Tag
heritage
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.
Read note ->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.
Read note ->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.
Read note ->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.
Read note ->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.
Read note ->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.
Read note ->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.
Read note ->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.
Read note ->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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