FOR FOUR YEARS, 1859-62, the hotspot of mining activity in South Park was at Tarryall City and Hamilton, situated a half mile apart on opposite banks of Tarryall Creek, 2 miles north of present-day Como. In the summer of 1859, a group of miners whose luck had run out at Gregory Diggings (Central City), including William J. Holman and Earl Hamilton, took off across the mountains looking for another strike, stopping at several streams to try their luck. On July 19, they wound up by an unnamed stream in South Park that they originally named Pound’s Diggings after a prospector…
