The Tobasco Mine and Mill is associated with the metal mining history of Hinsdale and San Juan counties. The complex possesses the distinctive characteristics of a moderate size 1900s gold mine and mill operation in which the organization pattern is clearly evident. 

The Debs School served from 1926 until consolidation in 1951 as the only school in the remote southeast region of Hinsdale County.

Herman Brand immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1880 at the age of 18, and he worked for several years in Ohio before coming Denver to become a farmer as his father was in Germany.  He married Rose Katrola, and together they had five children: John, Henry, Kate, Mary and Wenzel.

In 1913 August Lueth was granted a homestead patent for 160 acres in Sedgwick County.  Eventually the land eventually passed onto his son Walter and then to his children Beverly, John, Robert and Betty.

William Sanderson and family moved from Hamilton Missouri to Monte Vista in Rio Grande County in 1907, a time when land developers and the railroad were encouraging migration to the San Luis valley.  The Sandersons acquired 160 acres in 1908.

Designed by architect Frederick W. Paroth, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church was built between 1899 and 1904. The Romanesque Revival church was listed as a Denver Landmark in 1977. The associated memorial and contemplative garden (1965), brick rectory (1904) and office annex (1965), parish hall (1902, remodeled 1970), and parking lot have long served the social and cultural functions of the church and annual traditional celebrations.

This simple 1889 wood frame rural schoolhouse closed due to a school consolidation in 1948, but it continues to function as a community center.  Listed under Rural School Buildings in Colorado Multiple Property Submission.

Built in 1891 of local fieldstone, this rural schoolhouse functioned as a school until 1953.

The Westcliffe depot is significant for the period 1901-1938 for the role it played in the development of local commerce, community planning and development, and transportation.

This 1887 two-story brick building has a quarry-faced stone front with arched windows trimmed in contrasting tooled and dressed stone.