Silverton, CO

Watch out don't get run over by the stagecoach! The main road of Silverton is paved, all other roads are dirt roads.

Some of the historic and colorful buildings in Silverton.

The town's population grew to 500 by 1876. Life was not easy for any of them. Statistics from Silverton's cemetery note causes of death in early Silverton as 117 from snowslides, 143 from miner's consumption, 161 from pneumonia, 138 from influenza (most in the 1918 epidemic) and 202 from mine accidents.

Many Victorian Homes were scattered through out the town.