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30,000 acres (12,000 ha) Banning-Lewis Ranches was a successful cattle-ranching operation located east of Colorado Springs, managed by Raymond W. Lewis and Ruth Banning Lewis. The Lewises eventually acquired more than 30,000 acres on which Colorado Domino Type Herefords were raised. They won the Colorado Soil Conservation program award in 1948.
Jimmy Camp was a ranch by 1870 and then a railway station on a spur of the Colorado and Southern Railway. After the ranch was owned by several individuals, it became part of the Banning Lewis Ranch. Now the land is an undeveloped park in Colorado Springs.
Banning Lewis Academy are the two schools consisting of Banning Lewis Ranch Academy and Banning Lewis Preparatory Academy which are tuition free public charter schools serving approximately 1500 students in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The upper school campus opened in August 2017. BLPA now includes grades 6-8 for Middle School and grades 9-12 ...
[1]: 39 More than half of the land (57%) in this category is in the 24,000 acre Banning Lewis Ranch on the city's eastern edge. Another key geographical location for future development is the northern edge of Colorado Springs.
1879: 5,000-5,500[ 11 ] Before it was founded, the site of modern-day Colorado Springs, Colorado, was part of the American frontier. Old Colorado City, built in 1859 [ 12 ] during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush was the Colorado Territory capital. The town of Colorado Springs was founded by General William Jackson Palmer as a resort town.
Ranches on the National Register of Historic Places in Colorado (13 P) ... Banning Lewis Ranch; Behrman Ranch; Butler House (Pueblo, Colorado) C. Cherokee Ranch;
The Nordrach Ranch Sanitarium was Colorado's first open-air sanatorium in which patients stayed in tents on the grounds of the facility. It operated from 1901 to 1903. [9] Nordrach was founded by Dr. Charles Fox Gardiner. [1]: 522 It was 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northeast of city limits at Austin Bluffs. Dr. E. J.
Anne Maria Iles Jenkins. (1861-1940) Ivywild was established in 1888 and platted by William B. Jenkins, a rancher and miner, who created 43 lots when he subdivided his ranch. His wife Annie named the town. [ 4][ 7] She was a large stockholder of Ramona Mining Company. Her father, William Iles, was the Manager of Manitou Springs ' first hotel ...