Fairplay

The name the bronze celebrates was given up for a while. In March 1869 the town incorporated as South Park City, and Fairplay came back only by act of the legislature in 1874, though the National Register nomination dates the change to 1872. The stone courthouse the bronze dates to 1874 replaced a log one brought from Buckskin Joe, served the county until a new building opened in 1986, and is now the Park County Library, its 1874 stone jail beside it.

What the plaque says

This tablet is the property of the State of Colorado Fairplay Named by the pioneer miners in expression of their determination for equal opportunity and fair dealing. Site visited by Captain John C. Fremont and Kit Carson in 1844. Fairplay diggings organized and mining laws enacted in April, 1860. Seat of Park County since 1867. Stone courthouse erected in 1874. Erected by the State Historical Society of Colorado, the South Park Historical Society, the American Pioneer Trails Association, Lions Club and school children of Fairplay, and Dr. Nolie Mumey. 1946

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• South Park City Museum — steps away
  A mining town assembled in the 1950s from buildings hauled out of South Park's dying camps, by a Colorado Springs lawyer who wanted no imitation town.

More markers nearby

• Hoosier Pass — 10 mi
• Tarryall Diggings — 10 mi
• Fremont Pass — 14 mi
• Healy House — 16 mi