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You have to zoom in pretty close on a map of Colorado before Lyons even shows up. The town, with a population that hovers around 2,000 people, isn’t exactly a tourist hot spot or an epicenter of, well, anything. But we know better.
"There was much excitement in 1903 when it was learned that President Theodore Roosevelt would tour Santa Cruz on May 8, greeting the public before seeing his first redwoods during a picnic at Big Trees Grove (now Henry Cowell state park)," writes Ross Eric Gibson. "The presidential visit was expected to be a boon to business, and a promoter's dream with the national press in town, showing off the attractions of Santa Cruz."