Rest yo weary feats
...why am I feigning a southern accent when the Valmont Stage Stop is in the North? Fact. Valmont Drive is certainly over a mile north of Baseline Road in east Boulder, Colorado. You work the names out yourself. Get it, Macy-Dixie Line? While Eddie thinks the stage stop entry was on the north of the building, I clearly think that this eaved vestibule on the south is the original entry. It still stands while the added lean-to structures to the left and right are tumbling. Were I a pioneer in the early day, I can't imagine that I'd build a main entrance to a public building as it were on the snow side. That sounds like extra work! Above Boulder and Nederland in the Rockies, the town of Caribou invented the two story entrances, as well as the two story outhouses! Let's face it, I'm right and Eddie is clearly wrong like usual. There are things in life that are immutable. Once in a long while, Eddie ends up on the right side of history. Some are buffoons. Eddie! Adam will catch you doing that! Stop it!
Settled.
The Valmont stage stop and railroad reconditioning yard are on the old UP and the pioneer stage routes into Boulder "City," southwest of Largemont, Colorado. It's along the drive of the same name. Valmont was originally the stage stop on the way to Boulder "City" and the "diggins" in the hills, when early on it outpaced Boulder's growth but eventually became a small agricultural center. It was located in the river valley and had fine bottom land. See Crofutt, comments. I remember reading about the first railroad to access Boulder County not being to Frogmont and thus steaming up the Frogmont city fathers instead of an engine! Here remains the vestiges of the old stage stop. It must have been pretty utilitarian what with accommodations, meals and smithy to keep the wagons rolling. We have yet to determine the location by the "right-of-way" (which side?) but folks feel it was a two track path up the valley and not a prepared roadbed. I believe that; it certainly was not worth the investment by the time the rails came through. Perhaps an aerial infrared photograph could find the location. Existing dirt roads are confusing. Subsurface is a flow of river rock flushed from the foothills above Boulder even though the water table stands at less than a man's height. It appears to me that the ancient entrance was the built-on structure on the south here. The railroad and 20 cent fares into Boulder were the stage stop's demise. Since, I see someone store now rotting lumber in the attic of the entry.
Rest yo weary feats
...why am I feigning a southern accent when the Valmont Stage Stop is in the North? Fact. Valmont Drive is certainly over a mile north of Baseline Road in east Boulder, Colorado. You work the names out yourself. Get it, Macy-Dixie Line? While Eddie thinks the stage stop entry was on the north of the building, I clearly think that this eaved vestibule on the south is the original entry. It still stands while the added lean-to structures to the left and right are tumbling. Were I a pioneer in the early day, I can't imagine that I'd build a main entrance to a public building as it were on the snow side. That sounds like extra work! Above Boulder and Nederland in the Rockies, the town of Caribou invented the two story entrances, as well as the two story outhouses! Let's face it, I'm right and Eddie is clearly wrong like usual. There are things in life that are immutable. Once in a long while, Eddie ends up on the right side of history. Some are buffoons. Eddie! Adam will catch you doing that! Stop it!
Settled.
The Valmont stage stop and railroad reconditioning yard are on the old UP and the pioneer stage routes into Boulder "City," southwest of Largemont, Colorado. It's along the drive of the same name. Valmont was originally the stage stop on the way to Boulder "City" and the "diggins" in the hills, when early on it outpaced Boulder's growth but eventually became a small agricultural center. It was located in the river valley and had fine bottom land. See Crofutt, comments. I remember reading about the first railroad to access Boulder County not being to Frogmont and thus steaming up the Frogmont city fathers instead of an engine! Here remains the vestiges of the old stage stop. It must have been pretty utilitarian what with accommodations, meals and smithy to keep the wagons rolling. We have yet to determine the location by the "right-of-way" (which side?) but folks feel it was a two track path up the valley and not a prepared roadbed. I believe that; it certainly was not worth the investment by the time the rails came through. Perhaps an aerial infrared photograph could find the location. Existing dirt roads are confusing. Subsurface is a flow of river rock flushed from the foothills above Boulder even though the water table stands at less than a man's height. It appears to me that the ancient entrance was the built-on structure on the south here. The railroad and 20 cent fares into Boulder were the stage stop's demise. Since, I see someone store now rotting lumber in the attic of the entry.