ball and banquet there. Tabor also reportedly bought rounds of drinks for everyone in each of the town's 13 saloons. At the time, Ashcroft was growing much faster than nearby Aspen. By 1885, it had about 3,500 residents with six hotels and 20...
Ashcroft (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Pitkin County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Ashcroft--1940-1950.; Ghost towns--Colorado--Ashcroft--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Ashcroft--1940-1950.
An abandoned hotel stands in a field in Ashcroft, a mining town near Castle Creek, south of Aspen in Pitkin County, Colorado. The town was originally named Chloride but its residents renamed it Ashcroft in 1882, when rich ore was discovered in the...
Ashcroft (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Pitkin County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Ashcroft--1940-1950.; Ghost towns--Colorado--Ashcroft--1940-1950.; Hotels--Colorado--Ashcroft--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Ashcroft--1940-1950.
View of the remains of Ashcroft, (Castle Forks City, Chloride) Pitkin County, Colorado, includes dilapidated gabled log cabins and false fronts in snow covered valley. Several aspens in foreground cast shadows on the snow.
View of the south end of the remains of Ashcroft, (Castle Forks City, Chloride) Pitkin County, Colorado, includes dilapidated log cabins and false fronts in a snowcovered valley. Includes the old two-story hotel with a gable apex false front and...
View of the remains of a hotel in Ashcroft, (Castle Forks City, Chloride) Pitkin County, Colorado, shows dilapidated hewn log building in a clearing surrounded by aspens. Mountain peaks are in background.
View of the remains of a hotel in Ashcroft, (Castle Forks City, Chloride) Pitkin County, Colorado; shows a dilapidated hewn log building with vertical board false front, bargeboard, decorative brackets, and upper window hoods.
Mr. Sawyer stands in the doorway of remains of the Ashcroft post office, (Castle Forks City, Chloride) Pitkin County, Colorado. The elderly man wearing suspenderss and a wide brimhat looks up at the weathered signs above the door: "Ashcroft" and...
Ashcroft (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Ashcroft--1940-1950.; Post offices--Colorado--Ashcroft--1940-1950.
View of the remains of Ashcroft, (Castle Forks City, Chloride) Pitkin County, Colorado, shows wood frame and hewn log structures in various stages of disintegration. A false front is minus many vertical boards. Aspens and evergreens are on the...
Interior of a dilapidated store in Ashcroft, (Castle Forks City, Chloride) Pitkin County, Colorado, includes sunlight streaming in through the missing roof boards above the rafters. The remains of a wood counter is in front of tall empty shelves...
Mr. Sawyer stands inside a dilapidated store in Ashcroft, (Castle Forks City, Chloride) Pitkin County, Colorado. The elderly man has a cigar in his mouth and looks up as sunlight streams in through the missing roof boards above the rafters. His...
Exterior of the jail in Ashcroft, (Castle Forks City, Chloride) Pitkin County, Colorado, features horizontal flush boards and a diagonal board door with heavy hinges; built into a slight slope surrounded by bare aspens.
View of the remains of a store in Ashcroft (Castle Forks City, Chloride) Pitkin County, Colorado; shows the dilapidated wood frame false front with a cornice, decorative brackets, swayback roof, and wood bracing. Jack Leahy's hewn log house with...
View north along the remains of Main Street, Ashcroft, (Castle Forks City, Chloride) Pitkin County, Colorado; includes scattered dilapidated wood frame false front and front gable structures; tree covered slopes down the valley.
An abandoned hotel stands in a field in the midground in Ashcroft, a mining town near Castle Creek, south of Aspen in Pitkin County, Colorado. The town was originally called Chloride but its residents renamed it Ashcroft in 1882 after rich ore was...
Ashcroft (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Pitkin County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Ashcroft--1940-1950.; Ghost towns--Colorado--Ashcroft--1940-1950.; Hotels--Colorado--Ashcroft--1940-1950.
An abandoned hotel stands in a field in the midground in Ashcroft, a mining town near Castle Creek, south of Aspen in Pitkin County, Colorado. The town was originally called Chloride but its residents renamed it Ashcroft in 1882 after rich ore was...
Ashcroft (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Pitkin County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Ashcroft--1940-1950.; Ghost towns--Colorado--Ashcroft--1940-1950.; Hotels--Colorado--Ashcroft--1940-1950.
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