A history of Dolores,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Dolores from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The Dolores, Colorado, post office opened on April 5, 1878, and the Town of Dolores was incorporated on July 19, 1900. Dolores (Spanish for "sorrows" and named for the river on which it is located) is located at the mouth of the Dolores Valley and the upper reaches of McPhee Reservoir, approximately 40 miles (64 km) from the Four Corners Monument. Established as a station on the Rio Grande Southern Railroad, it replaced the earlier town, Big Bend, now covered by McPhee Reservoir. McPhee Reservoir is named for a company town founded by New Mexico Lumber Company, that is now covered by the reservoir.
The following are Dolores area historic sites of the Ancient Pueblo People:
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Dolores’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewDETAIL OF CONCRETE BLOCKS - Kuhlm…, 1933: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Dolores, decade by decade
CommonsDETAIL OF CONCRETE BLOCKS - Kuhlman-Periman Ranch, County R…1933
CommonsDETAIL OF FRONT DOORS - Ritter Ranch, Potato Shed1933
CommonsDETAIL OF LOG CORNER - Kuhlman-Periman Ranch, Workshop, Cou…1933
CommonsDETAIL OF LOG CORNER JOINT - Kuhlman-Periman Ranch, Chicken…1933
CommonsDETAIL OF SOUTHEAST CORNER - Reynolds Ranch, County Route 271933
CommonsDETAIL, FEED TROUGH - Ritter Ranch, Barn, Old Dolores Highw…19331990s
2 historic places in Dolores
2 places in Dolores are on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as DETAIL OF CONCRETE BLOCKS - Kuhlman-Periman Ranch, County Route 28 (1933) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.