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Set on the banks of the Red Deer
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The Drumheller Valley is a unique, scenic valley, cre- reserves in the area and conceived the idea of a town- Rotary Spray Park DOWNTOWN CORE
ated by millions of years of erosion by wind and water. site in the Valley. Jesse Gouge opened the first coal
mine in 1911. In 1913, the Calgary-Drumheller railway Riverside Value BADLANDS C
About 65 million years ago, dinosaurs roamed the hot line was opened and the coal industry boomed. More Drug Mart FACI
tropical swamps and forests that covered this area. than 40 mines were soon operating in the Valley.
Today, the fossilized remains of the dinosaurs can be Mining towns like Nacmine (short for North American 3rd Avenue Arts Medical Clinic
seen in museums all over the world, and the lush veg- Collieries Mine), Midlandvale, Rosedale, East Coulee,
etation exists as coal seams throughout the area. Wayne, and Newcastle developed notorious reputa- RCMP
tions as highrolling boomtowns with bootlegging and
The Valley was first inhabited by Thomas Greentree, gambling. When gas and oil were discovered in other Fire D
who, in 1902, built his homestead on what is now the parts of Alberta, the importance of coal diminished Town
Town of Drumheller. The Greentree House became and the economy of the Valley turned to other things. Miner
a stop-over place for early pioneers coming into the
district. Today, the Town of Drumheller relies on agriculture,
government services, oil and gas, and tourism for its
It was Sam Drumheller who first exploited rich coal economic prosperity.

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