Click on heritage organizations to the left if are interested in membership programs, volunteer opportunities, projects, and programs for organizations listed below. Also go to the accomplishments section if you want to see some of the great things that have already been completed!
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Fremont Heritage Commission |
Organization created in fall of 2008 by Fremont County. Click here for more information. |
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Charlotte Bumgarner
Executive Director Gold Belt Tour Scenic And Historic Byway
6778 County Road 102
Guffey, CO 80820
719-689-2485
Gold Belt Byway
Contact List
Organization |
Improve the appearance and increase the historical awareness of the Byway.
Support the rural, small-town lifestyle including open spaces and a healthy natural environment while recognizing the importance of traditional businesses and industries. |
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Our Town Canon City
Contact Our town Canon City members and get your own copy of the recently completed downtown historic survey. This document includes solid information on the history of how downtown Canon City deverloped. |
This page has some cool pictures on the development of the clock tower! |
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Canon City Regional History Museum
Local History Center
Museum Library Board |
Check out this great local historic timeline by Sue Cochran from the museum. |
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Greater Arkansas River Nature Association
They do great work all along the Arkansas River and even have tackled some historic projects! |
Contact Information
Be sure to check on their summer seminars. Great stuff and fun to do! |
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Colorado GenWeb site |
This site is for genealogy and historical research. Lots of great information from a volunteer based organization. |
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Garden Park Paleontology Society
This links to the Dinosaur Depot Site. Contact the Dinosaur Depot to find out more about the great organization behind the facility! |
Vision: To better our future by understanding the wonders of the past.
Mission: To provide protection and interpretation of world class paleontological resources that exist in the Garden Park Fossil Area and other areas in Southern Colorado. |
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Fremont Center for the Arts |
Fremont Center for the Arts fosters and enriches the cultural and economic health of the Greater Fremont County Region through partnerships, presentations, education and preservation of the Arts for present and future generations. |
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Fremont Civic Theater
To Promote Involvement in Live Theatre |
2007-2008 is the 60th Anniversary of Fremont Civic Theatre, and our Historian is collecting, organizing and setting up the archives of Fremont Civic Theatre. If you have any memorabilia from the past that you would be willing to share (articles/programs/pictures/scripts, etc.),
please send them to Pat Manchego to be included in the archives:
1. 727 Clover Ave, Cañon City, CO, 81212 or
2. e-mail: patlouman@yahoo.com. or
3. Call Pat at 371-6333 and she will pick them up. |
Museum of Colorado Prison
Example of Inmate art on display at the museum |
Only by preserving and studying the past, can we avoid repeating mistakes that were made. Through education, we gain awareness of present and future problems involving populations of our prisons.
The Museum's mission is to be a regional resource center that preserves and presents the history and evolution of the Colorado prison system. We need your support. |
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Ruth Zalewski
Southern Teller County Focus Group
719-689-2675
POB 328 Victor, CO 80860
For information about the
Southern Teller County Focus Group
Email focusgroup@web-xpres.com
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Check out what a few energetic citizens in a small town can accomplish.
Also check out their site for quality historic artwork from the Victor area. |
| Canon City Library Museum Board |
Art Welch
Mike Near
Judy Gillette
Susan Ooton
Mary Lou Nelson
Walter Schepp |
Interests in expanding our library services for our community and also in preserving the old Carnegie Library |
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Friends of Florissant Fossil Beds |
The Friends of the Florissant Fossil Beds, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to assisting the National Park Service in preserving, protecting, and interpreting the natural and historical resources of Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. The Friends’ primary mission is to raise funds and provide assistance to projects that preserve the fossils of Florissant, as well as to organize and promote programs and activities that support the Monument’s educational, conservation, and scientific research objectives. |
Fremont Custer
Historical Society |
David Stubbs - chairman
Randy Brady - vice chairman
Katherine Strainer - Keeps the above two characters in line! |
Celebrating our history and relationship with historic areas in Custer County.
Quarterly speakers on historic topics! |
