Named one of Colorado’s Most Endangered Places 2020
By Gail Watson
On Thursday, January 31st, Colorado Preservation, Inc. announced the selection of Colorado’s Most Endangered Places for 2020. The East Portal Camp cabins in Gilpin County west of Rollinsville on Tolland Road were selected as one of four winners to receive this important designation. The five remaining cabins are the last remnants of the “company town” called East Portal that was built in 1922-23 to house the workers and their families building the Moffat Tunnel, an engineering marvel that bored underneath the Continental Divide. This designation will help us share the significance of this area and save what’s left of the town which at one point had a school, a recreation center, and a small hospital. The history that is being slowly destroyed through “demolition by neglect,” weather, and vandalism, is important not only to our county and state, but to the entire country. As one of Colorado’s Most Endangered Places we will have access to preservation funding to help save what we can of these cabins.
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