Blanche Le Croix was a young woman from France who came to Cripple Creek as a “Meyers Avenue Girl” at the turn of the last century. She had an affair with her boss and delivered a baby firl in 1920 who was sent to live with a family in Kansas. She also had acid thrown in her face by her boss’s jealous wife and wore a veil for most of her life. She died penniless in a cabin near here. Residents who grew up here remember her giving out oatmeal cookies if they had the gumption to go near her cabin. A year after her death her daughter finally found her and came to Cripple Creek.
MPPIR investigated Blanche’s cabin on the grounds of the District Museum at the east end of Bennett Avenue. Watch the slideshow.
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