BACA COUNTY

Ruxton

COLORADO MILLENNIAL SITE/HACKBERRY/BLOODY SPRINGS
Ruxton vicinity
National Register 4/8/1980, 5BA.31

The site contains evidence of long and diverse human occupation through prehistoric and historic periods. The location offered a permanent water supply and a variety of natural shelters along the projecting bluff. The site also contains a large array of rock art whose range of styles demonstrates the evolution of rock art through time. An 1868 skirmish here between soldiers of the U.S. 7th Cavalry and Cheyenne Indians was the last historically documented Plains Indian/military engagement in southeastern Colorado.

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Springfield

COMMERCIAL HOTEL (Stage Stop Hotel)
1033 Main St.
State Register 9/10/2003, 5BA.941

The Commercial Hotel / Hamilton Hotel is Springfield’s longest functioning and oldest surviving hotel. Opened in 1920, the hotel operated continuously up to the present. Known as the Commercial Hotel from 1920 to the mid-1930s, the hotel operated as the Hamilton Hotel from 1943 until 1970.

SPRINGFIELD SCHOOLHOUSE/SPRINGFIELD MASONIC TEMPLE
281 W. 7th Ave.
National Register 10/5/1977, 5BA.313

This 1889 rural schoolhouse was built with sandstone quarried east of town. It served as a school until 1920 when it became a Masonic Lodge. Listed under Rural School Buildings in Colorado Multiple Property Submission.

TWO BUTTES DAM
County Rd. 30, northeast of Springfield
State Register 3/8/1995, 5BA.39

The 1909 dam is significant for its engineering as an intact example of a turn-of-the-century earthen dam built to aid in irrigating portions of southeastern Colorado.

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Stonington

STONINGTON METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
48854 County Rd. X
National Register 3/14/1996, 5BA.555

The 1917 church is architecturally significant as a good, intact example of the Late Gothic Revival style as executed by a local craftsman. It is the only identified example of this style in the county.

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