The stable was built in 1893 as part of a small hotel complex and fell into disuse after the advent of the automobile

The Denver and New Orleans Railroad operated over this now abandoned grade between 1881 and 1936. 

The Chapel is architecturally significant as the work of Colorado Springs architect, Charles E. Thomas. 

This circa 1908 building represents an important aspect of Hispano history in southern Colorado.  The building reflects the limited religious and governmental support in poor rural areas of predominately Hispanic populations and the aid societies that formed as a result. 

The circa 1917 schoolhouse and its ancillary buildings provide physical evidence about the conditions of rural education prevailing in Colorado well into the mid-20th century. Drennan School contained two classrooms and a stage in which four teachers taught grades one through twelve until dwindling enrollment forced its closure in 1955.  

Eliza Marriott Hewlett, an early settler who served as the secretary of the Cascade Town and Improvement Company, built and operated the two-story wood frame boarding house. 

This 1898 wood frame rural school survived a fire that destroyed 53 local buildings when it was draped in wet blankets to serve as a fire line.  

Dating from 1894, the rectangular one-story, wood frame church is built into a hillside with its side walls barely visible from the street.  The steeply pitched front gabled roof is topped with a bell tower. 

The circa 1890 Modoc Mill is a good example of industrial architecture associated with Boulder County’s mining history.  This concentration mill of wood and metal reaches four stories in height.  The uppermost story of hewn logs received the ore.  Here gravity bins held the ore until it was fed into a crusher and the stamping apparatus below. 

In 1881, the Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific Railroad laid rails from Boulder west to the town of Sunset, and in the 1890s the successor Colorado and North Western completed the line to Ward.