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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2792_the-last-coal-burning-steam-engine_Trinidad-CO.html
Engine 638 was manufactured in 1906 and put into service with the Colorado & Southern R.R. for service at Trinidad for hauling coal, cattle, agricultural products and general merchandise. Later the engine saw service in other areas of Colorado. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-2f71c_trinidads-first-city-building_Trinidad-CO.html
The brick and stone two-story building with a cupola, directly across the street, was Trinidad's first city building, serving not only as Firehouse No. 1 but also as the city hall, police department, and jail. Until it was built in 1888, city gove…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZB6_the-santa-fe-trail_Trinidad-CO.html
This memorial is the Property of the State of Colorado The Santa Fe Trail 1840 - 1878 Two roads or forks of the Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail-Bent's Old Fort to Taos and Santa Fe-joined here until the coming of the Santa …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WBS_celebration-sorrow-historical_Trinidad-CO.html
A day of festivity was followed by one of the darkest in American Labor history. The state militia was on guard Because tensions between the strikers and the company had been steadily escalating, the state militia was stationed on Water Tank…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WBJ_ludlow-tent-colony-site-memorial-historical_Trinidad-CO.html
In Memory of the men, women and children, who lost their lives in freedom's cause at Ludlow, Colorado April 20, 1914.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WBI_the-ludlow-massacre-historical_Trinidad-CO.html
  On April 20, 1914, the State Militia unleashed an un-warranted attack on striking coal miners and their families living in a tent colony at this site. Eleven children and two women suffocated in a cellar beneath a tent when flames engulfed the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WBE_coal-miners-memorial-historical_Trinidad-CO.html
Southern Colorado Miners Memorial 1996 Ben Johnson Artist
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WBD_a-clash-of-cultures-historical_Trinidad-CO.html
In the late 1860s, directly across the street stood the Colorado Hotel, a two- story adobe building fronted by a wooden arcade. It was the station for the Denver Santa Fe Stage Line and, for several days, the refuge of some 60 Anglo town resident…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WBB_women-childrens-march-1914-historical_Trinidad-CO.html
During the miners' strike that began in September 1913, when the United Mine Workers of America was trying to unionize the coal mines of Colorado, their most effective public speaker, organizer and morale-booster was nationally famous Mary Harris …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WBA_the-coal-miners-canary-historical_Trinidad-CO.html
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…
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