These three Homesteading Sites of Escalante Canyon are all unique to the canyon area, not only for their manner of construction, but for the historical elements attached to them. All three of the following resources present themselves as community resources in which...
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Hispanic Cultural Landscapes of the Purgatoire River Valley
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...
Doyle Settlement
Doyle Settlement is one of the most important surviving early settlement sites in southern Colorado and a rare place where the region’s multicultural pioneer history can still be read in the landscape. Established in 1859 by Joseph Bainbridge Lafayette Doyle after he...
