National and State Register
Ohio-Colorado Smelting & Refining Co. Smokestack / Smeltertown
Chaffee County
Completed in 1917, the brick and tile smokestack reaches a height of 365 feet. Its concrete foundation extends 30 feet into the ground.
The structure was built to replace two shorter smokestacks at the Ohio-Colorado Smelting and Refining Company’s smelter facility located one mile west of Salida. Although the facility closed in 1920, the smokestack remains as a highly visible monument to the mining industry and its workers. The property is associated with the Mining Industry in Colorado Multiple Property Submission.
National Register
Address
Convergence of County Roads 150 & 152, Salida
Site Number
5CF.143