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The Summit Historical Society offers many ways to learn about the exciting history of Summit County, Colorado. Membership offers several bonuses also; publications, galas, and the opportunity to volunteer and help the society with fun projects, be a tour guide, etc.
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Two exciting gold mine tours
- At the Washington Mine you can peer down into a manway and shaft, handle drill steel and core samples, don a hard hat and walk along ore-car tracks back to where the miners drilled and blasted, see the tools and equipment used 100 years ago - from candles to calcium-carbide lights, rock drills to widowmakers, black powder to dynamite - and learn why the prospectors dug where they did. Washington Mine Tours: Mon-Fri, 1 pm, $6 adults, $3 kids.
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- Visit the Lomax Placer Gulch Tour and Slide Show where you can pan for gold. Learn how mining-town chemists assayed the ore content; watch a slide show and see how hydraulicking changed the landscape; become familiar with terms such as sluices, riffles, flumes and monitors; visit a bachelor miner's cabin, complete with stove, musical instruments, snowshoes, a burro-chewed table, pack saddle and pie safe. Lomax Placer Gulch Tours: Mon-Fri, 3 pm, $6 adults, $3 kids.
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Take a Walking tour of the National Historic District of Breckenridge
- Visit the 1880 Alice G. Milne House and the 1896 W.H. Briggle House. See the earliest homes in town, from log cabins to mail-order houses and stately residences. Learn about Breckenridge's commercial history and see the buildings that housed the bank, stores, offices barbershop, theater, restaurants, saloons and hotels. Also included on the tour are churches, the courthouse and school. Historic-district Walking Tours of Breckenridge: Mon-Sat, 10 am, and group tours by appointment, $6 adults, $3 kids.
Visit the 1875 Edwin Carter Museum
- Explore state's second oldest museum. Learn about Edwin Carter, the "log cabin naturalist" and member of the prestigious "Colorado 100," Rocky Mountain fauna and the general history of Breckenridge. Edwin Carter Museum: Slide Shows, Mon-Fri: tours 1:30pm, and 3pm; museum mini-tours are part of the Saturday historic-district walking tours, $6 adults, $3 kids.
Schoolhouse Museums
- The well-equipped 1883 Dillon Schoolhouse was moved up from the old town of Dillon when the dam was built in 1961. Also visit the 1885 Lula Myers Ranch House and Honeymoon Cabin. Dillon Schoolhouse tours: Tues-Sat, 1:30pm & 3pm, $6 adults, $3 kids.
- Visit the 1884 one-room schoolhouse located at 10,400 feet in the heart of the 1865 silver-rich mining town of Montezuma! Montezuma tours open by appointment.
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