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Black Hawk, I love the Church on top of the hill…”The City of Mills,” is one of Colorado’s oldest cities. It is one of a number of towns that grew up in “Gregory’s Gulch, where Georgia prospector John H. Gregory first discovered lode gold in the western part of Kansas Territory in 1859. Within months, thousands of would-be miners poured into the gulch, hoping for more big strikes like Gregory’s. A few found bonanzas, but the great majority moved elsewhere to try their luck.
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