But now the former Gold Rush town is leading an affordable homes boom in Colorado. Fairplay, with its views ... an open-air museum which re-creates an 1800s gold-mining town.

In 1966 Ada Evans landed a job teaching science at Fairplay's middle and high school. Her husband Ray had been commuting to ...

Ada Belle Evans was Colorado's first elected Black mayor. Winning 65 votes back in April 1974, beating the incumbent mayor by 20 votes. Mayor Evans served tiny Fairplay, Colorado. Legend has it ...