South Park
City Museum
Fairplay,
Colorado
Open May 15,
2009 -
October 15,
2009
South Park
City is a
remarkable
restoration
of these
early towns,
preserving
the history
of our
nation's
frontier
while it
educates and
entertains
the present.
Located in
Fairplay,
Colorado, the
museum is an
accurate
representation
of a mining
town between
1860 and
1900.
Thirty-four
authentic
buildings
filled with
over 60,000
artifacts
portray most
of the
economic and
social
aspects of
boomtown
life. Seven
of the
buildings are
on their
original
sites; the
others have
been moved
from
abandoned
camps and
ghost towns
in South
Park, a 900
square mile
basin
surrounded by
Colorado's
majestic
Rocky
Mountains.
The restored
buildings
contain
period room
settings and
exhibits
illustrating
the
professions,
trades and
industries
that
contributed
to life in a
nineteenth
century
Colorado
mining town
South Park
City Museum
