Apishipa Valley Heritage Society

Apishipa Valley Heritage Society The Apishipa Valley, anchored by Aguilar, Colorado, is rich with the history of the Apishipa people, coal mining, the early days of transportation, and What?

Al Capone and Prohibition? What was the Bloody Bucket?

Here is our new QR code to download driving direction on the backroads around the Spanish Peaks.
05/30/2023

Here is our new QR code to download driving direction on the backroads around the Spanish Peaks.

04/18/2023

Refers to the violent deaths of 20 people, 11 of them children, during an attack by the Colorado National Guard on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miner...

https://youtu.be/XDd64suDz1A
04/12/2023

https://youtu.be/XDd64suDz1A

Refers to the violent deaths of 20 people, 11 of them children, during an attack by the Colorado National Guard on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miner...

https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/coal-mining-colorado
01/22/2023

https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/coal-mining-colorado

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, coal mining was the most important industry in Colorado. Coal mines served as the crucibles of empire, churning out the fuel needed to power the railroads, precious-metal mines, and smelters that helped develop the region.

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