2+ hour, 19+ min ago   (735+ words) Was there ever a Colorado city that required racial segregation by law? The answer is “Yes.” The Black Racial Equity Study Commission, led by Colorado Senate President James Coleman, has learned the small city of Fruita had laws forbidding Black…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (562+ words) Before sunrise on Friday, firefighters from across the U.S. gathered at the Manitou Incline to walk the more than 2,700 steps in honor of the 343 New York City firefighters who lost their lives trying to save others in the immediate aftermath of…...

6+ day, 3+ min ago   (394+ words) Drivers travel Templeton Gap Road. Hikers and bikers follow the Templeton Gap Trail and water comes down the Templeton Gap Floodway. But what exactly is the gap? And who was the Templeton who went through that gap? Earliest maps at…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1204+ words) P.J. Anderson spent the better part of two years tracking down hundreds of maps long predating Colorado’s statehood in 1876 as part of a mission that took him to private collections, museums and institutions near and far. This included the Library of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1491+ words) Mystery swirled around the discovery of a petrified giant, but was it the find of a lifetime or the greatest fake of its age? By Ann Sneesby-KochHistory Colorado William Conant seemingly unearthed a marvel in September 1877. While searching for fossils…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (654+ words) It was known as Fountain Colony as Gen. William Jackson Palmer planned his city and drove that first stake at Pikes Peak and Cascade avenues in 1871. By 1872 it was formally incorporated and officially called Colorado Springs. According to Colorado Springs…...

4+ week, 21+ hour ago   (682+ words) Colorado Springs has always had an impressively strong history of philanthropy. Today that has grown to almost 5,000 nonprofits in the metro area, almost 1,000 in the city itself. It all began, along with the city, in the 1800s and here are some…...