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Cripple Creek

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Crip·ple Creek  (krpl)
A city of central Colorado in the Rocky Mountains southwest of Colorado Springs. After 1891 it was the center of a thriving gold-producing area but declined as deposits were exhausted. Population: 1,070.

Cripple Creek
n
(Placename) a village in central Colorado: gold-mining centre since 1891, once the richest in the world


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