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THE SURVEY AREA <br />• <br />The area studied by western Historic Studies, inc. (WHS), for <br />this project is the area known as Dowe Flats or Dow Flats, in <br />northern Boulder County, Colorado. The historical research and <br />contextual development covered the topics of Exploration and Fur <br />Trade, Gold Rush and Early Settlement, Early Agriculture and <br />Ranching Development, Ranching and Farming after 1900, Quarrying <br />and Urban Growth and development and the Great Depression and World <br />War II. The field inventory, completed on September 24 and 25, <br />1990, included only the designated study area of Dowe Flats. The <br />lands, approximately 1,000 acres were all contained in sections 9, <br />15, 16, 21 and 22, Township 3N, Range 70W on the Hygiene, Colorado, <br />united States Geological Survey 7.5~ map. <br />• <br />• 4 <br />