CALUMET, COLORADO

'Calumet, Colorado' is a ghost town located in Huerfano County, Colorado, located to the northwest of Walsenburg.^[1] Calumet was a mining town. One of the mines, Calumet No. 2, was briefly owned by Henry J. Kaiser and maintained by Kaiser Steel^[2] between 1924 and 1971. In 1961, the Calumet mine was the leading producer of coal.^[3]
Although not filmed here, Calumet was the setting of the movie Red Dawn.^[4]

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1. http://www.brainygeography.com/features/CO.locale/calumet.html
2. http://www.kmitch.com/Huerfano/miners.htm
3. http://www.kmitch.com/Huerfano/news1960.html
4. http://imdb.com/title/tt0087985/

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