Entries Containing All of the Phrases «las animas county» AND «colorado»

By Mark Hilton, July 23, 2016

El Moro (Panel 2)

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1 ► Colorado, Las Animas County, Trinidad — 247 — The Ludlow Massacre / Cultural Frontier / Hispano Colorado / El Moro Country —

Panel 1 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

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2 ► Colorado, Las Animas County, Trinidad — Trinidad Schools and the Sisters of Charity —

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

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3 ► Colorado, Las Animas County, Trinidad — The Coal Miner's Canary —

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

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4 ► Colorado, Las Animas County, Trinidad — Mountain Route of the Santa Fe Trail —

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

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5 ► Colorado, Las Animas County, Trinidad — The Mountain Called Fisher's Peak —

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

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6 ► Colorado, Pueblo County, Pueblo, Bessemer — 1950s Allen Mine — Davenport Engine — Steelworks Center of the West —

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

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7 ► Colorado, Las Animas County, Trinidad — Fort Wootton Veterans' Memorial Square —

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

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8 ► Colorado, Las Animas County, Trinidad — The Methodist Church of Trinidad —

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

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9 ► Colorado, Las Animas County, Trinidad — Carnegie Public Library — 1904 —

has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m280500) HM

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