Battlement Mesa’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 3 old photos of Battlement Mesa. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The community was first developed by an oil company as a residence for its workers in the expectation that the rising price of oil would make shale oil extraction economically viable. When adjusted oil prices fell, the housing estate was left as a stranded asset, and the oil company marketed it to retirees in conjunction with a real estate firm.
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Start Battlement Mesa’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Battlement Mesa’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo3 archive items have no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewBattlement Mesa School: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Battlement Mesa, decade by decade
2000
unknown3 items
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Battlement Mesa School and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (1) and the Library of Congress (3). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.