Montezuma County Historical Society

The times were lively, and life was grand in 1909

Editor’s note: S. H. Phlegar, Dolores, wrote this story in 1934 about events in Montezuma Valley in 1909. Twenty-five years ago at Lebanon in the Montezuma Valley – well, those were the ...

DATE: Aug 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Looking back

The Old West: Cowboys at Beaver Creek and Indians at Meadows Trading Post

Part 2: Continued from The Cortez Journal, Jan. 3, 2014 In her interview, Allie Meadows Baer talked about an interesting visitor to her father Billy Meadows’ trading post in the s...

DATE: Feb 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Looking back

Looking Back Which came first: the chicken or the chicken ordinance?

From the Cortez Sentinel, March 21, 1929 CHICKEN OWNERS Notice is hereby given that henceforth chickens must be kept on the premises of the owner. Allowing chickens to ...

DATE: Sep 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Looking back

Mesa Verde’s early park visitors

PAST HISTORY OF EVENTS AT MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK Making Camp for the Night, July 1909. Prof. Ed Levy was a teacher in Cortez in 1909/10. This...

DATE: Jun 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Looking back

German Settlement 'just like Germany'

Many residents had known one another before settling southwest of Big Bend

DATE: May 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Looking back

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