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Mining Town History

Aunt Becky Coffelt: The Mining-Era Woman Who Made a Garden Bloom in a Gold Camp

The historic Melson-Oldham cabin, a log home from Red River's mining era.
Mining-era Red River remembers Rebecca 'Aunt Becky' Coffelt for her magazine-papered cabin walls and a famous flower garden of towering delphiniums, columbine, and poppies.
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The Aztec Mine: How Baldy Mountain's Million-Dollar Lode Sparked a Rush and Built a Town

A wooden mining flume carries water toward Elizabethtown across the mountainside above Red River in the 1910s.
Prospectors following placer gold uphill found the Aztec lode on Baldy Mountain in 1868, and the mine produced an estimated $1.25 to $1.5 million in gold in its first years.
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