Freeland History
The settlement of Freeland took its name from the Freeland Mine, one of Clear Creek County's richest producers. The town peaked in the 1880s with around 400 people, but by 1900 the population was down to about one hundred. As with most mining camps that exist entirely to work the local mines, Freeland died out as the mines played out.
Freeland had a post office between 1879 and 1908.
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