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pagosa springs
6 Porch Notes tagged “pagosa springs,” from counties across Colorado.
Water and land - Archuleta County
Soaking above the world's deepest measured hot spring
Pagosa Springs sits above the Mother Spring, a geothermal spring so deep that the plumb line never found the bottom, and you can soak in the riverside pools it feeds.
Read note ->History and culture - Archuleta County
The hot spring that gave Pagosa Springs its name
The geothermal spring at the center of Pagosa Springs has drawn people since long before the town existed, and its story includes Ute and earlier Native histories that deserve careful telling.
Read note ->History and culture - Archuleta County
How Archuleta County and Pagosa Springs got their names
The county carries a Hispanic family name from the San Luis Valley, while the town's name comes from a Ute word tied to its famous spring.
Read note ->History and culture - Archuleta County
The railroad spur that ran on Pagosa Springs timber
A narrow-gauge line tied to the Denver and Rio Grande once reached Pagosa Springs, and the lumber it hauled out shaped the town's early economy.
Read note ->History and culture - Archuleta County
Pagosa's old waterworks is now its history museum
The San Juan Historical Museum in Pagosa Springs sits in the town's former waterworks building and keeps Archuleta County's local history.
Read note ->History and culture - Archuleta County
The first Fort Lewis stood at Pagosa Springs
A frontier Army post once guarded the Pagosa Springs area in the late 1870s, an early Fort Lewis that later moved west, shaping the town's beginnings.
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