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1 <br /> <br />Louisville Historical Museum <br />Department of Library & Museum Services <br />City of Louisville, Colorado <br />March 2014 <br /> <br />History of Louisville’s Acme Mine <br />Overview and Years of Operation: According to several sources, the Acme Mine was in <br />operation between 1888 and 1928. It was located at the intersection of Roosevelt and <br />Hutchinson in Louisville. Although it was not the only mine to operate within what were <br />historically the town limits, it can legitimately be considered to have been the primary mine in <br />Louisville due to its central location and its many years of operation. Hundreds of miners <br />worked at this mine. Without the Acme Mine, it is possible that Louisville would not have been <br />able to survive as a town. <br />The following undated photo, believed to predate 1901, was taken from the top of the Acme <br />mine dump, looking west. The street that would become Hutchinson is in the distance going <br />towards the west. The photo shows, from the left, the trestle, tipple, water tank, engine house, <br />boiler house with smokestacks, fan house, and office. <br /> <br />The Acme Mine was just the second successful coal mine operation in the Louisville area. (The <br />first successful mining operation had been the Welch Mine east of the railroad tracks, which <br />had led to the founding of Louisville in 1878.) Louisville’s very first residential areas