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Oswald Family Ranch on Rush Creek

On a cold windy day in May of 1907, Casper Oswald and family arrived by emigrant train with two carloads of belongings to the Colorado eastern plains. Capser had traded 800 acres of Missouri farmland for nearly 6,000 acres in Kiowa County 10 miles south and 5 miles east of Kit Carson. They moved into the existing two room house and soon moved into a two story house a few miles away which remains the current headquarters today. Upon Casper's death sons Joe, Frank and Martin purchased the  ranch, with Joe eventually buying out his two brothers.

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Collins Ranch

During the 1880's young trail rider Charles Collins traversed the area around Kit Carson in Cheyenne County following cattle herds from Mexico, New Mexico and Texas. He later returned in 1905 to manage a ranch that a Kansas City bank had received through foreclosure, and, after developing a liking for the place, secured a loan in 1907 to purchase the land as his own. He then moved wife Mary and their children to the place and built an adobe ranch house, bunk house, barns and corral.

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The Gray Farm

A foreman for the Illinois Central railroad, Starling Gray had traveled from Iowa to Kit Carson with the hopes of acquiring a farm in southeast Colorado. He was eventually able to lay claim to a relinquished 160-acre logging claim and an adjacent unclaimed parcel. Starling, his wife Essie, and two small children moved from Iowa to their new home in Colorado in the spring of 1910, bringing with them cows, mules, chickens, chicken coops, seeds for planting, furniture, and farm machinery.

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Union Pacific Railroad Caboose No. 25400

The 1959 Caboose No. 25400 typifies mid-century all-steel caboose design.

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Union Pacific Pumphouse

Associated with the settlement of the area and the development of the railroad, the circa 1880 pumphouse is an unusual example of a masonry railroad utility building. 

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Kit Carson Union Pacific Railroad Signal Maintainer’s House

The Signal Maintainer’s House, built about 1930, is a well-preserved and publicly accessible example of a Union Pacific standard plan 24 foot x 34 foot frame dwelling with bath.

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Kit Carson Union Pacific Railroad Depot (Kit Carson Museum)

Constructed in 1904, the wood frame building is a well preserved example of a Union Pacific standard plan combination depot.

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Kit Carson Pool Hall

This classic brick storefront, with stepped parapet, typifies 20th century Commercial design.

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Hogan Ranch

At over one hundred years old, Hogan Ranch, located on County Road J in Kit Carson County, was settled in 1899 by James Hogan and his wife Rosa.  The Homestead Certificate was received on December 1, 1905.