July 10, 2020 – The Museums of Western Colorado’s archives are a wealth of primary source material for us to gain perspective on events of the past; and we want to provide a timeline of events from those primary sources to allow members of the community to see as complete a picture as possible of the past. We cannot ever …
Digging up the past at Cross Orchards Historic Site
For the first time since the 1983 CAS (Colorado Archaeological Society) excavation of the bunkhouse, archaeological work is currently underway at Cross Orchards. With the help of CMU’s Assistant Professor of Archaeology, John Seebach, Ph.D., and his students, surveys are being done on two very intriguing areas on the site. The first part of the project was to investigate a …