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Vicksburg ghost town Sawatch Range Ceramic Art Tile
$22.00
A ghost town in Clear Creek Canyon, west of Granite, Colorado, where the Sawatch Range begins to rise. The cottonwoods along the main road were planted by miners in the 1880s. They outlived the silver boom by more than a century, and they shade the empty cabins now. The Missouri Gulch trailhead a half mile up the road sends climbers toward three fourteeners. Past Vicksburg the canyon narrows toward Winfield, another ghost town, and snow closes the road from late October through May. Climbers from Missouri Gulch often stop here on the way down. The cottonwoods catch the wind.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.