User:Netherzone/sandbox/Pearl, Colorado


 * Improve Pearl, Colorado

- a yellowcake (citation needed, this info is from WikiProject Ghost Towns, so not sure if it's correct. Check Yellowcake Boomtown books) + was def. coppermining boomtown, now a ghostown.

Reporter Herald ,

image from 1911 (out of copyright),

Colorado Mining Districts ,

NPS info here:,

Govt printing office,

Image uploaded to Commons of townsite, but no visible bldgs

Copper mining town in remote valley at the Wyoming-Colorado border 20m NW of Cowdrey in Jackson County. Had a post office from 1889 to 1919, three saloons, a hotel (still standing) ~700 residents @ peak. ~15 buildings remain. Townsite located on private property, and is posted. It looks like there are a three or four seasonal residents and one year-rounder.

Life, Death, Iron, Pearl, Colorado,