Conifer Historical Society & Museum

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The mission of the Conifer Historical Society and Museum ("CHSM") is to share the region’s legacy by collecting, preserving and exhibiting historical and cultural materials.

NEXT EVENT SUNDAY 6/7: Join award-winning storyteller and author Angel Vigil at the Conifer Historical Society to hear t...
05/31/2026

NEXT EVENT SUNDAY 6/7: Join award-winning storyteller and author Angel Vigil at the Conifer Historical Society to hear the history of El Norte. This is what present-day Colorado and the Southwestern US was known as during the Spanish and Mexican colonial periods. Historically, it represented the far northern frontier of the Spanish empire in North America.

Over time it became a crossroads of histories, migrations, trade routes, languages, families and cultural traditions. A tightly woven tapestry was woven from the lives of Spanish, Mexican and Indigenous people. Their shared history has given them a rich heritage. This event will help tell their story.

Get your tickets here: https://conifer.simpletix.com/

More history for your home!The museum is unable to give these fabulous pieces a home, so we want to spread the word to a...
05/30/2026

More history for your home!
The museum is unable to give these fabulous pieces a home, so we want to spread the word to all of you!

1800s Upright Piano made of a stunning tiger oak: Free
1920s Tube Radio with details inside and out: $200

Contact the owner Kristen at
720-635-8257 or [email protected]

Sharing this for a favorite supporter of ours, maybe you can find some history for your house at this antique-filled est...
05/30/2026

Sharing this for a favorite supporter of ours, maybe you can find some history for your house at this antique-filled estate sale!

Today is a complex day - one filled with sadness for the lives lost, gratitude for their sacrifice, thankfulness for the...
05/25/2026

Today is a complex day - one filled with sadness for the lives lost, gratitude for their sacrifice, thankfulness for the freedom we've been afforded.

Thank you to everyone we've lost, and although it's not the focus of today - thank you to the heroes still with us as well.

Please comment here with the name of any service member who should be remembered.

El Norte - that's what Colorado & the Southwestern United States was once known as. For centuries it was the crossroads...
05/24/2026

El Norte - that's what Colorado & the Southwestern United States was once known as. For centuries it was the crossroads of histories, migrations, trade routes, languages, families and cultural traditions.

On June 7th, join us to hear from Angel Vigil - award-winning author, storyteller, and educator specializing in the oral traditions of the Hispanic Southwest.

America's history began before our 150/250 that we celebrate this year. Come learn how intersecting events created a tightly woven tapestry of the lives of Spanish, Mexican and Indigenous people. Their shared history has given them a rich heritage. This event will help us understand their story, and learn how it's also part of everyone's.

Get your tickets here: https://conifer.simpletix.com/

The Sundwell Family arrived in Conifer in the late 1800s - when today's 285 was a small dirt road, folks gathered for ba...
05/23/2026

The Sundwell Family arrived in Conifer in the late 1800s - when today's 285 was a small dirt road, folks gathered for barn dances, barnyards hosted rodeos and our neighborhood hills were farms and ranches.

They filed several home-
steads in the Kennedy Gulch area. One of their ancestors, Mary Sundwell, cap-
tured the essence of the times in her journal. Parts 1 & 2 of her journal were recently published in Your Mountain Connection and the complete journal about Homesteading in Colorado can be found on the Pioneers and Families page at www.coniferhistoricalsociety.org

Images: Grandmother Rebecca with Mary Sundwell’s son Otto on the homestead, Mary Sundwell, Augustus Sundwell

Further to learning history while on vacation, we took a tour of the Pine Ridge Reservation with Lakota tribe members Ti...
05/15/2026

Further to learning history while on vacation, we took a tour of the Pine Ridge Reservation with Lakota tribe members Tianna and Gus Yellow Hair. It was enriching but even more so - very moving.

I know we talk a lot on this page about pioneer fortitude, but let's be honest - that came on the backs of indigenous people's trauma.

One look at even the promised vs final reservation land and it's plain to see that 'unfair' doesn't hold a candle to their reality. Pile on top of that abuse in assimilation schools and massacres like those at Wounded Knee and.....there are no words for the cruelty inflicted.

We look forward to rounding out telling the history of our region over the coming year.

Put this on your calendar folks!! This is a rare opportunity to learn about Como and the mining communities!Pssttt.....t...
05/12/2026

Put this on your calendar folks!! This is a rare opportunity to learn about Como and the mining communities!
Pssttt.....the Conifer History Chicks will be attending, let us know if you want to car pool.

Ever take your history obsession on vacation? We're in South Dakota right now and my eyes spied an old cemetery right by...
05/12/2026

Ever take your history obsession on vacation? We're in South Dakota right now and my eyes spied an old cemetery right by our campground. Turns out it was connected to a tuberculosis hospital. And the graves are related to its later life treating the developmental disabled.

Check out the history of your next vacation spot and dig into the past.

Established in 1911 near Custer, South Dakota, the South Dakota Sanatorium for Tuberculosis provided isolated treatment for tuberculosis patients with fresh air and rest. Between 1911 and 1936, the facility treated approximately 2,500 patients, with about 700 succumbing to the disease by the early 1940s.

It transitioned in 1963 into the Custer State Hospital for the developmentally disabled, operating until 1996. The site later became a juvenile detention center.

If you think it's a buzz kill to get snow today, what if it was already June?! Bradford Junction got snow in June 1880, ...
05/05/2026

If you think it's a buzz kill to get snow today, what if it was already June?! Bradford Junction got snow in June 1880, but it made the ranch men smile! Check out this excerpt from the Golden Weekly Globe on June 12, 1880.

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Conifer, CO
80433

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