Teller County Today

This page provides links that may be of some help. These links are not necessarily genealogical in nature - see the Teller Resources page for genealogy information.

If you plan to visit Teller County you will find valuable information to help plan your visit.

Not all of the entities listed have Web Sites yet. Therefore, the links may be for e-mail or just a telephone number. Also, there is a lot of overlap - people and businesses belong to multiple Chambers and community groups.

Teller County Web Site

Information and contacts for the Departments and agency activities. The Clerk and Recorder is also the Registrar - the keeper of Birth, Marriage, & Death certificates as well as Deeds.

City of Cripple Creek

Cripple Creek is the County Seat. Cripple Creek is a registered historic district with many late 19th century buildings and homes. Cripple Creek was the commerce center of the area during the mining hey-days.

City of Woodland Park

Woodland Park is located in the North-East portion of the County and supplied lumber for the railroads and mines. Today it is the commerce center of the County.

Pikes Peak Chamber of Commerce

This organization covers the whole Pikes Peak area including Teller and El Paso Counties.

Greater Woodland Park Chamber of Commerce

This Chamber includes members throughout Teller County and beyond. It is a good first place to contact if you plan to visit the area.

Cripple Creek Chamber of Commerce

This chamber includes most businesses and organizations in what was called the Golden Crescent, or the Cripple Creek Gold Mining District.

Victor Chamber of Commerce

Victor - The City of Mines - is where most of the mining activity was. Victor is also a registered historic district with many late 19th century buildings and homes. Victor is six miles from Cripple Creek. For historical and local information see this great site on the History of Victor.

 

 

 

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The family historian must master the art of storytelling. What, after all, is truth without anecdote, history without events, explanation without narration--or yet life itself without a story? Stories are not just the wells from which we drink most deeply but at the same time the golden threads that hold and bind--Ariadne's precious string that leads us through the labyrinth that connects living present and the living past.
― Joseph A. Amato, Jacob's Well: A Case for Rethinking Family History

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