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History and culture
Mining towns and railroads, landmarks and museums, festivals, food, and the local-color stories that make each corner of Colorado make sense.
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History and culture - June 10, 2026
Aspen's Victorian houses are part of a recognized historic core
Aspen's old downtown and its Victorian homes, including the Wheeler/Stallard Museum, are documented historic resources, and the City of Aspen's own preservation program is what shapes how owners can change designated properties.
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At Soapstone Prairie, a spear point in a bison's spine rewrote the past
At the Lindenmeier site in Fort Collins's Soapstone Prairie Natural Area, a stone point lodged in the backbone of an extinct bison helped prove people hunted here at the end of the Ice Age, roughly 10,000 years ago.
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Aurora was first called Fletcher
The city of Aurora started in 1891 as the town of Fletcher, named for a developer, and voters renamed it Aurora years later in the early 1900s.
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Aurora's Havana Street is a four-mile run of immigrant kitchens
Along roughly four miles of Havana Street in Aurora, immigrant-owned Ethiopian, Somali, East African, Vietnamese, Korean and Mexican restaurants cluster together in one of the metro area's most international dining corridors.
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Avon's name came from 'Avondale,' not an English river
A popular tale says Avon was named for England's Avon River, but the town's own history credits early settler George A. Townsend, who liked the name 'Avondale' — a reminder to check place-name legends against the documented record.
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Barney Ford's house in Breckenridge tells a Black pioneer's story
The Barney Ford House Museum in Breckenridge preserves the home of a formerly enslaved man who became a businessman and civil rights advocate in early Colorado.
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Beckwith Ranch: the red-roofed Victorian on Highway 69
A white-clapboard Victorian ranch house with bright red roofs sits just northwest of Westcliffe, a National Register landmark that volunteers open for tours each summer.
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Bent's Old Fort tells the Santa Fe Trail story near La Junta
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site near La Junta is a reconstructed 1800s trading post on the Santa Fe Trail and a careful place to learn the valley's layered history.
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Big Timbers and Bent's New Fort: history near Lamar
The Arkansas River near Lamar was once a cottonwood grove called Big Timbers, the site of Bent's New Fort and a meeting ground rich with deep history.
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Big Timbers Museum gathers the Prowers County story
A mile north of Lamar on US 50, the Prowers County Historical Society's museum pulls Santa Fe Trail, Dust Bowl, and military history into one low-cost indoor stop.
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Black Canyon went from monument to national park
Black Canyon of the Gunnison was first protected as a national monument in 1933 and became a national park in 1999. The park named for the Gunnison River sits in neighboring Montrose County.
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Boggsville sits where the Santa Fe Trail met the river bottom
Boggsville, near Las Animas, is a preserved 1860s settlement on the Santa Fe Trail that helps explain why people first put down roots along the rivers in Bent County.
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Bonanza was a silver boomtown that became a tiny mountain village
North of Villa Grove, the silver camp of Bonanza grew after ore was found around 1880 and later shrank to a handful of residents, and a cleanup project still manages old mine waste there.
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Boreas Pass Road was once a high narrow-gauge railroad
The gravel road over Boreas Pass between Breckenridge and Como follows the old grade of the Denver, South Park & Pacific narrow-gauge railroad.
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Boulder County's mountain towns grew up around mining
Many of Boulder County's foothills and mountain communities trace their start to the hard-rock mining era, a story preserved at sites like Nederland and Caribou.
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Boulder started as a supply town for gold miners in 1859
The city of Boulder began in 1859 as a base where miners outfitted before heading into the mountains, and it took its name from Boulder Creek.
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Boulder's Chautauqua is a living piece of a national movement
The Colorado Chautauqua in Boulder, built in 1898 as a summer education and culture retreat, is a National Historic Landmark and still operates today.
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Boulder's history includes a hard link to the Sand Creek Massacre
The City of Boulder publicly documents that a local company trained at Fort Chambers before taking part in the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre of Arapaho and Cheyenne people.
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Breckenridge's Main Street sits inside a historic district
The heart of Breckenridge is a listed historic district of late-1800s and early-1900s mining-town buildings, which is why its Main Street looks the way it does.
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Bromley Farm in Brighton: a Japanese American family's farm you can walk
A preserved Brighton farm carries two stories at once, and a fall festival lets families walk the same ground its Japanese American owners worked for sixty years.
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Broomfield Days is the city's big September festival on Midway Boulevard
Broomfield Days is a long-running one-day community festival each September at Midway Park, with a parade, 5K, vendor booths, and food along Midway Boulevard.
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Broomfield is both a city and a county at the same time
Broomfield is one of only two places in Colorado that is a combined city and county, formed when the city's land was pulled out of four other counties.
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Broomfield's library is named for Mamie Doud Eisenhower, who came to its dedication
Broomfield's public library carries the name of First Lady Mamie Doud Eisenhower, who attended its July 1963 dedication alongside General Eisenhower.
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Broomfield's rail stop was Zang's Spur, and the name is usually traced to broomcorn
Broomfield grew from farm country along the railroad and was known to the railroad as Zang's Spur after a local landowner; the name Broomfield is traditionally traced to broomcorn grown nearby, though the city's own history does not settle the question.
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