Mary Miller Historical Mural

Mary Miller Historical Mural (HM1N6O)

Location: Lafayette, CO 80026 Boulder County
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Country: United States of America
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N 40° 0.029', W 105° 5.987'

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This mural is a composite of two historical photographs. One is the 1862 image of our town's founder, Mary Miller with her husband, Lafayette, (D. 1878), for whom she named the town. Mary platted 150 acres and sank the first coal mine shaft in 1887. The second picture. taken in 1942, is of nine miners standing near the tipple of a coal mine.
You are standing on the site of the Black Diamond Coal Mine, one of more than a dozen mines which were crucial to Lafayette's history as a typical mining town in Colorado.

Artists: Barbara Jo Revelle & John Caron
Made possible by contributions from:
The City of Lafayette     The Citizens of Lafayette
National Endowment for the Arts
SCFD Boulder County Tier III
Colorado Council on the Arts
Storage Tek     Lafayette Chamber of Commerce
Design Fabricators, Inc.     Roads Family
Jean Mellblom & Family
Photos courtesy of the Lafayette Historical Society
Dedicated Sunday, October 4, 1998
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HM NumberHM1N6O
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Year Placed1998
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Date Added Sunday, August 23rd, 2015 at 9:01pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)13T E 491482 N 4427815
Decimal Degrees40.00048333, -105.09978333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 40° 0.029', W 105° 5.987'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds40° 0' 1.74" N, 105° 5' 59.22" W
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Area Code(s)720, 303
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 827 CO-7, Lafayette CO 80026, US
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