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New Castle, Colorado: A Coal Town That Survives Despite Disaster
Submitted by Noel on Sat, 03/23/2013 - 11:45am
The town of New Castle was one of many Western Slope towns incorporated during the coal boom of the 1880’s, but is one of few coal towns from that era to have survived.
Marbleous Marble, Colorado
Submitted by Noel on Sat, 12/08/2012 - 11:09am
The little town of Marble, Colorado has had a big role in the construction of some of our country’s most hallowed monuments and important buildings.
Project Rulison or: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Natural Gas.
Submitted by Noel on Tue, 10/09/2012 - 5:51pm
On September 10, 1969, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), in order to release natural gas deposits locked underground, exploded a 40-kiloton atomic bomb on Colorado’s Western Slope in what i
Weird Photo Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Submitted by jrogers on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 9:52am
Weird Photo Wednesdays shows what a drunk tank was like in the early 1900's. I'm sure some people mistook it for a toilet instead!
