JEFFERSON COUNTY (KDVR) — In 1915, on the very same spot where the Denver–Leadville stagecoach station once operated, Denver businessman George Turner started construction.
Turner built a town, a miniature town, for his daughter, who was mighty sick. He called it Turnerville. In 1920, Turnerville was opened to the public.
Back in the day, Turnerville sported a grocery store, barbershop, two lakes, a hotel and pool room, even a school and a church. It was a regular town, and now with a new name, Tiny Town.
After numerous floods, a fire and two world wars, Tiny Town turned into a tiny ghost town. Finally, in 1983, after numerous rebuilds and restorations, Tiny Town once again dies.
But in 1987, A trade group of professional property managers adopted Tiny Town as a civic project and revived the remaining structures and railroad track. Tiny Town is now a nonprofit corporation.
Now thousands of folks from around the world visit the world-famous attraction. They ride on the 5/8’s of a mile stretch of fifteen-inch wide railroad track, and more importantly, continue to roll into history.