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Tarryall is a
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in northwest Park County,
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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
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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 after the discovery of placer gold in Tarryall Creek. The "Tarryall diggings", as well as other discoveries, prompted a flood of prospectors into
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. 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
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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
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where it crosses Tarryall Creek commemorates the Tarryall diggings and the former town. Decades later a new town named Tarryall was founded 29 miles (46.7 km) southeast of the original, and deserted, ghost town of Tarryall.


See also

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Geography of Colorado The geography of the U.S. State of Colorado is diverse, encompassing rugged mountainous terrain, vast plains, desert lands, desert canyons, and mesas. Colorado is a landlocked U.S. state. In 1861, the United States Congress defined the boun ...
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History of Colorado The region that is today the U.S. state of Colorado has been inhabited by Native Americans and their Paleoamerican ancestors for at least 13,500 years and possibly more than 37,000 years. The eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains was a major mi ...
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