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Dixon Ranch

May Belle Dixon homesteaded 320 acres in Baca County in 1915, as a widow with eight children. She raised cattle and feed, and had an orchard with fruit. Her great grandchildren still raise beef cattle at Dixon Ranch today.

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Ward Farms

The property was acquired by Jacob G. and Virginia W. Ward to homestead in 1889. It together with other family members’ homesteads and other acquisition property was used as a cattle ranch from 1889-1927. After 1927, the area was converted by the plow to winter wheat farming.

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McEndree Ranch

 John Durstein homesteaded in Baca County in 1883, then bought a relinquishment nearby. He had the primary water pump rights on Two Buttes Cree. Durstein raised feed under irrigation using these rights. Durstein had a beef operation which he pastured on approximately a township.

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Crill Ranch

The Crill Ranch in Baca County was founded by Gabriel Crill in 1884, transferred to his son in 1943, and to his grandson in 1965. Numerous sources document that  Gabriel Crill was the first bona fide resident of Baca County.  He settled there after a sheep selling business in Kansas failed and left him and his partner financially ruined. In Colorado, Gabriel prospered. He went into business as a notary public and obtained an appointment as a Federal Land Registrar. In the mid 1880's, Gabriel purchased cattle in Texas and drove them to his ranch in Baca County.

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Chick Farm and Ranch

Enzelow Chick was born in 1850, near Dayton, Ohio. He married Delia McDaniels on New Year’s Day, 1870. By 1915, the family had nine children, and after several moves around the Midwest the Chick family settled in Campo, Colorado.  In 1916 the Chicks bought 622 acres where they built a two-story house. On the adjoining land, Dow, the youngest of the Chick children, found his life partner, Elsie Ferne Messer. They married in 1919, operated Elsie’s family’s farm, and had five children.

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Kirkendall Farm and Ranch

When the Kirkendall Family moved to Colorado from Emporia, Kansas, to live on the land they bought, they had to start from scratch.  George and his son, Floyd, bought adjoining 320-acre homesteads for their families.

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Two Buttes Gymnasium

Two Buttes Gymnasium, constructed between 1935 and 1937 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), is significant under the New Deal Resources on Colorado's Eastern Plains Multiple Property Documentation Form (MPDF). 

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Stonington Methodist Episcopal Church

The 1917 church is architecturally significant as a good, intact example of the Late Gothic Revival style as executed by a local craftsman.  It is the only identified example of this style in the county.

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Two Buttes Dam

The 1909 dam is significant for its engineering as an intact example of a turn-of-the-century earthen dam built to aid in irrigating portions of southeastern Colorado.

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Springfield Schoolhouse / Springfield Masonic Lodge

This 1889 rural schoolhouse was built with sandstone quarried east of town.  It served as a school until 1920 when it became a Masonic Lodge. Listed under Rural School Buildings in Colorado Multiple Property Submission.