Letter to the Editor: The distinction between Breckenridge’s current name and its former name
Peter Synk
Breckenridge
Breckenridge
When the town of Breckenridge was just a small mining outpost in the early 1860s, it was named after then American Vice President John C. Breckinridge. Upon his defection to the Confederate Army, where he would serve as a general, the townspeople replaced the I for an E, giving us Breck’s current spelling.
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