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History and culture - Elbert County
The Elbert County Historical Society & Museum preserves local history in Kiowa
The Elbert County Historical Society and Museum in Kiowa collects photographs, artifacts, and local histories — a good first stop for research, while official land records stay with the county.
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The Garfield County Courthouse is a historic landmark in Glenwood Springs
Garfield County's seat of government is the historic courthouse in downtown Glenwood Springs, a building recognized by History Colorado for its history.
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Why Fruita is dinosaur country
The hills around Fruita produced important early dinosaur finds, a legacy you can trace at a named public site and a local museum.
Read note ->History and culture - Denver County
City Park is old, big, and holds two major institutions
City Park is one of Denver's oldest large parks, laid out in the 1880s, and it surrounds both the Denver Zoo and the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.
Read note ->History and culture - Denver County
Civic Center was Denver's City Beautiful centerpiece
Civic Center Park between the Capitol and the City and County Building was built in the early 1900s as Denver's grand public space and is now a National Historic Landmark.
Read note ->History and culture - Mesa County
Why so many things near Grand Junction say 'Grand'
Grand Junction, the Grand Valley, and Grand Mesa carry a name from the river that was once called the Grand before it became part of the Colorado River.
Read note ->History and culture - Delta County
Why the county seat is named Delta
The City of Delta takes its name from the delta-shaped land where the Uncompahgre River meets the Gunnison, and it became the county seat when Delta County was carved from Gunnison County in 1883.
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.
Read note ->History and culture - Denver County
Denver's tree-lined parkways are a designed historic system
Denver's grand boulevards and parks were planned together as one system in the early 1900s, and the whole network carries historic recognition.
Read note ->History and culture - Denver County
Lookout Mountain holds Buffalo Bill's grave and a wide view
Lookout Mountain, a Denver Mountain Park above Golden, is the site of Buffalo Bill Cody's grave and museum and a sweeping view back over the plains.
Read note ->History and culture - Denver County
The Capitol steps have more than one 'mile high' marker
Denver's nickname comes from sitting about a mile above sea level, and the State Capitol's west steps carry several 'One Mile Above Sea Level' markers from surveys done over the years.
Read note ->History and culture - Mesa County
The Old Spanish Trail passed through the Grand Valley
A branch of the Old Spanish National Historic Trail, a 19th-century trade route between New Mexico and California, reached the Grand Junction area on its way west.
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