The Reiling Dredge stabilization project was completed in the fall of 2018.I heard a line in a song stating “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” It seems appropriate. The photo above depicts the resurfacing of the dredge deck and stabilizing of the timbers of the pilot house. With funding from the State Historical Fund, the Town of Breckenridge Open Space Division, Summit County Government, and the Breckenridge Heritage Alliance stabilized portions of the dredge deck and superstructure in 2018. The project consisted of: 1) repairing portions of the dredge deck 2) bracing and repairing the standing columns at the stern 3) bracing/strengthening the standing columns at mid ship and 4) re-erecting the starboard ladder well framing and bracing between port and starboard sides. The picture above, take in the 1980s, shows the Reiling Dredge as it sits in the pond with the pilot house and the stern gantries still standing.Ī photo from 2015 shows the roof and majority of the walls of the pilot house have collapsed, the stern gantries have fallen, and the deck is covered with wooded debris and fallen timbers. The program builds awareness of important historic sites that are at risk of being lost. Until 1922, when it sank in a small pond in French Gulch, the Reiling Dredge moved up and down French Creek extracting gold from the bedrock. In February 2015, the Reiling Dredge was nominated to Colorado Preservation Inc.'s Endangered Places List. Operating Bicycles on Town Roadways & Paved Pathsīuilt in 1908, the Reiling Gold Dredge was the eighth dredge used to mine gold-bearing ground in the Breckenridge area.Bicycling in the Town of Breckenridge +.Cucumber Gulch Overlay Protection District.Golden Horseshoe Backcountry Protection Strategy.Golden Horseshoe Nordic Feasibility Assessment.Cucumber Gulch Preserve Management Plan.

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