Tarryall, Colorado

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Tarryall, Colorado
Town
Schoolhouse Tarryall CO.jpg
Tarryall School is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Coordinates: 39°07′19″N105°28′32″W / 39.12194°N 105.47556°W / 39.12194; -105.47556
Country Flag of the United States.svg  United States
State Flag of Colorado.svg  Colorado
Counties Park
Founded1896
Elevation
[1]
8,714 ft (2,656 m)
Time zone UTC-7 (MST)
  Summer (DST) UTC-6 (MDT)
ZIP code [2]
80827 (Lake George)
GNIS feature ID183832 [1]

Tarryall is an unincorporated town eastern Park County, Colorado, United States. The town is located on Tarryall Creek in the eastern edge of the South Park, between Lake George and Jefferson.

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History

Puma City, 1898 Tarryall, Colorado - 1898.jpg
Puma City, 1898

The town was founded in 1896 as Puma City, in response to mineral discoveries in the area. Within its first year, it reached a peak population of about a thousand residents. The Tarryall Post Office soon opened to serve the town. The population dwindled as the mineral discoveries proved to be much smaller than first thought. In the 1900s, the town took the name of its post office, Tarryall. [3] Only a handful of residents remain.

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References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Tarryall, Colorado
  2. "ZIP Code Lookup" (JavaScript/HTML). United States Postal Service . Retrieved September 13, 2007.
  3. Robert L. Brown, 2003, Ghost towns of the Colorado Rockies, Caxton Press, ISBN   0-87004-342-0, p.286-290