Tag
land grant
5 Porch Notes tagged “land grant,” from counties across Colorado.
History and culture - Conejos County
Conejos and the long roots of Hispano settlement in the San Luis Valley
The Conejos area holds some of Colorado's earliest lasting Hispano settlement, tied to a Mexican-era land grant and the Catholic parish at Conejos, a history best learned from official archives.
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 - Costilla County
Near San Luis, some mountain land carries old shared-use rights
The mountain land east of San Luis, long known as La Sierra, is tied to historic common-use rights that courts have addressed, and they are a real factor in local land questions.
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 - Larimer County
Colorado State University began as the state's land-grant farm college
Colorado State University in Fort Collins started in 1870 as Colorado Agricultural College, the state's land-grant institution, and that farming-and-research mission still shapes the city and county.
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