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Lake City

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 11:29, last changed on 08/20/2020 - 01:07

Lake San Cristobal

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At an elevation of 8,661 feet in the heart of the San Juan Mountains , the historic mining town of Lake City is the only incorporated town in Hinsdale County . Named for nearby Lake San Cristobal , the town was founded in 1874 in a broad valley along the Lake Fork of the Gunnison River . Between...

Fort Morgan State Armory

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 11:03, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:04
Built in 1922, the Fort Morgan State Armory is located at 528 State Street in Fort Morgan in northeast Colorado (528 State St, 80701 Fort Morgan, United States). It served as headquarters of Company M, Seventeenth Infantry of the Colorado National Guard until 1996, when the guard moved to Denver...

Debus Farm

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 10:35, last changed on 10/16/2019 - 12:38
The Debus Farm is a historic sugar beet farm in Logan County , located north of the South Platte River near the intersection of US 138 and County Road 67. Founded by the German Russian Debus family in 1925, the farm is a prominent example of the contributions that German Russian families made to...

Crystal Mill

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 10:17, last changed on 01/05/2018 - 14:10
Built in 1892, the Crystal Mill is a log-and-frame structure atop a rocky outcrop along the Crystal River in northwest Gunnison County . At the time of its construction, the “mill” served as a powerhouse for local silver mines, allowing both the mines and the town of Crystal to stay afloat despite...

Lake Agnes Cabin

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 10:10, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:04
Lake Agnes Cabin is a one-room log cabin about a half-mile north of Lake Agnes in the Never Summer Mountains . Built in 1925, the cabin was intended to provide accommodations for a boys’ summer camp and was later used by forest rangers in the area. Today it is in State Forest State Park and is...

Cozens Ranch

Added by yongli on 05/17/2017 - 16:34, last changed on 10/07/2019 - 12:20
Built in 1874 by pioneer homesteader William Zane Cozens , Cozens Ranch was an important early ranch and stage stop in the Fraser River valley in north-central Colorado. The ranch also served for nearly thirty years as the area’s main post office. The Cozens family later donated the ranch to the...

Colorado Chautauqua

Added by yongli on 05/17/2017 - 16:26, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:04
Established in 1898 on what was then a barren mesa south of Boulder , Colorado Chautauqua has been providing education and entertainment programs for well over a century. Originally founded by Texas educators, the Chautauqua in Boulder was part of a nationwide movement emphasizing intellectual and...

Calhan Paint Mines

Added by yongli on 05/17/2017 - 15:46, last changed on 04/16/2020 - 09:15
Located near Calhan , about thirty-five miles northeast of Colorado Springs , the Calhan Paint Mines are an area of clay deposits that have seen extensive prehistoric habitation and historic quarrying of the clay for pottery and bricks. In the 1990s, archaeological fieldwork at the site revealed...

Bain’s Department Store

Added by yongli on 05/17/2017 - 15:34, last changed on 03/18/2020 - 13:11
In 1935 Joe Bain and his son, Victor, opened Bain’s Department Store on Main Street in Alamosa . After Bain’s closed, Victor Bain continued to own the building for decades, renting it out to a variety of automobile dealers and appliance shops. In 1994 the local nonprofit La Puente acquired the...

US Air Force Academy Cadet Area

Added by yongli on 05/17/2017 - 15:24, last changed on 10/23/2019 - 09:57
Built primarily between 1955 and 1959, the US Air Force Academy cadet area near Colorado Springs is the heart of the Air Force Academy campus and home of the school’s 4,000 undergraduates. Occupying a prominent hilltop location, the cadet area hosts most regular college functions, including dorms,...

Empire Chief Mine and Mill

Added by yongli on 05/17/2017 - 15:18, last changed on 04/08/2020 - 13:18
The Empire Chief Mine and Mill site is an abandoned nineteenth-century metal mining complex in Hinsdale County , located several miles west of Lake City on the southern slope of Sheep Mountain (83 Sunny Ave, Empire, CO 80438). The mine was established in 1885 after the discovery of the Bonanza Lode...

Downtown Loveland Historic District

Added by yongli on 05/16/2017 - 16:48, last changed on 03/31/2020 - 01:07
Centered on East Fourth Street, the Downtown Loveland Historic District comprises nine square blocks of the town’s original commercial district. Most of the district lies within the original town plat, and at least fourteen of its fifty-eight buildings date to the late nineteenth century. On...

Willowcroft Manor

Added by yongli on 05/05/2017 - 13:42, last changed on 03/18/2020 - 13:47
Willowcroft Manor was built in 1884 as the home of Littleton -area pioneer Joseph W. Bowles. Designed by early Colorado architect Robert S. Roeschlaub , the two-story stone house was on Bowles’s property near the southwest corner of what is now West Bowles Avenue (which was named for Bowles) and...

Wilbur Thomas Shelter Archaeological Site

Added by yongli on 05/05/2017 - 13:40, last changed on 08/31/2017 - 08:08
The Wilbur Thomas Shelter Archaeological Site is a rockshelter in northwest Weld County featuring evidence of at least six intermittent occupations stretching over 8,500 years. David A. Breternitz and graduate students from the University of Colorado excavated the site in 1969. They found no...

Tremont House Hotel

Added by yongli on 05/05/2017 - 12:04, last changed on 01/18/2020 - 10:49
The Tremont House Hotel was established in the fall of 1859 near Cherry Creek in Auraria (later West Denver) and soon became one of Denver ’s top hotels. In the 1880s, the hotel declined as flood-prone West Denver became home to immigrants and industry while wealthy residents moved to new...

Texas Creek Overlook Archaeological Site

Added by yongli on 05/05/2017 - 11:37, last changed on 08/31/2017 - 07:25
The Texas Creek Overlook Archaeological Site is a picturesque Fremont masonry structure located on a sandstone pinnacle in the rugged canyons south of Rangely . In 1983 the overlook was excavated by Steven D. Creasman of Western Wyoming College in conjunction with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM...

Stewart’s Cattle Guard Archaeological Site

Added by yongli on 05/05/2017 - 11:14, last changed on 03/18/2020 - 12:14
The Stewart’s Cattle Guard Archaeological Site in the San Luis Valley represents a late summer or early fall bison hunting camp occupied by Folsom peoples in the Paleo-Indian period (before 6000 BCE). The site was discovered in the late 1970s and excavated by the Smithsonian Institution’s Paleo-...

Spruce Tree House

Added by yongli on 05/05/2017 - 10:51, last changed on 11/07/2019 - 10:20
Spruce Tree House is the third-largest cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde National Park , and the first seen by most visitors because of its location near park headquarters. Built by Ancestral Puebloans in the 1200s, the 114-room dwelling was rediscovered by rancher Richard Wetherill and Charles Mason in...

Manitou Springs Spa Building

Added by yongli on 05/04/2017 - 16:12, last changed on 05/11/2020 - 12:38
The Manitou Springs Spa Building stands on top of Soda (or Manitou) Spring on the north bank of Fountain Creek in downtown Manitou Springs . The three-story Spanish Colonial Revival building was built in 1920 to help revive Manitou’s sagging health tourism industry by offering modern mineral water...

Long House

Added by yongli on 05/04/2017 - 14:42, last changed on 09/09/2020 - 15:45
Long House is the second-largest cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde National Park . Built by Ancestral Puebloans in the 1200s, the 150-room dwelling was rediscovered by the Wetherill brothers and Charles Mason in early 1890. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, it was excavated and eventually opened to...

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