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Walsenburg is the statutory city that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Huerfano County, Colorado, United States. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The city population was 3,049 at the 2020 census , [ 11 ] down from 3,068 in 2010.
World Journal — Walsenburg; Yellow ... includes more than 2,000,000 digitized pages from more than 500 individual newspaper titles published in Colorado ...
The Ludlow Massacre was a mass killing perpetrated by anti-striker militia during the Colorado Coalfield War.Soldiers from the Colorado National Guard and private guards employed by Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I) attacked a tent colony of roughly 1,200 striking coal miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado, on April 20, 1914.
Huerfano County and neighboring Las Animas County were the central locations of the 1913-1914 United Mine Workers of America strike against the Rockefeller-owned Colorado Fuel and Iron company, which is now referred to as the Colorado Coalfield War. Walsenburg and other stops on the Colorado and Southern Railway proved strategically important ...
The seasonal Colorado mountain town of Ouray became a flashpoint for the debate about free press and local journalism when nearly all the county papers were stolen from stands – as details broke ...
Colorado Coalfield War: 23-29 Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, Colorado National Guard, & Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency vs United Mine Workers of America: Battle of Walsenburg: April 28–29, 1914 Walsenburg: Coal Wars Colorado Coalfield War: 3+ United Mine Workers of America-aligned strikers vs Colorado National Guard: Battle of Forbes: April ...
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The Huerfano County Courthouse and Old Walsenburg Jail now the Walsenburg Mining Museum, are historic buildings in Walsenburg, Colorado in Huerfano County. The courthouse was built in 1904. [2] The jail was built in 1896. [3] The buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 23, 1973. The courthouse is located at 400 ...