If you are coming to look at some Breckenridge real estate during the warmer months, it is fun to bring the entire family including grandparents who will enjoy learning about the history of Breckenridge. Just stop at the Breckenridge Welcome Center at 203 S. Main Street just steps from our office at 304 Main to join a guided or self-guided walking tour of historical museums in Breckenridge. If you’re really into history, ask us about real estate in Breckenridge that reflects the colorful Victorian architecture of days gone by.
You may be satisfied knowing that the Ute tribes whispered through the woods near your Breckenridge CO home or that gold was dredged from the Blue River. In modern times, Olympic skiers have whizzed past your slope-side ski-in/ski-out condo in Breckenridge.
This year the Town is gearing up for the 150th Anniversary in 2009. So, you’ll learn more than ever about the heritage that gives our Perfect Mountain Town its rich character. In 1859, several men and one woman founded the town during the Gold Rush when people were coming from all over the world looking to strike it rich. A few people became wealthy but all were struck with the splendor of the Rockies and our Ten Mile Range, including Edwin Carter who turned his attention from gold to cataloging the incredible natural specimens of our ecosystem.
All the while, they struggled to survive and organize. From brothels and saloons during the booms and busts and from explorations to adventures, fascinating stories resound from the very rocks. In fact you can pick up some dandy accounts of the “Colorado Rascals, Scoundrels, and No Goods of Breckenridge, Frisco, Dillon, Keystone, and Silverthorne and “Summit: A Gold Rush History of Summit County, Colorado and other interesting accounts put together by Mary Ellen Gilliland while you’re out and about.
All was not chaos. Father John Lewis Dyer, a Methodist minister, skied across the Continental Divide on 12-foot long wooden skis to deliver the Gospel, gold, and mail. Who would have thought in 1879 that a black man would find success as a businessman here? His escape from slavery and business endeavors documented in the Barney Ford House Museum underline the history of our special town. Then, too, the largest gold nugget ever found in Colorado (13.5 pounds) was found—and lost—right here and that’s a story all of the family will enjoy.
For more information about real estate in the area, call Jonna Beardsley at (970) 390-2533 or toll-free at (800) 774-7970.
