On Silver Street at 2nd Street (County Road 20), on the right when traveling north on Silver Street.
Town founder Enos T. Hotchkiss (1832-1900) built a dirt-roofed log cabin near this site in August 1874. More permanent structures, like the Finley Block built in 1877, now the Hinsdale County Museum, turned Lake City into the “Metropolis of San . . . — — Map (db m292187) HM
On Silver Street at 2nd Street (County Road 20), on the right when traveling north on Silver Street.
Two of Lake City's earliest cabins were built near this location in August, 1874, by Enos Hotchkiss and John Bartholf. The men were part of a road building party which passed through the area while constructing the Saguache & San Juan Toll Road . . . — — Map (db m292188) HM
On April 6, 1883, the trial for Alferd Packer began at the Hinsdale County Courthouse. This trial was for the murder of Israel Swan. On April 13, 1883, Packer was found guilty by a jury and received a death sentence. Packer's First . . . — — Map (db m291799) HM
On 5th Street just west of Gunnison Avenue (State Highway 149), on the left when traveling west.
Lake City was just beginning to boom when the Rev. Alexander Darley arrived from Del Norte, Colorado Territory, in June of 1876. Within a few weeks, Darley gathered the signatures necessary to charter a congregation, making Lake City's Presbyterian . . . — — Map (db m292199) HM
On Silver Street at 3rd Street, on the left when traveling north on Silver Street.
Western Colorado's first banking house, the Hinsdale County Bank, opened in Lake City in June of 1876. The bank was a branch of the First National Bank of Colorado Springs and boasted prominent banker H.A. McIntire as president and H.J. Alexander . . . — — Map (db m292157) HM
