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Granite, Colorado
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Vicksburg is a preserved mining camp in Clear Creek Canyon, founded in 1867 when prospectors chasing lost burros found gold in the creek. At its height about 600 to 700 people lived here, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. The Chaffee County Historical Society keeps a small museum in the surviving log buildings, and the balm of Gilead trees planted by the prospectors turn gold in the fall.
Gravel road from US-24 north of Buena Vista; the small museum opens on summer weekends, and some cabins are private.
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