Abbey Christman, Survey Coordinator for Colorado Preservation, Inc. will be at Boggsville Historic Site the evening of Saturday, July 24 to discuss the history of homesteading in southeastern Colorado. Her presentation will be based on the results of architectural surveys recently completed in Baca, Las Animas, and Otero Counties. With funding from the Colorado Historical Society’s State Historical Fund, Preserve America, and the Colorado Department of Local Affairs, the survey team trekked across plains, canyons and mesas surveying historic buildings, agricultural structures, prehistoric and historical archaeological resources, and cultural landscapes. More than 1,000 historic sites were documented during these surveys, the majority related to the region’s homesteading boom of the 1910s and 1920s.
Ms. Christman will give an overview of the survey process and findings along with a photographic tour of the homesteads of the region, discussing the homesteading process and how homesteaders shaped the landscape of southeastern Colorado.
