Silver Plume Roof Lines
by Priscilla Burgers
Title
Silver Plume Roof Lines
Artist
Priscilla Burgers
Medium
Photograph - Photography/ Digital Art
Description
"Silver Plume Roof Lines" is a digital painting of several attached buildings in the semi-ghost mining town of Silver Plume, Colorado. Silver Plume is a former silver mining camp along Clear Creek in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. The federally designated Georgetown-Silver Plume National Historic District comprises Silver Plume, the neighboring Town of Georgetown, and the Georgetown Loop Historic Mining & Railroad Park between the two towns.
The Pelican mine gave rise to this town in 1870. A neighboring mine, the Dive, was so close the owners of the mines fought daily about each other encroaching on "their" vein underground. Silver Plume had its own newspaper, the Coloradoan, and it was reported the town was plagued by fire on numerous occasions. A story is told of Clifford Griffin,one of the miners that worked there whose fiance was found dead on the eve of their wedding. He came west to forget everything and after mining all day would retire to whisky and his violin. Townsfolk would come outdoors each night to listen to him play. One day, as the last note rang out, so did a gunshot. The townsfolk found him dead with one bullet through his heart and burial instructions nearby.
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November 10th, 2013
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