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Item Title
Town of McPhee, McPhee Road, McPhee, Montezuma County, CO
LocationMcPhee Road,
McPhee, CO
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS CO-36
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-14).
Significance: The company town of McPhee, Colorado, owned and operated by the New Mexico Lumber Company, lasted from 1924-1948, serving as an important economic and cultural town of the Delores River Valley. During the industrial town's peak of operations in 1927, it was Colorado's largest and most productive mill town, producing more than half the State's annual lumber. The town featured a lumber mill, housing for approximately 1,500 employees and the last logging railroad in Southwestern Colorado.
Subjects
Moving Of StructuresStructural FiresLabor Housing
Related Names
New Mexico Lumber Company
Montezuma Lumber Company
Norseman, W. W.
Rhoads, Warren Cryder
Houston, S. S.
McPhee, Wlilliam
Lowe, Jet, Photographer
White, John P., Delineator
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. McPHEE CATHOLIC CHURCH, SIDE (RELOCATED)
2. McPHEE CATHOLIC CHURCH, DETAIL OF BELL TOWER
3. McPHEE CATHOLIC CHURCH, INTERIOR LOOKING TOWARD FRONT
4. McPHEE CATHOLIC CHURCH, INTERIOR LOOKING TOWARD REAR
5. Photocopy of photograph (from the Robert Orr Collection, Salinas, CA) Photographer and date unknown TOWN OF McPHEE
6. Photocopy of photograph (from the Robert Orr Collection, Salinas, CA) Photographer and date unknown TOWN OF McPHEE
7. Photocopy of photograph (from the Robert Orr Collection, Salinas, CA) Photographer and date unknown SAWMILL
8. Photocopy of photograph (from the Robert Orr Collection, Salinas, CA) Photographer and date unknown MILL AND MILLPOND
9. Photocopy of photograph (from the Colorado Railroad Museum) U.S. Forest Service photo by C.W. Sward, July 18, 1929 NEW MEXICO LUMBER COMPANY
10. Photocopy of photograph (from Colorado Railroad Museum) U.S. Forest Service photo by C.W. Sward, February 14, 1930 NEW MEXICO LUMBER COMPANY
11. Photocopy of photograph (from Colorado Railroad Museum) Robert W. Richardson, photographer August, 1947 MONTEZUMA LUMBER COMPANY
12. McPHEE HOUSES, RELOCATED
13. McPHEE HOUSE, RELOCATED
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