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South Fork was once the site of timber milling operations. [7]South Fork was founded in 1882, by which date its location was already marked by the presence of a coaching post, dating from the construction of the railroad connection of the Rio Grande Western Railroad line to Creede, which had been built to support the Creede silver mine.
The new Rio Grande Industries company was renamed to the Southern Pacific Rail Corporation in 1993 [5] and merged SPTC Holding into themselves. [6] The new Rio Grande Industries company, now known as the Southern Pacific Rail Corporation, was eventually merged into the Union Pacific in 2015. [7] [8] [9]
Location of Rio Grande County in Colorado. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Rio Grande County, Colorado. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Rio Grande County, Colorado, United States. The locations of National Register ...
Colorado Fuel & Iron mine at El Moro, c. 1900. The first, and only until World War II, integrated iron and steel mill west of St. Louis was built in 1881 in Pueblo on the south side of the Arkansas River by the Colorado Coal and Iron Company (CC&L), an affiliate of the narrow-gauge Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company (D&RG), controlled by General William Jackson Palmer and Dr. William ...
The Roma Historic District in Roma, Texas preserves an intact example of a border town in the lower Rio Grande valley. The town was an important port and transshipment point on the Rio Grande from 1829 to the 1880s. The architecture of Roma mirrors its sister city of Ciudad Mier on the Mexican side of the river, as well as Guerrero Viejo upriver.
Aug. 14—South of Rio Bravo, through a gate, across a metal bridge over a ditch full of running water and up a soft dirt route in the bosque, a stream of visitors found the fifth-largest ...
First responders in a Texas town are struggling to cope with the trauma of recovering bodies from the Rio Grande Morgan Chesky and Alicia Victoria Lozano February 25, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Granite City, Illinois, built by St. Louis Stamping Company, a steel company known for its "Granite ware" in which cooking utensils were made to look like granite; Hegewisch, Chicago, founded by Adolph Hegewisch (President of the United States Rolling Stock Company) to emulate the company town of Pullman.