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The East Portal Camp Cabins, constructed between 1922 and 1923 at the eastern entrance to the Moffat Tunnel in Gilpin County, represent the last intact remnants of a purpose-built industrial community created to support one of the most consequential transportation...
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...
On July 3, 1950, the clatter of Denver’s once-thriving transportation system fell quiet as the last streetcar for the Denver Tramway Company (Streetcar No.04) completed its final route. Today, Streetcar No. 04 is one of the only remaining streetcars from the Denver...
The Depot is one of three surviving structures from a major Denver South Park and Pacific Railroad Complex. It retains the telegraph office, freight doors, ticket rooms, paint, and telegraph wires.
The Craig Depot is an example of the architectural style of the early 1900s. The Moffat Line and the Craig Depot served as the hub of activity for the transportation of livestock, coal, supplies, and people to and from an isolated area. The railroad depot was the...
Crossan’s Market, built in 1903, is an excellent and remarkably intact example of a small-town mercantile building that reflects the development of Yampa and the surrounding agricultural economy. For generations, it served the community with everything from groceries...
On the National Register of Historic Places, the school was built in 1911 and met the educational needs of the community for almost fifty years. The building is reported to be the last remaining rural brick schoolhouse in Weld County. The Daniels family immigrated to...
Booker T. Washington’s book, Up From Slavery, was published in 1901, advocating education and land ownership for African-Americans to obtain social, political, and economic parity in America. This became Oliver Jackson’s inspiration to seek a farming...
The Denver and Rio Grande Western Depot is not only one of Antonito's greatest historic assets, but it is also a key to the revitalization of the town itself. This station, constructed out of quarried ashlar volcanic stone, served the town of Antonito and the...