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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1697_dinkey-engine_Sterling-CO.html
This engine given to the City of Sterling by the Great Eastern Sugar Company in commemoration of the industry's contribution to the growth and prosperity of this area. This engine was used for many years hauling sugar beets within the factory comp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1644_battle-of-summit-springs_Sterling-CO.html
3 miles southeast from this point is the site of theBattle of Summit SpringsLast engagement with Plains Indians in Colorado, July 11, 1869. Cheyennes who raided western Kansas were attacked by General E. A. Carr with the Fifth U.S. Cavalry and Paw…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1643_william-shaw-hadfield_Sterling-CO.html
This tablet is erected in honor ofWilliam Shaw HadfieldThe first white settler of Logan County, marking the site of his first sod house at Hadfield Island in 1871, three-fourths mile east.Erected by the wifeMargaret Seibert Hadfieldunder the auspi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYKA_sterlings-first-public-school_Sterling-CO.html
This tablet commemorates the establishment of the first public school in the Sterling settlement, October, 1875. It was taught by Carrie G. Ayres, later Mrs. J. N. Hall of Denver. The sod schoolhouse stood 3160 feet east and the sod fort built by …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYK7_indian-wars-1864-1869_Sterling-CO.html
In November 1864, in southeastern Colorado, U.S. Volunteers troops attacked Black Kettle's peaceful band of Cheyenne Indians at Sand Creek. In retaliation for the massacre and mutilation of 163 Cheyenne men, women, and children, Cheyenne warriors …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYK5_the-overland-trail_Sterling-CO.html
Call it the Pikes Peak Trail, the Denver Road, Overland Trail, or the South Platte River Trail - by any name, it dominated the movement of people and goods in Colorado between 1858 and 1867 and ranks with the great trails of American history. Trav…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYK4_valley-station_Sterling-CO.html
This tablet is the Property of the State of Colorado3.8 miles north along county road is the site of Valley Station, built in 1859 as a stagecoach station of the Leavenworth and Pike Express. Station on the Overland Trail to California, 1862-67. I…
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