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Underrepresented Community

La Morada

Not every sacred place has stained glass or steeples. Some are constructed of adobe, built by hand, and held together by generations of faith and community. In the oldest town in Colorado, the quiet walls of La Morada tell the story of the Penitentes, men (and later,...

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Newman Block

Newman Block in Granada is an important reminder of the connections between the town of Granada and Amache, the World War II incarceration site in southeastern Colorado where Japanese Americans were forcibly removed and confined. On February 19, 1942, President...

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Pillars of P.O.W. Camp 202

Two stone pillars along the business loop of U.S. Highway 34 west of Greeley are all that remain of what was once a 320-acre World War II prisoner-of-war camp. The camp was significant to the history of many communities in northeastern Colorado because German and...

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Feminilas Building

The Feminilas Building is located in the Culebra Valley south and east of San Luis, Colorado, and was built around 1920 as the only known building separately owned and operated by the women’s auxiliary of the SPMDTU Hispanic men’s labor organization...

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Amache Internment Site

Fear of espionage led the United States government to exile thousands of Japanese American citizens to internment centers during World War II. In 1942, one of the few internment centers in the nation, the Granada Relocation Center, also known as Amache, was built on...

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