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Mining towns and railroads, landmarks and museums, festivals, food, and the local-color stories that make each corner of Colorado make sense.
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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.
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Why Crestone became a center for retreat and spiritual communities
Starting in the 1980s, a foundation gave land near Crestone to many religious groups, and the area now holds a wide range of retreat centers, monasteries, and temples.
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Grand Lake is a lakeside town with a surprising yacht club
The town of Grand Lake sits beside a natural mountain lake and is home to a high-altitude yacht club with roots in the early 1900s.
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Sand Canyon held a village with about three times the rooms of Cliff Palace
West of Cortez, the Sand Canyon area in Canyons of the Ancients held a 13th-century village with roughly three times the rooms of Cliff Palace, and hiking there is restricted to marked routes.
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Carbondale's Potato Day celebrates the valley's farming roots
Carbondale holds an annual Potato Day, a long-running community event that points back to the area's history of potato farming and ranching.
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Raton Pass was once crossed by a private toll road run by 'Uncle Dick' Wootton
The famous crossing south of Trinidad once charged a fee, after frontiersman Richens 'Uncle Dick' Wootton built and operated a toll road over Raton Pass in the 1860s.
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Sterling's old Union Pacific depot is a landmark that was moved to save it
Sterling's 1902 Union Pacific Railroad depot is a National Register landmark that the city relocated when passenger service ended, a small window into why the town grew.
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Sugar Beet Days and the county fair are the two days Logan County all shows up
Logan County's two big yearly gatherings are Sugar Beet Days on Sterling's courthouse square each September and the Logan County Fair and Rodeo at the fairgrounds each summer.
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The 1910 Logan County Courthouse and its Carara paintings reward a downtown stop
Sterling's domed 1910 courthouse is a free, walkable downtown landmark with a restored marble-and-oak rotunda and ten Eugene Carara paintings of northeastern Colorado history.
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The county's history lives in an old schoolhouse in Hot Sulphur Springs
Grand County's main history museum sits in a 1920s schoolhouse in Hot Sulphur Springs, alongside an early courthouse and other moved historic buildings.
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The Elbert County Historical Society & Museum preserves local history in Kiowa
The Elbert County Historical Society and Museum in Kiowa collects photographs, artifacts, and local histories — a good first stop for research, while official land records stay with the county.
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The Garfield County Courthouse is a historic landmark in Glenwood Springs
Garfield County's seat of government is the historic courthouse in downtown Glenwood Springs, a building recognized by History Colorado for its history.
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Thornton and Northglenn were built as planned postwar suburbs
Several Adams County cities, including Thornton and Northglenn, grew from planned subdivisions laid out by developers in the postwar boom, not from old town centers.
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Why Fruita is dinosaur country
The hills around Fruita produced important early dinosaur finds, a legacy you can trace at a named public site and a local museum.
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Dolores grew up around a railroad, and its oldest hotel still shows it
Dolores took shape as a stop on the Rio Grande Southern Railroad, and the town's oldest building, the Southern Hotel, was named for that line.
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City Park is old, big, and holds two major institutions
City Park is one of Denver's oldest large parks, laid out in the 1880s, and it surrounds both the Denver Zoo and the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.
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Civic Center was Denver's City Beautiful centerpiece
Civic Center Park between the Capitol and the City and County Building was built in the early 1900s as Denver's grand public space and is now a National Historic Landmark.
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Durango's East 3rd Avenue is a street of historic homes
East 3rd Avenue in Durango is a tree-lined street of older homes long recognized for its historic character; check with the city and History Colorado before changing a property there.
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Florissant was a ranching settlement before it was a fossil park
The Florissant valley was settled by ranchers and homesteaders in the 1870s, and the restored Hornbek Homestead inside the national monument preserves that story.
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Larimer Square survived because someone fought to save it
Larimer Square holds Denver's oldest commercial block, saved from urban-renewal demolition in the 1960s and now a protected historic district.
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Loveland's Valentine remailing program is a real, long-running tradition
Each February, Loveland runs a Valentine re-mailing program through the post office and chamber of commerce, hand-stamping cards from around the world with a Loveland postmark.
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Manassa keeps the birthplace cabin of boxer Jack Dempsey
The town of Manassa in Conejos County is the birthplace of heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, the 'Manassa Mauler,' and keeps a small museum tied to his early life.
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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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Paonia is named for the peony, with a vowel lost along the way
The North Fork town of Paonia takes its name from the Latin word for peony, shortened from Paeonia when the post office balked at the extra vowel.
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