Tiny Town

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Tiny Town
Location 6249 South Turkey Creek Road
Morrison, Colorado 80465
Website tinytownrailroad.com
Owner Quaintance family
Opened 1920
Operating season daily Memorial Day - Labor Day, weekends in May and September
Rides 1 total
Slogan Have a big time in Tiny Town


Tiny Town is a 15 in (381 mm) gauge miniature railway set in a miniature village of over 100 1/6 scale buildings in Morrison, Colorado.

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[edit] History

George Turner, owner of Denver business Turner Moving & Storage and a friend of Buffalo Bill Cody, began building a miniature town for his daughter in 1915. Called Turnerville, he opened the site to the public in 1921.[1]

Turnerville quickly became one of the state's most popular attractions, but it was plagued by damage from adjacent Turkey Creek flooding and a fire burned down the Indian pueblo in 1935. The train was added in 1939 and the name became Tiny Town.[2]

[edit] Further reading

  • Black, Carla [1990]. Tiny Town, From Tragedy to Triumph. Boulder, CO: F. Pruett. ISBN 0962386820. OCLC 21958210. 
  • Brooks, Alice Jeanne; Demaris Martindale Madsen [1989]. Tiny Town, Boom or Bust. Morrison, CO: Wildflower Press. OCLC 21867018. 

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Moore, Paula (2002-08-16). Tourists escape to local amusement venues. Denver Business Journal. Retrieved on 2007-04-16.
  2. ^ Billings, Hankd (2006-07-03). Tiny Town attracts big interest. News-Leader (Springfield, MO). Archived from the original on 2007-02-25. Retrieved on 2007-04-16.

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