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84 Porch Notes tagged “history,” from counties across Colorado. Page 1 of 4.
History and culture - Kiowa County
Near Eads, the Sand Creek Massacre site is sacred ground the National Park Service cares for
The Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site in Kiowa County is a place of mourning for the Cheyenne and Arapaho people, and the National Park Service is the agency that protects and explains it.
Read note ->History and culture - Prowers County
Amache, near Granada, is a place to visit with care
Near Granada in Prowers County, Amache is the site of a World War II incarceration camp for Japanese Americans, now part of the National Park System.
Read note ->History and culture - Lake County
Why Leadville sits where it does: silver, then much more
Leadville grew up around mining in California Gulch, and much of its historic core is recognized as a National Historic Landmark District.
Read note ->History and culture - Costilla County
Costilla County's map still follows a Mexican-era land grant
The shape of land, water, and settlement around San Luis traces back to the Sangre de Cristo Land Grant and the families who settled it in the 1850s.
Read note ->History and culture - Baca County
You can still find Santa Fe Trail wagon ruts in southern Baca County
The Cimarron Route of the Santa Fe Trail crossed about 14 miles of southern Baca County, and on the Carrizo Unit grassland you can still walk out to faint wagon ruts and old markers.
Read note ->History and culture - Otero County
Bent's Old Fort tells the Santa Fe Trail story near La Junta
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site near La Junta is a reconstructed 1800s trading post on the Santa Fe Trail and a careful place to learn the valley's layered history.
Read note ->History and culture - Arapahoe County
From Fitzsimons Army Hospital to the Anschutz Medical Campus
Aurora's busy medical campus grew out of an Army tuberculosis hospital that once held the largest building in Colorado.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Garfield County
Glenwood's Grand Pool: a soak the length of a city block and a half
Glenwood Hot Springs Resort's Grand Pool has been Garfield County's signature soak since 1888 — about 405 feet of mineral water kept near 90 degrees.
Read note ->History and culture - Park County
Much of Park County sits inside the South Park National Heritage Area
Congress designated the South Park National Heritage Area to recognize and help interpret the mining, ranching, and railroad history spread across much of Park County.
Read note ->History and culture - Baca County
The Dust Bowl shaped Baca County's land and its people
Baca County was at the heart of the 1930s Dust Bowl, and that history still explains its grasslands, its small towns, and how the land is used today.
Read note ->History and culture - Lake County
The Tabor Opera House tells Leadville's silver-boom story in one building
The 1879 Tabor Opera House in Leadville was built by silver magnate Horace Tabor and is a contributing landmark within the Leadville National Historic Landmark District.
Read note ->History and culture - Fremont County
A 1929 suspension bridge that hung over the Arkansas before there were power tools to help
The Royal Gorge Bridge near Cañon City went up in about seven months in 1929 and held the world record for highest suspension bridge for roughly 74 years.
Read note ->History and culture - Arapahoe County
Arapahoe County carries the name of the Arapaho people
Arapahoe County is named for the Arapaho people, who lived across the eastern Colorado plains long before the county was drawn.
Read note ->History and culture - Lincoln County
Hugo grew up around the railroad, and a roundhouse still tells that story
Hugo began as a railroad town on the Kansas Pacific line, and its surviving Union Pacific roundhouse is a window into why the town is here.
Read note ->History and culture - Lake County
Tennessee Pass and Ski Cooper carry the 10th Mountain Division story
Tennessee Pass north of Leadville and the Ski Cooper area trace back to World War II, when the Army trained the 10th Mountain Division ski troops in this high country.
Read note ->History and culture - Douglas County
The 1933 Castlewood Dam break still shapes Cherry Creek
An old irrigation dam in Douglas County failed in 1933 and sent a flood down Cherry Creek toward Denver, a story that later shaped flood control on the creek.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Lake County
The Leadville National Fish Hatchery is a working piece of 1800s history
The Leadville National Fish Hatchery, established in 1889, is one of the country's oldest federal fish hatcheries and is open to visitors near Leadville.
Read note ->History and culture - Prowers County
The name Prowers, and the Cheyenne woman behind Amache
Prowers County is named for rancher John Prowers, and the name Amache traces to his wife, the Cheyenne woman Amache Ochinee Prowers.
Read note ->History and culture - Huerfano County
Coal and the railroad drove Walsenburg's growth
Walsenburg is older than the coal boom, but coal mining and the rail lines that hauled the coal out drove the town's growth and still shape the towns and land you see in Huerfano County today.
Read note ->History and culture - El Paso County
Pikes Peak carried older names long before it was on a map
The mountain that anchors El Paso County was known to the Ute and other tribes by its own names for generations before Zebulon Pike's 1806 sighting.
Read note ->History and culture - Fremont County
The Royal Gorge is narrow enough that two railroads once fought over it
The deep, tight Royal Gorge canyon on the Arkansas River had room for only one rail line, and the fight over that route is a real part of Fremont County's history.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Lincoln County
A 1990 tornado reshaped downtown Limon, and the rebuild still shows
In 1990 a powerful tornado struck Limon and heavily damaged its business district, and the town's rebuilt downtown reflects that recovery.
Read note ->History and culture - Boulder County
Lyons: a red-sandstone quarry town turned bluegrass home
Lyons quarried the red sandstone you see across CU Boulder, and today its St. Vrain festival grounds draw bluegrass fans from around the country.
Read note ->History and culture - Moffat County
Moffat County is named for David Moffat, the railroad financier
The county takes its name from David Moffat, a Denver financier whose railroad pushed into northwest Colorado, and that railroad shaped where towns grew.
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