CREEDE • It’s a place somewhere between Colorado’s majestic San Juan Mountains and magical San Luis Valley. A place overlooked by rugged, granite walls that tell tall tales of the past. A place that ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kahane Corn Cooperman’s engaging and heartwarmingly hopeful “Creede U.S.A.” stars the residents of Creede, Colorado, a sparse ...
Bill Dooley and his seven classmates had to memorize a poem in high school. “It’s day all day in the day-time,” goes the famous line. “And there is no night in Creede.” That was written by Cy Warman, ...
The Creede Opera House was built to show movies to miners. But by the mid-'60s, as both mining and the town seemed tapped out, the opera house was boarded up. Enter locals, with an idea —to mine for ...
Colorado’s last silver boom town Creede incorporated in 1890 and burned down two years later. It burned again after twenty years, and for a third time in the 1930s. So citizens were well aware of the ...