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Mt. Falcon Pk.

He and his new wife Ethel Richmond Walker returned to Morrison, where he concentrated his efforts on developing the Red Rocks area, which he named The Garden of the Titans. There he built a road to the area, a teahouse, hiking trails, and a funicular or incline railway to the top of Mt. Morrison, the longest cog railway in the world at the time. The famed opera diva Mary Garden, accompanied by Ethel on the violin, sang in the Red Rocks natural amphitheater and pronounced it “acoustically perfect.” Many other concerts by the day’s famous musicians and performers followed.

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Uploaded on August 31, 2017
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