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-Ońis 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 Colorado’s
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 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
