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Every small town has its gathering place where memories live on long after the lights go out. For Buena Vista, that place is the Pearl Theater. Before the popcorn and the projector lights, this building served as a mercantile. Built in the 1880s, it sold everything...
The Shield Site dates to 1200 A.D., and is in an area that has some of the oldest Native American pictographs and petroglyphs in the state. As part of the area’s Canyon Pintado Project, the site falls into phase II ofthe trail and interpretive installation...
Located on the north side of Colfax Avenue near East High School, the Sullivan Gateway is an impressive and grand entry to the City Park Esplanade. Built in 1917, Sullivan Gateway was originally conceived by George Kessler in his 1906 plan for Denver City Parks....
In June of 1850, Lewis Ralston made the first documented discovery of gold in Colorado. The creek where he “found color” was named Ralston’s Creek by members of his party. The pull of the stories of riches in the California goldfields was too great for them to stop...