Kiowa County Heritage Trails

Kiowa County Heritage Trails
A joint effort between:
Kiowa County Historic Preservation Commission
and the
National Park Service Rivers, Trails & Conservation Assistance
Program
April 2010 DRAFT
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Purpose
PROJECT PURPOSE
Understanding context
Kiowa County has many resouces: cultural, scenic,
historic, natural, and recreational. The Kiowa County
Historic Preservation Commission recognized that
many of these significant resources were hidden from
the average visitor and county residents as well. In
order to tell the stories of those resources and provide
an opportunity for residents and visitors to experience
these resources, a Working Group has formed to create a
Kiowa County Heritage Trails Plan. This plan will identify
significant resources in the county and suggest means for
linking the resources through stories and interpretation
and physically via driving routes and recreational
resources.
PROJECT GOALS
• Link historic, recreational, agricultural, geologic,
natural, and scenic resources in Kiowa County
through a system of driving routes and recreational
trails and to make them available for use by residents
and toursits.
• Take advantage of visitation to Sand Creek NHS to
keep people in the area longer and stimulate the local
economy.
• Make county residents aware of resoures and create a
sense of stewardship annd pride in county resources
Undiscovered resources in Kiowa County
• Reinforce County’s sense of identity relative to the
County’s history.
• Identify and promote historical assets.
• Build relationships with region and regional efforts.
THE PROCESS
From the beginning of the process, the KCHPC looked
to county residents in an effort to better understand
what the existing resources are and where they are
located. Through public meetings, targeted interviews,
and considerable research of existing documentation
and with the assistance of the National Park Service
Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program
and NPS Intermountain Regional Office GIS Division, a
comprehensive map was created detailing resources in
Kiowa County.
figuring it out together
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Community-Identified Resources
Three community meetings held in _____, April 2008, and October 2009 resulted in a
comprehensive list of county resources. Community-identified resources appear as follows:
Ranching/Farming/Early Settlements/
Homesteading
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Bowyer – East Side of Nee Nosha (homestead)
Dave Cline (Haswell ) Before 1887
January Ranch (Haswell)
George Hadick Ranch (section 4 township 18 range
50) current Beechner residence
Reinert (Farming and Ranching) (still standing)
Al Winger – South of Glatatea 6 miles and west of
Frazee
Floyd Lambertson – NW of Arlington
John & Minnie Walhouser W ½ 23-18-51
(homestead)
A.R. Camp (homestead) east side of Nee Nosha by
Lake Center school
P.P. and Carrie Anderson (homestead)
Raymond and Pansy Philpy (homestead)
France Homestead west of Clyde Lane’s
Lambertson (homestead)
Fred Lady (homestead) still standing (silo)
Kline (homestead)
Winger (homestead)
Evans House (homestead)
Amyx – just a home, still standing (Kim Barlow)
Simmons – just a home
Holly/SS Ranch line camp – on Sand Creek N. of
Dawson Ranch
Andrews place – tank and windmill still there (big
berm of dirt) on Andrews Lake
• Davis Sheep Ranch - Stavely, Elda in Haswell
• Families (East Side): Frost-Elden’s grand
parents – no remains, Shadovitz (?) – no remains,
Stonebreaker, Crum (superintendent of school’s
wife) in Towner cemetery – see book in library) –
Lois Mc Cracken
• Fischer Homestead – Otto Albert Fischer homestead
• John Mays home
• Martha and John Burke homestead
• Parkini home
• George Eads house
• Burt Camp home
• Fred Ware home
• Fergus home
• Boone Best house (section 36 T18 R53)
• Norris Anderson House (1927)
• W.S. Durrett house
• Carl Rose house
• Ross Anderson homestead
Canals/Irrigation/Headgates
• Colt Canal (ditch) – Arlington?
• Switzer Canal & Reservior – 9 miles north of May
Valley Rd & 96
• Kicking Bird Canal (Nee Gronda)
• Ray Canal – on Sand Creek
• Chivington Canal – on Sand Creek
• Brandon Canal – on Sand Creek
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Churches
• Crosses burned in Haswell in 1920’s (in front of Methodist Church erected in
1913)(KKK)
• Played basketball in Methodist Church basement in 1903? (Before 1927) (Played
there before gym was built)
• United Methodist Church – Haswell
• United Brethren/EUB Church – Arlington (now in the Arlington Chapel and
Boys Ranch – La Junta)
• Brown Funeral Home was once EUB Church
• United Methodist Church – Towner
• Sheridan Lake – nondenominational
• Chivington Friends Church
Schools
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Prairie Center
Prairie Queen (Cordon Berry owns land)
Diston – 4 miles east
Galatea (golf course) built to be 2-story, but when it was remodeled in 1931, they
cut it down to one story
Lake Center (east side of Nee Nosha) – see Betty’s photos (and associated
dugout)
Lake View School – near Nee Gronda
Chivington (falling down)
Brandon (gone)
Sheridan Lake (Kiowa Albright Center)
Water Valley (Woelk Park)
Arlington (Wyckoff), North of Arlington
Meadowlea School – Dorret House (main floor) county road 6 M
Hillcrest School – Arlington, county road 7
Pleasant Hill – Towner (w/bus tragedy), also Stewart School
Towner Grade and High School
Soddy (Arlington) – west and south of Hillcrest
Black Lake School – southwest of Eads
1 ¼ mile northeast Rieheart Place – Victory (see museum for list of school
registrations from courthouse)
10 miles south of Haswell (Spady/Kline) – closed 1928, no remains. 4 miles
south of Spanish style building
South of Towner – 7 miles – section 36 (Butler), made into house (Paul Wilson
then Butler)
Fine Flat School
Trails
• Benny Fisher’s land – Smokey Hill Trail through Lily Fox’s, Jackson, Fisher
property halfway to Lindhomes (south fork) (Barlo-Sanderson)
• Stage coach stop – north of Chivington
• Stage coach stop – 2-3 miles west of Abrams
• Kansas/Colorado Boulevard – from Kansas into Eads, not completed
• Chisholm Trail
• Montana Trail – XTN Goodnight – Loving
• Well #2 Barlow, Sanderson Stage
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Railroads
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Arlington Stockyard – shipping yard for railroad
Roundhouse – Chivington
Spur from Kit Carson to Las Animas (Arkansas Valley RR, K Pacific RR)
Turn table on old railroad east of salt lake
Haswell Stockyard – had water, could hold train car of cattle – built 1925 or 1926.
Torn down?
• Haswell Coal Chute – replaced by mechanical chute in Eads in 1934
Towner Bus Tragedy
• August Reinert House was built before 1916 (when they came – Hess, owner).
House is more than 100 years old. Will Lieker owns. 1/2 mile south and 1 mile
straight west of bus tragedy. Elden’s Grandfather
• Marker where bus stalled (Towner)
• Andy Reinert – where they took the kids – ½ mile south, ½ mile East (see map at
museum) Built in 1925.
Cemeteries
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Arlington – 1890 oldest tombstone (1916 official plaque)
Galatea – 1917 founded
Haswell
South of Chivington (ask Adamsons – one north of Chivington where someone
buried a baby)
Jackson property
“France” Cemetery
North of Towner – in Co. – Hert Burnett. East of Schmitz? Near Whitewoman
Creek.
Howell Cemetery – (George Crow’s wife’s family) – 9 miles west of Eads, turn
north on Prairie Queen Road, go 1 ½ mile and 1 or 2 miles east.
Brandon
Towner
Sheridan Lake
Eads
Queens Beach (Betsy B.)
Military
• WWII air base (auxiliary) near Adobe Creek
• Cold War Radar Site – South of Haswell
Commerce/Town Building
• Colokan (see p. 42 Kiowa County History Book Volume 2) East of Towner, no
remains
• France/ Kirschman House (oldest house in Eads, 1885) **
• Dayton/New Dayton (West of Lily Fox’s)
• Basil/Buck (south of Neil Myers)
• Strahans Café – Gambles – 1st National Bank (added the back half to the 1st National Bank building (white building)per Ruby Wissel) Building on 13th &
Maine? **
• Haswell
• Nation’s Smallest Jail
• United Methodist Church
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• Post Office Building
• Hotel
• Old Fire House
• Texaco Station
Sunday’s Garage was located at present-day Stop n Shop – Howard Sunday built
the building
Present Day Theater – Givan’s Garage – Star Garage**
Pool hall was always pool hall **
Kiowa Press Building was a pool hall and was also a bakery
Teresa’s Building was once the Whitelaw Building**
Penny Wierich’s home was a hospital – Sarah Eder
Remodeled the Post Office after WWII – the entrance door was moved
Power and light building – Eads
Duane Wissel house – 1908
John Phillipy House
Ruthanna Jacobs house more than 100 years old
Bentley Building (Betsy B.)
Town Hall (1937 – WPA) and Masons
Bransgrove Building
A.T. Cherry House
Dentist Building / Old Theatre
Museum (old State Bank)
Larry Watts Building
Kelly Hardware
Jackson Property (Betsy B.)
Courthouse – 1908 and now new Courthouse there 1955
Foster Lumber Yard (Betsy B.)
Goff Hotel – 1889
Miller Hardware – 1955
Commercial Hotel (not standing)
Home Oil Building – 1950
First Coop Building
Fairgrounds Stadium
Weisbrod Hospital – WPA 1930’s
Rialto Hotel – 1918?
First National Bank
Sweetwater Store and Post Office
Springs
• Arlington Springs (Mustang Creek and Sand Arroyo junction)
• Kiowa Spring (Goff Spring)
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During a public meeting, Kiowa County residents
acknowledged that given the size of the county and
the large number of heritage resources, not all of the
resources are going to be able to be connected via
recreational trails and/or driving routes. Therefore,
meeting attendees came up with a list of criteria (see
graphic above) by which to measure the list of resources
and select priorities for connection.
In addition, the working group has identified several
specific areas of interest in Kiowa County that should
be prioritized as “nodes” along a driving route or
recreational trail. These are:
• Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site
• Kiowa Creek Natural Area (Eads)
• Towner Bus Tragedy related sites
• Nation’s Smallest Jail (Haswell)
• Woelk Museum (Sheridan Lake)
• Adobe Creek
• Great Plains Reservoirs
• Camp Amache
• Bent’s Old Fort
• Santa Fe Trail
Kiowa County Heritage Trails can certainly fit within
the context of the stories that the larger tourism
effort aims to tell. Kiowa County’s challenge will be
to communicate to national, international, regional,
and local markets that there are a cluster of heritage
resources in Kiowa County to visit and to tell a
compelling story about these resources.
Efforts should be made to create opportunities
for visitors who are coming to the county’s larger
attractions to experience more of Kiowa County’s
heritage when they are there. Because of the county’s
size and distance between resources, most paths will be
driving routes, but recreational trails can be considered
in the areas around some of the larger resources.
The Southeast Colorado Regional Heritage Toursim
group (SECORHT) had identified 6 regional historic
assets as priorities for promotion and connection in
southeast Colorado. These are:
• Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site
• Boggsville
• Comanche National Grasslands
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Kiowa County
Colorado
Though theWorking Group and community residents have identified
and mapped many resources and the county, there are significant
areas of interest that should be the focus and starting point of the
heritage trails plan. These are shown as purple asterisks. Blue circles
represent areas of concentration of resources or visitors. All efforts
will be made to build upon the larger regional tourism effort while
showcasing Kiowa County’s unique resources.
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