Tarryall is a
ghost town
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in northwest
Park County,
Colorado
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,
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. It is on upper
Tarryall Creek
Tarryall Creek is a tributary of the South Platte River, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed March 25, 2011 in Park County in central Colorado in the Uni ...
northwest of
Como, Colorado
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. It was once the county seat of Park County, but is now completely deserted.
History
The town was founded in 1859 during the
Colorado Gold Rush
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after the discovery of
placer gold in Tarryall Creek. The "Tarryall diggings", as well as other discoveries, prompted a flood of prospectors into
South Park via
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and
Kenosha Pass
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The pass is located in the Rocky Mountains southwest of Denver, Colorado, just northeast of the town of Fairplay, Colora ...
. Most newly arriving miners found that all available land for mining along the Tarryall Creek had been claimed by earlier arrivals, and much resentment ensued. It was thought that the earlier miners had claimed much more land than a man could reasonably work, and latecomers called Tarryall "Grab All". Another mining town, founded not far away on the
Middle Fork of the South Platte River, was named
Fairplay
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as a dig at Tarryall.
A US post office opened in Tarryall on 4 January 1860. The town briefly served as the county seat of Park County, from the organization of the county on November 1, 1861 until the county seat was moved to
Laurette (now also a ghost town) on January 7, 1862.
The town was near the junction of North and Middle Tarryall Creeks.
[Ben H. Parker Jr., "Gold Placers of Colorado", ''Quarterly of the Colorado School of Mines'', v.69, n.3, July 1974, p.186.] At its height, Tarryall had a population of several thousand. A marker along
U.S. Highway 285 near
Como
Como (, ; lmo, Còmm, label= Comasco , or ; lat, Novum Comum; rm, Com; french: Côme) is a city and ''comune'' in Lombardy, Italy. It is the administrative capital of the Province of Como.
Its proximity to Lake Como and to the Alps h ...
where it crosses Tarryall Creek commemorates the Tarryall diggings and the former town. Decades later a new town named
Tarryall was founded 29 miles southeast of the original, and deserted, ghost town of Tarryall.
See also
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Bibliography of Colorado
The location of the State of Colorado in the United States of America
This is a bibliography of the U.S. State of Colorado.
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Geography of Colorado
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History of Colorado
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Index of Colorado-related articles
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List of Colorado-related lists
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# Alphabetical list of Colorado-related lists
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List of ghost towns in Colorado
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Outline of Colorado
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1859 establishments in Kansas Territory
Colorado Mining Boom
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