These ovens, or sealed furnaces, converted coal into coke, which burned at a higher temperature and was used in industry, especially smelting ore. At their peak, some 500 ovens operated in Cokedale.
Dedication of new cemetery, 1970
A Commissary was a company store that sold food and other necessities
Mexican adobe buildings and "bake oven," Segundo, 1902
Weston, Colorado, “built by Mexicans and by early White settlers and not by the Company” = CF&I, 1903
A typical adobe building in the Mexican Plaza, Starkville, Colorado, 1903
Children, baking oven, and chili grinder at Mexican Plaza, Starkville, 1902
View of adobe and frame buildings in the coal mining camp of Starkville (Las Animas County)
