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Dolores, Montezuma Co. CO
Dolores is a Statutory Town located in Montezuma County, Colorado.
Location & Maps below: town population was 885 at the 2020 United States Census
Elevation: 6,946′
Dolores (Spanish for "sorrows" and named for the river on which it is located)
is located at the mouth of the Dolores Valley and the upper reaches of McPhee
Reservoir, approximately 40 miles (64 km) from the Four Corners Monument.
Established as a station on the Rio Grande Southern Railroad, it replaced the
earlier town, Big Bend, now covered by McPhee Reservoir. McPhee Reservoir is
named for a company town founded by New Mexico Lumber Company, that is now
covered by the reservoir.
History
The following are Dolores area historic sites of the Ancient Pueblo People:
The Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center and Museum, and the on-site Dominguez
and Escalante Pueblos are listed on the Colorado State Register of Historic
Properties and the National Register of Historic Places listings in Montezuma
County, Colorado.
Canyons of the Ancients National Monument
O'Brien Site, an Ancient Pueblo settlement of 11 pueblos occupied between AD
1075 - 1150.
The Dolores River was named by two Spanish Catholic priests, Francisco Anastio
Dominguez and Silvestre Valdez de Escalante, as they passed through the area in
1776.
On their journey to find a route from the missions of Santa Fe, NM to
California, they discovered the river and called it "Rio de Nuestra Senora de
las Dolores" or the River of Our Lady of Sorrows.
Although their purpose was never completed, their visits were the first to be
recorded, and they opened up the area for settlement.
The ancestral Puebloans were the original inhabitants of the area, living here
until about A.D 1300. Historians are still trying to determine why they left the
area, leaving behind a wealth of artifacts and remnants of their villages and
kivas.
They are believed to be the ancestors to the present-day Hopi Indians of Arizona
and the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico.
Welcome to Dolores Colorado !!!
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Window Rock, known in Navajo as Tségháhoodzání (pronounced [tséáhòːtsání]), is a city and census-designated place that serves as the capital of the Navajo Nation, the largest Native American tribe by both land and tribal enrollment. |
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McPhee Recreation Area located on the south shore of McPhee Reservoir near the town of Dolores in southwestern Colorado. Visitors enjoy the area for its boating, water skiing and fishing opportunities. The McPhee Recreation Complex is on the south shore of McPhee Reservoir. McPhee Boat Ramp is open mid-April through October. There is
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25862 Road T is Cedar Lane Dolores, CO - 1 Aug 2024
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In Loving Memory "Butch" Gilliland aka "Robert Mid Gilliland" (1949-2016) R.I.P. | Ranch Video |
To My Sister Susan Marie, Love You & Hugs from Donald Richard Young Sr. (Begnal) & Dinah Lee Linsky "My New Love in Life"
2011 Merry Christmas to all from Susan & Butch Gilliland
This has been a wonderful year, very busy and lots of changes but blessed. If I have not kept in touch it is because we have been so busy, we consolidate Butch’s home to the ranch, we still have a shop to build to house all of his tools but that will come in the spring.
Here were several trips two to family reunions on the new side. I met many wonderful new family members, and I am looking forward to seeing more of then in the coming years.
We were in Magdalena NM, Cheyenne, WY, Show Low, AZ, Parachute, CO Ruidoso, NM, San Diego, CA and Phoenix, AZ. We had a wonderful time with family and friends.
In between all of this, we took on new animals on the farm. Twenty six chickens to be exact, 5 pigs which are now in the freezer and a new puppy, Button.
Of course she has grown some she is part Australian shepherd and border collie. We have really enjoyed her addition to the family.
We managed to get 1500 bails of hay into the barn to feed the cows and horses this winter. We were able to break and trail all the horses and find homes for three of them. Hopefully next summer we will be able to ride and explore the near buy mountains. This year has flown by and in a week it will be 2012 I hope everyone is looking forward to a prosperous new year.
Butch is working near Gillett WY now home for two weeks and works for two weeks straight. I am still working in Durango two days a week at the pawn shop and delivering phone books and of course making quilts. All the family is in good health and happy and we are hoping all of your families are the same.
All our best wishes, Susan and Butch
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