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						SALIDA

City of Salida – The largest city in Chaffee County began in 1880 as a major railroad service facility and shipping point on the "Royal Gorge" route of the Denver & Rio Grande, which diverged from this point north to Leadville and west over Marshall Pass to Gunnison.  Alexander Cameron Hunt, one of the D&RG’s founders and a former Colorado territorial governor (1867-69), laid out the town site, with the name "Salida" taken from the Spanish meaning "exit" or "way out" of the valley.  The trains are gone, but Salida’s downtown still looks and feels like a turn-of-the-century mercantile district.  By 1928, the City of Salida had become the county seat.  A list of national and state historic structures and their addresses follows:

• Chaffee County Courthouse (1932), 104 Crestone Avenue
• Church of the Ascension (1885), 349 E Street
• Corbin House (1884), 303 E 5th Street
• Edison Electric Light Plant (1887-1926) (Steam Plant Theater), 312 West Sackett Avenue
• F Street Bridge (1907), F Street over the Arkansas River
• Gray Cottage (1882), 125 East 5th Street
• Jackson House (1890), 401 East 1st Street
• Kesner Junior High School (1923), 9th and C Streets
• Manhattan Hotel (1901), 225 F Street
• Methodist Church (1889), 4th and D Streets
• Salida Public Library (1907), 405 E Street