Joel Fredrickson wasn’t shopping for a side hustle when he wandered into a camping store during a recent trip to Nashville. Then an employee complimented his Micro Grid hoodie from Melanzana, a small outdoor apparel company based more than 1,000 miles away in Leadville. “You know you can buy those and sell them online for more money,” she told him. “People are doing that nowadays.” Fredrickson, a physical therapist based in Englewood, didn’t follow her advice. But plenty of others have.

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Melanzana’s fleeces—available only in Leadville, at the brand’s lone store—have essentially become the Beanie Babies of the adventure world. Out-of-staters post in Facebook groups begging locals to ship them the company’s hand-sewn products in exchange for a $10 premium. On eBay, shoppers pay $50 to $100 more than the retail price for used versions of the apparel, lauded for its breathability, warmth, and odor-repelling powers. Even Coloradans reroute their weekend camping trips to snag “Melly” hoodies, sweatpants, and dresses. “It’s a little frustrating to go all the way up to the store and have them be completely sold out,” says Meggie Gildea, a 25-year-old Denverite who has planned road trips around pit stops at the shop. “But I think it makes the company and the items they sell even more special.”

Fritz Howard, a native New Englander, started Melanzana in 1994 and uses only high-end domestic material and local labor. As his fleeces became more popular, Howard refused to outsource manufacturing or buy textiles from overseas. Instead, after fabric delays and escalating demand often left him with limited product, he quit selling Melanzana online and by phone in order to build up inventory at the Leadville store. The strategy seems to have had the unintended consequence of making people want more of what they can’t easily have. “First, it was just a badge of honor that you lived in Leadville or had spent time here,” says Mike Bordogna, former executive director of the Leadville Lake County Economic Development Corporation. “Now it’s become almost a status symbol for folks.”

Being an icon, though, hasn’t exactly been a boon for the small business. Howard won’t compromise his principles by hiring more sewers at lower wages or using cheaper materials, and on a recent Sunday morning, eager patrons waited in line outside the company’s shop, which looked picked over and bare even before it opened. (Melanzana does have stoplight icons next to every item on the website to help buyers see what’s available, and patrons are permitted only two hoodies apiece.) Howard is so concerned about such scenes that he refused to be interviewed for this story. “Because of our company values, we are naturally limited in our ability to scale up rapidly,” he wrote in an email. “We are intentionally trying to keep a low profile.”

The town hosts the Leadville Trail 100 Run, the most popular trail ultramarathon in the United States and part of a larger Leadville race series now owned by Life Time Fitness. The Climax mine reopened in 2012 with a few hundred workers and is the world’s largest producer of molybdenum chemical products (molybdenum is used to strengthen steel). On Meetville you can meet local singles in Leadville, Colorado, United States today! Browse Profiles & Photos of Personals in Leadville, Colorado, United States. Around 8:30 a.m. On Thursday, the man was found deceased in a residence at 1734 Highway 24 in Lake County, west of Leadville. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office responded to the residence after a. 505 Harrison Avenue P.O. Box 964 Leadville, CO 80461 (719) 486-8210. Someone You can Love is Nearby. Browse Profiles & Photos of Nonsmoking Single Men in Leadville, CO! Join Match.com, the leader in online dating with more dates, more relationships and more marriages than any other dating site.

It’s too late for that—a fact that’s been tough on Howard but great for Leadville. The tiny Lake County community has seen a 100 percent rise in tourists over the past five years, thanks in part to Melanzana becoming a mecca for the adventure-minded, Bordogna says. And enthusiasts such as 26-year-old Avon resident Danielle Carp plan to keep making pilgrimages: “It’s unique in a Jeff Bezos, you-can-get-whatever-you-want-in-a-day world. Selfishly, I want more.”

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Honoring the People Who Created What We’ve Inherited, as written by Tom Sherlock on coloradohealthcarehistory.com

The town of Leadville, where lead had been discovered in 1875, was incorporated in January 1878.

Horace A. W. Tabor, 48, became mayor and postmaster for the population of about 200, which was about to begin growing exponentially due to the discovery of gold and silver. Tabor eventually made about $9 million from his investments in mines including the Matchless, but he lost everything during the Panic of 1893.

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In January 1879, the population of Leadville was 5,040, but in September, it was 40,000. Leadville was reported to have 4 banks, 17 barbershops, 31 restaurants, 51 grocery stores, and 120 saloons. The population of Colorado’s mining towns fluctuated wildly, but the1880 census showed the population of Denver to be 35,629.

A few days after Christmas 1878, three Sisters of Charity — Sister Bernard Mary Pendergast and Sister Mary Crescentia Fischer, who had just arrived in Denver from Leavenworth, and Sister Francis Xavier Davey, who had been at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Denver — left Denver to open a hospital in Leadville, the second biggest city in Colorado.

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The Sisters were driven seventeen miles west, to about where Colfax Avenue ends today, where they boarded a stagecoach. A fellow passenger was former territorial governor John Evans, MD, a good friend of the Sisters at St. Joseph’s Hospital who was on his way to Fairplay. The stagecoach passengers were provided with buffalo robes and blankets for the snowy trip into the mountains.

The first two nights they stayed at wayside inns, and on the third morning, they got into a coach with runners instead of wheels, pulled through the deep snow by mules instead of horses. The three Sisters of Charity and their companions arrived in Leadville the evening of the third day.

The trip from Denver became much easier when the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad reached Leadville about a year later. The Sisters and the People of Leadville Build a Hospital On February 1, 1879, the Leadville Daily Chronicle reported that “Toward the end of December 1878, there came to Leadville over the rough roads and through the storm, [three] noble women. They had heard that up here on the wild mountain top was sickness, sorrow and despair, and they came to comfort.

“Up to that date it was the custom for men to crowd around a coach known to contain females on its arrival and not always were the remarks there heard belonging to gentlemen. But when the rough crowd saw the females here alluded to, they fell back in respectful silence, and many a rough, long-haired, coarsely appareled miner uncovered his head. The [three] were Sisters of Charity, come on an errand of mercy.”

The Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth had come to build a hospital at the request of local miners and the Catholic pastor, Henry Robinson, who had been pastor in Fairplay and then Alma before coming to Leadville, “the city of the clouds.”

Father Robinson had met Mother Xavier Ross and Sister Joanna Bruner on the train from Leavenworth to Denver in 1872 just prior to his ordination as a priest, and he said that he was so impressed that if he was ever in a town that needed a hospital, he would contact them.

The proprietor of the St. Nicholas Hotel insisted that the Sisters stay there until their hospital was completed. Leadville

Mayor Horace A.W. Tabor began the fundraising by donating $500, and the Sisters had enough to build a hospital within a month. W.H. Stevens, a successful miner, told the Sisters to pick one or more of the lots he owned, and he donated the land and paid the transfer fee himself.

During the first year the Sisters treated about a thousand patients. Leadville, which for some years was Colorado’s largest or second largest city, is at 10,152 ft. above sea level.

The building wasn’t nearly finished when someone saw the Sisters taking a look and carried in the first patient, Thomas Krating. Therefore, on March 13, 1879 — despite the lack of doors and windows — Sister Bernard Mary Pendergast, Sister Mary Crescentia Fischer, and Sister Francis Xavier Davey opened St. Vincent’s Hospital in Leadville.

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St. Vincent’s was a two-story frame building with two wings, four wards, and twelve private rooms, for a total of 40 to 50 beds, and Sister Bernard Mary was administrator. At first, the Sisters slept on mattresses on the hospital kitchen floor, and a young man named Frank Wheatley made sure that there were guards outside every night until there were doors that the Sisters could lock.

Mother Josephine Cantwell, who since 1877 had been head of the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, had been visiting Sisters in Montana. She surprised the Sisters at St. Vincent’s by arriving not long after opening — along with Sister Martha Meade, who joined the hospital staff in Leadville.

Mother Josephine, who was an excellent nurse, pitched right in, and the patients said that they were sorry to see her go after her short visit. She also peeled potatoes and washed dishes while she was there to give the Sisters a welcome break.

When Mother Josephine got back to Leavenworth, she sent Sister Anastasia Vasey and Sister Mary Marcelline McGrath to join the staff at St. Vincent’s Hospital. There were now six Sisters in Leadville.

In June 1879, a Daily Chronicle reporter described the hospital dining room: “Everything about the little room was scrupulously, almost painfully neat. The dishes were carefully arranged over the snow-white table spread ready for the evening meal and there was an air of comfort and home life about the room that made this shanty-bunking reporter feel ill at ease.”

The Sisters told the reporter that there were currently fifty patients in St. Vincent’s Hospital, that from March 13 to June 2, they had admitted 181 patients, and that most of the fourteen who had died had been barely alive when they were admitted. The reporter quoted one of the Sisters: “Here in this anxious, busy, exciting mining country, men are loath to lie down as long as there is a breath of life left in their bodies.”

When the reporter said that he himself was not Catholic, the Sister said, “That makes no difference. We never inquire about a patient’s religion. So long as there is room, we take all who come whatever may be their color, creed or nationality. Otherwise it would not be a charity.”

In 1972 the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth sold St. Vincent’s Hospital in Leadville to a new community hospital district there. Sister Michael Marie O’Leary and the Sisters turned the hospital over to a citizens’ board. Because the sale included a stipulation that the name had to change, it became St. Vincent Health.

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