Ruins of coke processing ovens in Cokedale: #2
LHP_Intern2020-01-18T05:22:48+00:00The ovens were constructed by Colorado Fuel & Iron in 1907 and later sold to American Smelting and Refining. The last ones were shut down in 1947.
Ruins of coke processing ovens in Cokedale: #1
LHP_Intern2020-01-18T05:22:35+00:00These 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
LHP_Intern2020-01-18T05:23:34+00:00Dedication of new cemetery, 1970
Ruins of the Commissary at Madrid Plaza, undated
LHP_Intern2020-01-18T05:23:11+00:00A Commissary was a company store that sold food and other necessities
Adobe buildings and oven, Segundo, 1902
LHP_Intern2020-01-18T05:17:53+00:00Mexican adobe buildings and "bake oven," Segundo, 1902
View of Weston, 1903
LHP_Intern2020-01-18T05:25:46+00:00Weston, Colorado, “built by Mexicans and by early White settlers and not by the Company” = CF&I, 1903
Adobe building at Starkville, 1903
LHP_Intern2020-01-18T05:21:05+00:00A typical adobe building in the Mexican Plaza, Starkville, Colorado, 1903
Children, oven, and grinder at Starkville, 1902
LHP_Intern2020-01-18T05:18:21+00:00Children, baking oven, and chili grinder at Mexican Plaza, Starkville, 1902