Stores

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Citizens of Alma standing on business porches in 1880

 

Many families who traveled to Park County to support endeavors of gold digging made their living through the exchange of goods. General stores developed to serve the needs of settlers.

Some stores, such as the "Fairplay Diggings," carried supplies for local miners. Other stores, such as the Klienknecht store in Hartsel, acted as a gathering place for locals.[1]

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Tabor's store at Buckskin Gulch

[1] Park County Local History Archives, Park County, Images of America (Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2015), 79.