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Saguache, CO - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Saguache  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Saguache Home page. The Saguache Home page provides as much information as possible on Saguache. Knowing Saguache’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Saguache’s Home page, you will also find Saguache’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Saguache has a population of 464. 70% of Saguache’s inhabitants are Male, and 30 are female. 34.9% of Saguache is married and 65.3% own their own home. The Average Home price is $130,231, and the average rent is $595. Household median income in Saguache is $35,000, and the individual median income is $24,527. Saguache’s Ethnic is the following: White(85.3%), Hispanic(39.7%), Multiple(6.7%), Other(6.7%), Asian(1.1%), Native(0.2%).


Saguache is a small historical village in an agricultural area in southern Colorado at the northern gateway to the San Luis Valley, a valley between the Sangre de Cristo Range on the east and the San Juan Mountains to the west. Saguache Creek flows through the town from its beginnings high in the San Juan mountains.


The site has been known for centuries to Native Americans who moved down from their summer homes in the mountains to the valley during the winter months. The Spanish began to move into the area in the 1600s and Spanish sheepherders passed through each year as they drove their flocks into the hills for summer grazing.


Later the early white settlers and miners passed through this area, many seeking passage west along the Old Spanish Trail. In the mid-1860s, the first permanent white settlements were established in Saguache and the nearby town of Villa Grove. Saguache County was officially founded in 1866. The formation of the town was influenced by the occupations and needs of the era.


Beginning as a trading post, in the late 1800s mining became a significant influence as the Colorado mining boom brought hundreds of mining operations to the surrounding mountains and the miners needed a steady supply of food and other goods.The town was founded by Otto Mears, who came to Saguache in 1867.


Mears constructed a wheat thresher and a grist mill for thrashing and grinding wheat to make flour to supply Saguache and the surrounding mines. He also built toll roads over the nearby mountain passes to use for hauling supplies to mining camps to the north, and to further open the area to settlement.


The Saguache Town Company was formed in 1874 turning Saguache into a booming supply town. Mears also established a newspaper, the Saguache Chronicle, to attract pioneers to Saguache. Mears later helped build the Million Dollar Highway.


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