Tag: Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum
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PIKES PICK: A birthday bash for Colorado
Mark your calendar for Happy 150th Birthday Colorado, Aug. 1, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Music, food trucks, history and birthday cake at Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum. Tickets: secure.qgiv.com — Linda Navarro
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Pikes Pick: Pledge drive open for Pioneers Museum anniversary
It’s 130 years of our history and Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum is raising $130,000 for even more collectibles and stories. Now through May 31, share a Gift of History at secure.qgiv.com/for/giftofhistory. — Linda Navarro
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Little-known legend of Colorado Nick to be celebrated at Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum
For years in Colorado Springs, Scott Boyer had been learning little by little about a tattoo artist in local lore who went by Colorado Nick. His real name was Leonard Newell Wisner, Boyer learned. And in learning this he learned the man was buried at Evergreen Cemetery. Boyer came to an unmarked grave. “Here was…
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Portal to the past: Step back in time at this living history park and museum in Colorado Springs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The sun beats down as roosters crow and a pair of pigs happily oink and gambol about their muddy pit at Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site. Mothers push their toddlers in strollers down the paved sidewalks, residents pop by the General Store hoping for a…