Tag: el paso county poor farm
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El Paso County Poor Farm, one of the last in the country, cared for the needy, old or ill
Since 2017 the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum has told the area’s history with an interactive alphabetical “Story of Us.” “P” stood for the Poor Farm in the exhibit. Fittingly, the Poor Farm had been here since the beginning of the city. In 1880 the county commissioners chose a cottage on El Paso Street for a…
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Seven little headstones: How a ‘commonly overlooked’ cemetery keeps a part of Colorado Springs history alive
In a state with its fair share of abandoned towns and byways, victims of the historic boom and bust cycle and the transience of Western expansion, a disused gravesite in Colorado is not a rarity. Rather than being left behind geographically, though, the Pauper’s Cemetery in Colorado Springs has been left behind in memory and…