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This Week in History

by Nancy Christofferson   Walsenburg 1867: Daniel Hayden purchased land along the Huerfano River on which he will build a grist mill. 1882: John Furphy, the

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1941: 50 years of change

by Nancy Christofferson LAS ANIMAS COUNTY—  Fifty years after Frank Hall published his 1891 History of Colorado in four volumes, another compendium of diverse information on

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Like father, like son

by Nancy Christofferson LOCATION —   A young man named Jose Guadalupe Archuleta was one of Huerfano County’s youngest budding politicians to win an election

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November miscellany

by Nancy Christofferson HUERFANO —  While in these modern times, November is just another shopping month to prepare for Thanksgiving and Christmas, it just so

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Walsenburg 1861: The Boundaries of Huerfano County have been set, and the voting places for the different precincts will be: 1. Charles Autobees house, 2.

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