Families and Children | Trinidad/Las Animas County

In this 2018 interview, Mayor Garduno speaks about growing up in Trinidad with her family. Although she would like to remember more of the history of her parents, she recalls how all of her family came to live in Trinidad. Length: 2:37.

They married in the Chapel of San Francisco in Barela, Colorado, and their wedding celebration was held at her father’s ranch, El Porvenir.

The two Latino couples will live in Alamosa and Segundo

In this 2018 interview, Yolanda Romero and Georganne Vallejos speak to the way traditions in families have changed from the ways their elders raised them in Trinidad. Georganne notices the importance of grandparents in helping raise the children. Length: 2:26.

Georganne Vallejos speaks about her family settling in Trinidad in “El Barrio.” 2018. Length: 1:13.

Judge Manzanares recalls his memories of growing up in Trinidad and how the city was back then. He highlights his mom as his hero, as she raised him and all his five siblings, modeling for them what it was to value education. Aditionally, he recalls how his own family supported him through his career. 2018. Length: 3:57.

Wedding Party in Trinidad, 1890-1910

Apishapa, 1860

Trinidad, 1890

Trinidad, 1940s?

Antonia, Benigna (front), Maria Salome, and Magdalena (back), daughters of Juan Bautista Cordova

F. C. Baca and Wife, Wedding Portrait, 1905

Trinidad, 1890-1910

Felipe and Maria Dolores Baca with their children, around 1875

Baby Julian Estevan Lobato from Hoehne (Las Animas County) in his baptismal gown, 1890

Baby Della Marie Lovato of Trinidad, 1911

The Trujillo brothers from Mora County, New Mexico, and Las Animas. Leopoldo (middle front) was a miner at the Frederick Mine in Valdez (Las Animas County). Photo taken in 1910s

Francisco Rivera, his wife Benigna Córdova de Rivera and their children, probably in San Francisco Plaza, 1887

Family portrait taken at the time of the baptism of Mercedes Gómez in Vigil (Las Animas County), 1912