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FRISCO, Colo.—A ghost town in central Colorado is being legally abandoned and ceded to the U.S. Forest Service.
The short-lived Summit County mining town in the mountains near Montezuma called Chihuahua was mostly abandoned after a devastating fire swept through the area in 1889. The crash of the silver market in 1893 emptied out much of what was left.
According to the Summit Daily ( ), under state statute a county attorney can initiate the procedure to abandon a town if it has failed to hold any kind of election or maintain a town government for five or more years. It is unclear what the federal agency plans to do with the property.
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Information from: Summit Daily News,
