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The historic small Town of Breckenridge is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat of Summit County, Colorado. During the year 2000, the town had a population of 2,400. Breckenridge is also a very popular ski resort during the winter months, servicing bottom ski parks and mountain ski slopes on the Rocky Mountains. Summer in Breckenridge attracts outdoor enthusiasts with road biking, hiking, wildflowers, fly-fishing in the Blue River, mountain biking, and close-by Lake Dillon for boating. Every year, Breckenridge hosts the cultural Breckenridge Festival of Films, established in 1981.
The town of Breckenridge was created in November 1859 by General George E. Spencer. Spencer chose the name "Breckinridge" after the United States' Vice President of the time, John C. Breckinridge of the state of Kentucky in the hopes of flattering the government and gaining a new post office. Spencer succeeded in his plan and a post office was built in the small town of Breckinridge, it was the first post office between the Continental Divide and Salt Lake City, UT. However, when the Civil War broke out in 1861, and the 40-year-old former vice president sided with the Confederates (as a brigadier general) and the pro-Union citizens of Breckinridge decided to change the town's name to support the union. The first "i" in the name was changed to an "e", and the town's name has been spelled Breckenridge with three "e"s ever since.
Prospectors entered what is now Summit County during the famous Pikes Peak Gold Rush of 1859. Breckinridge was founded to serve the local miners working rich placer gold deposits discovered along Georgia Gulch. Placer gold mining was soon joined by internal hard rock mining, as prospectors followed the gold to its source veins in the local hills. Gold in some upper gravel benches north of the Blue River was recovered by the now illegal hydraulic mining. Gold production decreased in the late 1800s, but revived in 1908 by the new gold dredging techniques along the Blue River and Swan River. The Breckenridge mining district is credited with production of about one million troy ounces of gold. The gold mines around Breckenridge are all shut down now, although some are open to tourist visits as historic displays. The characteristic heaped gravel ridges left by the gold dredges can still be seen along the Blue River and Snake River, and the remains of a old water dredge are still afloat in a pond off the Swan River.
Source: Wikipedia