GC9244 Virtual Cache Ghost 13 - Silver Plume
Type: Virtual | Size: Virtual Virtual | Difficulty: 1 out of 5 | Terrain: 1 out of 5
By: ahelir @ | Hide Date: 09/22/2002 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 41.761 W105° 43.665 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 95
Another in the Ghost series. Very easy, you can drive to the site. An odd but interesting cache at an elevation of 9181 feet.
Silver Plume was incorporated on Aug 19, l880, although its name was given by Steven Decatur 10 years earlier. Supposedly the name stems from the shape of the silver ore discovered in the area, which supposedly broke off in feather-like patterns. During the 1870's more than two thousand people populated Silver Plume. A Post Office was established in 1871 using the name Brownsville. The old site of Brownsville is at the west end of Silver Plume on Main Street where the grey mine tailings reach level ground. It is said that a chunk of silver bullion weighing 580 pounds was discovered in Browns gulch in 1869 - a worlds record.

About 50 feet west of the cache site is the Brewery Spring which furnished fresh spring water to brew German style lager at the Bush Brewery and water for the Bowling Alley which were across the street in the 1870's. Both the Brewery and Bowling Alley are gone.

Silver Plume is a mix of ghost and present - many old buildings dating back to the boom days still exist, many are vacant.

While in Silver Plume, check out the Georgetown Loop Railroad on the south side of I-70.

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25 Logs: Found it 25  

Found it 07/04/2019 By herndonrd
You would think that 5 days and 2000 miles in a car with FeartheFish to the Metroplex and back would be enough for anyone but I guess I must be a glutton for punishment as off on another roadtrip we go. Decided to let FtF find everything this trip and only bail him out when required. Neat place. Answers sent to CO. TFTC!

Found it 07/04/2019 By fearthefish
Up in Leadville visiting my friend K4D and decided to do some caching on the drive back to Denver. Herndonrd was part of the experience because I don't know how to cache without him.

We had no trouble finding this one rather quickly, and grabbed the desired information before heading back to the car. Thanks for the fun hide and for your contribution to a great day of caching.

P. S. No animals (including humans, aliens, or PayMeCache) were harmed in the writing of this log.

P. P. S. Herndonrd will email the information on behalf of both of us.

Found it 06/26/2019 By Free52grobert
Interesting Cache. GrammiesGeoFun and Grobert on our trek across America working on our list of contiguous counties. We are enjoying the ride through an area we lived near 25 years ago. Wonderful location for a hide. We appreciate the thought and effort that goes into creating these hides. Thank you for giving the rest of us a challenge. Practicing CITO.

Found it 06/26/2019 By grammiesgeofun
Found with grobert

Found it 06/23/2019 By DreadPirateWestley
We stopped in this little town on our drive from Keystone to Estes Park today and collected the information needed to find this virtual cache.

Interesting roads in this little town.

Thanks for the virtual cache

DreadPirateWestley

Found it 10/20/2018 By Tool King
Fun one. Thanks
Email sent for me and Hypno_Hawk.

Found it 10/11/2018 By BigChiefS4
Day 5 of an epic 6 day journey out to the western frontier. I had some vacation time that I needed to burn up by the end of the year, and what better way to use it than to go Geocaching! My main goal was to find caches in New Mexico and Nevada, which would complete my map in the western US. The rest of the 4 remaining states are on the East Coast. Secondary goals were to find oldies, mostly virtuals, and high favorited caches. The only bad part of the trip was that it rained every single day of my vacation.

I headed south out of MN on Sunday and returned home on Friday.
Sunday - Drive all the way through to Colorado (15 hours!)
Monday - Cache in and around Denver and Colorado Springs, with an attempt at Pike's Peak (closed at Mile 14)
Tuesday - Head south towards GC19 and then west through Wolf Creek Pass
Wednesday - Four Corners monument and west towards Nevada
Thursday - After a night in Richfield, UT, head east through the skiing areas of Colorado towards Nebraska
Friday - The long drive home

Thanks to all the cache owners for placing these caches for me to find and for keeping the oldies going all these years.
Neat virtual!

Found it 10/05/2018 By geogooose
I was driving back from Silverthorne to Denver and stopped a few times along the way to collect details for virtual caches. This was quite the interesting stop along the highway. I wouldn't have guessed something like this would be here. Thanks for the interesting cache!

Found it 10/02/2018 By TeamKimi186
Day Seven of our Epic Adventure the quest for 5000 to Mingo and beyond with softball29. Landed in Denver from Albany NY the 26th. Traveling and caching 9 states in 7 days. This looked straight out of a western movie , in fact a lot of the old buildings did as well . Very Cool. Great to see this. Thank you for bringing us here and the smiley.

Found it 10/02/2018 By softball29
What a cool little spot and town. I definitely never would have known about this without geocaching! Love these old virtuals! Thanks for the smiley!

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Found it 09/07/2018 By IowaGerd
Accomplished this one early this morning.

Found it 09/06/2018 By JMKR
Finally stopped after driving past for many years: slowly uphill and speedily downhill. Glad there was no room available today. TFTV

Found it 09/06/2018 By Truvtter
Nice stop for a break and lunch. Sent answers. That.

Found it 09/05/2018 By goldpot
Parked up by the jail as we drove back along the old Interstate from Georgetown to Breckenridge. These mining towns are so historic now, they look like film sets!
TFTC.

-GOLDPOT- #11654

Found it 09/02/2018 By nclyga
We traveled to Colorado to hear Brett Dennen and Mraz at Red Rocks. We added an extra day to the trip to grab some caches before we headed to a cabin in Evergreen. Great weekend and we found everything to be in great shape. The coffee at the coffee shop down the street was phenomenal! Thanks for the virtual and for bringing us to cute Silver Plume!

Found it 08/21/2018 By Sethmkent
Great little town for a weekend visit.

Found it 08/18/2018 By captkbance
#3307 - Worth the stop! Thanks to CO for another reason to geocache!

Found it 08/18/2018 By R-bow
Stopped here after lunch in Georgetown, on the way to Breckenridge. Sending the answers to the CO Caching here from PA with CaptKBance. Thanks for this virtual and the history lesson. #1573

Found it 08/16/2018 By marengo49068
Found it

Found it 08/11/2018 By graciegrey
Wouldn't want to spend the night here.

Found it 07/31/2018 By Kashers
Thanks for the virtaul.

Found it 07/21/2018 By mimandpap
On my way to Vail with gammaD and grabbing caches TFTV

What a neat town. We just loved all the old buildings.
GammaD sent the answers.
This is definitely a favorite.

Found it 07/21/2018 By GammaD
?? these virtual! Caching from Wisconsin to west coast. TFTC!

Found it 07/16/2018 By AJperla
TFTC WITH TC

Found it 07/14/2018 By tc54915
Caching in Colorado and Utah with AJPerla for a week. Plan is for oldies, virtuals, and counties and webcams if in the area. Temps in the 80-90s while we were there. TFTC and the beautiful scenery. BigSmile