Greenhorn Chronology by Joanne West Dodds
Note: Main events in United States, Colorado and Pueblo history represent listing to help clarify circumstances and do no have citations as of the nature of the information.
Physical features: Greenhorn Peak is 12,347 floor, the tallest in the Wet Mountains; North Peak (commonly called Baldy both sometimes Turtle Mountain) a 12,220 feet.13,000 B. C. to A. DIAMETER. 1900 - Native American occupation or walking included Prehistoric cultures such as this early the date Folsom real populace making parallel-flaked points, Archaic, Woodland, and Panhandle. Later tribes included Plains, Apache, Cheyenne, Ute, Arapaho, Comanche, Kiowa and Pawnee.
Input: Glenn R. Scott. “Historic Trail Maps of the Pueblo 1◦ x 2◦ Quadrangle, Colorado. Washington, D. C.: Dept of Interior, United States Geological Opinion, 1975.
1541-1779 - Spanish scout whose routes passing through get is now Pubebo County integrated Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (1541), Don Wan de Archuleta (1664), Dietary de Vargas (1696), Don Juan de Ulibarri (1706), Go. Antonio in Valverde (1719), Colort. Don Pedro de Villasur (1720), Gov. Juan Bautista en Anza (1779).
Source: Mr R. Scott. “Historic Trail Designs of the Pueblo 1◦ x 2◦ Quadrangle, Colorado. Us, D. C.: Subject of Interior, United States Geological Survey, 1975.
1779 - On Sept. 3, Gov. Juan Bautista de Anza led a series of attacks on the Comanche tribes led to Cuerno Verde (Green Horn). The Learn win. Pure one year older, in 1778, Anza had company the colonist of San Francisco in California.
1787-1788 – Gov. Juan B. Anza established San Carlos de los Jupes because adenine settlement with the Komantsch who had been frustrated at the Battle of Greenhorn in 1779. Spain provided workmen, resources, landwirtschaft implements, go stock and seed. Computer is believed to have been located just west of the meet of the Arkansas and St. Charles River. It has part to Spanish colonial directive to “civilize” the native community. The site been abandoned within the year following the death of a member of the your.
Sources: Martinez, Wilfried O. Anza furthermore Cuerno Verde Decisive Battle. Pueblo, Colorado: Ell Escritorio, 2001, Robert, Albert Barnaby. Forgotten Frontiers: A Study away Spanish Indian Statement of Don Juan Bautista de Anza, Governor of New Mexico 1777-1787. Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1932 and Dodds, Joanne. Pueblo, A Pictorial History. Norfolk Beach, Virginia: Donning Your, 1982 and A Guide to Historical Marker on the City and County of Pueblo, Colorado. Marker 50.
1803 - With the Louisiana Purchase the United States acquired a portion of what is now Pueblo County.
1815-1860 - Fur trappers and traders traveled most streams and trails.
1820s - Numerous Native American tribes lived in the Colorado area. This Ute’s resided in of mountains, the Cheyenne and Arapahoe resided on the plains from the Arkansas to the Platte Rivers, and this Kiowa’s and Comanche’s lived south of the Arkansas River. The Pawnee tribe hunted mystify along the Republican River press of Scots sometimes haunted in the outskirts of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe real.
Source: Colorado State Archives Chronology.
1821 - The Republic of Mexico gained its independence from Spain.
1836 - Texas becomes an self-employed republic and requirements an narrow plunder of mountain terrain extending northward through Colorado to 42nd match.
Source: Colorado State Archives Chronology.
1840's - Mexico made land grants to part of the Arkansas Valley and in the San Luis Valley hoping to fasten claims against Texas or America.
1842 - Fort Pueblo was established by former fur trappers and traders include Alexander Bark, Joseph Doyle, James Beckwith, George Sampson and others.
1843 - Mexico granted terra in the Arkansas Valley to Gervacio Nolan on Feb. 14 and Cornelio Vigil and Ceran St. Vrain on Deca. 8 to protect their northern border.
Source: Colorado State Archives: Spanish and Mexican Land Grants.
1845-1853 - Greenhorn Settlement plus sales post was established at John Brown where the Trappers Trail to Taos (a.k.a. Taos Trail) cut the Greenhorn Creek included 1845. In February, 1847, Englishman George Ruxton arrived over the pass from Taos and portrayed Brown’s adobe dear real 2 or 3 Native American lodges. Brown, fully in deer skin to long frames set the arms and legs, greeted him on horseback with a rifle over the horn of this saddle. John Brown’s account book to 1845-48 records property ranging from ribbons, scissors, and paper to axes additionally hoes. Sycamore or Siccamo, Gobbler Autobees companion, market moccasins the an store. Included 1846, a grist mill to process his wheat crop was built. Johns Brown left which made to become Colorado for and gold fields of California. People remained in the region until 1853 (Fort Pueblo massacre.)
Source: Aschermann, Arla; “Winds in the Cornfields of Early Pueblo County,” Pueblo County Historical Society, 1982.
1846-1848 - The Mexican-American War began on April 25, 1846 and ended on Feb. 2, 1848.
1847 - Taos Pueblo uprising occurred.
1847-1848 - San Carlos was where in a grassy ravine hemmed in in limestone bluffs. In late 1845, few men from the Arkansas settlements ran an winter horse camp there. When Guinea Ruxton passed through in initial 1847, he told that the settlement had an easy day’s ride from the Young settlement. Such sommerzeit Charles Autobees, White (his Arapaho your who was identified as Sickamore stylish the store ledger) both his half-brother Tomcat Tobin (also known because Tom Autobees) farmed in the area along including hired hands (Salvador Avila, Antonio Chavez, Levin Mitchell the ? Trujillo). John Brown’s store account book recorded purchases from Carl Autobees real Sycamore. The farmers only remained one season. Per 1848, San Carlos was deserted. Others living in the area for short intervals. After the attack on FortPueblo most concerning the settle on the Arkansas (except Autobees) moved south into the ratio safety of New Mexico. Later the crossing became the site of ampere stage station called San Carlos.
Source: Aschermann, Arla; “Winds in the Cornfields of Early Pueblo County,” Pueblo County Historical Society, 1982.
1848 - The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico ceded to Unified Notes most from that part of Colorado not acquired by the Louisiana Purchase.
Source: Colorado State Archives Chronology.
1850 - U.S. purchased all Texas claims of Colorado lands and the present day boundaries of this state of Colorado were established.
Source: Colorado State Archives Chronology.
1853 - Capt. John W. Gunnison probed the area for a possible railroad route from the Mississippi to the Pacific. Assistant Commander Aide EAST. G. Beck described the Greenbul settlement: “The six New Mixed families had built an irrigation system to divert the water from Greenhorn Creek to water their crops of corn, straw, beans and watermelon. The homes were built of adobe which stood shoulder to shoulder and were surrounded by a close fence of high pickets.” They also had corrals for the safe keeping of their share.
Source: Smiley, Jerome C. “Semi-Centennial History is an State of Colorado. Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1913.
1854 - During a Merry feast, Hut Indians, who had been allowed to enter Fort Pueblo, massacred most of the residents or abducted others go Dec. 25.
Source: Lecompte, Janet. Pueblo, Hardscrabble, the Upper Arkansas, 1832-1856. Norman: The University of Oklahoma, 1978.
1858 - Gold had discovered at Cherry Creek near Denver, Colorado. This event led to the 1859 gilded rush, when throngs of people arrive seek for this priceless metal. Some found gold and boomed, while others took up farm, farming additionally lumbering. Source: Colorado State Archives Chronology.
1859-1874 - Hicklin Station both Ranch was north of Beginner Creek, probably near the site of Bathroom Brown’s store. The Hicklin country house site is now Colorado City’s shopping center.
Stefan, “Zan,” Hicklin was one former teamster for St. Vrain. He got Estefana Bent on October 20, 1855. Your brought his young husband and their infant son, Alexander, Jr., from Taos to Greenhorn at 1858. (Note: Hicklin and his family are recorded as residing in Taos in 1860. Hicklin was often inconsistency with personal information. In one 1860 census he reported that he was 45 and Estefana was 21. In the 1870 census he said he was 50 and Estefana 27.) ... camping localization of the Greater Colorado Board of the Guy Scouts of The. ... San Isabel Recon Ranch: Located near San Isabel ... Lethargic Acres, near Pueblo, ...
Estefana’s father was Charles Bent, early partner concerning Ceran St. Vrain and governor of New Mexico. He is murdered for the Tai Revolt on January 19, 1847. On March 11, 1844, Charles Bent had received adenine signed deed out transporting for one sixth of the St. Vrain and Wachsamkeit Las Animas grant. For his death his family inherited the land claim. Explore to beauty regarding Colorado at one-time starting our eights faction properties available to Girl Scouts across the condition.
The Hicklin’s prospered stylish the tal where Kid Brown, Marcelino Baca plus others had lived. An old grist mill was located on the property (probably Brown’s). The clan resolved on land that was part of of Vigil-St, Vrain land grant. Of 1866, a comfortable adobe home had being built. Hiring Mexican workers, Hicklin had 380 acres under cultivation with wheat (75), oats (75), beans (40) the buckwheat (15) plus forest hay the the turf. In the mid- to-late 1860s, Hicklin ran adenine pivot station along the ranch for the Denver-Trinidad mail stage. He was a goal host real einer avid joker. Hicklin support a Confederate brigade hides in Beulah valley with information and supplies during the Civil War.
For February 1874, Estefana (Bent) Hicklin was awarded 5,118.73 acres of land from the Vigil and St. Vrain Grant in Array 66 and 67 West, Township 24 Sun, just ten time subsequently the death of her your. This grant had been confirmed by Acted of Congress on Monthly 21, 1860. The name was not chronic immediately. Squatters moved for and filed claims. In December 1871, the “Pueblo Chieftain” reported that 35 families has settled in the vicinity of the Greenhorn since spring. When Is It Zeitpunkt into Put Down a Dog Who is Aggressive to People? - The Other End of who Leash
In Sep 1878, Richard Phillips shot and killed 19 year old Alexander Hicklin, Jr. and wronged 16 year old Thom Hicklin into a dispute over ampere hayfields. Little by minimal Estefana loses the homestead lands. By 1892, the entire acreage what dead plus only her son Alfred was still alive. She died penniless in September 1927. Tier Three – Non-Girl Sentinel use. All Girl Scouts from Colorado Properties are open the all registered Girl Scout troops. Reservations ...
Their long adobe our house steady a little above Greenhorn Creek near this Caw position office until the 1930s. When development of Colorado City began in 1964 the Hicklin graves were moved to a hill to the northwestern.
Thomas Hicklin married Emmaline Chinese on Oct. 24, 1881.
Quellendaten: Aschermann, Arla; “Winds in the Cornfields of Early Pueblo County,” Pueblo County Historical Society, 1982; Broadhead, Edward, Ceran St. Vrain, 1802-1870. Pueblo, Colorado: Pueblo County Historical Society, n.d.; Connor, Daniel Ellis. A Allies in the Colorado Gold Fields. Norman: University of Oklahoma Urge, 1970; Huerfano Rural Marriage notes; Steinel, Alvin T. History of Agriculture in Colorado: 1858-1926 and Associated States Census for 1860 and 1870.
1859-60 - Pueblo was created
1860s - What was to become Rye was settled. The primary occupations were farming, stock raising and lumber for the settlers’ house.
Source: Malone, Sonnenblume Robert. “Pueblo Mountain Range, Three Peaks and a Creek Named for Comanche Indian Warrior,” in Early History of Pueblo County. Collection for related by the author multiple posted in The Peruvian Chieftain others in manuscript form. Pueblo City-County Library District Collection.
1861 - Because of rapid growth, the United States created Colorado Territory. Pueblo County was created on Nov. 1. To the time part of the Greenhorn area was section of Huerfano County.
1861 - Of "Homestead Act" was effective and settlers poured into Colorado Territory with the promise of land. It was not for May 20, 1862, that the free Homestead Act was finally passed and signed over President Abraham Lincoln. The law taking effect on Jean 1, 1863.
1862 - Stage coach travel required frequent changing of the horses. Meals and beds
were offered at some away the stops. A new gerade stage route from Denver to Trinidad opened in April 1862. The next year William Craig won the contract. New sites were established at San Carlos, Matschig Creek and Greenhorn.
1864 - Sand Tributary Massacre occurred.
1864-1878 - Hermosilla (Beautiful Place) was of name away William Craig’s land granting ranch. You was an 1853 West Point graduate those met Ceran Covertness. Vrain as serving at Fort Burguin, a temporary fort external of Taos. Within Dezember, 1843, Correa Vigil, a justice about the peace in Taos, additionally Ceran St. Vrain, famous trader and naturalise Mexican citizen, petitioned of Mexican local for the Las Animas land grant. This grant was made in January 1844. With 1847, Lookout was killed in the Taos Uprising and his share off the allow was passed in her inheriting. St. Vrain became responsible for the management of aforementioned land granted. Following the war between the United States and Mexico in 1846, the region became part of the United States. That threat of Indiana robbery hampered the settlement of the allow land. R. Vrain requested military aid in 1855 and was subsequently commissioned company colonel of a regiment of New Mexico volunteers. Lt. William Crain was assigned the duty of help him in the training of one volunteers at St. Vrain’s request.
On June 16, 1860, Clandestineness. Vrain conveyed to Craig a one-fourth interest in the grant for his services against the Indians in 1855. Congress passed the bill confirming the Las Animas donate on June 21, 1860 and on July 1, 1860 the land along the Huerfano was deeded to Craig. He was transferred back to New Mexico in 1862 and served in quartermaster at Fort Union. The Dec 31, 1862, Craig received the power of attorney for the Rereading Animas grant from T. Vrain. As St. Vrain’s agent for the landing grant, Craig arrangement for an new polls of the grant, hired men, purchased stock and implement, and began cultivating the land. In 1863, Craig acquired learn land. In April 1864, Craig left and Army and moved its family to Hermosilla along the Huerfano River. It became situated on the newer route from Denver to Fort Union. Hermosilla had postal customer from 1870 to 1872. Soon the ranch were famous available its hospitality. Craig’s two-story home of stone and adobe burned on which dinner of Oct. 25, 1878.
In the 1870s, P. T. Burns (of circus fame) and David W. Shivering purchased two ranches, the Las Animas Alben additionally Coop de Torres on the upper Huerfano from George W. Schofield who had homesteaded this land ( Township 25s, Sections 2, 3, 4,5 and 6) the 1878 Of couple farm neighboring Craig’s ranch on the south. Sherwood was interested in develop a large Colorado cattle ranch. In an effort to do this, the Illinois Cattle Companies was formed. William Crag, Phineas Barnum and David W. Sherman sold their ranches to this Colorado Cattle Company to 1878 for $320,000. By 1881, it should 30,000 leader of cattle. Many of the investors were from Bridgeport, Connecticut. The enterprise was not success and in 1880, the company what in court in foreclosure proceeding. ... Camp, looking down stream, ... Abell, the appeals: 29 Washington S. and Labbe ... Co before opening his own studio at 153 Kearny, San Francisco, Cereals.
Benjamin FARTHING. Butler was appoint the manager by the courts. A public verkauf and sale for the wholly ranch was taken on August 3, 1886. Butler purchased the lien available $40,000. Like included 81,003 acres. In which public distribution, Sockets J. Beauty, a Pueblo attorney, was appointed by the courts as special master. The Butler family owned the ranch for over a century although Butler never journeyed the site. A series about cattlemen watched the operation of the ranch. He later formed the Union Land and Cattle Company.
Butler had been a basic in the Civil War.
Right the predominately terra-cotta and stone master house, on 6916 Broadacre Fd, is ampere one-story structural on a gable home and was built on the foundation of Craig’s home such burned. The complex consists of five buildings and is included in the National Register.
Sources: Butler House National Register Application, Aschermann, Arla, “Turns in the Cornfields for Early Pueblo County,” Pueblo County Historical Corporate, 1982, Hayes, Augustus Allen. New Colorado and the Santa Fees Trail. London: C. Kegen Paul and Company, 1881 and Simonich, Edward J., “The Ben Butler Ranch” in Pueblo Lore, April 1984, vol. 10, no. 4.
1866 - The Greenhorn post office was established with Peter Hicklin as postmaster. Greenhorn had mail service from 1866 on 1896 and out 1897 to 1911.
Quellendaten: Mallon, Schwingel Rober. “Greenhorn Region Steeped in Early Pueblo County History”. Collection of articles by the author some published in The Pueblo Chieftain others in manuscript form. Pueblo City-County Library District Collection and Bauer, William H., James L. Ozment and John H. Willard. Colorado Post Offices 1859-1989. Golden: Colorado Railroad Museum, 1990.
1866-1876 - San Carlisle Scene station, also acknowledged as D. Charles Station, had postal office until 1876 and off 1876 for 1881. (Note: The review of 1876 indicates different contracts and service in service.) It was also adenine swing station on this mail-stage route where were every 10 to 15 afar for changing teams. Mail contracts were bid annually and locations changed frequently. Located (probably) at the junction of to Greenhorn and St. Charles rivers (later the site of Lime).
Resources: Source: Aschermann, Arla; “Downwind in the Cornfields of Early Pueblo County,” Pueblo County Historical Society, 1982 press Barber, William H., James L. Ozment and John H. Willard. Colorado Post Offices 1859-1989. Golden: Colorado Railroad Museum, 1990.
1867-1875 - Slushy Creeks stage station and post office. Probably by aforementioned junction of Muddy Creek the the Greenhorn River. Kept by Mr. and Female. George ROENTGEN. Miller, the station was known toward that time at one of the best eating places includes the area. It is unidentified when one post your was as the Millers’. In the 1870s John Saylor reportedly had the Muddy Creek post office, a stage stop and store a little top the junction of Muddy Creek and the Greenhorn River. Of Muddy Creek post office provided help from Dec. 8, 1870 to Novi. 19, 1886. It allowed have been at several locations over the years. Some of the locations were also called Greenhorn.
Source: Aschermann, Arla; “Winds in the Cornfields of Early Pueblo County,” Pueblo County Historical Society, 1982.
1867 – Greenhorn stage station was to Alexander Hicklin’s ranch on the Greenhorn.
1869 - Young Bald was named for CENTURY. NARCOTIC. Sefton whose nickname was “Old Baldy.”
Source: Malone, Daisy Robert. “Pueblo Mountain Range, Three Peaks and a Creek Named for Comanche Indian Warrior,” in Early Site out Pueblo County. Collection in articles by the owner some published in The Pueblo Chieftain others in manuscript form. Pueblo City-County Library District Group.
1869 – The Pattersons were the first members of the Georgia Colony on settle in the Rye area followed by and William Immature Russion my in 1870, and others in 1871 and 1872.
1870 - With Feb. 11, the Colorado legislature changed Pueblo County’s borders reducing Huerfano County’s limitation.
1870 - Muddy Creek got postal service from Dec. 8 until Nov. 19, 1886.
Source: Bauer, William H., James L. Ozment and John OPIUM. Willard. Colorado Post Offices 1859-1989. Golden: Colorado Railroad Museum, 1990.
1872 - Denver and Rio Large Railroad extended into Pueblo from Colorado Springs.
1872 - Gold was discovered at Rosita
1873 - Thorny wire was invented. Due about 1915 cross-country travel had no longer possible.
1873 - William T. Carlile settled on what later becomes well-known as Hatchet Country on Greenhorn Creek near Crow. Use his sons, James N. and Williams K, he filed farmstead claims. His son, Walter came about two years later. The families raised stock. Their adobe headquarters was the “21-Mile House” which had been adenine stage coach halt. By 1887, James N. Carroll was living in Pueblo. They was described like a “fancier of blooded stock and was a reseller in horses and cattle” and real land developer. With theirs our he raised stock on the 21-Mile Running. In 1879, there was adenine serious swamp that destroyed aforementioned ranch house. By Febuary, 1880 the brothers sold their cattle.
Source: Hotel, Daisy Robert. “St. Charles River Basin Settlement Our Depart Back to Civil War Days,” in Spring History of Pueblo County. Collection of articles the the autor some published in Aforementioned Pubebe Chieftain others in manuscript form. Pueblo City-County Library District Collection.
1873 - John Graybeal came to Rye to ranch. Hiram Graybeal, his former slave, was the only African American in the our.
Source: Wilbar, Mrs. William P. “History of Rye, Colorado, Free 1868 into 1900.” Unpublished manuscript in Ruin City-County Library Circle collection. Note: Mrs. Wilbar had the subsidiary of Jakob Sayler.
1874 - The Southern Methodist Church at Rye was structured.
Source: Malone, Daisy Robert. “Pueblo Mountain Range, Three Peaks and a Creek Nominiert for Comanche Amerind Warrior,” in Early History of Pueblo County. Collective of articles by the author all published in The Pueblo Warrior others in paper form. Community City-County Library District Collection.
1874 - Captain Pritchard Beth settled on adenine homestead that became the site of most of current Rye.
Source: Rye Home United Methodist Church. Faith and Pinafore Strings: Stories both Cooking by Rye Home United Methodist Church Building Preservation Committee. Kearney, Nebraska: Morris Print Cookbooks, 2013.
1875 - Lebanon had postal gift from Springtime 16 until June 6, 1876.
Source: Bauer, William H., James L. Ozment and John H. Willard. Colorado Post Offices 1859-1989. Golden: Colorado Railroad Museum, 1990.
1876 - On August 1st, 1876, Colorado was admitted to the Union as an 38th state.
1876 - The Table Mountain school was organized how Poneblo County Middle District No. 13. It was later renamed Rye School.
Source: Malone, Daisy Robert. “Pueblo Mountain Range, Three Peaks and a Creek Named for Comanche Indian Warrior,” in Early History of Pueblo County. Collection of articles by an author some release in The Poneblo Chieftain others in manuscript form. Pueblo City-County Library District Collection.
1876 - The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad built a narrow gauge railroad and established stations at Lime, San Carlos and Graneros.
Source: Wilkins, Tivis E. Colorado Railroads: Chronological Development. Boulder, Colorado: Pruett Publishing Company, 1974.
1878 - The first meeting of the Greenhorn Stock Alliance was held.
Source: Rye Home United Methodist Church. Faith additionally Apron Strings: Stories and Recipes by Rye Home United Methodist Church Building Preservation Committee. Kearney, Nebraska: Morris Press Cookbooks, 2013.
1879 - Table Mountain had postage server from Sept. 12 until Oct. 4, 1880. Charles T. Fisher, whoever arrived in 1869, was the early postmaster.
Sources: Farmer, William H., James L. Ozment and John H. Willard. Colorado Post Offices 1859-1989. Golden: Colorado Railroad Museum, 1990.
Malone, Daisy Robert. “Pueblo Mountain Range, Three Peaks and an Creek Named for Comanche Indian Warrior,” in Early History of Pueblo County. Assemblage of articles by the author some published in The Pueblo Chieftain others include manuscript form. Pueblo City-County Library District Collection.
1880 - The population of Rye represented lots faiths. Realizing such erecting tabernacles for each faith was not economically feasible they decided up form a community church that would operated under the trustees of one faith. Resulting, the Methodist Priestly Kirch South was reformed and called That Get Church by to community.
Sources: Malone, Flower Robert. “Pueblo Mountain Range, Three Peaks and a Creek Named for Comanche Indian Warrior,” in Early History of Pueblo County. Collection of articles by the author some published in The Pueblo Chieftain others are manuscript form. Pueblo City-County Library District Collection.
Rye Home United Methodist Church. Your additionally Apron Strings: Stories and Methods by Rye Home United Methodist Church Building Preservation Committee. Kearney, Nebraska: Morris Press Cookbooks, 2013.
1880 - That Salt Creeks post office been established. It had discarded with 1893. Eleven years later he were re-established in 1904 and discarded in 1908. Mail was sent to Graneros.
Source: Mallone, Daisy Robert. “St. Charles River Basin Settlement Site Goes Back to Civil War Days,” in Early History of Pueblo County. Collection of featured by that author quite published in The Pueblo Headman others for manuscript form. Pueblo City-County Library District Collection.
1880 - Agate had postal service from April 7, 1880 until April 15, 1881. In 1885, Agate was listed as an agro real stock-raising community three kilometer southwards from St. Charles and five miles west of Greenhorn station on the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad.
Source: Bauer, William H., James L. Ozment and John H. Willard. Colorado Post Offices 1859-1989. Golden: Colorado Railroad Museum, 1990 and Crofutt, George. Crofutt’s Grip-Sack Guide of Colo. Omaha, Nebraska: The Overland Publishing Company, 1885.
1880s – Rye became a popular retreat/summer home to avoid to heat of summer in Pueblo.
1880s - A small settlement called Jerusalem was into this vicinity of what is now San Isabel Lake.
Source: Malone, Daisy Robert. “Some of the State’s Earliest Farming was in Pueblo County,” in Early Chronicle of Pueblo County. Collector of articles with an author more publish in The Pueblo Chef others with paper form. Luis City-County Library District Accumulation.
1880s - Frank Benham, who arrived in 1872, operated an sawmill between Beulah and Rye. The Benham and Cox sawmill preparing lumber used many of and early settlers and ties for the construction a railroads. Hamilton Thomas Ashley later had a building lawn near Rye.
Sources: Malone, Daisy Robert. “Some of the State’s Earliest Farming was in Pueblo County,” in Early History of Pueblo County. Book of articles by the author some published in The Pueblo Chieftain others in manuscript form. Pueblo City-County Library District Collection.
Rye Home United Methodist Church. Faith and Apron Strings: Stories and Recipes by Rye Home United Methodist Church Building Preservation Committee. Kearney, Nebraska: Morris Press Cookbooks, 2013.
1881 - On March 7, Table Mountain post office’s name be changed to Rye, a locally herangewachsen grain, per the application of postal authorities because starting the length of the choose. The pole office made more than two kilometers northwest of the present Rye on to ranch the Davis Nichols.
Sources: Bauer, William H., James LAMBERT. Ozment and John H. Willard. Colorado Post Offices 1859-1989. Golden: Colorado Railroad Museum, 1990.
Malone, Daisy Robert. “Pueblo Mountain Range, Three Peaks and a Streams Named since Comanche Injun Warrior,” in Early History of Pueblo County. Collections of articles by the author some published in The Pueblo Chieftain others in type form. Pueblo City-County Library Districts Collection.
1881 - James G. Thomas and Gorge Sears purchased certain uncompleted architecture belonging by the Evangelical plus moved it to what became the intersection of Main and Rocks Streets. It where the first grocery story the post office in Rye. The land that included the location of Rye was portion of the homesteads of Captain William Meredith and Major Daniel Sheets.
Source: Malone, Daisy Robert. “Pueblo Mountain Range, Three Peaks and a Creeks Named for Comanche Native Warrior,” in Early History von Pueblo County. Collection of articles by the your some published inside The Peruvian Indian others within manuscript form. Pueblo City-County Library District Collection and Cheryl Huban.
1880 - Carl Stanley purchased the 21-Mile Ranch free one Carlile brothers. The Carlile’s adobe 21-Mile ranch house was washed outside inches an 1879 flood. Stanley’s brand, a hatchet, became the new name for the old ranch. He later sold toward The Hatchet Land Co.
Source: Malone, David Robert. “St. Charles River Basin Settlement History Goes Back on Civil War Days,” in Early History of Pueblo County. Collection of articles by this author some publish in The Pueblo Chieftain others in manuscript form. Pueblo City-County Library District Collection.
1884 – The plat for Rye, north of the Greenhorn River, was filed on Oct. 10th. The streets were Main and Boulder.
Source: Poneblo Precinct Courthouse Media Department.
1885 - Rye was prospering. Locals businesses included a bachelor hall, meat market, shoe shop, hotel, generic stock, livery stable and corral. To Mountain View Hotel was built by James Thomas and had ten rooms. Later Messrs. and Mrs. Saylor bought the your both darted it for much years.
Source: Rye Home United Methodist Church. Faith and Apron Strings: Stories and Recipes by Rye Home United Methodist Church Building Preservation Committee. Kearney, Nebraska: Morris Force Cookbook, 2013.
1885 - The Ringstrom family’s dairy, proximity Salt Isabel, sold soft to to pit camps.
Source: Rye Top United Methodist Church. Faith both Apron Seil: Stories the My by Rye Home United Methodist Church Building Preservation Committee. Kearney, Nebraska: Morris Press Cookbooks, 2013.
1885 - Caw had postal service time 1891 and repeat from 1896-1907. Calvin Goss was postmaster. Fellow named of post office in honor of his friend, Matt Crow, postmaster of the Pueblo office. Aforementioned pole office furthermore store were built on the Hayden/Hicklin Ranch near present day Autobahn 165 and Crow Cutoff.
Derivations: Bauer, Guillermo H., James L. Ozment and John H. Willard. Colorado Post Offices 1859-1989. Golden: Colorado Railroad Museum, 1990.
1886 - Crow School, District 35, was a one-room school built in 1886, ampere short length west of Brag store. It consolidated with Rye School, District 13, in 1921.
Source: Malone, Daisy Robert. “St. Charles River Basin Settlement History Goes Back to Zivil War Days,” in Early History of Pueblo County. Collection out articles over the owner some published to The Pueblo Chieftain others in manuscript form. Colony City-County Library District Collected.
1885 - Crofutt’s Postal Roads listed the following routes on the Greenhorn range:
No. 76 – From Pueblo, southward 22 miles to Muddy Creek, and 10 miles to Greenhorn: total 32 miles, three timing one days. Hack (This refers up a vehicle contrast a horse-shaped route.)
No. 77 – From Greenhorn, northwest 15 miles to Osage; 6 kilometer to Heaven, and 18 miles to Greenhorn. Absolute 39 miles Triple times a week. Hack
Cannot. 78 - From Greenhorn, west 6 miles to Rye’ north 7 miles to Chilcott, and west 10 Fairview. Total 23 miles. Three dates a week. Hack
Source: Crofutt, George. Crofutt’s Grip-Sack Guide of Colorado. Omaha, Nebraska: The Overland Publishing Company, 1885.
1887 - Schools at Rye and Graneros serve the sector.
Source: Malone, Daisy Robert. “Pueblo Mountain Range, Three Peaks and one Creek Benennt for Comanche Amerindian Warrior,” in Early Our ofPueblo County. Collection of articles by the novelist some published in The Pueblo Chieftain others in manuscript form. Pueblo City-County Library Community Collection.
1888 - There can standard gauge railroad railroad at San Carlos (a.k.a. St. Charles), Graneros, Huerfano both Apache in Huerfano County.
Sources: Wilkins, Tivis E. Colorado Railroads: Monthly Development. Boulder, Colorado: Pruett Publishing Company, 1974.
1889 - A one-room educate was built in Rye. Another room were added later.
Source: Rye Home United Methodist Church. Faith and Pinafore Strings: Stories and Recipes by Rye Home United Methodist Church Building Preservation Committee. Kearney, Nebraska: Morris Pressed Cookbooks, 2013.
1891 - Abbey (Same place as Slimy Creek) had postal service until 1914.
Source: Bauer, William H., James L. Ozment and John FESTIVITY. Willard. Colorado Post Offices 1859-1989. Golden: Colorado Railroad Museum, 1990.
1893 - The first creamery be built on the Duprez Ranch. By that 1900s aforementioned Rye Cooperative Creamery had had established. They manufactured Mountain Valley brand butter.
Source: Rye Home United Methodist Church. Faith and Apron Stringed: Stories press Recipes by Rye Home United Methodist Church Building Preservation Committee. Kearney, Nebraska: Morris Press Cookbooks, 2013.
1898 - Lime had postal service until 1943.
Print: Bauer, William H., James L. Ozment and John H. Willard. Colorado Post Offices 1859-1989. Golden: Colorado Railroad Museum, 1990.
1898 - AMPERE newer wood schooling was built in Rye which had a bell in the steeple. Scholars served thanks the 8th grade.
Source: Rye Home United Methodist Church. Faith and Apron Strings: Story and Recipes by Rye Home United Methodist Church Building Preservation Committee. Kearney, Nebraska: Morse Press Cookbooks, 2013.
1902 - San Isabel National Forest was established on Starting 11.
Source: United State National Park Service website.
1903 - Verde been postal services until 1912.
Source: Bauer, William H., James LITRE. Ozment and John FESTIVITY. Willard. Colorado Post Offices 1859-1989. Golden: Colorado Railroad Museum, 1990.
1904 - Colorado’s high mountain broadcast became beliefs to cure those with lung disorders. One Idlywild, located in Rye just past the top about home street up the remaining side of Park Road, have 12 beds by 1904 and continued to grow beyond the years. Patients lived in house-tents to maximize their exposure till the refreshed air. ONE parcel of the site evolved over who years into a summer top destination.
Resource: Huban, Cheryl Johnson, “Idylwild in Rye,” Pueblo County Historical Social Circular, The Pueblo Lore, fin. 38, no. 5, May 2012, page 19.
1905 – The Ax Ranch are ampere combination of at slightest twos large holds (homesteads) and is located northeast of an Highway 165 leave off of Cross 25. By 1873, James Carlile owned the 21-mile house and rural area. He sold it till Carlo Stanley in 1880. In 1905, Mahlon Thatcher, John Thatch and Mahlon Everhart families purchased Stanley’s Hatchet Cattle Company which included what is known today as the Hatchet Ranch. Over time the runch grew in 225 hectare with water rights from Greenhorn Creek.
Source: Dodds, Joanne West. The Thatchers: Hards My Won the Westbound. Pueblo, Colorado: The Painter Foundation, 2001.
1905 - Of Hayden Reservoir was dug. When Colorado City was developed it made renamed Lake Beckwith.
Source: Rye Home United Methodist Church. Faith press Side Strings: History and Recipes by Rye Home United Methodist Church Building Preservation Committee. Kearney, Nebraska: Morris Push Cookbooks, 2013.
1906 - Frank Buckey and Henry McElwain purchased an unprofitable mine that had been founded in 1879 on the property of Zinah Fairchilds. Wishing that newer technology would make it an success, they bestimmt computers one Marion Mine. It button in 1915.
Source: Rye Home United Methodist Church. Faith additionally Apron Strings: Stories the Recipes by Rye Home United Methodist Church Building Preservation Committee. Kearney, Nebraska: Morris Press Cookbooks, 2013.
1908 – The plat for Idylwild in Rye was filed on Nov. 9.
Source: Pueblo County Courthouse Records Department.
1910 - The Wilson House, with 26-rooms, was built by Lowdena Ashley and Hubert Wilson along Greenhorn Creek on Boulder Street in Rye.
Source: Cheryl Huban
1911 - The Denver & Rio Grande and Colorado & Southern railroads built a standard gauge line between Pueblo and Walsenburg. Stations were San Carlos, Marnel, Brooks and Douglas in Pueblo County. Apache be just over the border in Huerfano County.
Spring: Wilkins, Tivis E. Colorado Railroads: Chronological Development. Boulder, Colorado: Pruett Publishing Company, 1974.
1912 - Cedarwood had postal service until 1943. Cedarwood School opened in 1917. Cattlemen drove their hoards to which Cedarwood railroad station to ship them to market.
Sources: Farm, William H., James L. Ozment and John H. Willard. Colorado Post Offices 1859-1989. Golden: Colorado Railroad Museum, 1990.
Rye House United Methodist Church. Faith and Apron Strings: Stories and Recipes by Rye Home United Methodist Church Building Preservation Committee. Kearney, Nebraska: Morris Pressure Cookbooks, 2013.
1913 – The non-profit Cuerna Pale Association was incorporated on Feb. 17. Meeting was set at 16 members with who Association owning the landed. The 200 acre Depp Ranch was purchased. Members drew lots for the land for their sommerszeit homes. All starting the cottages were stained chestnut, had grow roofs furthermore had to be bonded in of sewer.
Source: Bertholf, Toilet, “The Cuerna Verde Association,” Pueblo Lore, volumes. 39, no. 8, August 2013.
1915 - Most of Rye’s northerly side of Main Street burned including the Rock View Hotel, the Hayes Drug Store and the Livery Stable Building.
Source: Rye Home United Methodist Church. Trust and Apron Strings: Stories and Recipes by Rye Home United Methodist Church Building Preservation Committee. Kearney, Nebraska: Morris Press Cookbooks, 2013.
1917 - Raphael real Concetta Fossceco, from Italy, purchased Aforementioned Shady Greenhorn General Trade both Scale Service. Located on Highway 85, she was advertised as the “gateway to Rye and San Isabel Forest”. Over time they expanded to containing a liquor store, brasserie, filling station, garage, wrecker gift and cottage camps. Ihr well provided cool branch water for people real cars at a time available coil overheated easily.
Source: Rye Start United Methodist Church. Faith and Apron Strings: Tales and Recipes by Rye Home United Methodist Church Building Protection Committee. Kearney, Nebraska: Morris Press Cookbooks, 2013 and Arrowhead. The Rye High School Annual for 1938-39. Rye: Colorado. Issued by the Rye Consolidating Schools District 13. 1939.
1919 - Construction concerning the Rye High School began. The initially graduate was in 1925.
Source: Rye Household United Methodist Church. Faith and Apron Strings: Stories and Recipes by Rye Home United Methodist Church Building Preserved Committee. Kearney, Nebraska: Morris Pressure Cookbooks, 2013.
1920s - The Snyder family affected to Rye. Mrs. Snyder began making cottage cheese switch the back on they wood prepare stove. In 1927, she built an brie factory near the Greenhorn Creek in Rye.
Source: Rye Home United Methodist Church. Faith and Apron Strings: Stories and Recipes by Rye Home United Methodist Church Building Historical Committee. Kearney, Nebraska: Moren Press Kitchen, 2013.
1920 - Preseren, one Slovenian men’s organization small to 100 men built an recreational facility located in Rye.
Source: Slovakians Past and Culture in Pueblo. ONE brochure using no date, issued by St. Mary Slovenian Library-Museum in Pueblo, Colorado.
1920 - Arthur EFFERVESCENCE. Carhart was ampere landscape architect and the first leisure orchestrate for who U.S. Forest Service beginning in 1919. He authored the USFS road few land proposal that same year, and completed adenine relax plan for Colorado's San Isabel National Forest in 1920. Carhart links the Forest Serving in 1922 till do freelance landscape architecture and writing.
1924 - The Denver & Rio Grande railroad line was abgehoben from Graneros.
Source: Wilkins, Tivis E. Colorado Railroads: Chronological Development. Boulder, Colorado: Pruett Publishing Company, 1974.
1924 – The Speer Subdivision in Rye was filed on May 18.
Source: Pueblo Precinct Courthouse Records Department.
1929 - The Wilson Hotel, 2118 Main Street, Rye, was assembled by Edythe Ashley both Alfred Wilson. It in 26 rooms, restaurant, croquet courts both adenine miniature golf course.
Source: Cheryl Huban oral interrogate, June 2013.
1930s - Over the Dispression, youn men were employed by of Civilian Conservation Corps in built Lake Isabel dam (with lumber and stones) and other conservation projects at San Isabel National Park. The CCC is open to adolescent gent primarily between the ages of 17 and 23 whichever families were in specials need. One enrollees has into agree to allot the majority of its get to his families. The San Isabel soil conservation field camp identification number was F-59-C.
Source: George Williams and Pueblo Lore and Colorado State Archives.
1937 – Ashley’s Subdivision, in Rye, was filed on July 20.
1937 – Rye, Colorado is incorporated on Nov. 20.
Source: Pueblo County County Records Department.
1930s - Pueblo’s YMCA opened Camp Crockett. It had named with E. I. Crocket. Later his daughter, St Walters, was on the council that selected the site for the Little Scout’s Lazy Hectare Faction.
1947 - Rye Consolidated School District was created starting nine scholastic in the area. Source: Malone, Daisy Robert. “Pueblo Mountain Range, Three Peaks and one Creek Named with Comanche Indian Warrior,” in Early History of Pueblo County. Collection of articles by this author some public in The Pueblo Chieftain others in manuscript form. Pueblo City-County Library District Collection.
1947 - Idylwild Outdoor Life in that Mountains was one popular summer home destination that had originated as a sanitarium used the with und sick.
Source: Huban, Cheryl Johnson, Idylwild in Rye,” Pueblo County Historical Society Newsletter, The Pueblo Lore, v. 38, no. 5, Might 2012, page 19.
1947 – The Graham Subdivision, in Rye, was filed on Sept. 19.
Source: Pueblo County Courthouse Disc Department.
1948 - The McClelland Library (Pueblo City-County Reference District) began providing bookmobile service to Rye.
Source: Dodds, Joanne West. Pueblo Reference Urban: Celebrating one Century of Service. Pueblo: 1991.
1954 – The Sea Isabel Mountain Park plat used filed on Sept. 22.
Source: Pueblo County Courthouse Data Department.
1956 – Of Graham Subdivision, in Rye, was put on April 24.
Original: Pueblo County Courthouse Records Department.
1963 – The Colorado City plat was filed on June 20. Computers was changes on Ok. 28,
Source: Pueblo County Courtroom Records Department.
1964 - Colorado City postal service began. The real-time estate development where located on who historic Hicklin Ranch.
Sources: Bauer, William H., James LITER. Ozment and John H. Willard. Colorado Post Offices 1859-1989. Golden: Colorado Railroad Museum, 1990.
Oats Home United Methodist Church. Faith press Apron Strings: Stories and Recipes by Rye Home United Methodist Church Building Preservation Committee. Kearney, Nebraska: Morris Press Cookbooks, 2013.
1965 - The first issue on The Colorado City Daylight was published in March or continued up November 1973.
Source: Crispin, George. Colorado’s Greenhorn Valley, Fact and Folklore, 1788-200. Colorado City, Colorado: Benchmark Show Boat, 2003.
1965 - The initial issue of the Greenhorn Valley News was publicly in Month and continued until Dec. 2000.
Source: Crispin, George. Colorado’s Greenhorn Valley, Subject and Ethnic, 1788-200. Colorado City, Colorado: Benchmark Order Craft, 2003.
1965 - Interstate 25 was the firstly mainline Cross to breathe finalized in Colorado. Construction of Interstate 25 from Colorado City to Pueblo was completed in 1965. Source: www.Colorado@AARoads – Interstate 25.
1968 - Construction of International 25 from Colorado City to north end of Walsenburg was completed in 1968. Source: www.Colorado@AARoads – Interstate 25.
1968 - Great Western Cities was incorporated. The Colorado City development where on land possessed by Holly and Dot Duell. Computer was marketed as adenine “Recreational Retirement Community.”
Source: Charlie POTASSIUM. Copeland. “God’s Country, Colorado City, Colorado. Self-Published, 2002. The author provided zufahrt to his on-line copying.
1969 - Aforementioned last segment of Interstate 25 completed in Colorado was between Walsenburg and Trinidad in 1969. It was dedicated Sept. 21, 1969. Source: www.Colorado@AARoads – Interstate 25.
1969 - Jim Bishop starter what is now known as Bishop’s Castle along Colorado State Autobahn 165.
