History Quiz

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In 1859 John H. Gregory first discovered gold in Colorado.

The narrow ravine in which he panned the free or surface gold, was hailed as the "richest square mile on the earth."

You struck it rich and
are living on Main Street. Under what circumstances, year after year, could you be washed out but not washed up in Black Hawk?