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This Week in History

Walsenburg 1890: The Walsenburg Sandstone Company is a new business that is opening quarries just west of town along the Denver and Rio Grande tracks

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A life too short

by Nancy Christofferson LA VETA — On Monday, January 22, 1883 – 135 years ago this week – La Veta lost to death one of

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No small climb

by Carolyn Newman EAST SPANISH PEAK — The boys had to pull Caroline Sporleder, 16, up the last bit to the top of the East Spanish

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Long ago and far away

Part 2 by Carolyn Newman LONDON — Rules and duties for teachers in a 1955 London private boarding school would cause today’s teachers to fall

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Castles and knights

by Carolyn Newman WALSENBURG — This may be the only castle Walsenburg ever has. At the top of this Main Street building is a circle

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