Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Morley CO - townsite




This is the Morley town site in Southern Colorado. You can see the old spanish mission church from I 25 at about mm 4. Originally part of the Santa Fe Trail over Raton Pass. (NM - CO line) The site has the ruins of the St. Aloysious Church, Known locally as the "old Morley Church" There are some foundations from other buildings. There used to be a coal mine and town on this site until the mine closed in the 1950's.

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