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local history
13 Porch Notes tagged “local history,” from counties across Colorado.
History and culture - Arapahoe County
Aurora History Museum gives the city a public memory center
Aurora's official city history museum collects and cares for the historic and cultural resources behind a sprawling, layered place.
Read note ->History and culture - Adams County
Brighton City Museum keeps the local paper trail close to home
Brighton City Museum holds documents, photos, newspapers, maps, and diaries of Adams County history, open for research by appointment.
Read note ->History and culture - Adams County
Commerce City's Conter center keeps city history in one public place
Commerce City's Conter Heritage & Cultural Center holds exhibits, archives, and local-history materials in one public place.
Read note ->History and culture - Adams County
Commerce City's history page starts before the industrial map
Commerce City's story runs from Indigenous homelands through prairie settlement, farming, and industry to the city on Denver's north side.
Read note ->History and culture - Douglas County
Douglas County Libraries keeps local history work in Castle Rock
The Castle Rock library holds Douglas County's Archives & Local History, with help for historical, archival, and genealogical research.
Read note ->History and culture - Arapahoe County
Englewood's Broadway story reaches back to an early south road
Thomas Skerritt plowed an early legal road south from Denver that became Broadway, putting the street near the start of Englewood's settlement.
Read note ->Water and land - Alamosa County
Why You Can Swim in Warm Water at 7,500 Feet North of Alamosa
Splashland, a beloved seasonal swimming pool a mile north of Alamosa, runs on geothermal water that drillers hit by accident in 1955 while looking for oil.
Read note ->History and culture - Douglas County
The Grange shows Douglas County's farm community side
Local Granges gave Douglas County's farm and ranch families a place to gather, cooperate, and belong, not just to work.
Read note ->History and culture - Adams County
Thornton keeps its history inside the arts and culture system
Thornton folds history exhibits, online exhibits, and a digital archive into the same Arts & Culture work that handles public art.
Read note ->History and culture - Washington County
An Easy, Free Afternoon: The Washington County Museum in Akron
Akron's free, year-round county museum keeps Washington County's pioneer and Native American story under one roof.
Read note ->History and culture - Crowley County
Crowley County keeps its story in a 1914 schoolhouse
The Crowley County Heritage Center fills a 1914 brick schoolhouse with the county's newspapers, farm records, and local artifacts, and it doubles as the town hall and a community gathering place.
Read note ->History and culture - El Paso County
The Pioneers Museum lives in the old 1903 county courthouse
The Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum, the free regional history museum, occupies the historic 1903 El Paso County Courthouse in downtown Colorado Springs.
Read note ->History and culture - Montrose County
Montrose's old railroad depot is now the county history museum
The Montrose County Historical Museum is housed in the historic Denver & Rio Grande depot in Montrose, a Mission Revival building on the National Register that tells the valley's settlement and railroad story.
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