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Location of El Paso County in Colorado. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in El Paso County, Colorado.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in El Paso County, Colorado, United States.
Ghosts of Colorado Springs and Pikes Peak. Arcadia Publishing Incorporated. ISBN 978-1-61423-615-3. Wendler Lovell, Jennifer; Robert D. Loevy (May 14, 2011). Exploring the Old North End Neighborhood of Colorado Springs: A Guide to Its History and Architecture. Old North End Neighborhood (ONEN). ISBN 978-0-615-44430-7.
Air Services Museum, Colorado Springs; Climbing Tree Children's Museum, Montrose, closed in 2011 [9] Colorado History Museum, Denver, closed in 2010, administered by History Colorado, incorporated into the History Colorado Center; Dinosaur Depot Museum, Cañon City, closed in 2013, exhibits moved to Royal Gorge Regional Museum and History ...
Colorado Springs grew by 164% when 11,140 people settled in the town between 1880 and 1890. [52] After the Cripple Creek gold discovery in 1891, the people who made a fortune from the gold rush and industry built large houses on Wood Avenue, then in the undeveloped downtown area of Colorado Springs.
A Spanish military fort was constructed and occupied in 1819 near Sangre de Cristo Pass in the present U.S. State of Colorado to protect the Spanish colony of Santa Fe de Nuevo México from a possible invasion from the United States. The fort was the only Spanish settlement in present-day Colorado.
The Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum is located at 215 S. Tejon Street in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The granite building with a domed clock tower was the El Paso County Courthouse building from 1903 to 1973. The museum, which moved to this location in 1979, has fine arts, artifacts and archival collections that document [1] [3] the Pikes Peak ...
The History Colorado Center is a museum in Denver, Colorado, USA dedicated to the history of the state of Colorado. [1] Construction on the $111 million building started on 19 August 2009. [ 2 ] The museum opened on 28 April 2012 at 1200 Broadway, [ 3 ] one block south of the site of its predecessor, the Colorado History Museum , which closed ...
Colorado Springs Mining Stock Association was founded about 1886 to trade stock of Cripple Creek mines, some of which grew between 1,000% and 10,000% by 1893. It traded stocks "in almost every state and country in the world." John W. Proudfit & Co., founded in 1890, was the first organization in Colorado Springs to buy and sell mining stocks.