Constructed in 1903, the Valley View School is a good representation of the common rural schoolhouses that once dotted the state.  The simple school building served as the educational and community center for the local ranching families just west of Salida.

Since 1899 Beecher Island Battleground has served as the venue of annual battle commemorations.

Serving as Vernon’s only high school from 1927 until 1959, Vernon School was the town’s only grade school from 1939 until 1969. 

The 27,861-acre Tarryall Rural Historic District extends approximately 39.4 miles along the Tarryall Road from just south of Jefferson to U.S. Highway 24 northwest of the small community of Lake George. Since pioneer development of the wagon road in 1862 and the beginning of permanent settlement in the mid-1860s, inhabitants have left their stamp on the continuously evolving landscape in subtle and dramatic ways.

The South Platte River Bridge is an intact reminder of the historic highway route (variously designated State Highway 8, State Highway 4, U.S. Highway 40 South, and U.S. Highway 24) between Colorado Springs and southern Park County, which was an important transportation corridor long before Euro-American settlement.

The Rock Island Snow Plow No. 95580 sits on rails it originally cleared in the 1950s-’80s within the environs of the Limon Heritage Museum, which includes the National Register-listed Limon Railroad Depot.

From 1884-1897, the Johnson Stage Station served stage freight traffic to and from the mining regions of Lake City and the Gunnison Gold Belt as part of a road network that funneled goods and machinery for distribution to regional mines and settlements. Ore and mill products flowed in reverse, to the railroad for shipment to smelters in Denver and Cañon City.

The Bergen Park Church is a good example of a Modern Movement building with Rustic-style influences. In 1949, the church acquired the ca. 1885 Soda Creek School schoolhouse, expanding it to meet the needs of its growing congregation.

Sitting atop a steep rocky knoll, the 1935 Bain Cabin is a privately-owned cabin built within the Roosevelt National Forest under the parameters of the Forest Service’s Recreation Residence program, which sought to connect people to the national forests via the facilitation of private recreational developments.

Occupied from A.D. 700-1225, the Haynie site is associated with the expansion of Chaco influence into the Mesa Verde region. The establishment of a political and ceremonial center at Chaco and the subsequent expansion of Chaco influence is one of the iconic events in pre-Columbian history of the United States.