A privately funded group wants to re-envision how residents could gather along and play in Monument and Fountain creeks near downtown Colorado Springs.
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COLORADO SPRINGS â Was 2020 the worst year ever? For many people that answer might be yes, but historians say the City of Colorado Springs has a history of overcoming difficult years. News5 spoke to a city historian at the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum about what we can learn from our past.
The history books will show 2020 was a year full of incredible challenges and loss, but was it the worst year ever for Colorado Springs? I posed that question to the director of the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum who shared some of the history of the most difficult years in the city s history.
For two decades, Historic Preservation Alliance of Colorado Springs volunteers, many of which are longtime area residents, have advocated for and honored the preservation and protection of the community’s historic sites.
Awards for the best of 2020 were changed from the traditional formal event to a virtual video presentation and a category was added for “preservation in progress,” introduced by group president Tim Boddington.
It’s about “places that matter,” Boddington said.
The Historic Preservation Alliance awards (hpasprings.org):
HistoricCOS: The inaugural Preservation in Progress Award went to the people of the community’s neighborhoods for the Historic Master Plan, adopted unanimously by the City Council in December 2019. It was a planning effort by neighborhoods throughout and “will enhance and guide preservation efforts in the City for years to come,” the award stated. It will help neighborhoods become National Register of Historic Places, and create Ne
Colorado Springs has a reputation as a place that favors small government and limited public spending, but 75 years ago the city was a hub for projects funded by the government s New Deal.Without those projects, Rampart Range Road wouldn t snake into the mountains, Garden of the Gods wouldn t be studded with juniper trees, Monument Creek might still flood its banks and some of the city s most visible public art wouldn t exist.This year marks the 75th anniversary of the New Deal, a series of programs that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt pushed through as his stimulus package to help the country weather the Great Depression. The government job-creation program began in 1933, employing more than 4 million Americans at its peak, in skills as varied as painting and bridge-building. It fizzled out by 1942, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor thrust the nation into World War II.Whether one views the New Deal as a boon or a boondoggle, it was a remarkable period in the nation s history.