History

Editor’s note: This is the first of two Looking Back columns about the Hammond brothers. Part 2 is scheduled to publish in The Journal on Sept. 7. By James Hammond I was born in the province of...

For the first time since the 1950s, Montezuma County will have space for a museum, and this time, it is an entire building. The Montezuma Heritage Museum will be at 35 S. Chestnut St., and is...

Hundreds of people gathered in Rico on Wednesday for the traditional July Fourth parade, and to eat Navajo tacos and listen to the Four Corners Community Band. Rico residents and visitors honored...

Growing up in Cortez, we always had heat in the house. There was the cook stove – the Warm Morning – maybe the pot belly stove for heat, but I never asked where the coal came from. When a load of...

After analyzing historic maps, the Montezuma County Board of Commissioners asserts that numerous routes on the San Juan National Forest are under the jurisdiction of the counties where they are...

The Mancos Creative District announced Thursday that it has received a $32,409 grant from the History Colorado State Historical Fund to support the renovation of the Mancos Opera House. According...

Multimedia artwork from students at Southwest Open School is on display at the Canyons of the Ancients Visitors Center and Museum. Before creating their artwork, 15 students visited local...

If you were to ask the man on the street, “Where is Hallarville?” You would get a blank stare. Old-timers know it was a 40-acre roadside business on the north side of U.S. Highway 160, opposite the...

On a Monday night in May 1902, Silverton’s Chinese residents were chased out of town, in an event the newspaper called a “murderous attack.” They were forced out of town and made to walk south...

Cortez’s celebration of Historic Preservation Day on Saturday drew a bigger crowd than usual, as historians took people for a walk down memory lane. For the city’s ninth Preservation Day event,...

At its meeting on May 2, the Cortez Historic Preservation Board put the final touches on its plans for Historic Preservation Day on May 19. This will be the ninth time the city has organized the...