Victor Heritage Society
Working Together to Preserve 
Historic Victor, Colorado
City of Gold MInes
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    • Photo Gallery of Victor Residential Gems
    • Photo Gallery of Victor Businesses Operating in Historic Buildings
    • This Old Victor House--Then & Now
    • Photo Gallery of Historic Gold Mines >
      • Stratton's Independence Mine
      • Restoring the Historic Headframe of Stratton's Independence Mine
      • Gold Coin Mine--Part of the Woods Empire
      • Vindicator Mine
    • Guide to Preserving Our Architectural Heritage
  • Oral History
    • INSTALLMENT #3. Seven Generations In Victor, Colorado and The Mining District—The Way It Was as Recalled by Eleanor Musser Baker.
    • INSTALLMENT #2. Seven Generations In Victor, Colorado and The Mining District—The Way It Was as Recalled by Eleanor Musser Baker.
    • INSTALLMENT #1. Seven Generations In Victor, Colorado and The Mining District—The Way It Was as Recalled by Eleanor Musser Baker.
    • Memories of Edward Franklin Page: Watchman at the Stratton Mines and Subsequently a Mine Manager, Farmer, Retail Businessman, & Banker.
    • Tom Schryver's Memories of Growing Up in Victor, Colorado and His Parents--Mayme & Charles "Bumps" Chapman.
    • McCormick Family Connections to Victor, Colorado (1893-2014) by Mary Ann McCormick Hamm.
    • Paying the Piper by Gertrude Moore McGowan.
    • Gold Camp Celebration--Fourth of July in Victor, Early 1900's by Gertrude Moore McGowan.
    • Memories of Lulu Ella Manson & Harry Gordon Moore by Gertrude Moore McGowan
    • Memories of Fannie & Alfred Osborn by Marge Breth
    • Memories of Cripple Creek & Victor, 1945-62, by Mary Alice Orazen
    • The Story of Axel Olson & His Golden Girl, Betzi Johnson, by Shirley Beach.
    • Memories of Mr. and Mrs. Axel Olson by KC Garver
    • Victor Recollections--Mountain Doctor, Small Town Cop, Gus's Sporting Goods, & Little Toy Pocket Knife by Floyd Frank
    • Memories of Lowell Thomas--Victor"s Most Famous Former Resident
    • Memories of the Gold Rush Era in Victor by Edgar McGowan
    • A Day In the Life of a Miner by Chuck Clark
    • Underground Mining Experiences at the Cresson and Ajax by Myron House
    • Hynes Brothers "Clean Ice" for Victor, Colorado--Memories of Mary Ellen Hynes Chetelat.
    • Marguerite Clark--One of Victor's Angels by Chuck Clark
    • Charlie Clark & the Quality Cash Market by Chuck Clark
    • Pop Sly -- Ernest T. Sly, The Band Man by Chuck Clark
    • Mr. Mortenson--The Victor Shoemaker by Chuck Clark
    • Heninger Family Memories of Victor, Portland Junction, & Independence: 1909-1916, by Virginia & Edgar Heninger
    • Reflections on Goldfield by Carol Roberts
    • Growing Up In Victor in the 1930's by Bob Penman
    • Victor's Welcome to Mr. Roosevelt
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Photo Galleries of Historic Underground Gold Mines Near Victor

     Before the advent of large scale surface mining, the landscape of the Mining District between Victor & 
Cripple Creek was dotted with the relics and ruins of four to five hundred underground gold mines that once employed thousands of miners--all living within a short trolley ride or walking distance from the mines.
 
     Click Links Below to view photo galleries of what once was, and what still remains of the historic underground gold mines near Victor, Colorado.  [More mines in this series to be added soon.]
  • STRATTON'S INDEPENDENCE MINE
  • RESTORING THE HISTORIC HEADFRAME OF STRATTON'S INDEPENDENCE MINE​
  • THE GOLD COIN MINE--PART OF THE WOODS FAMILY EMPIRE
  • THE VINDICATOR MINE
THE PAST MATTERS.  PASS IT ALONG.  The Next Generation Will Only Inherit What We Choose To Save.  Contact VHS or LaJean Greeson if you would like to contribute a story about a historic underground gold mine that once operated near Victor, Colorado

Some people say, 
"In a small town there is not much to see, but what you hear makes up for it."  
In historic Victor, Colorado there is plenty to see and hear.  
Come take a look--and a listen!


Click Here to View a Photo Gallery:  Historic Victor Residential Gems

Click Here to View a Photo Gallery:  Victor Businesses Operating in Historic Structures
 
Click Here to View a Photo Gallery:  This Old Victor House/Building--Then & Now

Click Here to View a Booklet:  Guidelines for Preserving Our Architectural Heritage
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