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Breckinridge in the 1860's
Prospectors crossed the mountains into the Breckinridge
area in the summer of 1859 and soon built a fort and town.
It was named for Vice President John C. Breckinridge. A
Post Office was established on January 18, 1860 in what
was then Utah Territory. The name was changed to Breckenridge
when its namesake supported the Confederate States in 1861.
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Miner's letter mentions:
"I never want any of my
friends to go to a Gold Country to get a fortune.
The hardest, slowest most uncertain way of making
cash that ever was known is in the Gold region."
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