[5] Located near the base of Hunts Peak, a 13,071-foot-tall (3,984 m) mountain in the Sangre de Cristo Range, it was composed of a set of three Upper, Middle, and Lower camps.

Basements of homes, portions of mining buildings, and pathways from the initial settlement are scattered through the site.

[7] The site was initially founded in 1903 by CF&I to serve as a residence for miners working at the newly-constructed Howard's Quarry, which began operation in 1904.

A school and a men's club were constructed in 1914, part of the CF&I efforts to improve its standing among miners after a strike in their Southern Colorado coalfields turned deadly and resulted in the Ludlow Massacre.

The town also had sports clubs and a local chapter of company union established as part of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and William Lyon Mackenzie King's strategy to reduce discontent among the miners.