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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ECF_the-smith-eslick-cottage-court_Grand-Lake-CO.html
The Smith Eslick Cottage Court. . The Smith Eslick Cottage Court (panel 1). The Smith-Eslick Cottage Court is believed to be the oldest original-condition motel in the United States. Built at about the same time as the 1915 opening of Rocky Mounta…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ECD_rapids-lodge-historic-site_Grand-Lake-CO.html
Rapids Lodge Historic Site. . Rapids Lodge is one of three tourist hotels built between 1900 and 1920. The other two burned. Laps Ish, the owner and builder, sawed all lumber of lodgepole pine. Until about 1935 the lights and some heat for the hot…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ECC_grand-lake_Grand-Lake-CO.html
Grand Lake was formed by glacial action, the ice gouged back into the mountains to the east. As the climate warmed, the glacier melted irregularly, leaving ridges of clay and rocks called moraines. Moraines edge the west and north shore, and are a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2EBK_public-square_Grand-Lake-CO.html
Public Square. . When the town of Grand Lake was platted in 1881, Grand Avenue was designed to be 100 feet wide. Although traffic congestion was not a problem, extra space was allowed for rodeos and horse races. . . The Public Square was often …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2EBJ_cairns-humphrey-store_Grand-Lake-CO.html
Cairns-Humphrey Store. . In 1881 James Cairns built his first store here to serve the miners. In 1908 he replaced it with a better building, purchased by Matilda Humphrey in 1924. It survives as the central part of the Humphrey store. The small re…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1O9K_people-of-kawuneeche-valley_Grand-Lake-CO.html
This miner's cabin is one of the oldest buildings left standing in the Kawuneeche Valley. In 1902, Joseph Fleshuts homesteaded 160 acres here with the intent to live on the land for at least five years. Life must have been hard. In 1911 he abruptl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1O9E_continental-divide_Estes-Park-CO.html
The "great divide" separates drainage to the Atlantic
from drainage to the Pacific. It traverses America from
Alaska almost to Cape Horn.
Atlantic Ocean
«« drainage
Cache La Poudre Creek
drains into the Platte River
which flows to the M…