This brick and stone planter has flowers surrounding two brick columns supporting a large flat matching stone with Trinidad Incorporated 1876 engraved on it. Kind of like a welcoming sign.
A big metal cage with a big canary in it. And a plaque explaining why the canary was used in the mines.
For centuries, miners have been taking canary birds down into their mines to warn them of potential disaster. If a tunnel of shaft collapses or is blocked, thereby diminishing the oxygen supply, the canary will be the first to react, usually dying, alerting the miners to trouble and to immediately vacate the mine
"The canaries, sometimes pigeons and occasionally mice have been used in coal mines throughout the world to test for poisonous gases, especially carbon monoxide, which is colorless and has no taste or smell. Even very small amounts of the poisonous gas will cause a canary to swoon, due to its extremely rapid heartbeat, before it becomes fatal to the miners. Often, the canary could be revived, if evacuated immediately with the miners."
"Until modern detection devices came into mandated use, as they are today, canaries were brought into the mines in a small wood or metal cages, especially after a fire or explosion, to provide a clear signal as to whether the underground conditions were safe. In the presence of carbon monoxide, the canary would sway noticeably on his perch before falling, in a dramatic indication of dangerous conditions."
Over the years, this yellow songbird has saved countless human lives.
Trinidad-Las Animas County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce & Southern Colorado Coal Miners Memorial & Scholarship Fund Committee
Artist: Ms. Susan Norris
Dedicated: June 4th, 2010
Three coal miners working. One with a shovel another with a pick, they are filling a wooden cart that runs on Rail-road tracks
The statue to the coal miners has this bottom with the names of the dead.
This memorial stands as a monument in tribute to coal miners active, retired and deceased, recognizing their historical contributions after many decades to the economy of Trinidad and Las Animas county. Both warm and sad memories are shared and recognized as families revisit here.
A rearing hours with a decorative street lamp post with a flowering hanging basket. by his raised front legs. With a big vase like object on the other side of the street light
The "Diamond Circle" brand of the Bloom Cattle Co.
The "Flying V" brand of the Matador Ranching
The "JJ" brand of the Prairie Land and Cattle Co.
Before homesteaders began farming the plains, before barbed wire sliced the prairies into neat squares, and before windmills spiked the horizon, huge open-range ranching operations controlled thousands of square miles of grasslands. Enormous herds of cows and sheep grazed on these grasslands. Three of these immense operations were headquartered in Trinidad, two in the First National Bank building.
The second-floor corner offices were headquarters for Texas famed Matador Ranch from 1892 to 1920. Stretching from Texas to South Dakota, The Matador, at its peak grazed over 72,000 cattle on almost 880,000 acres. Its manager, a Scot named Murdo MacKenzie, first moved to Trinidad in 1885 to manage a ranching empire that dwarfed even the Matador - the Prairie Land and Cattle Company with almost 5-million acres which stretched from New Mexico into Canada. Both ranches were Scottish owned.
The Bloom Land and Cattle Company was locally owned and run by Frank Bloom. Bloom ran the ranch from the lobby of a bank, where he also served as president. Its ranges were scattered from Roswell, New Mexico, into Montana.
Many of Trinidad's major buildings were financed with ranch money. Ranching, on a smaller scale, remains important to the city's economy
Trinidad is uniquely blessed to have over 100 years of its history preserved in photographs taken by a father-son team of camera artists, Oliver and Glenn Aultman, ably assisted by their wife and mother, Jennie. Through the years, their camera recorded the changing street scenes, celebrations, historic events, and most importantly, the diverse and revealing faces of Trinidad's polyglot population. Native Americans in war bonnets, Asian miners, Italian immigrants, Hispanic cowboys in fleeced chaps, and dozens of other races, ethnic groups, and cultures posed stiffly for the cameras.
The Aultman Studio began in 1889, when young Oliver, a bank loan officer who knew nothing about photography, took over the studio to keep-out-of-default a loan he had made to a photographer who skipped town. He proved to be a natural camera artist, as did his son Glenn, born in 1905.
Originally located four blocks west of here, the Aultman Studio moved in 1901 to the second floor of the stone Romanesque two-story Plested Building, directly across the street. In 1990, the First National Bank incorporated the building and remodeled, preserving the time-honored Aultman Studio.
The Aultman Museum of Photography is housed on the mezzanine level of the A. R. Mitchell Memorial Museum of Western Art. further east in the same block. On display are the award-winning "Faces of Trinidad" exhibit as well as an illustrated timeline history of photography
Honoring those veterans from Las Animas County who have so proudly served
The great war The war of the nations The war to end all wars Freedom Is Not Free
Dedicated to all men and women who served in WW II from 1941-1946
The stone tablet for the 38th Parallel Has the dead listed
1950 - 1953 Erected by southern Colorado Chapter of Korean War Veterans.
8,000 missing in action
54,000 Killed
103,000 wounded
Listing of the veterans from Las Animas county and Trinidad Co.
July 4 1965 March 28 1973
Dedicated to those who gave the supreme sacrifice
Also to the men who served and suffered on the battlefields of Viet-Nam and on the streets of America
WELCOME HOME
Then a listing of the dead.
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Elev. 4066 FT. The sign is in front of train cars loaded with coal.
Organizations that are in La Juta Colorado are 
Steam Engine 1024 was built as a Vauclain compound Prairie type (2-6-2) locomotive in 1901 by Burnham, Williams & Co., an early incarnation of the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, PA. It was part of a second order for twenty-six of the type made by the AT&SF (#1014-#1039). The first order for fourteen was made the same year (#1000-#1013). The class was designed for AT&SF’s La Junta-Albuquerque division, which had more than 3% grades in both directions between Trinidad, CO, and Raton, NM.
Steam Engine 1024 weighs 209,220 lbs, 144,610 lbs on its drivers, with a 13’ 8” driver wheelbase and 32’ 2” engine wheelbase. Built as a coal burner with a 118,000 lbs, 6,000 gallon water and 10 ton coal tender, #1024 was later converted to burn oil with a tender holding 12,000 gallons of water and 39,000 gallons of oil.
Ranchers for Hospice and has there brand and name on the side of the building that faces HWY 50
I liked the covered entrance, (covered the whole front of the building) the brick work in the front yard. The style of building and the color of the brick. Simply put good looking brick work
These little towns seem to all have there own power plant.
Nobody beats our prices. Furniture Sale, used appliances, Antiques. With a small class B truck for delievery.
Walking east on HWY 50 looking back.
