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Poncha Springs, CO - History
We would like to provide the residents of Poncha Springs a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Poncha Springs Home page. The Poncha Springs Home page provides as much information as possible on Poncha Springs. Knowing Poncha Springs’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Poncha Springs’s Home page, you will also find Poncha Springs’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Poncha Springs has a population of 1041. 44.5% of Poncha Springs’s inhabitants are Male, and 55.5 are female. 57.7% of Poncha Springs is married and 76.1% own their own home. The Average Home price is $381,139, and the average rent is $831. Household median income in Poncha Springs is $64,750, and the individual median income is $35,688. Poncha Springs’s Ethnic is the following: White(92.9%), Hispanic(15.6%), Multiple(5.5%), Other(1.1%), Asian(0.6%).
The first human inhabitants of the Poncha Springs area were Ute people, who used the region as camping grounds during the winter months. Juan Bautista de Anza led a military expedition over Poncha Pass in 1779, which is about 6 miles (10 km) south of the present-day town. Following the Spanish exploration, French trappers and fur traders moved in.
In 1855, Colonel Thomas T. Fauntleroy and the 1st Cavalry Regiment marched over Poncha Pass and engaged a group of Utes between present day Salida and Poncha Springs, during the Ute Wars. Around 1860, prospectors began arriving, including Bob Hendricks and Nat Rich, who built the first cabin in town, which is still standing.
Nat Rich's son, James, was the first white person born in Poncha Springs in 1867. That same year Poncha Springs was designated as an election precinct. Indian agent John Burnett homesteaded with his wife, Minerva Maxwell Burnett, who was an early schoolteacher in Poncha Springs. In 1866, Burnett constructed a log building on his ranch to serve as an Indian trading post.
The Hutchinson and McPherson families also homesteaded the area around the same time. John McPherson purchased Nat Rich's squatting rights from Joe Hutchinson and built a grocery store. Poncha Springs began to grow in the 1870s, and was incorporated on December 8, 1880. The Poncha Springs Schoolhouse, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and now serves as town hall, was completed in 1883.
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