The Old Colorado City History Center is a museum and history center suitable for all ages devoted to the Original frontier Colorado City (founded 1859 at the base of Pikes Peak and Ute Pass.)

Its now in Westside Colorado Springs - half a block - the exiting Old Colorado City commercial district with galleries, restaurants, shops and restored Victorian store fronts from the 1891 Cripple Creek gold rush days

It is open 11-4 Tuesdays' through Saturdays. FREE

It can be found at 1 South 24 th Street, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Right across the street from Bancroft Park, which has an original 1859 Log Cabin in the middle of the 98 Victorian, architecture, Old Colorado City Buildings dating from the 1890s Pikes Peak Gold Rush.

Diorama of the 1862 Civil War battle of La Glorieta Pass, New Mexico, which involved the First Colorado Volunteer Infantry and Colorado City long before Colorado Springs existed.. Blown up display of the one-man sled down the Cog Railroad from Pikes Peak. Displays of the rip roaring 21 Saloons of Colorado City, railroad memorabilia, photo displays of Colorado City from the beginning. Many historical books and booklets, maps, photographs of the early Pikes Peak region. Kids love to Ring the old church bell in our History Center (which was once a church, with steeple)

Easy to drive to 24 blocks west of downtown Colorado Springs on Colorado Avenue. After visiting the museum and Colorado City you are close to the Garden of the Gods and Manitou Springs. Across the street from the shaded, free Bancroft Park where many also picnic. Curb place for large busses right at Museum and Park on 24 th street an Colorado Avenue.

Telephone 719-636-1225.

Email history@oldcolo.com

Web site www.history.oldcolo.com with its 1,500 early pictures and stories.

P.S. Why was the Old Colorado City History Center formed? Because, in spite of the fact that there has been a city tax supported "Pioneer's Museum" in downtown Colorado Springs for a long time, it really has been a 'Museum of, by, and for, upscale Colorado Springs" - not about pioneers like those who founded Colorado City a decade before Colorado Springs existed.. So westsiders created their own museum and center where research can be done, events and programs are held, and displays about early El Paso County, the Civil Wars Colorado Springs never went through, fighting hostile Indians and befriending others like the Utes, the great Gold Mills and Midland Railroad, the rip roaring saloons and gambling days, and the fights with the preachers along Church row are displayed.