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Permit No
M2002004
IBM Index Class Name
PERMIT FILE
Doc Date
6/5/2002
Doc Name
Proposed Access Road, Overview Survey, and Predictive Model
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Proposed Limestone Quarry Access Road and Overview Cultural Resources Inventory <br />6.0 Statement of Objectives <br />The principal objectives of the project were to determine, at an intensive level, if any significant <br />historic properties are located within the area of the proposed access road, and at a <br />' reconnaissance level, the potential for significant historic properties within the proposed project <br />area. The proposed project setting is rural and has been historically, and continues to be, <br />subject to agricultural use as rangeland. Based on the file search and preliminary archival <br />' research, it was anticipated that historic features would be located within the project area, and <br />that the area could have potential for prehistoric archaeological resources. Historic features <br />may be significant if they retain integrity and are associated with important people or events, or <br />are architecturally distinctive. Archaeological resources, from either the prehistoric or historic <br />eras, are usually eligible for the NRHP if they have the potential to yield information that is <br />important in understanding the prehistory of the region. Operationally, this generally means that <br />archaeological sites contain intact deposits that can provide information on the age and function <br />' of the site and other important research questions. <br />7.0 Results <br />As anticipated, the proposed access road crosses three new segments of three previously <br />' recorded cultural resources: The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad (5PE1776.8), the Colorado <br />and Southern Railroad (5PE4162.2), and the Donnelly Floodwater Ditch (5PE1915.2). In <br />addition, two new cultural resources were identified and recorded. These included the Edson <br />' Ditch (5PE4191.1) and an abandoned homestead (5PE4192). These resources are described <br />in more detail below and in the site forms contained in Appendix A. This section also presents <br />additional information on the history of the proposed project area and surroundings and a <br />predictive model for significant prehistoric site location in the project area. <br />Site 5LN1776.8 Denver and Rio Grande Railway <br />' This site consists of a segment of the former Denver and Rio Grande (D&RG) Railway (currently <br />Union Pacific [UP]) located within the proposed project area and crossed by the proposed <br />access road. This segment of the railroad is an .active double-track line that is jointly owned and <br />operated by the UP and Burlington Northern and Santa Fe (BNSF) railroads. The western track <br />is historically associated with the D&RG Railroad. The alignment of both tracks runs for about <br />1-'/ miles through the northwest portion of the project area. Much of this segment is dominated <br />by a large berm formed on the approaches to the St. Charles River. The river itself is crossed <br />by a reinforced concrete, filled, double-arch structure. In the area of the proposed access road, <br />a remnant of the original single-track line and the subsequent Sonora Spur is preserved. It runs <br />for a quarter-mile to the southwest away from the proposed access road crossing and ends at <br />the St. Charles River. <br />' General William, Jackson Palmer, of Civil War fame, was a construction engineer for the Kansas <br />Pacific Railroad while that line was being built to Denver. Before the line reached Denver in the <br />fall of 1870, Palmer started thinking about a line that would run along the eastern edge of the <br />Rockies and beyond. Territorial Governor, Alexander Cameron Hunt, and former Governor, <br />' John Evans, listened to Palmer's ideas and urged him to pursue them. Accompanied by William <br />P. Mellen, a wealthy investor from the east, Mellen's Daughter and Palmer's future wife, Queen <br />Mellen, and Colonel William H. Greenwood, the Kansas Pacific's chief engineer, Palmer <br />' scouted the area between Denver and the area around where he would found Colorado Springs <br />in 1871. Seeing the utility of a main north-south line with branch lines running west up the <br />' UM 6
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