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This scenic valley, located near the Santa Fe Trail, is dotted with historic adobe homes, plazas, and Penitente churches and is still home to descendants of the Hispanic settlers who arrived in the 1860s. The landscape contains some of the oldest settlements in...
The Hanging Flume illustrates the ingenuity and fortitude of miners, intent on extracting gold from the land. There are a few remaining segments of hanging flumes throughout the western United States, and as a result of this Save! It is the only segment preserved for...
Located within the original square mile platted by Grand Junction’s founder, George A. Crawford, Handy Chapel was built in 1892 on land deeded to the “black citizens of Grand Junction” in 1883. The intervening nine years were required to undertake a...
Greeley Salt Lake and Pacific Railroad Grade is a National Register-listed linear landscape in Larimer County, west of Fort Collins near LaPorte, that preserves the last intact segment of the former Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific Railroad’s Stout Branch. Constructed...
Built in 1870, the barn is the sole surviving structure from the Goodnight Rock Canon Ranch, the northern headquarters for the Goodnight-Loving cattle trail that extended from Texas to Colorado. In 1864, the Goodnight-Loving Trail was the most heavily traveled trail...
Historic Preservation is much greater than the preservation of important buildings; it includes the protection of important cultural landscapes. Like historic buildings and districts, cultural landscapes provide a sense of place and identity, often consciously...
Located west of Boulder and known as an important archaeological site, the historic area includes the ruins of the Horsfal Mine and one of Colorado’s earliest Masonic halls. Within months of listing, Boulder County purchased the site and has maintained the...
The Georgetown School was built in 1874 and is believed to be one of Colorado’s oldest extant brick schoolhouse buildings. The structure is located within the Georgetown and Silver Plume National Historic Landmark District and was nominated to the Endangered Places...
The Fort is an important part of the area’s early history and demonstrative of the opening up of the west. Fort Lyon is located along the historic Santa Fe Trail. Since 1868 the fort has been an Army outpost, Navy tuberculosis treatment center, state...