Trujillo Homesteads Featured in Preservation Magazine

Preservation Magazine has a feature-length article about the Trujillo Homesteads (an NHL prepared by Front Range and archaeologist Marilyn Martorano) and the San Luis Valley in its summer 2012 issue by Carlos Harrison: "It’s Colorado’s birthplace, dotted with abandoned mining camps and ghost towns (like Uptop, which is open to visitors) and a living testament to the region’s rich Hispano roots. I have never been here before, but I feel the connection. These are my roots, too, and I have come for that reason. In the Sangre de Cristo are links to all three strands of my family’s DNA—native, Spanish, and Anglo—and to the oft-overlooked U.S. Hispanic history I want my children to be proud of."

Read the full article here. 

Photo credit: Morgan Heim

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