Teller County Colorado Genealogy Resources:  Museums

Colorado Historical Society, Denver

The Colorado Historical Society operates twelve historic sites and museums at 10 locations around the state. The Stephen H. Hart Library at the Colorado Hisotry Museum in Denver houses the largest newspaper collection in the State.

Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum, Colorado Springs

The Museum houses the Starsmore Center for Local History, an archives and research library, which concentrates on materials related to the Pikes Peak Region. Included in these collections are: the Cragin Western History collection; photographic images of early Colorado; newspapers clippings, City directories from the 1870's; and many old diaries, scrapbooks, and photo albums. These materials are used by the public for genealogical and historical research, films, books, articles, and school projects.

Researchers may visit the Starsmore Center for Local History by appointment.

Cripple Creek District Museum, Cripple Creek

The Cripple Creek Mining District was once known as "The World's Greatest Gold Camp". The museum, founded in 1953, is housed in three buildings. Among the displays are mining machinery and memorabilia, Victorian clothing and furniture, American Indian artifacts, photographs, maps, letters and more items used at the turn of the century. The museum has the following materials for researchers:

  • Cripple Creek District Directories for 1893, 1894, 1896, 1900, 1902-03, 1905, 1907, 1912-13, 1915-16, 1917-18, 1935 and 1942.
  • Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for 1894, 1896, 1900, 1908 and 1919.
  • Approximately 7,000 photographs of the people, places and buildings of the entire Cripple Creek District.
  • Tombstone Inscriptions of El Paso and Teller Counties, listing every known death and/or burial, including surname searches.
  • A list of Catholic Marriages and Baptisms from 1892 to 1908.
  • Indexes to miners working in the Cripple Creek District from 1910 to 1930.
  • Ancestry registers and family indexes, including photos, for hundreds of families who lived in the Cripple Creek District.
  • The largest book selection in Cripple Creek, including every in-print history book on the Cripple Creek District.

Ute Pass Historical Society, Woodland Park

This society covers the "Pass" from Manitou Springs to Divide and beyond. They have a considerable collection of artifacts and information.

 

 

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The family historian must master the art of storytelling. What, after all, is truth without anecdote, history without events, explanation without narration--or yet life itself without a story? Stories are not just the wells from which we drink most deeply but at the same time the golden threads that hold and bind--Ariadne's precious string that leads us through the labyrinth that connects living present and the living past.
― Joseph A. Amato, Jacob's Well: A Case for Rethinking Family History

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