Mint Robbery February 1864

Historical marker location:

1301 17th Street, Denver, Colorado

( Marker can be reached from 17th Street just west of Larimer Street, on the right when traveling south.)

Wall Street of the Rockies. Seventeenth Street Denver, Colorado.

In 1913, the city of Trinidad, Colorado, became the site of the first successful oil well-drilled west of the Mississippi River. The discovery led to a boom in oil production in the region, and Colorado became a major oil-producing state.