Tag: cokedale
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Coke ovens among living history at this ‘model camp’ | Colorful Colorado
COKEDALE • Along a highway stretching through pinyon and juniper hills of southern Colorado, a long, peculiar row of stone in an otherwise empty field catches the eye. “Most people have no clue what they are,” Dave Harris says. “I get asked if they’re Roman ruins, or if there was an aqueduct there.” These are…
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LIFE | The living history of Cokedale, Colorado
Cokedale is nestled eight miles west of Trinidad where it began as a 100 man tent colony in 1899. By 1901 it was bought out by Guggenheims’ and proclaimed to be “a model coal camp”. Ruins of coking ovens can still be seen today across the highway 12. Today, around 130 people call Cokedale home,…