Occupied from at least 600 BC to AD 1400, the cave yielded a corn cob dating to about AD 1500, a remarkably late date indicating that prior to European contact with the area, some groups continued to grow corn in western Colorado after the Southwestern "Anasazi" fluorescence.

Completed in 1927, the one-story front gabled roof building has log walls that have been stuccoed, and there is a full length shed roof addition on the south.

A single house ruin, occupied about AD 1100 and then abandoned, Tabeguache Pueblo is a good example of dispersed Pueblo settlement.

This rockshelter produced an early tree-ring record.  Tabeguache Cave is also associated with Clarence Thomas Hurst, a significant figure in Colorado archaeology, who co-founded the Colorado Archaeological Society and Southwestern Lore.  

Occupied as early as 270BC, this large rockshelter is the site of the earliest dated corn found in Colorado.

The site includes approximately thirteen acres of Ute Chief Ouray’s original ranch lands.

Constructed in 1905, the Water Users’ Association has occupied the building since 1932.  As such, it is important for its association with one of the first projects undertaken by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the Uncompahgre Reclamation Project. 

The 2½ story brick residence was constructed in 1882 by Thomas B. Townsend, an Englishman who moved to the area to pursue investments in mines near Silverton.  

The 1937 Combination Building and Barn building types, known collectively as the Silesca Ranger Station, was part of the unprecedented expansion of the Forest Service in the 1930s.  The expansion largely resulted from Depression era New Deal programs, specifically the Civilian Conservation Corps, that provided much of the construction labor for the erection or upgrading of ranger and guard stations within the national forests. 

This two-story, two-part commercial building was constructed in 1910 at the center of downtown Montrose.