Have you ever wanted to see what pioneer homesteads look like?  We did, so we created a series that lays out the pioneers’ beginnings, maps of the homestead footprints, then and now photos, and profiles on the current owners. Read feature to get an up-close glimpse.

Yesterday Meets Today_ Livonius Homestead

Cemeteries are a place to remember and honor those who have passed.  Each year we tell their stories in a cemetery tour – sharing the notable, the notorious and the common, every day stories of our Conifer area pioneers.

Tales Behind the Tombstones 2023

In honor of National Women’s Physician Day in 2024, this article provides profiles on 8 historic female physicians in our area, including Dr. Rachel Staunton who ran a sanitarium for tuberculosis patients on her ranch (now Staunton State Park) and Dr. Josepha Williams Douglas of Evergreen who founded a medical and surgical center and nursing school – Marquette-Williams Sanitarium.

“National Women’s Physician Day 2024” Michelle Schulten, February 3, 2024

What was the outcome of President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066?  With his signing on February 19, 1942 all Japanese Americans in the western half of Washington, Oregon, and California as well as from Los Angeles south, and the southern and western parts of Arizona were incarcerated. 

Michelle Schulten – CHSM board member – shares her perspective on this critical part of America’s history.  This editorial article includes facts taken from the book Amache: The Story of Japanese Internment in Colorado During World War II by Robert Harvey,

Read the editorial here:  Amache Internment Camp

Michelle Schulten – CHSM Board Member – shares her research and editorial perspective on this critical moment in Colorado’s History.

“History tells us that the events of November 29, 1864, were tragic at the least and a blatant disregard for human life at a more heinous level. The event has had several names over the course of history: The Sand Creek Massacre (my preference), The Battle of Sand Creek, The Chivington Massacre, and The Battle of the Glorious Third. None do justice to what happened that day in Kiowa County, Colorado, along the Sand Creek.”

Read the her research here

Read the full story of the Buchanan family who came to Colorado in 1882 as Freedmen and Freedwomen (legally freed slaves after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and settled in Critchell.

Freed Slaves Article