Cripple Creek, Colorado Success Story Mining Town Strikes Gold with AccuFund CITY OF CRIPPLE CREEK, COLORADO—Cripple Creek has played an integral role in the rich heritage of Colorado. Incorporated in 1892, shortly after the discovery of gold in the area, Cripple Creek became a storied gold mining town during the great North American gold rush of the early 1900s. Now one of three old gold mining towns in Colorado that has legalized gambling, Cripple Creek has become a tourist destination, with 12 casinos that do roughly $125M in gross revenue each year as well as numerous attractions related to its gold mining history. The city has a herd of donkeys that roam the streets, neighborhoods and hills and are believed to be descendants of the donkeys that once worked the gold mines. Cripple Cree

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