Belgian Draft Horses for Sale near Breckenridge, CO

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Belgian Draft Mare
Trained to drive, very gentle, 1500 lbs. Will include full set of antique..
Fairplay, Colorado
Belgian Draft
Mare
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Fairplay, CO
CO
$4,500
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About Breckenridge, CO

Prospectors entered what is now Summit County (then part of Utah Territory) during the Pikes Peak Gold Rush of 1859, soon after the placer gold discoveries east of Breckenridge near Idaho Springs. Breckenridge was founded to serve the miners working rich placer gold deposits discovered along the Blue River. Placer gold mining was soon joined by hard rock mining, as prospectors followed the gold to its source veins in the hills. Gold in some upper gravel benches east of the Blue River was recovered by hydraulic mining. Gold production decreased in the late 1800s, but revived in 1908 by gold dredging operations along the Blue River and Swan River.