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Leadville

City and administrative headquarters of Lake County, Colorado, in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains, near the headwaters of the Arkansas River, 121 km/75 mi southwest of Denver; population (2000) 2,800. It was one of the principal centres of 19th-century US mining, and has produced vast quantities of gold, silver, lead, zinc, copper, bismuth, manganese, and molybdenum.

Among the sites that attract contemporary tourists are the Matchless Mine, Tabor Opera House (1879), and Healy House (1878). The Timberline campus of Colorado Mountain College (1965) is here.

At 3,108 m/10,190 ft above sea level, Leadville is reputed to be the highest incorporated place in the USA.



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The patriarch of the family, Meyer Guggenheim, was an immigrant from Switzerland who had made money in the wholesale grocery business in Philadelphia and decided to buy a half-interest in a silver mine at Leadville, Colorado in 1879.
Great mining camps of Canada 1. The history and geology of the Keno ... by Cathro, R.J. / Geoscience Canada
Among them was Meyer Guggenheim, who launched his family's dynasty around 1881, when he found silver at Leadville and built a smelting plant.
Leadville: the Struggle to Revive an American Town by Science News
May Department Stores founder David May opened his first store in Leadville, Colo.
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