Community Centered Archaeology in Colorful Colorado

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jasmine Saxon. Jessica Ericson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Community Centered Archaeology in Colorful Colorado", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2022, Community Connections LLC was contracted by Denver Mountain Parks, City and County of Denver, to conduct a comprehensive Class III survey of Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre. The Amphitheatre, completed in 1941 by the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration, was nominated by SWCA for the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John M. Scott. Kelly J. Pool.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Community Centered Archaeology in Colorful Colorado", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument was established in central Colorado’s mountains in 2022. Now razed, the Army cantonment of Camp Hale was originally home to WWII’s vaunted 10th Mountain Division, the first and only American mountain infantry division. Metcalf Archaeological Consultants has been involved...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles A. Bello.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Community Centered Archaeology in Colorful Colorado", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2014 the City of Colorado Springs requested funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to construct a storm-water detention basin along Camp Creek in the iconic Garden of the Gods Park – upstream of a residential neighborhood at risk of flooding. The ca. 300-acre Garden of the Gods Park is designated a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara A. Millward.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Community Centered Archaeology in Colorful Colorado", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Alpine Archaeology documented the Burro Mine Complex (Complex) as part of a National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) nomination funded by the Bureau of Land Management. The project highlights the necessity to preserve our recent past; in this case, a historical uranium mine that was active from 1952–1971. The Complex is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karin Larkin. Minette Church. Anna Cordova.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Community Centered Archaeology in Colorful Colorado", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. “Fatty’s Place” was a curio shop located at the entrance of the Garden of the Gods Park in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Edwin L. “Fatty” Rice established his shop near the Gateway Rocks in 1892, along the road leading into the Garden of the Gods Park. Historic photos show a rambling wooden structure with advertisements for a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Natasha E Krasnow.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Community Centered Archaeology in Colorful Colorado", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Frontenac and Aduddell Mine Complex, located on mountainous private property in Gilpin County, Colorado, was a major player during the heyday of hard rock mining in Colorado. An up-to-date archaeological inventory of the property informed a successful National Register listing in 2020. Concurrently, with a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca L. Simon.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Community Centered Archaeology in Colorful Colorado", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2015, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) received a Stephen H. Hart Award by History Colorado. The accolade, for “Initiating and Developing a Collaborative Mitigation Program Throughout Colorado”, recognized CDOT for cultivating and maintaining a historic preservation compliance program above and beyond...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cyndal M Groskopf.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Community Centered Archaeology in Colorful Colorado", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The State Industrial School in Golden, Colorado was established in 1881 to rehabilitate criminalized young boys. The boys here experienced building relationships with one another, the faculty, and the city of Golden under the isolating and ritualized methodology of institutionalization. Use of direct sources such as a daily...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert H Brunswig. George Junne. Chris Bowles.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Community Centered Archaeology in Colorful Colorado", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Denver’s Black American West Museum spent four decades documenting and acquiring northeastern Colorado’s early 20th century African American town of Dearfield. It became a National Register of Historic Places District in 1995 and, today, most of its area is owned by the museum. In 2008, the Dearfield Preservation Committee,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Holly Norton.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Community Centered Archaeology in Colorful Colorado", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the early to mid-twentieth century there was a scramble in Colorado to identify the location of the stockade built by Zebulon Pike in 1807, just prior to being arrested by the Spanish and ending his expedition across what is today the Western US. The State of Colorado had grand designs to make the stockade a tourist...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael J. Prouty. Meghan A. Grizzle.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Community Centered Archaeology in Colorful Colorado", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Animas Forks flourished between 1877 and 1913 as a Victorian-era mining town in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. In recent years, it has become a popular tourist destination along the Alpine Loop off-road vehicle route. Because abandoned mine remains in the area could represent a threat to recreationalists at...