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Santa Fe Trail & SE Heritage Region
The potential expansion of the U.S. Army’s Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site could encompass hundreds of thousands of acres in the four counties. This could include the transfer of Comanche National Grasslands and the condemnation of private lands. Colorado...
Kit Carson Museum
This building housed German POWs and Jamaican Farm Workers. It is believed to be the last building standing associated with either themes.
Fort Lyon
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...
Columbian Elementary School
Columbian Elementary School was once one of Las Animas’s most distinctive historic educational buildings and an important reminder of both the community’s school history and southeastern Colorado’s regional architectural traditions. Built in 1917 to replace the...
Bent County High School
One of the threats facing many historic schools is the tendency for communities to build new public school campuses far from the center of town, typically in outer-ring suburbs. Older neighborhood schools are abandoned, often without a new use in sight. The...