Same Venue as 'St. Elmo' — See That Entry; Flagged for Dedup
County Road 162 (Chalk Creek Canyon), Nathrop, CO 81236
Age
All Ages
Cost
Free
Free to visit the public streets of the town. See the 'st-elmo' entry for complete logistics.
Access
Limited Access
Dirt main street and mountain access roads
Equipment
Photos OK
Phase 2 discovery surfaced both 'st-elmo' (city listed as 'Nathrop, CO,' the nearest valley town with a post office) and 'st-elmo-ghost-town' (city listed as 'St. Elmo, CO,' the town's own historic district name) as separate venue records. They refer to the same physical place: the 1880 mining town at the head of Chalk Creek Canyon in the Sawatch Range, twenty miles southwest of Buena Vista.
This record exists to preserve resume-safety for the Phase 2 pipeline. Human review should merge the two entries; recommend retaining 'st-elmo' as primary because the entry contains the fuller research content.
For the full Stark family history, the railroad period, the mining boom, and the paranormal lore associated with Annabelle Stark, see the 'st-elmo' record.
Sources
Refer to the primary 'st-elmo' record for the complete paranormal narrative. This duplicate record carries no separate or additional lore.
St. Elmo, Colorado — see the primary 'st-elmo' entry for full content. This 'st-elmo-ghost-town' record is a duplicate Phase 2 discovery surfacing of the same Sawatch Range mining town and should be merged with the primary entry during human review.
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Nathrop, CO
St. Elmo, founded in 1880 in the Sawatch Range of central Colorado, reached a peak population approaching 2,000 during the silver and gold boom of the 1890s. The town has been continuously occupied since but never resettled at scale; surviving structures make it one of Colorado's best-preserved ghost towns.
McCarthy, AK
Kennecott is a preserved copper-mining ghost town in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska. The mines operated from 1911 to 1938, producing 4.6 million tons of ore and 1.183 billion pounds of copper. The site is a National Historic Landmark and is administered by the National Park Service.
Goldfield, NV
Goldfield is a former gold-mining boomtown in Esmeralda County, Nevada, established in 1902 and briefly the largest city in the state, with a peak population of about 20,000 in 1906. Mining declined sharply after 1910; a 1913 flash flood and a 1923 fire destroyed much of the town. Fewer than 300 residents remain, making Goldfield one of the most-visited still-occupied ghost towns in the American West.