Boggsville: The National Trust’s Newest “National Treasure” Offers Window into Pivotal Time in American History By Rebecca Atkinson, Director, Boggsville Historic Site, Las Animas, Colorado What does the 1860’s market village of Boggsville near Las Animas, Colorado, have in common with a Frank Lloyd Wright house, an Acoma Village, The Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City, James Madison’s Montpelier, and the African Meeting House in Boston? Boggsville is the newest addition to the small group of historic places to be declared a “National Treasure” by the National Trust. Announced just before the 150th Anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre, with which it is connected, Boggsville has been recognized as so important to the American narrative that it must be saved for future generations. Thus the remaining two adobe mansions at this first non-fortified settlement in Territorial Colorado; the birth place of the ranching, produce, and hay industries; the last home of Kit and Josepha Carson and neighboring rancher William Bent, is now considered one of America’s most endangered historic places. You can learn why Boggsville was chosen for this important designation at savingplaces.org. You can also see a slideshow tour of the site, tell your “story” of why Boggsville is important, or even donate to its preservation or to one of the other “National Treasures” featured there. To learn more about Boggsville and its ties of love, blood, and sorrow to the Sand Creek Massacre, and its survivors, you are cordially invited to a special event at the Rawlings Museum, Las Animas, at 6 p.m. this Friday, November 28th. Two local scholars will share their very different research on the Sand Creek Massacre. Military historian Dr. Paul Schmelzer will discuss “The Massacre Producing Moment” and Boggsville Director and Humanities Scholar Rebecca Atkinson will share her stories of the Cheyenne Women of Boggsville: “Cheyenne Brides and Half-breed Daughters: When Sand Creek Came to the Purgatoire.” Call 7194684708 or email the site at boggsvillehistoric@gmail to learn more, or to see all future events to support Boggsville at facebook/Boggsville or at savingplaces.org . Infor for event attached.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 21:19:15 +0000
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