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Item Title
Location112th Avenue & Watkins Road,
Denver, CO
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS CO-126
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (N294).
Building/structure dates:
1880 initial construction
Significance: The Wellenkotter Ranch is representative of the historical development of agriculture in west-central Adams County during the late nineteenth century. The ranch, covering about 1,100 acres at its largest, typified the size of ranches during the late nineteenth century in much of the Denver International Airport area and the greater area between the South Platte River and Box Elder Creek. Also, the extended family nature of the operation during the late nineteenth century was one of the common patterns of ranch and farm operation on the Colorado plains during that same period.
Subjects
AgricultureCattle IndustryRanches
Related Names
Wellenkotter, Herman
Anderson, Nanon, Field Team
Fischer, Jim, Field Team
Thallheimer, Arnold, Photographer
Hardaway, Karen, Delineator
Mehls, Steven F., Historian
Andrews, Deborah, Delineator
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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