org/our_history.html Gilpin County History]
* [http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~cescott/jhgregory.html The John H. Gregory Legend]
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