Dakan, Colorado
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Dakan was a short-lived mining town, now a ghost town, in western Douglas County, Colorado, United States, in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains.
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[edit] History
The town was founded in 1896 by prospector William Wanner, who announced that he had made a shipment of ore worth $35 per ton in silver and gold from his claim, and the Castle Rock Journal declared “The future of Dakan is assured.”[1]. By Christmas 1896, there were about 300 people in Dakan, and a United States post office opened in Dakan on December 30, 1896.[2]
In January 1897 Dakan was described as having eight buildings, including hotel, restaurant, saloon, and grocery store, and contracts for five additional buildings as soon as lumber could be delivered.[3] But the ore did not live up to the hopes of the prospectors and promoters. By August 1898 the Post office was closed, and the town disappeared.[4]
[edit] Geography
The town was said to be “in the shadow of” Dakan Mountain, which is .
[edit] See also
List of ghost towns in Colorado
[edit] References
- ^ Castle Rock Journal, 18 December 1896, p.2 c.2.
- ^ Denver Post, 25 December 1896, p.6 c.6.
- ^ Denver Republican, 12 January 1897, p.7 c.3.
- ^ Josephine Lowell Marr, Douglas County, A Historical Journey, (Gunnison, Colorado: B&B Printers, 1983) 213.
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