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Garo, Colorado is a former populated place in South Park in Park County,
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, United States.


Description

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is about north of Hartsel and south of
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along Colorado Highway 9, at an elevation of . The community was named after its founder, the area
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.Laura King Van Dusen, "Marie Guiraud: 1860s Pioneer, Mother of Ten, Widowed at Forty-five, Amassed One of the Largest Estates in Park County Up to 1909", ''Historic Tales from Park County: Parked in the Past'' ( Charleston,
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: The History Press, 2013), , pp. 15-20.


Notable people

* Cleo Spurlock Wallace


See also

*
List of ghost towns in Colorado This is a list of some ghost towns in the U.S. State of Colorado. Colorado has over 1,500 ghost towns, although visible remains of only about 640 still exist. Due to incomplete records and legends that are now accepted as fact, no exhaustive l ...


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ePodunk Community Profile for Garo, Colorado
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