FLOOD10515

• County: Gunnison
• Community: Marble and Vicinity
• Stream Name: Crystal River
• Basin: Gunnison
• Title: Floodplain Information Report Crystal River - Technical Appendix
• Date: 5/1/2004
• Prepared For: Marble and CWCB
• Prepared By: ICON Engineering, Inc.
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

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SELF GUIDED WALKING TOUR OF MARBLE, COLORADO

This is an update and revision of the tour guide prepared by Duncan McCollum for
Local the Marble Historical Society. It begins at the museum at 412 West Main, and

CArtsf' proceeds east to West 1st St, then south to State St, then west to West 2nd St, then
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Businessessouth to Park St, then west to West 31 St, and finally south to the mill site. The routE
requires about 1 hour to complete. You may obtain a copy of this guide at the
museum (hours are generally 2-4 PM on Saturday and Sunday), or you may print
this page using your browser.

WELCOME TO MARBLE! Have you ever seen the Lincoln Memorial in
Washington DC, or the Denver Post Office, or the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier,
and wondered where the beautiful white stone came from? You are standing in the
town which produced that stone, as well as marble for the New York City Municipal
Building, the Montana State Capital, and hundreds of other buildings.

This tour guide will take you on a short tour of Marble Colorado. As you follow the
route you will see some of the buildings which were a part of this once thriving
quarry town. For each numbered point of interest on the map there is a brief
description in this guide. While you walk the tour please stay on the roadsides, as aI
of the buildings are located on private property. For their safety, children should be
accompanied by an adult. You are welcome to wander through and picnic at the
Mill Site, which is a town park.

WARNING! All of the marble that you see is privately owned, and is valuable
(about $1jlb, and a cubic foot of marble weighs 170 lbs). Do not attempt to steal the
marble!

THE PURE WHITE STONE. Marble was a unique type of boom town. Instead of
gold or silver mining, its economy was based on an entire mountainside of the finest
marble found anywhere in the world.

The marble deposits were discovered in 1873 by a geological survey expedition
when the Crystal River Valley was still part of the Ute Indian Reservation. Soon
after, the Utes were removed farther west, and prospectors and settlers entered the
area, founding Marble in 1881. Eighteen years later the Town was officially
incorporated and began its forty year cycle of boom and bust. The peak period in
Marble's history was the five years preceding the United States' entry into World
War I in 1917, when the town supported a population of 1400.

http://www.marblecolorado.orgltour.htm

5/3/2004