The historic campus of The Cripple Creek District Museum includes the Midland Terminal Railway Depot. This train depot operated from 1895 to 1949 and received an average of ten passenger trains daily. In 1953 this historic structure became the centerpiece of our Museum...
The Colorado Trading & Transfer was built in 1893 by business owner Albert Carlton. He started selling coal, but also moved freight within the district including gold ore. This building is the oldest wooden commercial structure in Cripple Creek and survived the fires of 1896...
The town of Cripple Creek developed along the small creek winding its way from the mountains where gold was found by ranch hand Bob Womack.