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Ouray (die pyltjie) is gebore in Taos, New Mexico, in 1820. Sy vader was 'n lid van die Ute -stam, maar sy ma was 'n Apache. Hy het goed geleer om Engels en Spaans te praat.
Toe sy pa in 1860 sterf, word Ouray hoof van die Tabeguache -band van Utes. Ouray, 'n goeie vriend van Kit Carson, het op 7 Oktober 1863 'n vredesverdrag met die Verenigde State onderteken.
In 1872 gaan Ouray na Washington om te kla oor die beslaglegging op Ute -lande deur blanke setlaars. Ouray het daarop gewys dat die grond vir ewig aan die stam verpand is.
Nathan Meeker het in 1878 die Indiese agent van die White River Ute Reservation geword. Hy het die Utes ontstel deur hulle te probeer dwing om boere te word. In September 1879 roep Meeker die weermag in om met die Utes te handel. Toe hy hoor wat aan die gebeur is, vermoor hoofman Douglas en 'n groep krygers Meeker en sewe ander lede van die agentskap. Dit het bekend geword as die Meeker -bloedbad. Die Utes het ook majoor Thomas Thornburgh en sy troepe aangeval na die White River Agency. In die gevegte is Thornburgh en nege van sy mans dood.
Ouray het nou vredesonderhandelinge met die Amerikaanse regering gevoer. As gevolg hiervan is die Utes uit Colorado verhuis en op 'n reservaat in Utah geplaas. Ouray is beloon met 'n annuïteit van $ 1.000 per jaar.
Ouray is op 27 Oktober 1880 aan Brights Disease oorlede.
Oorspronklik gestig deur mynwerkers wat silwer en goud in die omliggende berge soek, spog die stad op 'n tyd met meer perde en muile as mense. Prospekteurs het in 1875 in die gebied aangekom. In 1877 het William Weston en George Barber die Gertrude- en Una -goue are gevind in Imogene Basin, ses myl suid suidwes van Ouray. Thomas Walsh het die twee are en al die oop grond in die omgewing verkry. In 1897 het Walsh die Camp Bird Mine oopgemaak en 'n twintigstempelmeul in 1898 en 'n veertigstempelmeul in 1899 bygevoeg. 1916, het Camp Bird, Ltd., meer as 'n miljoen onse goud geproduseer. [12]: 51, 84–86,91
Op die hoogtepunt van die mynbou het Ouray meer as 30 aktiewe myne gehad. Die stad - nadat hy sy naam en dié van die graafskap verskeie kere verander het - is op 2 Oktober 1876 ingelyf, vernoem na Chief Ouray of the Utes, 'n inheemse Amerikaanse stam. Teen 1877 het Ouray gegroei tot meer as 1 000 inwoners en is op 8 Maart 1877 aangewys as die setel van die nuutgestigte Ouray County.
Die Denver & amp; Rio Grande -spoorweg arriveer in Ouray op 21 Desember 1887. Dit sal bly totdat die motor en vragmotors 'n afname in die verkeer veroorsaak. Die laaste gereelde passasierstrein was 14 September 1930. Die lyn tussen Ouray en Ridgway is op 21 Maart 1953 laat vaar.
In 1986 word Bill Fries, ook bekend as C. W. McCall, tot burgemeester verkies en uiteindelik ses jaar lank gedien. [13]
Die hele hoofstraat is geregistreer as 'n nasionale historiese distrik, met die meeste geboue uit die laat negentiende eeu. Die Beaumont -hotel en die Ouray -stadsaal en die Walsh -biblioteek is afsonderlik op die National Register of Historic Places gelys, terwyl die Ouray County Courthouse, St. Elmo Hotel, St. Joseph's Miners 'Hospital (tans die Ouray County Historical Society and Museum) huisves. , Western Hotel en Wright's Opera House is ingesluit in die historiese distrik.
Volgens die United States Census Bureau het die stad 'n totale oppervlakte van 2,1 km2, wat almal land.
Klimaatsverandering
Ouray beleef vier verskillende seisoene. Somers is warm in die dag en matig tot koel in die nag met kort donderbuie wat gereeld in die namiddae in Julie en Augustus voorkom, wat soms intense, maar kortstondige reënval tot gevolg het. Die herfs is koel en meestal helder met af en toe reën. Die winters is lank en koud - alhoewel selde uiters so - met 'n aansienlike sneeuval. Die lente is oor die algemeen koel met die vroeë lente, en die grootste sneeuvalle laat die lente in die vroeë somer (middel Mei tot einde Junie), is sag tot warm en is gewoonlik die droogste tyd van die jaar. Die Köppen -klimaatklassifikasie vir Ouray is Dfb. [15]
Klimaatdata vir Ouray, Colorado | |||||||||||||
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Maand | Jan | Feb | Mrt | Apr | Mei | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Okt | Nov | Des | Jaar |
Rekord hoë ° F (° C) | 60 (16) | 61 (16) | 68 (20) | 75 (24) | 84 (29) | 92 (33) | 91 (33) | 90 (32) | 87 (31) | 84 (29) | 75 (24) | 60 (16) | 92 (33) |
Gemiddelde hoë ° F (° C) | 37.0 (2.8) | 39.2 (4.0) | 44.7 (7.1) | 53.7 (12.1) | 63.6 (17.6) | 73.9 (23.3) | 78.5 (25.8) | 76.1 (24.5) | 70.1 (21.2) | 59.5 (15.3) | 45.2 (7.3) | 37.6 (3.1) | 56.6 (13.7) |
Gemiddelde lae ° F (° C) | 15.0 (−9.4) | 17.2 (−8.2) | 22.5 (−5.3) | 29.7 (−1.3) | 37.9 (3.3) | 45.1 (7.3) | 51.2 (10.7) | 50.0 (10.0) | 43.6 (6.4) | 34.1 (1.2) | 23.3 (−4.8) | 16.3 (−8.7) | 32.2 (0.1) |
Rekord lae ° F (° C) | −22 (−30) | −21 (−29) | −7 (−22) | 2 (−17) | 18 (−8) | 27 (−3) | 33 (1) | 34 (1) | 16 (−9) | 8 (−13) | −4 (−20) | −17 (−27) | −22 (−30) |
Gemiddelde neerslag duim (mm) | 1.72 (44) | 1.73 (44) | 2.25 (57) | 2.07 (53) | 1.76 (45) | 1.15 (29) | 2.10 (53) | 2.29 (58) | 2.02 (51) | 2.15 (55) | 2.06 (52) | 1.62 (41) | 22.92 (582) |
Gemiddelde sneeuval duim (cm) | 24.7 (63) | 22.8 (58) | 25.5 (65) | 13.1 (33) | 3.2 (8.1) | .2 (0.51) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | .2 (0.51) | 5.8 (15) | 20.4 (52) | 21.9 (56) | 137.8 (351.12) |
Bron: Western Regional Climate Center [16] |
Die meerderheid van Ouray se ekonomie is gebaseer op toerisme. Ouray beskou homself as die "Switserland van Amerika" vanweë sy ligging aan die smal kop van 'n vallei, omring deur drie en 'n half kante deur steile berge.
'N Groot deel van die toerisme in die stad is gefokus op ysklim, bergfietsry, voetslaan, hardloop en veldry in vierwielaandrywing (4WD) na die San Juan-gebergte. Ouray het ook 'n gewilde bestemming vir motorfietsryers geword, aangesien dit die begin van die Million Dollar Highway aandui. Hierdie snelweg verbind Ouray met sy buurstede Silverton en Durango. Die Million Dollar Highway word gereeld beskou as een van die mooiste paaie in Colorado, maar word ook beskou as een van die gevaarlikste vanweë sy skerp draaie, steil rande en gebrek aan leunings. [17] Bestemmings sluit in Yankee Boy Basin, Engineer Mountain en Black Bear Road. Die opnamekunstenaar (en later burgemeester Ouray), C. W. McCall, het gehelp om Swartbeer in die omgewing bekend te maak. Sy liedjie "Black Bear Road" het die frase geleen: "jy hoef nie mal te wees om hierdie pad te ry nie, maar dit help", van 'n bord wat iewers aan die begin van die Black Bear Pass aangebring is. [18]
Ouray is 'n gewilde bestemming vir ysklim. [19] Die wêreld se eerste ysklimpark, wat uitbrei op voorheen gewilde natuurlike watervalle, bestaan uit tientalle bevrore watervalle van 80 tot 200 voet (61 m) hoog op meer as 'n kilometer van die Uncompahgre-kloof. Die water word voorsien deur 'n sprinkelstelsel wat deur 'n vrywilligersorganisasie ontwikkel en onderhou word en ondersteun word deur donasies van plaaslike besighede, toerustingvervaardigers en klimmers. Die Ouray -yspark is gratis en lok klimmers van regoor die wêreld. Die jaarlikse ysfees is 'n naweek lange uitspattigheid van wedstryde, uitstallings en onderrig met baie van die wêreld se voorste ysklimmers. Ysklim was ook 'n seën vir die plaaslike ekonomie, met hotelle en restaurante wat voorheen gedurende die wintermaande gesluit het, wat nou oop is vir klimmers.
Daar is vyf ontwikkelde warmwaterbronne in Ouray en die nabygeleë Ridgway. Dit sluit in termiese swembaddens en dampgrotte. Ouray Hot Springs is die grootste fasiliteit met talle swembaddens. [20]
Daar is talle watervalle langs die pad van Durango na Ouray, en binne die stadsgrense is daar twee watervalle binne maklike bereik. Cascade Falls [21] is 'n kort staptog van 1/4 myl wat toeganklik is vanaf 'n parkeerterrein in 8ste Laan. Box Canyon Falls is aan die suidwestelike rand van Ouray.
Ouray was oorspronklik 'n myndorp. Die grootste en bekendste myn is die Camp Bird Mine, die tweede grootste goudmyn in Colorado, wat in 1896 deur Thomas Walsh gestig is. [20] Alhoewel daar in 2007 'n werkspermit ingedien is, bly die myn steeds onaktief. [22] Gedurende sy leeftyd het die myn ongeveer 1,5 miljoen troy onse goud, en 4 miljoen troy onse silwer, geproduseer van 1896 tot 1990. [23] In 1995 is die ou freestoerusting "The Crusher" gedemonteer en verkoop aan 'n kleiner myn in Mongolië, waar dit ongeveer twee jaar lank bedryf is. [20] Die leë myn kan gesien word op die steil 2WD -pad wat na die 4WD -paaie lei na Yankee Boy Basin en Imogene Pass.
Historiese bevolking | |||
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Sensus | Pop. | %± | |
1880 | 864 | — | |
1890 | 2,534 | 193.3% | |
1900 | 2,196 | −13.3% | |
1910 | 1,644 | −25.1% | |
1920 | 1,165 | −29.1% | |
1930 | 707 | −39.3% | |
1940 | 951 | 34.5% | |
1950 | 1,089 | 14.5% | |
1960 | 785 | −27.9% | |
1970 | 741 | −5.6% | |
1980 | 684 | −7.7% | |
1990 | 644 | −5.8% | |
2000 | 813 | 26.2% | |
2010 | 1,000 | 23.0% | |
2019 (geskatte) | 1,034 | [8] | 3.4% |
Amerikaanse tienjarige sensus [24] |
Teen die telling van 2010 was [25] in die stad 1000 mense, 457 huishoudings en 283 gesinne. Die bevolkingsdigtheid was 1,250 mense per vierkante myl (454,5/km 2). Daar was 800 wooneenhede teen 'n gemiddelde digtheid van 1 000 per vierkante myl (363,6/km 2). Die rasse -samestelling van die stad was 95,2% Wit, 0,1% (1) Afro -Amerikaner, 0,4% (4) Inheemse Amerikaners, 0,8% (8) Asiërs, 1,9% (19) van ander rasse en 1,6% (16) van twee of meer wedrenne. Hispanic of Latino van enige ras was 8,2% van die bevolking.
Daar was 457 huishoudings, waarvan 26,5% kinders onder die ouderdom van 18 gehad het, 48,1% getroude paartjies wat saamwoon, 7,7% 'n vroulike huishouding sonder 'n man teenwoordig, 6,1% 'n manlike huishouding sonder 'n vrou teenwoordig , en 38,1% was nie-gesinne. 32,4% van alle huishoudings bestaan uit individue en 10,9% het iemand wat alleen woon, 65 jaar of ouer. Die gemiddelde huishoudelike grootte was 2,19 en die gemiddelde gesin was 2,76.
In die stad was die bevolking versprei, met 21,7% onder die ouderdom van 18, 28,1% van 18 tot 44, 33,2% van 45 tot 64 jaar en 17,0% wat 65 jaar of ouer was. Die gemiddelde ouderdom was 45,1 jaar. Vir elke 100 wyfies was daar 101,6 mans. Vir elke 100 vroue van 18 jaar en ouer was daar 101,8 mans.
Die mediaaninkomste vir 'n huishouding in die stad was $ 36,094, en die mediaaninkomste vir 'n gesin was $ 45,313. Mans het 'n mediaaninkomste van $ 35,217 teenoor $ 27,083 vir vroue gehad. Die inkomste per capita vir die stad was $ 23,127. Ongeveer 9,3% van die gesinne en 8,1% van die bevolking was onder die armoedegrens, insluitend 7,1% van diegene onder 18 jaar en 6,4% van die 65 jaar of ouer.
Die naaste lughawe met geskeduleerde diens is die Montrose -plaaslike lughawe, ongeveer 64 kilometer noord.
US 550 is die enigste verharde pad na of uit Ouray. US 550 begin ongeveer 64 kilometer noord van Ouray in Montrose. Dit loop suidwaarts na Bernalillo, New Mexico, via Durango, Colorado en Aztec, New Mexico. Die stuk US 550 wat suid van Ouray na Silverton loop, staan bekend as die Million Dollar Highway.
In die herfs van 1968, die film True Grit is in Ouray County verfilm, insluitend enkele tonele in die stad Ouray en die nabygeleë stad Ridgway, Colorado. Die binnekant van die Ouray County Court House is ook in die film te sien.
In Ayn Rand se roman Atlas trek sy skouers op, was die geheime wegkruipplek van die protagonis geleë in 'n naamlose vallei in die Rocky Mountains, genaamd Mulligan's Valley of 'Galt's Gulch'. Rand het later gesê dat Galt's Gulch geïnspireer is deur Ouray, waar Rand inspirasie gevind het om die roman te voltooi. [26]
In die televisiereeks MacGyver, Ouray is die tuiste van MacGyver se oupa, Harry. Die stad en omgewing word gebruik as agtergrond vir die eerste seisoen-episode, "Target MacGyver".
David Lavender, inwoner van Telluride, vertel sy ervarings in die 1930's by die Camp Bird Mine in sy memoires One Man's West.
Coors en Chevrolet het albei advertensies in die omgewing verfilm, veral Twin Falls in Yankee Boy Basin.
Die Major League baseball pitcher Smoky Joe Wood is in Kansas City gebore, maar het grootgeword in Ouray. [27]
Die openingstoneel van die film Over the Top met Sylvester Stallone loop regdeur die middestad.
Die oorspronklike Netflix -reeks Die Ranch is geleë in die fiktiewe stad Garrison, Colorado, maar die openingskoot van die stad tydens die kredietvolgorde is van Ouray en die San Juan -vallei net noord van Ouray.
Ouray is 'n belangrike plek in die roman van Chuck Wendig Swerwers.
Legends of America
Ons wil nie 'n voet van ons grond verkoop volgens die mening van ons mense nie. Die blankes kan die grond inneem en weer uitkom. Ons wil nie hê dat hulle hier huise moet bou nie. ”
Chief Ouray was in die 19de eeu die leier van die Tabeguache (Uncompahgre) band van die Ute -stam in die weste van Colorado. Ouray is in ongeveer 1833 gebore naby Taos, New Mexico.
Volgens die mondelinge geskiedenis wat deur Ute -ouderlinge oorgedra is, is hy gebore op 'n heerlike helder nag toe 'n wonderlike vertoning van meteoorbuie oor die swart winterhemel streel. Die ouderlinge het geglo dat dit 'n teken was van 'n boodskap van bo dat goeie dinge moet gebeur.
Ouray se ma was lid van die Uncompahgre -band van Ute en sy pa, Guera Murah, was half Jicarilla Apache. Ouray het grootgeword in die Taos -omgewing, waar Spaans en Engels die algemene tale was en eers later in die lewe sou leer om die Ute- en Apache -tale te praat. Hy het die grootste deel van sy jeug by Mexikaanse skaapwagters gewerk en teen sy mededinger Sioux en Kiowa geveg.
Op 18 -jarige ouderdom reis Ouray na Colorado en word hy lid van die Tabeguache Ute -band, waar sy pa, ondanks sy Apache -erfenis, die leier geword het. In 1859 trou hy met 'n Tabeguache Ute -meisie met die naam Chipeta, wat eintlik 'n Kiowa Apache was wat as kind deur die Ute aangeneem is.
Toe sy pa in 1860 sterf, word Ouray hoof van die Ute -Indiane, insluitend die Uncompahgre -orkes. In die rol van Ouray as hoof, word hy beskou as een van die grootste leiers in Utes, met sterk eienskappe van geduld en diplomasie. Daar word gereeld na hom verwys as “ The White Man's Friend, "terwyl hy probeer om met die blanke setlaars en die regering saam te werk.
In Oktober 1863 onderhandel Ouray 'n verdrag waarin die Tabeguache Ute 'n voorbehoud kry, maar ongelukkig vir die Ute beland die oorgrote meerderheid van hul lande oos van die kontinentale Verenigde State in die hande van die regering. In 1868 reis hy na Washington, DC om sy mense te verteenwoordig en word deur die regering aangestel as hoof van die Ute ”. 'N Nuwe verdrag het reservaatlande in Colorado geskep vir die Tabeguache, Moache, Capote, Wiminuche, Yampa, Grand River en Uinta, maar weer is meer grond prysgegee.
Alhoewel Ouray altyd probeer het om die beste moontlike omstandighede vir sy mense te verseker, terwyl hy steeds vriendelik was teenoor die blankes, het elke daaropvolgende verdrag toenemende grondverliese vir die Ute meegebring. Vir baie van die Ute het wrokke begin bou en 'n aantal pogings is aangewend om Ouray se lewe. Hy het egter sy versoenende houding oorleef en behou.
Met die ontdekking van goud in Colorado, het die toestande vir die Ute dramaties verander namate mynwerkers op hul lande gestroom het. As gevolg hiervan het die verhouding tussen die Indiane en die blankes versleg. In die lente van 1878 het Nathan Meeker die rol van die Indiese agent by die White River Agency aangeneem. “Dictatorial ”in sy bestuursmerk, het Meeker sonder diplomatieke pogings probeer om die Ute te dwing om te boer, voorraad in te samel, hul ponie -wedrenne en jagtogte te staak en hul kinders skool toe te stuur. Meeker, vasbeslote om die Ute van primitiewe woeste te verander na hardwerkende, godvresende boere, het volgehou om sy hervormings af te dwing, selfs toe hy gewaarsku is dat hy die Ute woedend maak. Maar Meeker het die waarskuwings geïgnoreer en gelas dat 'n perdewedrenbaan omgeslaan moet word om na landbougrond om te skakel. Hy het ook aan een voorgestel dat daar te veel perde is en dat sommige van hulle moet doodmaak. Die Ute, wie se land Meeker besig was om te ploeg, verset en 'n vuisgeveg vind plaas.
As gevolg hiervan het Meeker militêre hulp aangesluit en beweer dat hy deur die Ute -man aangerand, uit sy huis verdryf en ernstig beseer is. Die regering reageer deur 200 troepe onder leiding van majoor T.T. Thornburgh te stuur.
Maar as u hierdie optrede as 'n oorlogsaksie beskou, het die Utes in opstand gekom. Op 29 September 1879, voordat die troepe opdaag, val die Indiërs die agentskap aan, verbrand die geboue en vermoor Meeker en nege van sy werknemers. Die voorval staan bekend as die Meeker -bloedbad. Meeker se vrou, dogter en nog 'n meisie is 23 dae lank as gevangenes aangehou. Na die slagting het hulpkolomme van Forts Fred Steele en DA A. Russell, Wyoming, die Utes verslaan in die Slag van Milk Creek, Colorado, en die opstand beëindig.
Hoewel Ouray bevele aan die Ute -band wat by die aanvalle betrokke was, gestuur het om op te hou, is sy bevele geïgnoreer. Daarna het hy sy bes gedoen om die vrede te bewaar, maar dit was te laat. Die setlaars eis dat die Ute verwyder moet word. Een opskrif in die 30 Oktober 1879 -uitgawe van Harpers Weekly skreeu: “ The Utes Must Go. ”
Ouray het bevind dat hy aan sy mense verduidelik waarom hulle hul grond moet verlaat. Op 6 Maart 1880 erken die Southern Ute en die Uncompahgre 'n ooreenkoms om onderskeidelik op La Plata -rivier en op die Grand naby die monding van die Gunnison te vestig, terwyl die White River Ute ingestem het om na die Uinta -reservaat in Utah te gaan.
In die somer van 1880 reis Ouray en sy vrou, Chipeta, na die Southern Ute -agentskap in Ignacio met die doel om weer met die witman te onderhandel. Hoewel Ouray die reis voltooi het, was hy teen die tyd dat hy aangekom het 'n siek man. Hy is op 24 Augustus 1880 aan Brights Disease oorlede.
Hy is in die geheim begrawe in Ignacio. Chief Ouray se doodsberig in Die Denver Tribune lees:
By die dood van Ouray sterf een van die historiese karakters. Hy het jare lank gedink as die grootste Indiër van sy tyd, en het gedurende sy lewe nogal prominent opgetree. Ouray is in baie opsigte 'n merkwaardige Indiese suiwer instink en skerp persepsie. 'N Vriend van die witman en 'n beskermer vir die Indiane. "
Vyf en veertig jaar later is Ouray herbegrawe in die begraafplaas suidoos van die White River Agency en die graf is behoorlik gemerk.
Sy vrou, Chipeta, het aanhou werk vir die Ute. Toe daar nie genoeg landbougrond vir die Uncompahgre in die suide van Colorado gevind is nie, is 'n nuwe voorbehoud in 1882 gevestig. Chipeta het daarna na die reservaat in die noordooste van Utah verhuis, waar sy hoog op prys gestel was en altyd by die hoofvergaderings was. Sy is in 1924 oorlede.
Ouray - Geskiedenis
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ONS MISSIE
Die missie van OCRHM is om items en artefakte te bekom, te bewaar en uit te stal wat verband hou met die opvoeding van die publiek oor die erfenis van die boerdery van Ouray County, Colorado en ons omliggende gebied.
Ons boerdery se erf
Ouray County is ontwikkel in 1877 met die stad Ridgway in 1891. Die mynbou het setlaars na hierdie gebied gebring, aangesien boere spoedig gevolg het, die land bewerk en die myne ondersteun het met beeste en landboubehoeftes.
President Abraham Lincoln onderteken op 20 Mei 1862 die Homestead Act wat Westerse migrasie aangemoedig het deur koloniste 160 hektaar openbare grond te voorsien. In ruil daarvoor het huisbewoners 'n klein aansoekgelde betaal en moes hulle vyf jaar aaneenlopende verblyf voltooi voordat hulle eienaarskap van die grond gekry het. Na ses maande van verblyf kon huisvesters ook die grond koop vir $ 1,25 per hektaar van die regering. Die Homestead Act het gelei tot die verspreiding van 80 miljoen hektaar openbare grond teen 1900.
Ons gebied produseer steeds beeste en vee vir die beesvleisbedryf van die nasies.
Die Ouray County Ranch History Museum is begin op versoek van plaaslike plaasgesinne om die nalatenskap van hul familie in hierdie land te bewaar. Kom kyk gerus vanaf die 1870's en kyk hoe die boerderylewe was en leer meer oor die boerdery wat vandag nog in ons omgewing aan die gang is.
'N Terugblik in die tyd.
Saam met die Beaumont Hotel, Ouray County Court House, School House en Miners Hospital (wat nou die Ouray County Museum huisves), was die Wright Opera House een van die indrukwekkendste baksteenstrukture in Ouray aan die einde van die 1880's en vroeë 1890's. Hierdie gebou “met sy dekoratiewe ystervoorkant en gietysterpiere wat die perskant van die tweede verdieping ondersteun, was 'n toevoeging waarop die stad trots kon wees. Bo die middelste venster van die tweede verdieping was 'n loodglasvenster en bo -aan en in die middel van die gebou in persyster was WRIGHTS HALL duidelik sigbaar. 'N Balkon van yster voor die drie middelste vensters op die tweede verdieping, wat alles vervaardig is deur Mesker Brothers Iron Works van St. Louis, Missouri. Dit is een van ongeveer 19 strukture in Ouray se hoofstraat wat vermoedelik Mesker -ystergevels is, wat maak dat Ouray se hoofstraat een van die grootste konsentrasies van Mesker -fronte is wat nog in die Verenigde State bestaan. Die gang is deur 'n deurvlak met 'n sypaadjie in Derde (Hoofstraat) aan die noordkant van die gebou ingegaan en 'n trap wat na die gang lei met die kaartjieskantoor bo. "
Volgens Darius Bryka van die Illinois Department of Historic Preservation en die kenner van Mesker -geboue, is die Wright -operahuis die beste voorbeeld van 'n Mesker -gebou wat hy in die Verenigde State gesien het.
Die groot opening van die Wright -operahuis is op 4 Desember 1888 gehou met 'n voordelkonsert en 'n bal wat deur die Magnolia Band gegee is om uniforms te betaal. Later daardie maand, op 19 Desember 1888, het professore David en Laux 'n musiekprogram aangebied wat uit klavier en orrelduette bestaan.
'N Aantal jare het verloop voordat die plaaslike inwoners hierdie nuwe kultuursentrum vir Ouray begin aanvaar het. Die bywoning was erg tot die ineenstorting van die myntydperk. Daarna is meer en meer aktiwiteite in die Wright -operahuis gehou, insluitend kulturele aktiwiteite vir die skool. Musikante is uit Denver en ander meer kultureel ryk gebiede gebring om vir die mense in Ouray County op te tree. Uiteindelik het die Wright -operahuis gedurende die vroeë deel van die 20ste eeu die middelpunt geword vir aktiwiteite vir die stad Ouray en die res van die graafskap.
Na 'n aantal jare van relatiewe nie-gebruik van die Wright-operahuis, word dit weer gebruik vir kulturele geleenthede vir die publiek. Hierdie struktuur wat baie sigbaar is in Main Street, lewer 'n baie belangrike bydrae tot die historiese distrik Ouray, soos vermeld in die Catherine Norman Survey van 2005, en is ook 'n kandidaat vir 'n individuele notering op die National Register of Historic Places.
Brunot -ooreenkoms
Die Utes se nuwe reservaat op die westelike helling beslaan ongeveer 20 miljoen hektaar, maar dit het nie lank geduur voordat die Amerikaanse regering weer met Ouray vergader het om meer Ute -grond te bekom nie. Die San Juan -gebergte is tydens die Colorado Gold Rush van 1858–59, maar teen die vroeë 1870's het prospekteerders belowende afsettings van goud en silwer daar gevind en probeer om die rykdom op te eis. Aanvanklik het die regering die mynwerkers uit Ute -gebied beveel, met verwysing na die verdrag van 1868, maar toe hulle weier om te vertrek, het staats- en federale amptenare begin werk aan 'n plan om die ruige, afgeleë berge aan Colorado te annekseer.
Die eerste poging van die regering om die San Juans uit die Utes te bekom, was 'n mislukking vanuit die Amerikaanse oogpunt, aangesien Ouray en ander Ute -verteenwoordigers eenparig geweier het om meer van hul grond te verkoop. Maar kort nadat ek daardie eerste vergadering bygewoon het, Felix R. Brunot, voorsitter van die Raad van Indiese Kommissarisse, verneem dat Ouray se seun gevange geneem is. Brunot het die Ute -leier oorreed om in te stem om die San Juans te verkoop as die regering hom met sy seun kon herenig. Alhoewel die poging om Pahlone te vind, uiteindelik misluk het, het Ouray oortuig geword van Brunot se opregtheid en het hy uiteindelik gehelp om die ander Ute-bands te laat afstand doen van 'n stuk van 4 miljoen hektaar San Juan in ruil vir jagregte in die berge, 'n jaarlikse betaling van $ 25,000 vir die Utes en ander aflewerings.
Aangesien die kongres in 1871 verklaar het dat die Verenigde State nie meer die soewereiniteit van die Indiese nasies sou erken nie, was die ooreenkoms wat die San Juans aan die Verenigde State afgestaan het, nie 'n verdrag nie, maar dit het bekend geword as die Brunot -ooreenkoms. Dit is in 1873 onderteken en bevat 'n jaarlikse toelae van $ 1,000 vir Ouray, sowel as grond vir hom en Chipeta naby die huidige Montrose.
Legends of America
Hoofstraat in Ouray, Colorado deur Carol Highsmith.
Ouray, Colorado, is 'n historiese mynstad aan die Million Dollar Highway in die suidweste van Colorado. Die gemeenskap wat so mooi is, word in 'n amfiteater van 'n natuurlike rots op 'n hoogte van 7,792 voet gesit en word dikwels die Switserland van Amerika genoem.
Die stad is vernoem na Chief Ouray van die Ute -Indiese stam, wat hierdie gebied lankal tuisgemaak het voordat mynwerkers begin aankom het. Die nomadiese Tabeguache Ute -Indiane het hierdie pragtige vallei al eeue lank in die somermaande gebruik, op jag op die volop wild en deurdrenk in wat hulle 'heilige wonderwater' noem. Die Ute noem die gebied 'Uncompahgre', wat hulle woord was vir 'warmwaterbronne'. Chief Ouray het eens in 'n klein hutjie aan die voetheuwels van die natuurlike amfiteater gewoon.
Toe wit mans in die 1860's die Ute -gebied begin binnedring, het hoof Ouray hulle aanvanklik geduldig en diplomaties hanteer, soveel dat daar dikwels na hom verwys as 'The White Man's Friend'. Dit het egter verander met die ontdekking van goud in Colorado, en mynwerkers het in groot getalle hul lande begin binnedring. Nadat verskeie verdrae gesluit en verbreek is, is die Ute uiteindelik uit die gebied gestoot en mynwerkers het die gebied oorstroom.
“Ouray was 'n vriend van die blanke man en beskermer van die Indiërs. ” - The Denver Post
Die stad Ouray het in 1875 begin toe prospekteerders van Silverton via Bear Creek en die Uncompahgre -rivier na die gebied gewerk het, op soek na erts. Die eerste aangetekende eise is gemaak deur A.W. “Gus ” Begole en John Eckles in Julie. Nadat hulle na Silverton teruggekeer het vir voorraad, is hulle deur 'n paar ander na die noorde gevolg, en 'n mynkamp is opgerig.
In die omgewing het prospekteerders aanspraak gemaak op die Cedar-, Clipper-, Forel- en Fisherman -pad. 'N Ander perseel genaamd Mineral Farm was ook ongeveer 1,5 kilometer suid van die mynkamp geleë en het een van die vooruitstrewendste vroeë werkings in die omgewing geword.
Ouray Miners, met vergunning van Denver Public Library
Op 28 Augustus 1875 is 'n kennisgewing ingedien vir die stad Uncompahgre, en 'n aantal houthutte is gebou, en 'n poskantoor is in Oktober opgerig. Otto Mears het die kontrak gekry om die pos na die verskillende mynkampe in die omgewing te vervoer. Gedurende hierdie vroeë dae is die pos dikwels in die winter deur hondslee en ski's vervoer. Op 'n stadium was die sneeu so erg dat Mears ’ -draers verklaar het dat hulle nie kon deurkom nie, en meneer Mears, wat eerder 'n klag van kontrakbreuk in die gesig gestaar het, het die pos persoonlik op sneeuskoene gedra. Hierdie poskontrak het Mears waarskynlik gelei om die Ouray-Lake Fork Toll Road te bou, wat jare lank bekend was as die “Mears Toll Road. ”
Teen die lente van 1876 het meer mynwerkers na die gebied gegaan, en die stad is in Oktober 1876 opgemeet en formeel opgeneem as die stad Ouray. Dit spog binne 'n kort tydjie met 'n bevolking van 400 mense en 214 geboue, waarvan die meeste uit hout gemaak is. Hierdie strukture het 'n skool met 43 studente, vier algemene winkels, een saagmeule, 'n ertsmonster, twee hotelle en 'n poskantoor ingesluit.
Third Street, Ouray, Colorado, 1881, met vergunning van Denver Public Library
Intussen is meer ryk ontdekkings gemaak in die nabygeleë Imogene- en Yankee Boy -wasbakke. Ouray het die belangrikste verskaffingsentrum vir hierdie nuwe aanvalle geword.
In Januarie 1877 word Ouray County gevorm uit San Juan County, en Ouray word die setel van die land. Op daardie stadium is die stad tuisgemaak vir ongeveer 1 000 inwoners.
Teen 1880 is beduidende ertsafsettings in die gebied gevind, met die grootste konsentrasie erts van hoë gehalte wat in die Ironton-gebied 10 myl suid van Ouray en die Sneffels-distrik en die werk van die Imogene Basin in die weste en suidweste gevind is. Ouray het destyds die versendingspunt en verskaffingsentrum van die streek geword, 'n rol wat dit meer as 90 jaar sou vervul.
Ouray Toll Road, deur Detroit Photographic Co., 1900
Die Red Mountain Mining District kom in 1882 tot sy reg, en Otto Mears het 'n tolpad van Ouray na die nuwe distrik gebou. Teen daardie tyd het Ouray 'n ware stedelike sentrum aangeneem, aangesien baksteen geboue die hout begin vervang het.
Teen 1885 spog Ouray met 'n bevolking van 1800 mense, twee weekblaaie - die Ouray Times en die Soliede Muldoon, 'n monsterneming van erts, 'n meul met 10 seëls, 'n bank, drie kerke, verskeie skole en talle restaurante, hotelle, salonne en broederlike organisasies.
Dieselfde jaar voltooi Otto Mears, wat die afgelope dekade 'n uitgebreide netwerk tolpaaie in die suidweste van Colorado gebou het, sy 'grootste pad'-die voorganger van die 'Million-Dollar Highway' tussen Silverton en Ouray. Hierdie ruwe tolpad volg die Uncompahgre -rivierkloof, steek die Rooi Berg oor en loop 'n smal rand honderde voet bo die canyonvloer.
Die 1886 Beaumont Hotel in Ouray, Colorado deur Carol Highsmith.
Benewens mynbou, is mense ook aangetrokke tot Ouray vanweë die talle warmwaterbronne en die pragtige omgewing. As 'n reaksie op hierdie neiging, is die Beaumont-hotel met drie verdiepings in 1886 gebou, en dit was bestem om een van die beste hotelle in die Weste te word. Die weelderig gemeubileerde hotel, met sy elegante eetkamer, is in Julie 1887 geopen. Weens dalende toerisme het die hotel in 1964 gesluit en meer as 30 jaar lank leeggelê. In 1998 is dit egter noukeurig herstel tot sy oorspronklike grootsheid. Gelys vandag in die National Register of Historic Places, bedien dit gaste.
Dieselfde jaar is die Miner's Hospital geopen in Augustus 1887. Frank Carney het dit gebou op grond wat deur die Katolieke Kerk geskenk is met fondse wat deur Ouray -burgers bygedra is. Dit het tot 1964 oop gebly en het in 1971 die tuiste van die Ouray County Historical Society and Museum geword. Dit is in Sixth Avenue 420 geleë.
Denver en Rio Grande Railroad in Ouray, Colorado deur Russell Lee, 1940
Die Denver & amp; Rio Grande-spoorweg het op 21 Desember 1887 in Ouray aangekom. Met die spoorlyn kon lae-erts, wat vroeër geïgnoreer is weens buitensporige versendingskoste, winsgewend benut word. Die spoorlyn het spoedig 'n depot, 'n motorhuis, 'n draaitafel en ander ondersteunende geboue gebou. Vandag is al die spoorwegstrukture weg.
Die eerste van die smalspooruitstappies het in Augustus 1888 na Ouray gekom, wat as 'n rondleiding rondom die sirkel -toere bevorder is. Die oorspronklike roete was van Pueblo na Salida, oor Marshallpas na Gunnison en Montrose, voordat hy na Ouray gegaan het. Reisigers het toe koetskarre van Ouray na Chattanooga geneem om aan boord van die Silverton -spoorweg na Silverton en Durango te gaan, dan oor die La Veta -pas terug na Pueblo.
Die Ouray County Courthouse uit 1888 deur Carol Highsmith.
Meer manjifieke geboue is in 1888 opgerig, waaronder Wright ’s Operahuis in Hoofstraat 472. Dit is gebou deur Edward en Letitia Wright, wat die Wheel of Fortune Mine besit het. Die Ouray County Courthouse is dieselfde jaar gebou en bly vandag baie dieselfde as toe dit gebou is. Dit is geleë in Fourth Street 541.
In 1890 bereik Ouray sy piekbevolking van 2.534. Op die hoogtepunt van die mynbou het die Ouray -gebied gespog met meer as 30 aktiewe myne.
In 1891 is 'n nuwe stadsaalgebou opgerig. Die gebou met een verdieping het stadskantore, 'n gevangenis en 'n brandweer gehad. Kort nadat die nuwe gebou in gebruik was, befonds Thomas Walsh 'n tweede verhaal vir 'n biblioteek, gimnasium en 'n gratis openbare saal. Die buitekant van die rooi baksteengebou, bedek met 'n kloktoring en 'n klokkentoring, is ontwerp om soos Philadelphia se Independence Hall te lyk. Dit word nou die Ouray -stadsaal en Walsh -biblioteek genoem en is op die National Register of Historic Places gelys. Dit is geleë op Sesde Laan 320.
Die Western-hotel met drie verdiepings is dieselfde jaar gebou en is in 1892 geopen. Dit was onmiddellik suksesvol, naby die Denver & Rio Grande Railway. Today the 28 room hotel continues to serve guests and includes a frontier-style bar and dining room. It is located at 210 Seventh Avenue.
Mill at the Camp Bird Mine, Ouray County, Colorado, by Russell Lee, 1940
The silver crash of 1893 proved a temporary disaster to Ouray and the entire San Juan region, which had primarily been a silver mining area. After a brief depression, Ouray continued to grow and thrive because of rich gold mines which had been developed on Gold Hill, just north of Ouray in the Paquin Mining District, the continuing major production of the Virginius-Revenue Mine at Sneffles, and the recently discovered Camp Bird Mine between Ouray and Telluride.
In 1897, Thomas Walsh opened the Camp Bird Mine, adding a 20-stamp mill in 1898 and a 40-stamp mill in 1899. The mine produced almost 200,000 ounces of gold by 1902 when Walsh sold out to Camp Bird, Ltd. By 1916 the Camp Bird Mine produced over one million ounces of gold.
Shortly after the turn-of-the-century, work began on the Joker Tunnel, which drained the rich silver mines of the Red Mountain District. In 1900, Ouray’s population was 2,196.
In 1927, the Ouray Hot Springs Pool opened. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places today, the pool features hot mineral water from seven natural springs. Amazingly, the pool has not changed much since construction. The 750,000-gallon sulfur-free mineral pool is open year-round. It is located at 1200 Main Street.
Yankee Girl Mine near Ouray, Colorado by Kathy Weiser-Alexander.
In the early decades of the 20 th century, mining decreased, resulting in the fall of population. Ouray was called home to just 707 people by 1930, but large portions of the city were never abandoned in Silverton and Telluride. Simultaneously, people were using automobiles instead of the railroad, and passenger service on the Denver & Rio Grande Railway was discontinued in September 1930.
In 1939, the Idarado Mining Company was founded, which consolidated many of the existing mining claims in the area, including the Black Bear, Treasure Tunnel, Barstow, and Imogene Mines. During World War II, the Idarado Mine became a major producer of needed war metals. Eventually, the company’s operations almost reached Telluride. Idarado’s mining operations continued until 1978.
The Denver & Rio Grande Railway to and from Ouray was abandoned in 1953. In 1972, Ridgway’s line to Montrose was also abandoned, ending 85 years of railroad operations in Ouray County.
Ouray reached its all-time population low in 1990 with just 644 people. However, in recent decades, more people have been drawn to the area, which now boasts a population of over 1,000 people. Its economy is based on tourism.
The town’s history is very evident in its many well-preserved historic structures. Unlike many other mining towns, Ouray never experienced a fire that consumed a large portion of the town, resulting in a significant number of 19th-century commercial buildings remaining. The Ouray Historic District encompasses nearly the entire town. The vast majority of buildings span from 1886 to 1915, the height of Ouray’s importance as a supply center for nearby mining regions. The Historic District includes 331 buildings. In the commercial district are many brick structures ornately finished with cast-iron facades or Italianate or Romanesque brickwork. Numerous predominantly Queen Anne style homes can be found in the southeast section of town. A historical walking tour begins and ends at the Ouray County Museum at 420 6th Avenue.
In addition to Ouray’s rich history, visitors enjoy numerous recreational activities, including horseback riding, four-wheel drives, rafting, and hiking or climbing in the mountains. Also located in Ouray are the Box Canyon Waterfall, the Ouray Ice Park, and the Ouray Hot Springs Pool.
Ouray is situated at the north end of the Million Dollar Highway and on the San Juan Skyway. These drives providing visitors with numerous scenic views and opportunities to visit the area’s many ghost towns. The Alpine Loop Backcountry Byway is also located nearby and can be accessed with 4-wheel drive vehicles.
Chief Ouray
The western Ute bands originally occupied about 23.5 million acres or around 45 percent of the present state of Utah. By the 1870s, however, Utah’s Utes were confined to less than 10 percent of that area, slightly over 2 million acres on the Uintah Reservation. The Ute lands grew to over 4 million acres in 1880 when the federal government removed the White River and Uncompahgre bands from Colorado and created the Ouray Reservation in Utah. Although Ouray, the prominent chief for whom the new reservation was named, died before the forced relocation, he had spent his life negotiating with government officials and trying to assure a peaceful existence for his people.
The exact date of Ouray’s birth is unknown, but most authorities believe he was born in 1833 in Taos, New Mexico. He spent most of his youth working for Mexican sheepherders and fighting against rival Sioux and Kiowas. He learned Spanish, English, and several Indian languages that became very useful to him in later treaty negotiations. After the death of his first wife, Ouray married Chipeta, a beautiful Uncompahgre Ute toward whom he always showed deep devotion.
In 1863 Ouray helped to negotiate a treaty with the federal government in which the Utes ceded all lands east of the Continental Divide. In 1868 he traveled to Washington, D.C., to represent his people and was appointed “head chief of the Utes” by the government. Ouray and his wife made several visits to the nation’s capital and on one occasion met President Ulysses S. Grant.
Ouray always attempted to secure the best possible conditions for his people while still remaining friendly to the whites. Nevertheless, each additional negotiation brought increasing losses of land for the Indians, and some resented Ouray’s friendship with the whites and the special favors he received from them. Disgruntled Utes made various attempts on Ouray’s life, but he survived and maintained his conciliatory attitude.
With the discovery of gold in Colorado and the resulting influx of miners, Indian-white relations deteriorated. Finally, in the spring of 1878, Nathan Meeker, an Indian agent, triggered a series of events that led to the relocation of Ouray’s people to Utah. The White River Utes had become infuriated over Meeker’s attempt to force them to farm. Meeker called in federal troops, but the Indians succeeded in killing him and seven other whites and took several women as captives. When the government appealed to Ouray for help, the influential chief intervened and secured the release of the hostages and even welcomed them into his home while the situation was defused.
Repercussions from this incident were devastating for the Indians. In 1880 Ouray traveled for the last time to Washington where he signed a treaty providing for the removal of the White River Utes as well as his own Uncompahgre band from Colorado to the Uintah and newly created Ouray reservations in Utah. Shortly after his return from Washington, Ouray died and was buried in southern Colorado. His wife, Chipeta, moved to Utah with her people and died in poverty and exile in 1924 on the reservation named for her husband.
Ouray Genealogy (in Ouray County, CO)
NOTE: Additional records that apply to Ouray are also found through the Ouray County and Colorado pages.
Ouray Birth Records
Colorado, Birth Records, 1910-present Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Ouray County Births 1891-1902 Colorado State Archives
Ouray Cemetery Records
Ouray Census Records
Federal Census of 1940, Ouray, Colorado LDS Genealogy
Amerikaanse federale sensus, 1790-1940 Family Search
Ouray Church Records
Ouray Death Records
Colorado, Death Records, 1900-present Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Ouray Histories and Genealogies
Ouray Immigration Records
Ouray Map Records
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado, August 1886 Library of Congress
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado, February 1893 Library of Congress
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado, January 1900 Library of Congress
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado, October 1890 Library of Congress
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado, October 1908 Library of Congress
Ouray Marriage Records
Ouray Newspapers and Obituaries
Ouray Herald, 1896-04-02 to 1922-11-16 Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection
Ouray Times 08/02/1879 to 02/04/1882 Genealogy Bank
Ouray Times, 1877-06-16 to 1880-06-12 Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection
Plaindealer, 1901-01-11 to 1911-12-29 Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection
Silverite-Plaindealer, 1896-01-10 to 1901-01-04 Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection
The Daily Muldoon, October 17, 1882 - November 9, 1882 Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection
The Ouray Herald, April 2, 1896 - November 16, 1922 Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection
The Plaindealer, January 11, 1901 - December 29, 1911 Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection
The Silverite-Plaindealer, January 10, 1896 - January 4, 1901 Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection
Offline Newspapers for Ouray
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Ouray County Herald. (Ouray, Ouray County, Colo.) 1939-1969
Ouray County Plaindealer and Ouray Herald. (Ouray, Colo.) 1969-1980
Ouray County Plaindealer. (Ouray, Colo.) 1980-Current
Ouray Herald and the Plaindealer. (Ouray, Ouray County, Colo.) 1921-1936
Ouray Herald. (Ouray, Ouray County, Colo.) 1894-1920
Ouray Herald. (Ouray, Ouray County, Colo.) 1936-1939
San Juan Silverite. (Ouray, Colo.) 1892-1890s
Silverite-Plaindealer. (Ouray, Colo.) 1894-1901
Ouray Probate Records
Ouray County Probate Cases 1878-1919 Colorado State Archives
Ouray School Records
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Ouray - History
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Ouray is located on the ultra- scenic San Juan Skyway
Ouray has been a special destination of world travelers for more than 100 years. This small intimate community is nestled in some of the most
rugged and towering peaks of the Rockies. Set at the narrow head of a valley at 7,792 feet and surrounded on three sides with 13,000 foot
snowcapped peaks - Ouray has been eloquently nicknamed the "Switzerland of America."
Remarkably, two-thirds of Ouray's original Victorian structures, both private and commercial, are still occupied, and have been lovingly
restored in order to preserve their turn-of-the-century charm.
Ouray County lies in the southwestern corner of Colorado in the heart of the San Juan mountains. Ouray County's landscape is dominated by
mountain peaks with 12 peaks 13,000 ft or higher.
The county covers 542 square miles and has a population of around 4,560. Two municipalities lie within the county, the city of Ouray and the
town of Ridgway. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries the primary industries in the county were mining and agriculture. Met die
decline of the mining industry, tourism increased with many drawn to Ouray County for its natural beauty and variety of outdoor activities.
Originally established by miners chasing silver and gold in the surrounding mountains, the town at one time, boasted more horses and mules
than people. Prospectors arrived in the area in 1875 searching for silver and gold. At the height of the mining, Ouray had more than active 30
mines. The town was incorporated on October 2nd, 1876, Ouray was named after Chief Ouray of the Utes, a Native American tribe. By 1877
Ouray had grown to over 1,000 in population and was named county seat of the newly formed Ouray County on 8 March 1877.
The Denver & Rio Grande Railway arrived in Ouray on 21 December 1887, it would stay until the automobile and trucks caused a decline in
traffic, the last regularly scheduled passenger train was 14 September 1930. The line between Ouray and Ridgway was abandoned on 21
March 1953.
The entire town is registered as a National Historic District with most of the building dating back to the late 1800's. The Beaumont Hotel, Ouray
City Hall, Ouray County Courthouse, St. Elmo Hotel, St. Joseph's Miners' Hospital (currently the Ouray County Historical Society and Museum),
Western Hotel, and Wright's Opera House are all on the National Register of Historic Places.
In the fall of 1968 the film True Grit was filmed in Ouray County, including some scenes in the town of Ouray, most notably the Ouray County
Court House.
Unlike other mining towns, Ouray never experienced a large fire that consumed a large portion of the town. As a result, a significant number of
19th century commercial buildings remain in town.
Summer 2015 dates :
July 18th, 2015: Guided Cemetery Walking Tour, $10, meet at Cedar Hill Cemetery at 9:00 am. Preregister at: 970-325-4576
August 22nd, 2015: Guided Cemetery Walking Tour, $10, meet at Cedar Hill Cemetery at 9:00 am. Preregister at 970-325-4576.
The Cedar Hill Cemetery tour takes visitors through Ouray’s beautifully maintained 120-year-old burial ground. Learn the stories of both the
upstanding and infamous citizens who shaped Ouray County. Many of the most ornate headstones mark the graves of children who perished
from childhood disease and the harsh environment. Others belong to prominent citizens such as brick mason Frank Carney who built many of
Ouray’s existing buildings and later became lieutenant governor of Colorado. (Keep an eye out for the legendary white ghost cat who guards
his owners’ graves.)
Ouray County Historical Society/Museum
420 6th Avenue, Post Office Box 151 Ouray, CO 81427-0151
Phone: 970-325-4576
www.ouraycountyhistoricalsociety.org
[email protected]
For assistance during the time we are closed call: Museum Manager Maria Jones @ 970-325-4576
St. Elmo Hotel
426 Main Street
866-243-1502
(970) 325-4951
www.stelmohotel.com
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Catherine "Kitie" Heit built, owned and operated this Queen Anne hotel. She also was the owner of the Bon Ton Restaurant, a Western
Vernacular frame building that was located on the site adjacentto, and north of the hotel. The Bon Ton was in existence in 1886. Kittie bought it
in 1890. It wastorn down in 1924. The present day Bon Ton opened in 1977 and is located in the hotel's lowerlevel. The hotel lobby and most
of its rooms are furnished today much as they were in the earlydays. A wide staircase leads to the second floor. There is a skylight in the roof,
the light fallingupon this beautiful stairway. This building is one of several in Ouray that is thought to be haunted.
Source: Ouray County Historical Society
(The old St. Joseph's Miners' Hospital)
420 Sixth Avenue
970-325-4576
www.ouraycoun tyhistoricalsociety.org
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The Miners' Hospital opened its doors for business on August 27, 1887 under the auspices of the Sisters of Mercy. This stately old Italianate
building was built with dressed native stone and bracketed roof overhangs. It has three floors and a partial basement with a dirt floor. Daar
are 34 rooms in the building, 27 of which are now devoted to the history of Ouray County. The hospital was in existence for seventy-seven
years, closing permanently in 1964. By 1971 the newly organized Ouray County Historical Society leased space for exhibits and in 1976
purchased the property in order to develop a museum. Here you can learn about the Tabeguache Ute Indians who roamed this area for
centuries, mining, ranching, the railroads and other early transportation, minerals of the area, Ouray County's natural history, details about the
hospital itself and much more.
It is reported to be one of the haunted buildings in town.
'Things do happen around here that I can't explain," said Historical Society Volunteer Barbara Kneisler. "A light will go on that I know for sure I
turned off - little things.
"But of course, old buildings do creak, so I don't pay attention to every little sound."
Telluride Daily Planet
Ouray County Historical Society
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The Courthouse today remains very much as it was upon completion, both inside and out. It was built of locally manufactured brick with cut
stone trim by Frank Carney. It embodies an unusual blend of architectural styles, primarily Queen Anne and Romanesque.
The first floor houses the county clerk's and treasurer's offices just as it did when it opened. The long wide central hall is used to exhibit many
historic photographs taken throughout the county.
The second floor district courtroom is 40' by 56' with an 18' ceiling. Its natural light comes through large arched windows. This room contains
many of its original furnishings. Jury rooms and other offices associated with the court are on this floor.
In 1976, the courthouse was enlarged by constructing an extension on the southeast side. The building attached to the back of the courthouse
was originally the county jail. Today it is office space for the County Sheriff's Department.
The courtroom scenes in the movie, True Grit, were filmed here.
At the Ouray County Courthouse, one spirit has made her presence known to men far more frequently than to women, said Deputy County
Clerk Paulette Crabb.
"We had someone working late at night," Crabb said. "He came out in the hall and saw a woman dressed in the style of the early 19th century.
She introduced herself, and gave her name as Sally Beaudreau.
"When he went to shake her hand, she wasn't there."
So strong is Ouray's reputation as a hangout for ghosts, the courthouse recently hosted two living visitors - paranormal researchers - intent on
capturing the ephemeral spirit on film, said Ouray County Clerk and Recorder Michelle Olin.
"Two ladies came in and set up cameras and audio," Olin said. "They had the kind of cameras that can see at night, but I have no idea if they
found anything."
If the cameras and audio did turn up evidence of a paranormal presence, the researchers promised to share their findings, said Olin, who said
she has never seen any sign of a ghost in the courthouse.
Crabb and co-worker Jamie Nixon are not bothered by the possible presence of a ghostly visitor either.
"We have heard weird noises," Nixon said. "But we don't work at night."
2005
Above historic photo: The Western Hotel
@ 1885 ( www.photoswest.org )
. A mysterious face painted on the bar room floor of the historic Western Hotel's saloon.
(Photo taken by www.hauntedcolorado.net - May 2005)
. One local "haunt" favored by unexplained phenomena is the Western Hotel.
"I was helping to remodel the Western in 1976," Ouray resident Kevin Haley said. "We saw shadows on the windows on a pretty regular basis.
"We were chipping away some little tiles at one point, and when we got up the next morning, our tools were all scattered around," Haley said.
While tales of spirited happenings at the Western abound, hotel owner Rosemarie Pieper has never felt the least bit unsettled - even while
doing laundry late at night.
"I am very comfortable with the hotel," Pieper said, adding that, when it comes to ghost sightings, "I think it is personal for everybody.
. One of the oldest , still standing all wood hotels in the West. My hairdresser told me that while an art workshop was going on there, two lady
artists saw, at different times, a lady on the staircase in old fashioned dress (1800s). They both drew or painted her picture and compared
hulle. They were of the same woman. The employees say there are several rooms upstairs that are haunted. After closing up one night, they
were sitting in the front lobby when they heard the cash register start operating in the adjoining bar.
Ouray: Historic Western Hotel: "Terror-ific? Yes, but just because of all the GHOSTS!"
April 14, 2003: A TripAdvisor Member, Longmont, CO
Wow, maybe the season makes the difference, because last August my Husband and I had the best experience of our lives at the Historic
Western Hotel. We checked in around 1:00 and was greated immediatley by a very helpful girl behind the counter. We were showed up to our
room (which was only $35, by the way) and walking up the stairs and down the hall, we creaked and squeaked all the way there. Dit was
CLASSIC! We felt like we were in one of those old western movies! When we got to our room, we were delighted to see that there were no
phones, contributing even more to our back in time feel. We were told that our shared restroom was down the hall (there are two suites @
about $60 with their own, but come on! where is your sense of adventure!) and when we got there, we were delighted to find an old clawfoot tub
and those hot/cold two fixture fausets!
I think the best part of our stay was when we found the guest book in our nightstand. In it we read all the stories of past visitors and how they
encountered ghosts at night :) All of this swept me away and I had vivid dreams of ghosts walking in the hallway woke up in the middle of the
night with my heart pounding! It was terror-ific.
We loved our stay and plan on going back soon, If you go, be sure to eat downstairs in the restaurant, it's inexpensive and the food was great!
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. All of the rooms at the lovely Historic Western Hotel have journals where guests can record their
ghostly experiences! (**Names omitted for privacy.)
Photos taken by www.hauntedcolorado.net - (May 2005)
The Beaumont Hotel
505 Main Street
(970) 325-7000
www.beaumonthotel.com
Photos taken by www.hauntedcolorado.net - (May 2005)
. There are some who say the Beaumont is haunted by the spirit of a young woman slain there in the
1880s.
Photo taken by www.hauntedcolorado.net - (May 2005)
Newly and gorgeously renovated, is said to be haunted by the ghost of a young woman who was brutally raped and killed by one of the chefs
working there. Apparently, he was never brought to justice over the murder and it is said that she occasionally has been seen on the balcony
crying out because of the injustice. Last Fall, we by chance met up with one of my husband's old classmates. She said that as a child, she and
her family had stayed in one of the upper rooms in the hotel, just before they closed it for sooo many years.
Years later, when they had opened the Beaumont briefly for the local residents to tour, she found her way to that same room she had stayed in
all those years before. She said no one went into the room with her. She took several pictures of the room. She took one photograph of an old
picture hanging on the wall. When she got the pictures developed, there in that picture on the wall is the reflection of two men standing in old
klere. One has a scrolled up paper in one hand. They are standing as though talking to one another but stopping just in time to look toward
haar. She gave me a small scanned copy of that photo. Very interesting indeed.
Source: ***P. 149: From Book- Something In The Wind- Maryjoy Martin.
This three story brick building sits at the corner of Fifth and Main in Ouray, a town nicknamed the Switzerland of America that lies in the
shadows of the San Juans. Built to lure investors, architect O. Bulow drew up plans for the elegant hotel and work began in 1886. The official
opening ball was held July 22, 1887 with much fanfare. The interior was modeled after Denver’s Brown Palace Hotel and featured a rotunda
encircled by balconies, cathedral glass skylights, rosewood paneling, and a sweeping oak staircase. The building was lighted by electricity,
and is believed to be one of the West’s first hotels wired with alternate current electricity. Steam heating and hot water were also featured.
The hotel sat across the street from six saloons and became a grand centerpiece of the promising mining town. In its heyday, the hotel
attracted guests such as Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Chipeta (wife of Ute Chief Ouray), and Lily Langtry. Sarah Bernhardt was
known to belt songs from the balconies and King Leopold of Belgium demonstrated his mountain-climbing skills by dangling from the second-
story railings.
By the early 20th century, the hotel suffered from financial setbacks, but tourism picked up again after World War II. Falling into disrepair, the
once chic hotel, painted a raffish pink, sat empty for more than 30 years. Known by the locals as the pink elephant, it was an eyesore with
broken windows and crumbling façade. To add insult, the roof partially collapsed in the mid-80s.
Locals swore the ghost of a waitress, who was murdered by a drunken pastry cook shortly after the hotel opened, haunted the building.
Despite the dilapidated condition and ghost, Dan and Mary King purchased the hotel in 1998 for $850,000 and began the painstaking task of
rehabilitating the building. Anything that could be saved was restored, including marble sinks, wainscoting, the glass atrium above the lobby,
and the rooftop weathervane. Although the restoration project qualified for a State Historical Fund grant, the new owners turned it down as the
time frame would have exceeded the target opening date of July 2002, the hotel’s 115-year anniversary. Listed in the National Register of
Historic Places, the Beaumont Hotel was the recipient of the Governor’s Award for Historic Preservation in 2003. The Kings were also
presented with a 2004 Preserve America Presidential Award.
Source: The Colorado Historical Society website: Office of Archaeology & Historic Preservation
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