Entries Containing All of the Phrases «prowers county» AND «colorado»

By Cosmos Mariner, June 13, 2012

Prowers County Courthouse (north/front entrance)

RANKED BY RELEVANCE

1 ► Colorado, Prowers County, Lamar — Prowers County Courthouse — National Register of Historic Places —

This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m213794) HM

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2 ► Colorado, Prowers County, Lamar — Madonna of the Trail —

The Story Begins… in 1922 when Mrs. John Trigg Moss representing the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution and Harry Truman joined forces to petition Congress to designate a "National Old Trails Road," . . . — — Map (db m213698) HM

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3 ► Colorado, Prowers County, Lamar — Steam Locomotive No. 1819 —

Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works — Nov. 1906 (Philadelphia, PA — Cost $23,239.51) Weight with Tender — 322,775 pounds Tractive effort — 42,500 pounds Converted from compound to simple and Waiscaert valve gear — November 1927 Schmidt superheater . . . — — Map (db m213800) HM

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4 ► Colorado, Denver County, Denver, Central — Lynching in America / The Lynching of Preston Porter, Jr. — Community Remembrance Project —

Lynching in America. Racial terror lynchings between 1877 and 1950 claimed the lives of thousands of Black people and terrorized millions more who were denied equal protection under the law. After the Civil War, white resistance to equal . . . — — Map (db m236319) HM

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5 ► Colorado, Prowers County, Lamar — Harmony and Perfection in Wilson Garden —

So read the article's headlines in the Lamar Daily News, September 27,1935. The Holland windmill built in the early 1930's in the backyard of the home of businessman Floyd M. Wilson on East Parmenter Street, Lamar, was featured as the garden's . . . — — Map (db m213849) HM

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6 ► Colorado, Prowers County, Lamar — Big Timbers —

An area along the Arkansas River bottoms, 45 miles westward from a point 20 miles east of Lamar was known as “The Big Timbers” during the “Building of the West.” Big Timbers received its name from giant cottonwoods which flanked both banks of the . . . — — Map (db m213689) HM

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    Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.

* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.