Big crowds turn out for Cedar Creek history trip
Kay Strombo with the Mineral County Historical Society and Museum at a stop last Saturday in Cedar Creek on the annual Gildersleeve Mine tour. (Photo provided)
Members of the Superior Ranger District's recreation crew installed Cedar Creek interpretive signs prior to the field trip. Back row, from left, Nick Hoeven, USFS Recreation Technician Crew Leader; Virgil Robinson, volunteer. Front row, Will Cuddy, Recreation Technician; Colton Todd, Recreation YCC member; and Sue McLees, Mineral County Museum and Historical Society. (Photo provided)
Last weekend, the Cedar Creek Road outside of Superior might have had its first traffic jam since Adolph Lozeau spilled the beans about the gold strike that Louis Barrette, Basil Lanthier and he had up there in 1867.
Some say he drank too much on a supply trip to Missoula and blabbed and others believe the cagey businessman intentionally let the news slip because his lodging house was the only reasonable place to get necessities on the way to Cedar Creek...
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