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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29SE_keystone-hotel_Castle-Rock-CO.html
This property has been
placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Second plaque
This property
has been designated as a
Historic Landmark
by the Castle Rock
Historic P…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29S9_rifle-the-rock-that-burns-colorado-wilderness-rifle-country_Rifle-CO.html
Rifle
During the U.S. Geological Survey of 1876, A.C. Peale wrote the word "rifle" on his map to mark the location of a misplaced firearm. The gun was never found, but the name stuck. Founded in 1882, Rifle attracted a steady flow of settlers s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29QV_crowley-communities-national-sugar-company-last-days-of-the-buffalo-crowley-country_Olney-Springs-CO.html
Crowley Communities
If the dry summers of the late 1920s spelled trouble for Crowley County, the Dust Bowl of the 1930s spelled disaster. Many farmers simply packed up and left, and their acreage reverted to grasslands and became cattle range a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29Q5_welcome-to-bent-county_Las-Animas-CO.html
This region was once buffalo hunting grounds for the Cheyenne, Apache, Arapaho, Kiowa and Comanche. Tribes followed the buffalo throughout the plains and controlled the land. During this time, everything south of the Arkansas river was Mexico and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29PM_welcome-to-boggsville_Las-Animas-CO.html
The Arkansas River Valley is a historical frontier in both the American and European sense. Americans view the frontier as unsettled or a sparsely settled area lands on the edge of "civilization." To Europeans, frontiers are boundaries or borders …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29PJ_from-trail-to-town_Las-Animas-CO.html
"...On crossing the river [Purgatoire] we found a large well-filled ranch...which had only just been built by two enterprising Yankees.:"
-William Bell, railroad surveyor, 1867
Boggsville was established in the early 1860s on the Mountain Rout…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29PF_city-hall_Lafayette-CO.html
1907 - 1985
Construction Complete February, 1907
Cost - $1555.00
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29PE_george-bermont-house_Lafayette-CO.html
George Bermont came to Lafayette in 1890
and owned the store at 309 East Simpson.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29P9_peltier-house_Lafayette-CO.html
Peter Peltier built this house in 1900
and opened the Elkhorn Saloon at the
north end of this same block
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29P8_padfield-house_Lafayette-CO.html
This home has the original gingerbread intact.