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Manitou Springs is a home rule municipality located at the foot of Pikes Peak in western El Paso County, Colorado, United States. The town was founded for its natural mineral springs. The town was founded for its natural mineral springs.
Navajo and Manitou springs, Colorado, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views Valley of springs where Ute came to hunt and use the mineral springs. The center of the photograph shows a "lone encampment" of Ute Native Americans, between 1874 and 1879.
The town grew after 1881 with the creation of a railway spur that transported people from Colorado Springs to Manitou Springs. [13] Medical practitioners, such as Dr. Edwin Solly, promoted the health benefits of the "pure air" and sunny Rocky Mountain climate as the "world's best suited therapeutic environment" for the treatment of tuberculosis ...
The Ancestral Puebloans lived and travelled the Four Corners area of the Southwestern United States from 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1300. Ancestral Puebloan peoples did not permanently live in the Manitou Springs area, but lived and built their cliff dwellings in the Four Corners area and across the Northern Rio Grande, several hundred miles southwest of Manitou Springs.
Built in 1888, it was Manitou Springs first bank. Its building was used as an opera house and a dry goods store. [2] Leddy Block: Commercial: Manitou Avenue: 734: The masonry building was built by the Gillis Brothers in 1891. [1] Manitou Spa: Commercial: Manitou Avenue: 934: It is a historic building located along Fountain Creek in Manitou ...
Miramont Castle is a museum located in Manitou Springs, Colorado at the base of the Pike's Peak Cog Railway and infamous Manitou Incline. The Castle was originally built in 1895 as a private home for Father Jean Baptist Francolon, a French-born Catholic priest. Today, the castle serves as a historic house museum.
Location of El Paso County in Colorado. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in El Paso County, Colorado.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in El Paso County, Colorado, United States.
Englemann Canyon (also spelled Engleman's Canon) [1] [2] is a valley along Ruxton Creek, in Manitou Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. [3] It is one of three canyons in Manitou Springs, the others are Ute Pass and Williams Canyon. [4]