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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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Creede Carved Its Fire Station Into the Canyon Wall
After fire took the town more than once, Creede put its firehouse inside the cliff at the head of Main Street, where trucks wait in rock tunnels.
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Creede's silver boom drew the outlaws, and one of them is buried here
When silver brought 10,000 people to Creede in the early 1890s, it also brought a rogue's gallery of Old West names, including Bob Ford, who was shot dead in a Creede saloon in 1892.
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Cripple Creek's Coal-Fired Steam Train and the Mine Below It
A coal-fired narrow gauge steam train still loops past Cripple Creek's old mines, and a real gold shaft sits just up the road.
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Custer County started with silver and settled into ranching
Silver Cliff and nearby camps grew from an 1870s mining rush, and when the ore played out the Wet Mountain Valley turned to hay and cattle.
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Denver's Western History Collection is a public memory room
Denver Public Library's Western History Collection holds books, maps, photographs, archives, and art for tracing Denver and Rocky Mountain stories.
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Discover Denver turns ordinary buildings into a citywide story file
Discover Denver is a citywide building survey that records ordinary houses, storefronts, and schools and the neighborhood stories behind them.
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Douglas County has a formal board for preserving local history
Douglas County's Historic Preservation Board keeps an official inventory of landmarked properties plus a historic-resource map.
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Douglas County has long been a travel corridor
Long before I-25, Douglas County was a corridor people moved through — first by trail, then by rail, now by interstate.
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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.
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Each summer, world orchestras play an open-air stage in Vail's Ford Park
The Bravo! Vail Music Festival brings acclaimed orchestras to the open-air Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater in Vail's Ford Park each summer.
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Eldorado Canyon went from resort destination to state park
Eldorado Canyon, just south of Boulder, drew resort visitors before it became a state park managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife — and a climbing destination known far beyond Colorado.
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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.
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Englewood's local archive grew from a Share Your Heritage collection
Englewood's local history collection started in 1969 as Share Your Heritage, gathering interviews, photos, and newspapers from longtime residents.
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Federal Heights' name comes from Federal Boulevard and the benchlands
Federal Heights took its name from a 1925 subdivision off Federal Boulevard and the benchlands rising between three local watersheds.
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Franktown helps explain Douglas County before Castle Rock dominated
Before Castle Rock was the county seat, Frank Gardner's Frankstown on Cherry Creek anchored early Douglas County.
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Gilman, a ghost town clinging to a cliff above the Eagle River
The abandoned company town of Gilman clings to Battle Mountain above the Eagle River, a striking sight from US 24 with a rich mining and cleanup story.
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Greeley's dry founding shaped the towns around it
Greeley's Union Colony wrote a no-alcohol rule into its deeds, and that choice shaped Evans, Garden City, and the map around it.
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Greenwood Village still tells a farm-to-business-park story
Greenwood Village grew from farms, dairies, and gravel roads into a blend of homes and nationally recognized business parks.
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High-prairie ranching is part of Douglas County's old identity
Before the subdivisions, Douglas County's high-prairie grasslands were cattle range, run with roundups and annual branding.
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Highlands Ranch adds a master-planned layer to older ranch land
Highlands Ranch is a master-planned community founded in 1981, built over older ranch land still marked by its historic mansion.
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Historic Splendid Valley keeps Brighton's farm edge visible
Historic Splendid Valley is a Brighton and Adams County effort to keep working farmland south of Brighton, with its history intact.
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Historic Westminster still carries the university name story
Westminster took its name from Westminster University, whose campus landmark is now Westminster Castle, on the National Register since 1979.
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Limon is the 'Hub City' because the roads and rails all meet there
Limon earned its 'Hub City' name because Interstate 70 and several U.S. and state highways come together where rail lines once met on the plains.
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Lyons: a red-sandstone quarry town turned bluegrass home
Lyons quarried the red sandstone you see across CU Boulder, and today its St. Vrain festival grounds draw bluegrass fans from around the country.
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