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Battlement Mesa: new life for a Colorado mining town. (former ghost town rejuvenated)

By Davidson, Claud M.
Publication: Focus
Date: Wednesday, December 22 1993

Battlement Mesa, created by Exxon to house energy workers in 1981, turned into a new ghost town by 1982 because of a downturn in the energy industry. However, with its many benefits in place, the town by 1993 was successfully turned into a residential, retirement town by investors.

Although this article may appear to read like a promotion for Battlement Mesa, that is not its purpose. Rather, it illustrates how one group of individuals has been able to use the existing resources of a new Rocky Mountain ghost town to develop an innovative and marketable retirement and residentia

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