Garo, Colorado
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Garo in 1917
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| Country |  United States |
| State |  State of Colorado |
| County[1] | Park County |
Garo, Colorado is a former populated place in South Park in Colorado, in Park County. The now ghost town is about five miles north of Hartsel and seven miles south of Fairplay on Colorado Highway 9, at an elevation of 9,196 feet (2,803 m).
The community was named after its founder, the area ranchers Marie Guiraud, and for her late husband, Louis Adolfe Guiraud, both natives of France.[2]
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- ↑ Laura King Van Dusen, "Marie Guiraud: 1860s Pioneer, Mother of Ten, Widowed at Forty-five, Amassed One of the Largest Estates in Park County Up to 1909", Historic Tales from Park County: Parked in the Past (Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press, 2013), ISBN 978-1-62619-161-7, pp. 15-20.
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