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Durango, CO - History
We would like to provide the residents of Durango a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Durango Home page. The Durango Home page provides as much information as possible on Durango. Knowing Durango’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Durango’s Home page, you will also find Durango’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Durango has a population of 19413. 49.4% of Durango’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.6 are female. 42% of Durango is married and 59.2% own their own home. The Average Home price is $465,661, and the average rent is $1,297. Household median income in Durango is $65,424, and the individual median income is $35,542. Durango’s Ethnic is the following: White(85.8%), Hispanic(8.1%), Native(6.8%), Multiple(3.4%), Other(2.6%), Asian(0.8%), Black(0.5%), Pacific(0.1%).
The town was organized from September 1880 to April 1881 by the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG, later known as the Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad) as part of their efforts to reach Silverton, Colorado, and service the San Juan mining district, the goal of their "San Juan Extension" built from Alamosa Colorado.
The D&RG chose a site in the Animas Valley close to the Animas River near what's now the Downtown Durango Historic Business District for its railroad facilities following a brief and most likely perfunctory negotiation with the other establishment in the area known as Animas City, two miles to the north.
The city was named by ex-Colorado Governor Alexander C. Hunt, a friend of D&RG President William Jackson Palmer, after Durango, Mexico, based on his favorable impression of that city resulting from a scouting trip undertaken on behalf of Palmer.Palmer among other D&RG associates such as William Bell started a subsidiary company known as the Durango Trust to sell land and plan a Main Street, 2nd, and 3rd Avenue, and so on to organize the town, taking inspiration from how Palmer founded the city of Colorado Springs.
Sales from the Durango Trust skyrocketed by the completion of the D&RG's Silverton Branch, and by 1885, Durango’s business district had seven hotels and restaurants, eleven saloons, dancehalls and stores, two bakeries and blacksmith shops, and a variety of other businesses, also boosting the town of Silverton’s population to 2,000 at the time.The D&RG(W) and the Rio Grande Southern Railroad were vital resources to many places including Durango before the major introduction of the automobile, helping transport goods such as produce and mineral traffic in and out of the Southwestern Colorado area, and along with other businesses such as the Durango Smelter, immensely supporting the town's economy.
However, the Great Depression and aftermath of World War II hurt the area's railroad industry. The Rio Grande Southern lost its contract to transport mail in 1951, and soon thereafter suspended operations. The D&RGW also ended their San Juan Express passenger service from Durango to Alamosa. However, the natural scenery along their Silverton Branch had been recognized as a major tourist attraction.
In turn, the D&RGW introduced the major tourism industry into the Durango area, transporting visitors up to Silverton and back and attracting Hollywood into La Plata County for a time. Once the D&RGW ended up losing its freight traffic in 1968, the tracks from Durango east to Chama, New Mexico, and south to Farmington, New Mexico were removed, but the Silverton Branch remained in operation until 1981 when it was sold and became the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad.There are significant archaeological sites surrounding the Durango area featured on the State and National historical registers, including: Mesa Verde National Park, a World Heritage site Chimney Rock National Monument, the most northeastern known outpost of the Ancestral Puebloans Durango Rock Shelters Archeology Site, a Basketmaker and Pueblo culture Spring Creek Archeological District, a Basketmaker and Pueblo site Talus Village, a Basketmaker site
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