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Coke Ovens, Redstoke, Colorado

The “white men” that first came to Redstone and the Crystal River Valley sought gold, silver, and valuable minerals such as coal and marble. By the mid-1880s, the Crystal River Toll Company had built a road along the river toward Redstone. It would eventually go to Marble but not until 1907. The current-day Colorado State Highway 133 wasn’t paved until the mid-1950s.
During this time Midwestern financier and founder of the CF&I Steel Corporation, J. C. Osgood, purchased large bodies of coal lands and potential marble quarries in the southern part of the valley. These claims forged the way for the creation of a railway from Carbondale to Redstone to Placita and also to the mining town of Coal Basin.

John Cleveland Osgood was the sixth richest and most private of the elite industrialists known as the Robber Barons. Nicknamed the “Fuel King of the West”, he built Redstone to give substance to his business ideas – a perplexing mix of feudalism, capitalism, and industrial paternalism thus, “welfare capitalism” was born.

He built Redstone as a utopian coal town with a lavish 22,000 sq ft 66-room Tudor-style castle and grounds overlooking the Crystal River. This planned community included the Redstone Inn for the bachelor cokers (coke oven workers), 88 cottages for the cokers with families; a Club House with a theater, a library, a lodge, a community garden, and stables. There was also a school. Each family had a garden and a cow. Workers were required to bathe before entering town. There were no brothels, and alcohol was only served in the Club House. It was completed in 1902 at a cost of almost 3 million dollars. (www.redstonecolorado.com/history)

Taken on: November 4, 2023

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