Named for its location four miles from the intersection of Broadway and Colfax Avenue in Denver, Four Mile House was built in 1859 and served in the 1860s as the last stage stop before the city along the Smoky Hill Trail. When railroads replaced…

Named for its location seventeen miles from the intersection of Broadway and Colfax Avenue in Denver, Seventeen Mile House operated in the 1860s and 1870s as a tavern and inn along the southern branch of the Smoky Hill Trail. After the arrival of the…