In the 1700s, this area of southern Colorado became a significant cultural crossroads for the Indian tribes of the high plains. Apaches and Kiowas, Utes and Comanches all pressed in to take advantage of the abundant buffalo and other game. This . . . — — Map (db m187029) HM
Built in 1928, the Greehorn Bridge carried Pueblo County Road 273/Apache City Road over Greeenhorn Creek and was a rare example of a Warren deck truss structure. Because of its association with the early route known as the Great North - South . . . — — Map (db m189636) HM
In the early 19th century, the Santa Fe and Taos trails became the most renowned trading rouses in the West. For 60 years, American and Mexican traders drove great caravans of prairie schooner across a sweeping sea of grass - an 800-mile route that . . . — — Map (db m188275) HM
Although the most famous campaigns of the American Civil War took place in the East, the issues that divided Americans also brought the conflict into the West. In 1862, as the fighting entered its second year, Jefferson Davis, president of the . . . — — Map (db m188327) HM
The Buffalo Symbol
The buffalo symbol, displayed in the walkways of this plaza, has been developed to symbolize the great importance that this animal had in Plains Indian cultures. For peoples such as the Arapahos and Cheyennes, who moved . . . — — Map (db m188267) HM
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A Highway for the Ages
Though less famous than the trails that brought American pioneers westward, the north-south route along the foot of the Rockies covers far greater distances in space and in time. This . . . — — Map (db m97734) HM
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Borderland
The 1819 Adams-Oρis Treaty fixed the boundary between the U.S. and Spain at the Arkansas River, formalizing a centuries-old convention - the Arkansas had always been a border. Neighboring Indian tribes . . . — — Map (db m168584) HM
This memorial commemorating the Old Pueblo Fort Site erected by The Arkansas Valley & Pueblo Chapters, Daughters of the American Revolution. Dedicated Nov. 17, 1923.
On Christmas Day, 1854, a massacre occurred at Fort Pueblo on the . . . — — Map (db m64755) HM
This tablet is the
Property of the State of Colorado
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The hill one block east is
Jacob Fowler's Lookout.
Later called Sugar Loaf Hill.
Near it in a log house Fowler
and his trappers . . . — — Map (db m96053) HM
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Pueblo
El Pueblo
El Pueblo never achieved great commercial success, but one could make a living there. Built in 1842 by traders George Simpson, Matthew Kinkead, Robert Fisher, Jim Beckwourth, and several others, . . . — — Map (db m89335) HM
Jewish-Americans have contributed to the rich cultural, economic and political life throughout Colorados
history. Mr. Abraham Goldsmith and his brother Henry Goldsmith are the first known Jewish immigrants to
what was then the Territory of . . . — — Map (db m232622) HM
Teresita Sandoval was one of the daring souls that arrived at the Pueblo settlement in
1841. Like other women of that time, she would witness and be partner to changes in her
country. She departed from her traditional life as the wife of Manuel . . . — — Map (db m64751) HM
This memorial is the
Property of the State of Colorado
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A detachment of United States Soldiers of
The Mormon Battalion
in the Mexican War spent the
winter of 1846-47 near this site. . . . — — Map (db m96068) HM
In steelmaking, a ladle is a large vessel made of steel and cast
iron framing lined with fire brick. In the first method for mass-producing steel, newly cast pig iron created in the open-hearth furnace was poured into the ladle. The bottom . . . — — Map (db m281620) HM
In the summer of 1919, Charles Rumford Walker began work in an open hearth department at a large steel mill outside Pittsburgh; Pennsylvania. It was in the open hearth department that pig iron, a mixture of fron ore and limestone heated and . . . — — Map (db m281633) HM
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company opened the Allen Mine,
located in western Las Animas County, in 1951. The mine
was named in honor of Charles Allen Jr., who assumed
control of the company in the mid-1940s.
The Allen Mine was considered . . . — — Map (db m281618) HM
As industrialization and urbanization grew, so did the concern
for children's welfare. It was believed that neighborhood
playgrounds would keep children off dangerous streets and
help them develop physical health, good habits, and social . . . — — Map (db m281639) HM
Ore carts are used to move rocks and minerals from a
mine interior to the mine opening, or portal. Shaped
like large, rectangular buckets, ore carts rode on metal
tracks and were pushed or pulled by men, animals or rope-
haulage systems. . . . — — Map (db m281628) HM
During the steelmaking process, manganese, carbon and other elements are
added to scrap steel which is heated in a brick lined ladle to around 3,000
degrees Fahrenheit by an intense electrical current. From there, the molten
metal flows . . . — — Map (db m281615) HM
The "Steel Y," opened by the Colorado Fuel & Iron
Company in 1920 on a site west of Abriendo Avenue that
is now a parking lot, was once the largest private YMCA
in the United States. It contained meeting rooms, educational
and recreational . . . — — Map (db m281637) HM
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I) was a firm of enormous
importance to the industrialization of the West. The company's roots date to
1872 when General William Jackson Palmer and his colleagues in the Denver
and Rio Grande Railway . . . — — Map (db m281625) HM
In 1874, the Central Colorado Improvement Co. (Wm. J. Palmer & Thomas C. Parrish) sold the property to Mayland Cuthbert, trustee, for $1,475. In 1880, Benjamin Hough sold this land to Horace N. Banks for the sum of $200. In 1883, the property . . . — — Map (db m281662) HM
In 1868, Klaus Wildeboor purchased 160 acres, formerly part of the Nolan Land Grant, from U. B. Holloway for $7 an acre through a Quit Claim Deed. Folklore holds that U. S. Marshal Holloway became implicated with counterfeiters causing him to . . . — — Map (db m281667) HM
DeRemer Block
230 South Union Avenue
Built in 1882
Architectural Style: Late 19th Century Commercial
Architect: F. W. Cooper and Joseph Anderson
Contractor: F. T. Downing
James R. DeRemer purchased this lot in 1879 for . . . — — Map (db m281975) HM
The adobe placita ("little plaza") before you
bears many features typical of fur
trade-era trading posts in the West,
but it is not an entirely accurate
reconstruction of the historic El
Pueblo. George Simpson, Matthew
Kinkead, . . . — — Map (db m282540) HM
Edward Home owned this property in 1879. In 1881, Daniel Kelly sold the property to C. A. Dimmick for $7,500. A year later, Dimmick sold the property to Andrew McGovern for $8,000.
In 1889, the Sanborn Insurance Maps listed four businesses . . . — — Map (db m281671) HM
Patrick J. Desmond and his wife, Annie, purchased this lot in 1881 for $700. In 1882, George Bell and W. J. Brown bought lots 3 and 4 from the Desmond's for $11,000.
George Bell sold his half interest in the lots to N. B. Wescott for . . . — — Map (db m281672) HM
Contractor W. H. Whitney and Mr. Waltz
Delos Holden was a representative businessman who made important contributions to Pueblo's growth and development. He was the first mayor of the newly consolidated town of Pueblo in 1886. He fought the . . . — — Map (db m281879) HM
Mathew Kinkead inherited the ambitious qualities required of
a frontiersman. His family's name is recorded among the founders of
Madison and Franklin Missouri. His contemporaries included a list of
notable trail blazers, among them Kit Carson. . . . — — Map (db m281978) HM
This property was sold to Morris L. Gage for the sum of $2,500 in 1881.
This Block was built for James B. Orman. The contractors were Minum and Walley. In 1883, the Sanborn map depicted a bookstore at 200 South Union Avenue, and grocery . . . — — Map (db m281972) HM
The Pueblo Trading Post (Fort Pueblo, El Pueblo), located on the American
side of the Mexico border, was established in 1842 by French and American
traders who worked out of Bents Fort, located seventy miles east on the
Arkansas River. it . . . — — Map (db m282044) HM
In 1880, William Moore and James N. Carlile sold an undivided one-half interest in three town lots to George W. Crites for the sum of $1. In 1881, G. C. Eldridge sold a frame, one-story building with furniture and fixtures to South Pueblo . . . — — Map (db m281888) HM
"Old Monarch," cut down in South Pueblo on June 25,
1883, was 388 years old, had a circumference of 29 feet and was
88 feet tall. It proudly served as the oldest tree landmark in what
later became the State of Colorado and stood as a testament . . . — — Map (db m281670) HM
Charles Autobees (1812-1882) was born in St. Louis, Missouri territory.
His father was French and Native American and his mother part Black
and Native American. His father died when he was three years old. He
had a younger brother known as Tom . . . — — Map (db m282048) HM
Marcelino Baca (1808-1862) was born in Taos, Mexico. In the 1820s, he
learned trapping and the English language from companies of American
trappers based in Taos and Santa Fe. As a member of Jim Bridger's
American Fur Company, he was . . . — — Map (db m282049) HM
Teresita Sandoval (1811-1894) was born in Taos, Mexico. In 1842,
Teresita and her rancher companion, Matthew Kinkead, helped build and
manage the Pueblo Trading Post. She was stubborn and hot tempered
but also intelligent and courageous: She . . . — — Map (db m282046) HM
Charles Young sold this property to John Long in 1873 for $400. In 1880, this was the site of The Topeka House, shown standing alone on the street in an early photograph.
The Pueblo Street Railway Company was incorporated in 1879. William . . . — — Map (db m281677) HM
In November 1880, William Moore and James N. Carlile sold half interest in this lot to George W. Crites for $1. Then, in May 1881, George sold it to Lewis C. Railey, A. B. Patton and D. F. Urmy for $1,200. In June 1881, Lewis Railey, Sr. sold the . . . — — Map (db m281895) HM
In Honor of All Pueblo West Residents Who Have Served in the Armed Services of Our Country. Dedicated by Pueblo West, VFW Post 5812, 30 May 1994 — — Map (db m187024) WM
By 1700 Comanches moved south from the northern Rockies onto the plains of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico. They raided the Apaches and Spanish settlements from the late 1600s until 1779 when the Governor of New Mexico, Don Juan Bautista . . . — — Map (db m64775) HM
