Rexford, Colorado is the first featured spot in “A Ghost Town a Day For 30 Days” which will last the month of April.
Rexford was the small settlement that sprang up around the Rexford Mining Corporations claims on the high upper reaches of the Swan River near Breckenridge, Colorado. Rexford dates to 1881, following the discovery of gold veins at the site by Daniel Patrick in 1880. Rexford faded into oblivion sometime around 1900.
One of the first cabins you will encounter as you approach Rexford, this cabin sits on a hillside about a few hundred yards from the main part of the Rexford mining camp
Another view of the same cabin on the outskirts of Rexford
Rexford consisted of the mines, a general store, an assayer’s office, a large log bunkhouse, a number of small personal cabins, and a saloon. Today the remnants of all of the buildings and the giant cast iron bioler from the mine workings remain in a beautiful meadow at the edge of timberline along a rugged 4×4 trail.
According to an description of the town this tiny log foundation was once the Assayer’s Office
One of the small personal cabins remaining at Rexford
Rexford dwelling
These are the ruins of the giant log bunkhouse at Rexford
A pine tree now calls this miner’s cabin home
This is the collapsed facade of the Rexford General Store
A view from the collapsed General Store looking across the 4×4 trail through town, the logs in the distance mark the spot of the boarding house at Rexford.
Another cabin nearly lost to time and nature
Remains of the Assayer’s Office and Saloon at Rexford
Wildflowers at Rexford
Mine wrokings and the old cast iron boiler at Rexford
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