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Church of St. Philip-in-the-Field and Bear Canon Cemetery

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Church of St. Philip in the Field and Bear Canon Cemetery
Church of St. Philip in the Field and Bear Canon Cemetery

The Church of St. Philip-in-the-Field and Bear Canon Cemetery is a historic church building and cemetery in Sedalia, Colorado. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.It is a white frame clapboard building, with a 22 by 30 feet (6.7 m × 9.1 m) nave built in 1872 of rough lumber hauled over a difficult trail.Saint Philip in-the-field Episcopal church has been at this location since 1888, but construction on the church dates back all the way to 1872. In that year, trustees at the newly formed Bear Cañon Methodist Congregation commissioned Newton S. Grout, a former drummer boy for the Union Army, to construct the first church of Douglas County. As the main carpenter of the church's construction, he wished to fashion its design after a smaller church in Maine where he had worshipped as a child. With plenty of initial money and labor donated to the construction, the exterior was quickly finished, but a later lack of funding prevented the completion of the inside. Despite this setback, the church opened that same year, using planks supported by boxes as pews and was used by various faiths. In 1884, the long-delayed interior building was resumed but didn't last very long when a man posing as a Methodist minister disappeared with the $600 of fundraising money meant for the church's construction. Two years later in 1886, Bishop Reverend William Spaulding of the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado traded St. Mark's Church in Bergen Park (modern-day Evergreen) for the unfinished church. William Curtis and John Harris were put in charge to supervise the construction. Curtis drew the plans and Harris worked as the carpenter, and when the work was completed, the interior included a sanctuary, sacristy, vestibule, pews, chancel, altar, communion rail, and brick chimney. The church was dedicated to Saint Philip in-the-field and held its opening services on December 23, 1888. The surrounding Bear Cañon cemetery was established in 1870, and the first still identifiable graves were laid in 1874 in the Northwest corner of the cemetery. By the 1970s, five generations of families and veterans from five wars had been buried in the cemetery. The mission center behind the church was built in 1970. On April 11, 1973, both the church and cemetery were placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Church of St. Philip-in-the-Field and Bear Canon Cemetery
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Santa Fe Railway Water Tank
Santa Fe Railway Water Tank

The Santa Fe Railway Water Tank, or Sedalia Water Tank, on the railway through Sedalia, Colorado in Douglas County, Colorado, is a historic object listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is a cylindrical water tank 24 feet (7.3 m) in diameter, 43 feet (13 m) tall, with capacity of 140,000 US gallons (530 m3), upon a slag foundation, built in 1906. Per its NRHP nomination, it was installed by the Denver and Santa Fe Railway Company, a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF), an early railroad which built track through the area in 1887. It provided water for coal-powered steam locomotives from 1906 until 1950 when its "stand pipe" was removed, after water was no longer needed (when diesel locomotives had replaced steam ones). It was described in its NRHP nomination as follows: It was deemed significant "for its association with the operation of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF), an early railroad that constructed its track through the area in 1887. The tank provided water for the coal-fired steam locomotives that ran the line. At the end of WW II, diesel engines began replacing steam locomotives, and the need for large water tanks at frequent intervals along the rails diminished. Most steam locomotives were retired by the 1950s. It was later deeded to the Sedalia Water and Sanitation District for the community’s water supply. The period of significance began with the construction of the tank in 1906 and ended in 1950 when the stand pipe was removed. The steel tank also meets the registration requirements under criterion C for it represents a distinctive design and construction method. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, water stations usually consisted of elevated wooden water tanks. Steel tanks began to replace wood on some railroads after the turn of the century. The steel tank at Sedalia is an early example of the evolving technology, and it is believed to be one of the last surviving steel water tanks in the state."It is located within the railway right-of-way, about 200 yards (180 m) west of the intersection of U.S. Route 85 with State Highway 67 U.S. Route 85. It is closer to U.S. 85 and directly visible from that highway. It is also visible from Colorado State Highway 67, at least from its crossing of the rail tracks.

Cherokee Ranch
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Cherokee Ranch, in Douglas County, Colorado near Sedalia, has been a purebred cattle ranch since 1954, including raising Santa Gertrudis cattle. The ranch is private property but offers frequent public and private events and tours. The property overlaps with portions of the Cherokee Ranch petrified forest.A large portion of the ranch was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. The listing included 19 contributing buildings, five contributing structures, a contributing site, and a contributing object on 3,280 acres (13.3 km2). The buildings are distributed among four historic building groups created by two homesteaders and a rich heiress. The four groups are: Ranch Headquarters, originally the John Blunt Homestead and later known as Amnicola Cherokee Castle the Flower Homestead (Chickamauga), and the Johnson ranch buildings.The first part of the property eventually assembled was 160 acres (0.65 km2) homesteaded by Maine-born John E. Blunt. A former Union soldier, he arrived with his family in 1868 from Kansas in a covered wagon which brought apple tree slips. He settled on land along East Plum Creek at homestead site now on the south side of U.S. Highway 85. It was extremely cold in winters along the creek, so they moved to higher ground in 1873 and built a wood-frame house at the current location of ranch headquarters. An original apple tree brought to the new site survived in 1994. Blunt acquired others' homestead properties and eventually what he called Sunflower Ranch had 1,550 acres (6.3 km2) on which he farmed wheat, sorghum, and steers. The ranch was sold by Ray Blunt in 1954 to Mildred Montague Genevieve Kimball, known as "Tweet", who chose to call it Amnicola after her property in Chattanooga on the Tennessee River. Tweet Kimball, known as "a delightfully eccentric international traveler, philanthropist, equestrian, award-winning cattlewoman and legendary hostess", lived 55 years in Cherokee Castle.Her first of four husbands was Merritt Kirk Ruddock, of aristocratic family and C.I.A. connections.The ranch has 4,185 acres (16.94 km2) on both south and north of U.S. Highway 85, but the listing is limited to the property north of 85, which includes four historic building groups. The four are: Cherokee Castle, originally known as Charlford Castle, which is a 20th-century copy of a 15th-century Scottish castle. It is the main residence of the ranch and was built during 1926–28. It was designed by Denver architect Burnham F. Hoyt, who is known for his later design of the Red Rocks Park Amphitheater.the Flower Homestead (Chickamauga), began with English-born Frederick Gerald Flower ploughing 12 acres (4.9 ha) of land and stringing barbed wire and then, in 1894, filing a homestead claim. He built a stone house on the edge of a high plateau with views of the Front Range, and his wife and sister moved there in 1895. His remote property was accessed by a track which later became Daniels Park Road. Flower prospered and accumulated a total of 2,380 acres (9.6 km2), which was sold to Charles Johnson in 1924.the Johnson ranch buildings. The Wauhatchie Barn, an element of the Johnson Dairy Farm, has recently been restored.The listing covers property north of U.S. Route 85 and south of Daniels Park Road.