Alpine

Alpine

Recipient: silverfyrefly

Facts:

Google Maps Results:

• There are Alpines according to Google Maps in CA, TX, AL, and AR.

Google Search Results:

Key:

• key is pretty tarnished and on one side says DN136 while the reverse says SLAYMAKER, LANCASTER, PA, U.S.A.

Theories:

If we want to go with the current ghost town theory, there appears to be Alpine, Washington, along with the less-famous Alpine, Colorado.

Alpine, WA

Theory: The ghost town of Alpine, WA is the meaning of the key.

Info:

• Alpine was a former lumber town located in King County Wa. The first mill went into operation in April 1910, and subsequently burned in in June of 1913. Originally named Nippon Washington until it was renamed to Alpine in 1914. The mills at Alpine were plagued by fire as the second mill burned down in 1917. In 1929 Alpine was abandoned and eventually burned by the railroad. [1]
• The Great Northern Alpine depot was located at MP 1723.5, Nippon Lumber Company operated a sawmill there until about 1929. See map. [2]
• PRIVATE PROPERTY

Alpine, CO

• The story of Alpine is the story of hidden treasure. It is told a party of Spanish gold seekers passed through the area when the land belonged to the Indians. The Spaniards came across an Indian village while the braves were off on a hunt. They looted the village of many precious gold and silver trinkets and departed. But the braves returned shortly thereafter and gave chase. To lighten their load, the Spaniards hid two mule skins of treasure somewhere in the chalk cliffs. The Indians caught up with the Spaniards, killed most of them but never recovered their treasure that remains until this day somewhere among the chalk cliffs on the side of Mt. Princeton. Many years after the origin of the legend, the city of Alpine arose, lived a short but exciting life, and then died. The first cabin was built in 1877 and by 1880 there was a population of five hundred. The town flourished as a supply point for other towns further along Chalk Creek. The city had two hotels, a dance hall, twenty-three saloons, a newspaper and all the other usual businesses. About the time Alpine was beginning to be quite a city, the railroad extended itself to St. Elmo, and St. Elmo became everything Alpine was and hoped to be. The newspaper, the banks and most businesses packed up and moved to St. Elmo taking most of the population with them. Now only one tumbledown cabin remains among others built by outdoorsmen.