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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...
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...
Located in the Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site, the land that comprised Brown’s Sheep Camp was first purchased by Samuel Taylor Brown in 1882. Brown’s business partner and eventual son-in-law was Julius Gunter, who is best known as Colorado’s 21st Governor. Governor Gunter...
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...
In 1878, the founder of Rocky Ford, G.W. Swink shared his bountiful watermelon crop with passengers at the Rocky Ford Depot and the Arkansas Valley Fiar began. Today, the Arkansas Valley Fairgrounds hosts Colorado’s oldest continuous fair. The Adobe Stables were...