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las animas
5 Porch Notes tagged “las animas,” from counties across Colorado.
Local rules - Bent County
In Bent County, one town is incorporated and the rest is county ground
Las Animas is the county seat and the only incorporated town in Bent County, so most of the county is unincorporated land where the county sets the local rules.
Read note ->History and culture - Bent County
Boggsville sits where the Santa Fe Trail met the river bottom
Boggsville, near Las Animas, is a preserved 1860s settlement on the Santa Fe Trail that helps explain why people first put down roots along the rivers in Bent County.
Read note ->History and culture - Bent County
Fort Lyon, near Las Animas, is where Kit Carson died
Fort Lyon, east of Las Animas near the mouth of the Purgatoire River, was a frontier army post where Kit Carson died in 1868, and it later became a veterans hospital and a national cemetery.
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.
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