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Tenderfoot Mountain behind the roundhouse, prior to the 1892 fire.
Alice Chinn Collection.
2) Duke's Grave
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Although damaged and vandalized, pillars supporting the roof over the grave of Duke remained in place in the early 1920s when this trio of young Salida women (Nina Churcher (Thompson) on right) visited the monument on their way to a picnic at the Crater, a popular Sunday hiking destination.
Frank Thomson Collection.
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Major fires, two years apart spurred Salidans into a spate of brick construction that eventually saved the town from more devastating damage. A couple of brick yards were in operation before the 1886 fire, but within a year after the 1888 conflagration, there were at least four in production. Clay, sand and water are stirred into a stiff mud before it is packed into molds. It was repetitive, back-wrenching work, but it was lucrative for many years.
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Interview with Flora Harrison, b. February 28, 1922. Flora discusses FIBArk, the D & RG passenger train, and being the first female surveyor in the state of Colorado.
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Date corresponds with the death of Albert Edmund Hanks. This scene is inside the Methodist – Episcopal Church, the second building of three at the present location. The present building was erected in 1899, the first being demolished in 1888.
Photo is marked “to Jesse Hanks” August 15, 1898.
Salida Museum Association Collection.
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Photograph of unidentified family: mother and father and two young children.
Janice Pennington Collection.
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The 20-stall standard-gauge roundhouse was constructed in 1900, east of the narrow-gauge roundhouse. By the date of this photograph, August 1, 1923, a new eight-stall roundhouse addition was being constructed as a separate building; however it shared the 100-foot turntable with the original standard-gauge roundhouse. The 100-foot turntable replaced the original 80-foot turntable in 1917. Forms were set up to pour concrete for locomotive service pits,...
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Denver & Rio Grande locomotive No. 83 was in use here as a switch engine, and was posed on the mainline, with the rebuilt machine shop behind. Notice the front and rear arc headlamps in use on this Baldwin engine, the last Class 56 narrow-gauge 2-8-0 to be built, having entered service in 1881. The engine’s pilot truck had been removed, which converted No. 83 into an 0-8-0.
Alice Chinn Collection.
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The Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center was located at 448 E. 1st Street. It was the previous location of the Denver & Rio Grande Hospital, and is the present location of the Touber Building, which houses multiple city agencies.
Bob Rush Collection.
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Oxford's Market on Highway 50 in Salida, Colorado.
Harry Williams Collection.
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Interview with Alberta Mitchell on January 25, 2005. Alberta was born on July 1, 1926 and died on August 29, 2011. Alberta talks a little more about her hospital work, and taking care of Laura Evans in this secondary interview.
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Interview with Dick Tuttle on September 24, 2003. Dick was born on May 3, 1914 and died on May 18, 2012.
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Thomas Penrose emigrated to America from Cornwall, England in 1858. His statement is a reminiscence of his work at the Pride of the West Mine in Chaffee County, Colorado.
This statement is part of the Thomas A. Nevens Papers.
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A patron of the Salida Building and Loan paid off a mortgage with this wheelbarrow load of silver dollars. Building and Loan officers (J. Ford White, C. H. Kelleher, President, Theo. M. Jacobs, Alice Chinn, Secretary/Treasurer) are shown on the way to deposit the silver dollars at First National Bank.
Alice Chinn Collection.
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Mary, Helen, and Alberta Hanks.
Haley-Bratton Collection.
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The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad stone depot was built in 1880. Although preparations began a year earlier, the third rail was laid through Salida during 1890. Addition of the outside rail allowed standard gauge as well as narrow gauge trains to operate over the entire Rio Grande system. Switches, frogs and rerailers – especially in the crowded Salida yards – were an engineering marvel. As late as 1890, the tender of this switcher is fitted with...
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Interview with Frank J. Butala, b. October 7, 1926 and died May 2, 2010. Frank discusses growing up in Salida, his work in the USMC, starting his business, Butala Construction, and has a funny story about a getting paid with Susan B. Anthony silver dollars.
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Interview with Wendell Hutchinson, born September 25, 1924 and died September 20, 2014. Wendell discusses going to Salida High School and the teachers and coaches, meeting his future wife, Sue Swallow, and who his influences were in deciding to become a veterinarian.
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A railroad water tower and outbuilding in an unknown location.
Virgil Jackson Collection.
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A photograph of Salida taken on Tenderfoot Mountain after 1890.
Ernest Brownson Collection.
