Near El Moro Road (at milepost 18) at Linden Avenue (County Road 71.1).
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The Ludlow Massacre
By April 1914, the striking coal miners encamped at Ludlow (ten miles northwest of here) had nothing to lose but their lives. Poor, powerless, largely immigrant, they had held out for . . . — — Map (db m97716) HM
On Church Street just west of North Convent Street, on the left when traveling west.
During the first decade of Trinidad's existence, education for children was intermittent and haphazard. Several private schools started, but all lasted only a few weeks or months. Although the creation of Las Animas County, with Trinidad as its . . . — — Map (db m280699) HM
On West Main Street (U.S. 160) at North Convent Street, on the right when traveling west on West Main Street.
For centuries, miners have been taking canary birds down into their mines to warn them of potential disaster. If a tunnel or shaft collapses or is blocked, thereby diminishing the oxygen supply, the canary will be the first to react, usually dying, . . . — — Map (db m100501) HM
On North Commercial Street at West Plum Street, on the right when traveling south on North Commercial Street.
Commercial Street, which you are now facing, is a paved-over wagon trail that was here before the town was built. It was one path of the Mountain Route of the famed Santa Fe Trail. Thousands of ox-drawn freight wagons rumbled past here from 1821 . . . — — Map (db m281682) HM
On North Commercial Street just north of Church Street, on the right when traveling south.
The flat-topped mountain visible between the buildings, looking south on Commercial Street, was an important landmark for wagon trains on the Mountain Route of the Santa Fe Trail. This landmark guided them to the foot of Raton Pass over which . . . — — Map (db m280781) HM
On Baystate Avenue east of East Abriendo Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
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
On South Chestnut Street just south of East First Street, on the right when traveling north.
Erected through the cooperation of Federal, State and local governments by Works Progress Administration. Dedicated to the enrichment of human lives. A record of permanent achievement. — — Map (db m282499) HM
On Broom Street at State Street, on the left when traveling west on Broom Street.
One of the oldest churches in Colorado, and the first of the Protestant faith to be established in this community, was founded by E. J. Rice, pioneer Methodist preacher from Kansas, in October of 1869. The first edifice was erected on what is now . . . — — Map (db m280700) HM
