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Independence, Pitkin County, Colorado

 * ... that the last residents of Independence, Colorado (remaining buildings pictured), billed their midwinter evacuation to nearby Aspen as a snowshoe race with an entry fee of one ham sandwich?
 * ALT1:... that the ghost town of Independence, Colorado (remaining buildings, pictured), was the first European settlement in the Roaring Fork Valley?
 * Reviewed: Order of the Occult Hand

Created/expanded by Daniel Case (talk). Self nom at 18:04, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Date and 5x expansion confirmed (I checked because I knew this article wasn't new, and I was curious). Impressive expansion job. Someone else needs to finish the review. --Orlady (talk) 21:06, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg impressive, well sourced, no plagiarism spotted, your pic fine, prefer cute original hook (dropped a comma), --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:18, 9 November 2011 (UTC)