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Conejos County was one of the original 17 counties created by the General Assembly of the Territory of Colorado on 1861-11-01, although it was originally named Guadalupe County and renamed Conejos County a week later, on November 7.
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Conejos County is one of the 64 counties of the State of Colorado in the United States.
In 1874, most of the western and northern portions of the county were broken away to form parts of Hinsdale, La Plata and Rio Grande counties, and Conejos County achieved its modern borders in 1885 when its western half was taken to create Archuleta County.
Presbyterians came into Conejos County in 1880 establishing churches in Antonito, Alamosa, Cenicero, Del Norte, Mogote, San Rafael, and Monte Vista.
There is also a large Mormon population within Conejos County.
Websites that will be of use when doing genealogical research are The Colorado Genealogical Society and Conejos County WW II Enlistments.
Conejos County is in a broad high mountain valley in South Central Colorado.
Conejos County is situated with the National Forest to the west and the Rio Grande River to the east, along Colorado's southern border with the state of New Mexico.
Only about 34 percent of Conejos County is privately owned with the other 66 percent being National Forest, Bureau of Land Management ( BLM ) or State owned lands.
* Sangres. com Various Photographs of Interest in Conejos County
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Much of the land in the south part of the Valley, in Conejos and Costilla counties, was originally part of large Mexican land grants and is private land.
Also early in its existence, the county seat was moved from the town of Guadalupe to Conejos.
A jacal went up in 1854 in Guadalupe, now known as Conejos, which was the beginning of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish.
Archuleta County was created by the Colorado legislature on April 14, 1885, out of western Conejos County.
It was named for J. M. Archuleta, " head of one of the old Spanish families of New Mexico ", and in honor of Antonio D. Archuleta, who was the Senator from Conejos County at the time.
The town of Conejos was founded in the 1854 by Lafayette Head, who later became the first lieutenant governor of Colorado.
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From San Luis, the National Geographic road trip suggests traveling west on Colorado State Highway 142 through Manassa, Colorado, then south on United States Highway 285 past Conejos, Colorado then west on Colorado State Highway 17 over Cumbres Pass to Chama, New Mexico paralleling the route of the narrow gauge Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad.
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Within Colorado the San Luis Valley is generally considered to comprise six Colorado counties: Saguache, Alamosa, Rio Grande, Conejos, Costilla and Mineral.
A significant portion of the residents of the San Luis Valley are Hispanic with historic populations in Costilla and Conejos counties which were settled by early migrants from New Mexico.
The site is located in the San Luis Valley along the east side of the Rio Grande approximately southeast of Alamosa primarily in southeastern Alamosa County, although very small parts extend into northeastern Conejos and western Costilla counties.
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South of Alamosa it is joined by several streams from the west including the Alamosa River and the Conejos River and Culebra Creek from the east.
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The city of Conejos is the location of the oldest church in Colorado, called Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish.
* National Register of Historic Places listings in Conejos County, Colorado
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* Photographs These are photographs of sites, not in Manassa, but within Conejos County, such as the new courthouse in the town of Conejos and the oldest church in the State of Colorado, located in Guadalupe
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Deeper alluvial strata, overlying Precambrian basement rock, Eocene alluvial deposits from a shallow Laramide depression, the Blanco Basin Formation ; and Oligocene ash and lava flows associated with the Conejos Formation, is the Santa Fe formation, mixed alluvium and lava outflows from the San Juan volcanic field to the west ; later strata comprise the Alamosa formation, alternating layers of sand, gravel, and clay.
Conejos and .
The county seat is the unincorporated town of Conejos.
Conejos is approximately a mile northwest of Antonito.
* Flickr. com Additional Public Domain Photographs Within Conejos County
County and was
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