Ludlow (Colorado)
Ludlow is a ghost town in Las Animas County in the US state of Colorado , about 12 miles north of the city of Trinidad .
Ludlow lies below the Sangre de Cristo Range at the exit of two valleys in which several important coal mines were located. They belonged to the Rockefeller family , especially their Colorado Fuel & Iron Company , based in Pueblo . A large number of foundations for the mines and coking plants can be found in the valleys around the former village . The ruins of several wooden and brick buildings still stand from the former location on the railway line of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway and about one kilometer west of Interstate Highway 25 .
The place is significant as the scene of the Ludlow massacre , a bloody skirmish between striking miners and the National Guard on April 20, 1914, with 25 dead. In the area of the former location, the Ludlow Monument stands in memory of the victims. The site where the massacre took place was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 19, 1985 as the Ludlow Tent Colony Site . In 2009 the site was designated a National Historic Landmark .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ghost town information
- ^ Ludlow Tent Colony Site on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed July 31, 2017.
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↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Colorado. National Park Service , accessed July 20, 2019.
Colorado Coal Field Project: A History of the Colorado Coal Field War . University of Denver, 2000.
Coordinates: 37 ° 20 ′ N , 104 ° 35 ′ W