![]() Ben Stanley Revett was instrumental in organizing the first dredging company near Breckenridge and was active in dredging activities there. The dredge deposited the rock piles in the background. This dredge boat worked the area from 1900 to 1904. Jane Morton, Colorado Springs: This is the first Bucyrus dredge on the Swan River near Galena Gulch, north of Breckenridge. Much of the dredge was still standing then and you had a better sense of what it looked like than today’s remains allow. In the 1950s and 60s, the dredge was beginning to fall into disrepair but was quite a sight to see in those days. My father worked as a logger in the area, and I remember this site well. I lived at the old town of Tiger when I was young. These boats ravaged the area around Breckenridge as they followed the river and stream beds, chewing up the landscape and creating huge rock piles in their wake in search of gold. ![]() Linda Gilmer Polhemus, Frisco: Ben Revett owned this and other dredge boats in the later part of the 1800s and early 1900s. The irony for this boat is that it sank as internal water pumps failed and the river won! Very destructive process as they moved upstream processing the stream for gold. ![]() These dredge boats were built on their own pond, consuming the pristine stream bed ahead, and disgorging river rock behind. This is an old gold dredge boat located on Tiger Road outside of Breckenridge. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu
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