Recreation
Saloons quicky became a staple of Park County settlements. The Senate Saloon is featured in many photos of 1800s Fairplay. The saloon was advertised to host “the best wines, liquors, and cigars sold in Park County.”[1] Along with saloons, billiard halls, and breweries also created recreational spaces for settlers of Park County.
One of these notable breweries was called Summer Brewery. Leonhard Summer constructed the establishment in Fairplay 1973, which promptly burnt to ashes in a fire a few months later.
Eventually, another brewery was constructed. As written in the Fairplay Flume,