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Trinidad, CO - History


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


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

Trinidad has a population of 8076. 51.5% of Trinidad’s inhabitants are Male, and 48.5 are female. 42.3% of Trinidad is married and 61.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $147,902, and the average rent is $739. Household median income in Trinidad is $38,733, and the individual median income is $21,444. Trinidad’s Ethnic is the following: White(82.3%), Hispanic(49.7%), Multiple(9.1%), Native(4.1%), Other(3.3%), Asian(1.1%), Black(0.1%).


Trinidad was dubbed the "Sex Change Capital of the World", because a local doctor had an international reputation for performing sex reassignment surgery. In the 1960s, Stanley Biber, a veteran surgeon returning from Korea, decided to move to Trinidad because he had heard that the town needed a surgeon.


In 1969 a local social worker asked him to perform the surgery for her, which he learned by consulting diagrams and a New York surgeon. Biber attained a reputation as a good surgeon at a time when very few doctors were performing sex-change operations. At his peak he averaged four sex-change operations a day, and the term "taking a trip to Trinidad" became a euphemism for some seeking the procedures he offered.


Biber was featured in an episode of South Park, in which elementary school teacher Mr. Garrison undergoes a sex-change operation. Biber's surgical practice was taken over in 2003 by Marci Bowers. Bowers has since moved the practice to San Mateo, California. The 2008 documentary Trinidad focuses on Bowers and two of her patients.Drop City, a counterculture artists' community, was formed in 1965 on land about 4 mi (6.4 km) north of Trinidad.


Founded by art students and filmmakers from the University of Kansas and University of Colorado at Boulder, Drop City became known as the first rural "hippie commune", and received attention from Life and Time magazines, as well as from reporters around the world. Drop City was abandoned by the early 1970s, but influenced subsequent alternative-living projects across the country. In 2015 Trinidad started to experience a new boom due to the marijuana industry.


The town raised $4.4 million in tax revenue from $44 million in annual marijuana sales, about 5.13% of the state's total sales. In 2018 High Times called Trinidad "Weed Town, USA", noting that its 23 licensed retail marijuana dispensaries serving less than 10,000 people amounts to one dispensary per 352 people.


"In one downtown block alone along Commercial Street, there are eight dispensaries in a section of town some locals jokingly refer to as the Trinidad 'weed mall'."


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