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History and culture - Pueblo County
The Egyptian Mummy on Rosemount's Third Floor
Climb to the top floor of Pueblo's 1893 Thatcher mansion and you reach the McClelland Collection of world curiosities, an Egyptian mummy among them.
Read note ->History and culture - Adams County
Why Brighton sits where it does: railroads, the river, and sugar beets
Brighton, the Adams County seat, grew up where a railroad met South Platte farmland, and sugar-beet and truck farming shaped the county for generations.
Read note ->History and culture - Saguache County
Bonanza was a silver boomtown that became a tiny mountain village
North of Villa Grove, the silver camp of Bonanza grew after ore was found around 1880 and later shrank to a handful of residents, and a cleanup project still manages old mine waste there.
Read note ->History and culture - Fremont County
Cañon City has been a prison town since territorial days
Colorado chose Cañon City for its territorial penitentiary in the late 1860s, and that long corrections history is told at the Museum of Colorado Prisons in town.
Read note ->Cars and driving - Saguache County
Cochetopa Pass: the old 'Pass of the Buffalo' over the Divide
Northwest of Saguache, a quiet gravel backway carries the old Ute 'Pass of the Buffalo' over the Continental Divide, while paved Highway 114 takes the easy modern route alongside it.
Read note ->History and culture - Garfield County
Garfield County is named for a U.S. president
Garfield County was created in 1883 and named for President James A. Garfield, with Glenwood Springs as its county seat.
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 - Bent County
The county's name comes from a trading fort on the Arkansas
Bent County is named for the Bent family, whose adobe trading post on the Santa Fe Trail along the Arkansas River was a meeting place for traders and Plains tribes.
Read note ->History and culture - Bent County
The railroad helped move Bent County's seat from Boggsville to Las Animas
Bent County's seat sat at Boggsville for a time in the early 1870s, moved more than once, and ended up at the railroad town that grew into today's Las Animas — an example of how a rail line could pick the winners among early plains towns.
Read note ->History and culture - Bent County
The Rawlings Heritage Center is where Bent County keeps its story indoors
The John W. Rawlings Heritage Center in Las Animas gathers Bent County's history under one roof, from an early telephone exchange to the first bank, making it the indoor companion to the county's outdoor history sites.
Read note ->History and culture - Jackson County
Walden's pioneer museum lives inside an 1882 log cabin
The North Park Pioneer Museum fills an 1880s log cabin with three floors of artifacts that explain how this high basin became ranch country.
Read note ->History and culture - Cheyenne County
Walk Through the 1894 Jail a Famous Denver Architect Designed
Cheyenne Wells keeps a brick Romanesque jail from 1894, designed by Colorado's first licensed architect and now open as a small museum.
Read note ->History and culture - Fremont County
Cañon City's 1913 Santa Fe Depot is now the start of a scenic train
The Mediterranean Revival Santa Fe Depot in Cañon City, built in 1913, survives as a historic landmark and serves as the boarding point for the Royal Gorge Route tourist railroad along the Arkansas River.
Read note ->History and culture - Saguache County
Penitente Canyon carries a name from valley religious history
The BLM-managed Penitente Canyon near La Garita is named for a Hispano Catholic brotherhood, and the surrounding area holds Indigenous rock art best treated with care.
Read note ->History and culture - Elbert County
The Elbert County Fair grew from an 1891 'Vegetable Day'
The Elbert County Fair traces back to an 1891 'Vegetable Day' in Elizabeth and moved through Elbert and Matheson before settling at the fairgrounds in Kiowa.
Read note ->History and culture - Denver County
Denver Union Station was built to gather the railroads
Union Station opened in the 1880s to bring many railroads into one Denver depot, and after a long restoration it reopened in 2014 as a rail, bus, and train hub.
Read note ->History and culture - Delta County
Fort Uncompahgre near Delta marks an early trading post on the Old Spanish Trail
A reconstructed fur-trade fort on the edge of Delta interprets the Robidoux trading post and the Old Spanish Trail that crossed this part of the Western Slope.
Read note ->History and culture - Huerfano County
Huerfano County's vanished coal camps, treated with care
Names like Pictou, Rouse, Walsen, and Cameron mark places that were once busy coal camps in Huerfano County, and most are now quiet sites best understood through archival and official sources.
Read note ->History and culture - Otero County
La Junta is the Otero County seat and grew up as a railroad town
La Junta is the seat of Otero County and built much of its early growth around the Santa Fe Railway, which still shapes the town's layout and economy.
Read note ->History and culture - Denver County
Why Denver built mountain parks a century ago
Denver's mountain parks were a deliberate early-1900s project, planned by noted landscape architects and built over decades to give city people access to the foothills.
Read note ->History and culture - Denver County
Why Denver grew up where Cherry Creek meets the South Platte
Denver started at the meeting of the South Platte River and Cherry Creek during an 1850s gold rush, which is why the old city center sits where it does.
Read note ->History and culture - Garfield County
Doc Holliday is tied to Glenwood Springs, but his exact grave is uncertain
Doc Holliday died in Glenwood Springs and is associated with Linwood Cemetery, though the precise location of his grave is not documented with certainty.
Read note ->History and culture - Saguache County
Why Crestone became a center for retreat and spiritual communities
Starting in the 1980s, a foundation gave land near Crestone to many religious groups, and the area now holds a wide range of retreat centers, monasteries, and temples.
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