On SR 119, Central City, Colorado. County/parish: Gilpin.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 15, 1966. NRIS 66000246.
12 contributing buildings. 1 contributing object.
The Central City/Black Hawk Historic District (formerly just the Central City Historic District) is a National Historic Landmark District that encompasses the developed areas of Central City and Black Hawk, Colorado, United States. They are adjacent former gold mining camps in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in Gilpin County, Colorado. For a time, the area was known as the Richest Square Mile on Earth, and was the largest urban area of the Colorado Territory in the 1870s.
The district was designated a National Historic Landmark on July 4, 1961, for its well-preserved early mining community architecture and history.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/84127911