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 reviv

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