Pueblo s steel mill buildings are part of a National Historic Landmark chieftain.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chieftain.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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The Mission Revival style office building was once part of the headquarters of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. It s part of the company s former administrative complex in south Pueblo recently designated as a National Historic Landmark.
The former headquarters of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company is now the state s 26th National Historic Landmark, joining locations such as Bent s Old Fort, the Cripple Creek Historic District and the Ludlow Tent Colony Site.
CF&I’s 2.6-acre administrative complex lies on the west side of Interstate 25 on Canal Street in south Pueblo. It was the center for the vast steel making and mining operation that employed tens of thousands of workers in its heyday.
John Archibald on Living with the Domestic Terror of 1960s “Bombingham”
March 10, 2021
I spoke to God last night. With him I shared my dreams. A living sacrifice, I want to be wholly accepted, Lord, to thee. But instead, to my weary soul it seems weakness and failure follow me.
–Rev. Robert L. Archibald Jr., journal entry, March 25, 1963
Most people think Birmingham got its nickname, “Bombingham,” after four little girls were killed in an explosion on a September Sunday morning at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. But that’s not true. As many as forty bombs, some lit with fuses and others detonated with timers rigged from fishing bobbers in leaky buckets, exploded across the city between the end of World War II and the Sixteenth Street blast in 1963.
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It was pitch black. Dead of night. I had just crossed a bridge I never knew existed. Terrified in terra incognita. Getting ready to jump into a great, wide open.
You never know what will happen, what you’ll learn.
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I don’t remember when I crossed that bridge. But it was either the summer of 1974 or 1975, just after I had bought my lime-green CCM Turismo 10-speed bicycle.
Every now and then throughout that summer – and always in the early morning so I could avoid the sweltering southwest headwind – I would jump on my Turismo and pedal, southward, fast as I could, the 30 miles between my house in Sarnia and my grandmother’s house on the south side of Gillard Street in Wallaceburg. I would stay at my grandmother’s for one night and then, the following afternoon – so I could catch the push of what h
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