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    Trails to Interstate: Transportation Systems Across the Palmer Divide

    Presented by Palmer Lake Historical Society at Palmer Lake Town Hall

    April 19, 2012


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    Trails to Interstate: Transportation Systems Across the Palmer Divide

    Lee Whiteley will present an illustrated program on the early trails and roads that crossed the Palmer Divide.
    Native American footpaths and early U.S. military trails generally followed the waterways along the base of the Front Range. Wagon roads, railways, and bicycle paths developed in the late 19th century. Highway 85, the so-called “Ribbon of Death,” linked Colorado Springs and Denver before the construction of...

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    Lee Whiteley will present an illustrated program on the early trails and roads that crossed the Palmer Divide.
    Native American footpaths and early U.S. military trails generally followed the waterways along the base of the Front Range. Wagon roads, railways, and bicycle paths developed in the late 19th century. Highway 85, the so-called “Ribbon of Death,” linked Colorado Springs and Denver before the construction of Interstate 25.
    Lee is a fourth-generation Coloradan, who co-authored with his wife books on early transportation systems of the West. They are associate producers of the PBS documentary, “Paving the Way, the National Park to Park Highway.”
    Everyone interested is invited to the one-hour program. The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.


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    Palmer Lake Town Hall

    66 Lower Glenway Street
    Palmer Lake, CO 80133

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    Free


    General Day and Time Info:

    7:00 p.m.


    Phone: 719-488-2019


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