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9 Porch Notes tagged “heritage,” from counties across Colorado.

History and culture - Lake County

Leadville is home to the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum

The National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum in Leadville tells the story of American mining from a former school building in town.

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History and culture - Baca County

Picture Canyon holds rock art worth treating with care

Picture Canyon in Baca County's Comanche National Grassland holds ancient rock art on its walls, and visiting it respectfully helps protect it.

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History and culture - Broomfield County

Broomfield's library is named for Mamie Doud Eisenhower, who came to its dedication

Broomfield's public library carries the name of First Lady Mamie Doud Eisenhower, who attended its July 1963 dedication alongside General Eisenhower.

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History and culture - Hinsdale County

The Hinsdale County Museum keeps Lake City's mining-era story

The Hinsdale County Museum in Lake City, run by the county historical society, gathers the area's mining-era history in an 1877 downtown building.

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History and culture - Saguache County

The Baca Land Grant No. 4 is older than the county around it

Much of the land around Crestone traces back to a 19th-century land grant to the Baca family, a history now listed on the National Register as a Rural Historic Landscape.

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History and culture - Rio Grande County

The county museum in Del Norte keeps the local story in one place

The Rio Grande County Museum and Cultural Center in Del Norte collects the county's history, from early rock art and Hispanic settlement to mining, ranching, and railroad days.

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History and culture - Gunnison County

The Crested Butte heritage museum lives in an old hardware store

Crested Butte's heritage museum is housed in one of the town's oldest frame buildings, a former blacksmith shop and hardware store, and tells the area's mining and town history.

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History and culture - Conejos County

Manassa's Pioneer Days is the town's long-running heritage celebration

Each July the small town of Manassa holds Pioneer Days, a heritage festival rooted in its Latter-day Saint founding, with a parade, rodeo, and fair that draw far more than the town's everyday population.

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History and culture - Mesa County

Three museums, one regional history

The Museums of Western Colorado run several heritage sites around Grand Junction and Fruita that together tell the valley's human and natural story.

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