Vicksburg Colorado

rginn · Jun 16, 2026

Another Colorado semi-ghost town. Founded as a mining camp around 1867. At one time about 40 buildings and maybe 600-700 citizens. One of the nicest layouts I've seen in one of these places, nice wide Main Street and in the early days miners brought in balsam poplars and planted them along each side of the street, put irrigation ditches along them to keep them watered. North side of the street is privately owned and there are a few seasonal residents, but you can look. South side has a museum/info center, but wasn't open this time when we were there.

releventchair · Jun 16, 2026

Multiple schools of log notching to deal with water run off.
3 or more showing. With the building with the wagon in front of it demonstrating a higher end work. Requiring the luxury of time..

The first pic shows something new to me.
The overhang is appreciated of course but the exterior of logs look hewed flat for a foot or more from the corners. Interesting!

Gables get eyed next .From the vertical board and batten of the first , to the horizontal log gables on others.

Quite the site!
Thanks for the peek.

russau · Jun 17, 2026

What a pleasant veiw ! Thankyou for posting this ! I applaud them for restoring these buildings ! I'd like to see more people doing this all over our Nation !

rginn · Jun 17, 2026

Good post, relevantchair, thanks. In our open air museum here in town they've gathered some of the historic buildings and preserved them. They point out that sometimes you can tell what country the builder was from and maybe the year it was built. I believe the first pic is the oldest cabin, and kinda think the roof may have been redone later on. That's also the one that has a warning about Hanta Virus on the door too. On down the road west into the canyon there's 3 more towns, not much left of 2 of them. I would have went on, but I really had enough of 8 miles uphill on that washboard road.

releventchair · Jun 17, 2026

rginn said:
Good post, relevantchair, thanks. In our open air museum here in town they've gathered some of the historic buildings and preserved them. They point out that sometimes you can tell what country the builder was from and maybe the year it was built. I believe the first pic is the oldest cabin, and kinda think the roof may have been redone later on. That's also the one that has a warning about Hanta Virus on the door too. On down the road west into the canyon there's 3 more towns, not much left of 2 of them. I would have went on, but I really had enough of 8 miles uphill on that washboard road.

I'm not 100% but it might be this site linked that had some cabins with a giant roman numeral axe marked on entire outside walls before being disassembled and moved ; in order to put them back the way they were originally.
( I got to ogle for hours, l.o.l.)

The Village - Historic Cabins, Barns, & Other Structures - The Museum Of Appalachia

Pioneer Village There are several dozen historic structures that inhabit the Museum village; here are just a few interesting selections, which illustrate the scope of this exceptional collection. Mark Twain Family Cabin Experts contend that renowned author and humorist Samuel Clemens—better...

www.museumofappalachia.org

k0bgalan · Jun 17, 2026

When I was a young lad, I spent most of my summers near Granite, Colorado. Vicksburg, is near Buena Vista, which is south of Granite, a few miles. Back them (early 50s) Vicksburg, was a real hike in. It didn't look like the photos you posted. Someone here posted photos of Marble, Colorado recently, and it didn't look back then like it does now. Commercialism at its finest!

I suspect these days, trying to metal detect in any Colorado ghost town would get you into big trouble.