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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Colorado: Silverton Historic District
Former silver mining town, home of the Shenandoah-Dives (Mayflower) Mill and one end of the Durango-Silverton Narrow-Gauge Railroad.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Colorado: Lindenmeier Site
The only extensive Folsom culture campsite yet found with artifacts dating from approximately 11200 BCE to 3000 BCE.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Colorado: Mesa Verde National Park
Numerous ruins of homes and villages built by the ancient Pueblo people; known for cliff dwellings; Mesa Verde translates into English as "green table".
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Colorado: Hovenweep National Monument
Six clusters of Native American ruins; shared with Utah.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Colorado: Ludlow Tent Colony Site
Site of 1914 miners' strike that culminated in Ludlow Massacre.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Colorado: Trujillo Homestead
Early ranch settlement (1880s) in the San Luis Valley, with a surviving period ranch house; located on a Nature Conservancy property near Great Sand Dunes National Park.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Colorado: Pike's Stockade
Explorer Zebulon Pike set up a fort here.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Colorado: Lowry Ruin
Ancient Pueblo Peoples archaeological site from 1060 with a very large kiva.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Colorado: Shenandoah Dives Mill
Only surviving example of a selective flotation mill in Colorado.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Co: Mesa Verde Administrative District
First buildings built by the National Park Service with intent to reflect cultural traditions in the park area, built in 1921.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Colorado: Granada War Relocation Center
World War II Japanese American internment center.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Colorado: Colorado Chautauqua
This 1898 Chautauqua is the only one West of the Mississippi, one of only four continuously operating since its inception, and the only one open year round.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Colorado: Leadville Historic District
Historic Leadville, Colorado mining district and village area.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Colorado: Denver Civic Center
City Beautiful-era civic center.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Colorado: Telluride Historic District
Former gold mining boomtown, it is now an artistic retreat and a ski resort town.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Colorado: Bent's Old Fort
Adobe fort built in 1833 to trade with Plains Indians and trappers, on Santa Fe Trail.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Colorado: Pikes Peak
Pike's Peak (everything above 14,000 feet (4,300 m) elevation). This mountain was inspiration for "America the Beautiful" as well as the motto "Pike's Peak or Bust".
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Colorado: Yucca House Natl Monument
Unexcavated Ancestral Puebloan archaeological site.