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5 Porch Notes tagged “trinidad,” from counties across Colorado.

History and culture - Las Animas County

The Ludlow site north of Trinidad tells a powerful chapter of Colorado labor history

Las Animas County was a center of the Colorado coalfield strikes, and the Ludlow site, where lives were lost in 1914, is a national historic landmark worth visiting thoughtfully.

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History and culture - Las Animas County

Downtown Trinidad is a National Historic District called El Corazon de Trinidad

The brick-paved heart of downtown Trinidad is a listed National Historic District, which can affect how older buildings there are changed or restored.

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Local rules - Las Animas County

In Las Animas County, your address sits inside more than one government

Land here can fall under the county, a municipality like the city of Trinidad or the town of Aguilar, and one or more special districts at the same time, and each can set rules or charges.

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History and culture - Las Animas County

Felipe Baca is remembered as a founder of Trinidad

The county seat traces its start to Hispanic pioneer Felipe Baca, who is credited with settling the Purgatoire valley around 1860 and drawing other families there, and the town became the seat when Las Animas County was created in 1866.

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History and culture - Las Animas County

The A.R. Mitchell Museum fills a 1906 department store on Main Street

Trinidad's museum of Western art honors local painter Arthur Roy Mitchell and sits inside the historic Jamieson department store building in the heart of downtown.

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