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Chimney Rock

Added by yongli on 06/02/2017 - 15:11, last changed on 06/02/2017 - 15:12

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Located in the southwest corner of Colorado just north of the New Mexico border, the Chimney Rock Archaeological Area is home to hundreds of archaeological sites. One of these sites, the Chimney Rock Pueblo, is known for its dramatic setting high atop Stollsteimer Mesa, which is marked by two rocky...

Squirrel Creek Recreation District

Added by yongli on 06/02/2017 - 14:41, last changed on 06/02/2017 - 14:42
Developed primarily between 1919 and 1924, the Squirrel Creek Recreation District in the San Isabel National Forest near Pueblo was one of the earliest recreational developments in a national forest and served as a model for many others to come. The recreation district is also notable for its...

Olsen-Chubbuck Bison Kill Site

Added by yongli on 06/02/2017 - 14:37, last changed on 06/02/2017 - 14:38
Dating to roughly 8200 BCE, the Olsen-Chubbuck Bison Kill Site in Cheyenne County preserves evidence of a Paleo-Indian kill of more than 190 bison. The site was named for the amateur archaeologists Jerry Chubbuck and Sigurd Olsen, who discovered and partially excavated the site in 1957–58 before...

“Little Rome”

Added by yongli on 06/02/2017 - 14:13, last changed on 06/02/2017 - 14:14
“Little Rome” was a residential area in Henson, a San Juan mining camp a few miles west of Lake City that peaked in the 1890s. Henson is notable for being the site of an 1899 strike carried out at the Ute Ulay and Hidden Treasure mines by Italians affiliated with the Western Federation of Miners ...

Jones-Miller Bison Kill Site

Added by yongli on 06/02/2017 - 14:09, last changed on 06/02/2017 - 14:10
Located in a shallow draw near the Arikaree River in eastern Colorado, the Jones-Miller Bison Kill Site was discovered in 1972 by the rancher Robert B. Jones, Jr. and excavated over the next three years by Dennis Stanford of the Smithsonian Institution. Containing the bones of more than 300 bison,...

Devils Head Lookout

Added by yongli on 06/02/2017 - 14:03, last changed on 06/02/2017 - 14:03
Located on a granite outcrop that is the highest point in the Rampart Range , the Devils Head Lookout has operated continuously as a US Forest Service fire lookout for more than a century. The first female fire lookout in the country, Helen Dowe , served at Devils Head from 1919 to 1921. The...

Concilio Superior

Added by yongli on 06/02/2017 - 13:34, last changed on 06/02/2017 - 13:59
The Concilio Superior building in Antonito is the headquarters of La Sociedad Protección Mutua de Trabajadores Unidos (SPMDTU; Society for the Mutual Protection of United Workers), a mutual-aid society established in 1900 to protect Hispano workers in the San Luis Valley from discrimination and to...

Dearfield

Added by yongli on 06/02/2017 - 13:05, last changed on 06/02/2017 - 14:07
Established on May 5, 1910, by a young entrepreneur named Oliver Toussaint Jackson , Dearfield was an agricultural colony for black people about twenty-five miles southeast of Greeley . For two decades nearly 700 black people worked to transform the rolling desert hills into a thriving farm...

Castlewood Dam

Added by yongli on 06/02/2017 - 12:53, last changed on 06/02/2017 - 12:57
Built in 1890 along Cherry Creek south of Franktown, Castlewood Dam was meant to help irrigate Douglas County farms. In 1933 the dam gave way, unleashing a fifteen-foot surge of water on Denver and ultimately spurring development of the Cherry Creek Dam to prevent future flooding. Today the ruins...

Beaumont Hotel

Added by yongli on 06/02/2017 - 11:59, last changed on 06/05/2017 - 11:29
When it opened in 1887, the Beaumont Hotel in Ouray was one of the finest hotels in the Rocky Mountains. After several successful decades, its fortunes declined along with Ouray’s mining economy, and it eventually closed in the 1960s. In 2005 the hotel was reopened after an extensive rehabilitation...

Wheeler/Stallard House

Added by yongli on 05/24/2017 - 16:36, last changed on 05/31/2017 - 14:06
The Wheeler/Stallard House is a three-story Queen Anne style residence built in 1888–89 by Jerome B. Wheeler on the west side of Aspen . Edgar and Mary Ella Stallard occupied the house from 1905 to 1945, when Walter Paepcke acquired it for use as overflow guest rooms for the Hotel Jerome , employee...

Westlake School

Added by yongli on 05/24/2017 - 16:34, last changed on 05/24/2017 - 16:43
Built in 1902 in what was then western Adams County , the Westlake School on Lowell Boulevard in Broomfield educated students at a variety of levels until its final closure in 1990. Now in Broomfield County, the school building was a private residence for fifteen years. It has been zoned for a...

Solandt Memorial Hospital

Added by yongli on 05/24/2017 - 16:33, last changed on 05/24/2017 - 16:33
Solandt Memorial Hospital in Hayden opened in 1923 as the first modern hospital in northwest Colorado. It operated as a hospital for more than forty years—for much of that time as the only accredited hospital in the region—before closing in the 1960s because it had no doctor. Since 1970 the...

Roberts Ranch Buffalo Jump

Added by yongli on 05/24/2017 - 16:31, last changed on 05/24/2017 - 16:31
The Roberts Ranch Buffalo Jump in northern Larimer County is a Protohistoric period (1540–1860 CE) bison kill and butchering site that dates to about 1663–84 and represents one of the southernmost bison jump sites on the Great Plains . Discovered in 1957, the site was excavated in the late 1960s by...

Given Institute

Added by yongli on 05/24/2017 - 16:30, last changed on 05/24/2017 - 16:30
The Given Institute was an International Style conference and laboratory building designed by Harry Weese and built in 1972 at 100 East Francis Street in Aspen . Built on land that formerly belonged to Elizabeth Paepcke near Hallam Lake, the building was owned by the University of Colorado and used...

Jurgens Archaeological Site

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 16:47, last changed on 05/19/2017 - 16:47
The Jurgens Archaeological Site is a Paleo-Indian period (before 6000 BCE) bison processing site that dates to about 7120 BCE and includes the remains of at least sixty-eight bison spread across three separate camps. Located about nine miles east of Greeley near the South Platte River , the site...

Grand Junction Depot

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 16:43, last changed on 05/19/2017 - 16:43
The Grand Junction Depot is a two-story Italian Renaissance railroad station built in 1906 to accommodate the city’s growing rail traffic. A downtown landmark, the building serves as a reminder of the important role that railroads—especially the Denver & Rio Grande (later the Denver & Rio...

Draper Cave Archaeological Site

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 16:38, last changed on 05/19/2017 - 16:41
The Draper Cave Archaeological Site contains evidence of human occupation dating back to the Middle Archaic period (3000–1000 BCE). In 1972 the Denver chapter of the Colorado Archaeological Society excavated the site under the supervision of Ivol K. Hagar. The most important discovery was the...

Crested Butte

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 16:36, last changed on 05/24/2017 - 15:04
Founded in 1878, Crested Butte is a former coal-mining town turned ski resort nestled in the Elk Mountains of northern Gunnison County . The town lies about twenty-eight miles north of the county seat of Gunnison and about the same distance south of Aspen. At nearly 9,000 feet of elevation and...

Wild Horse School

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 16:32, last changed on 05/19/2017 - 16:32
The Wild Horse School was built in 1911–12 and served until 1964 as the only school in the town of Wild Horse (8513 State Hwy 40 287, Wild Horse, CO 80862), in Cheyenne County . Originally a two-room building, the schoolhouse was expanded when a separate one-room structure was moved to the site in...

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