The Hippy Dip. Photo taken just a few hours before it was closed forever. By Norm Vance It was as simple as it gets, a hole in the ground with no facilities and no charge! It was a hole dug about four feet deep and lined by eight foot long 6×6 inch railroad ties. I [...]
One of these had a “women only” day. This became a great social event; the ladies brought lavish food and tried to outdo each other by ordering the latest and fanciest bathing suits from the east coast or decorating their own. Perhaps our modern ladies could use a day off, lounging at the spring, once a week!
Click on the links below and follow along on a Pagosa Springs’ historic moment. The Carson carving in southeast Pagosa Country http://pagosa.com/artman/exec/view.cgi/4/288 http://pagosa.com/artman/exec/view.cgi/6/696 http://pagosa.com/artman/exec/view.cgi/6/674 http://pagosa.com/artman/exec/view.cgi/6/692 http://pagosa.com/artman/exec/view.cgi/6/694 http://pagosa.com/artman/exec/view.cgi/6/695 http://pagosa.com/artman/exec/view.cgi/6/697 http://pagosa.com/artman/exec/view.cgi/6/704
Timescale of the San Juan by Norm Vance This is a chronological history with brief historical references. For more detail see specific articles on this website. 500 MYA (Million Years Ago) This date is an apt starting place for our time scale of the San Juan because the area was 100% different than now. At [...]
Lost Gold in the San Juan by Norm Vance Find a mountain peak or scenic vista somewhere in the vicinity of Pagosa Springs and look around at the distant mountains stretching from west to east and then south, on the east side, following the Continental Divide. According to legends, you are looking over millions of [...]
San Juan History Outlined by Norm Vance Prehistoric Native Americans No one knows the people who first ventured into Pagosa Country. Over a period of many thousands of years, early or “Paleo” Indians roamed south from what is now Alaska and Canada after their ancestors crossed the Bering Strait during the last ice age. Leaving [...]
Editor’s note: Larry Masco is the great-grandson of Welch Nossaman whose stories are related here. The San Juan Mountain area was very remote in the 1860s – 1900s. A major gold find produced the town of Summitville, east of Pagosa Springs and south of Wolf Creek Pass. Summitville was a vibrant mining community when Welch [...]
Nina Archuleta-Stotlar, great-granddaughter of the late Margaret Archuleta-Daugaard, models the Gomez-Garcia-Archuleta family heirlooms, a hand woven silk shawl and an emerald and gold necklace. These objects were brought from Spain on the Juan de Onate expedition in 1626. A few years ago the necklace was requested and put on display at the Smithsonian Institute in [...]
by Larry Larason Four Corners Excursions Two great rivers begin in the San Juan Mountains near Pagosa Springs. As you ascend Wolf Creek Pass, the streams flowing south are going into the San Juan River, a major tributary of the Colorado, which drains into the Pacific Ocean. On the north side of the Pass, waters [...]
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