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Keywords: Gravesite at Chico Cemetery, a windswept country graveyard near Avondale in Pueblo County, Colorado LCCN2015632765.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes The cemetery was first populated in the 1860s as white families from war-torn mid-South states moved westward after the Civil War Many of their children perished along the trail The tiny farming community of Chico on the site disappeared as most of its male residents left for city jobs One of the cemetery's informal caretakers Don Robertson told the Pueblo daily newspaper that people have suggested that the cemetery be beautified with trees and such No he says It's a prairie cemetery it's a pioneer cemetery We want to keep that flavor ; Forms part of Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Credit line Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Purchase; Carol M Highsmith Photography Inc ; 2015; DLC/PP-2015 068 2015 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2015632765 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/32700/32750a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 32750 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 32750 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Pueblo County Colorado Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Photographs by Carol M Highsmith
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