History

Dr . Thomas D. Baird, M.D, Courtesy Photo

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Dr. Baird in the Greenhorn Valley

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

In 1884 The Gazetteer Business List shows Dr. T.D. Baird at the Greenhorn Settlement with George Sears’ store and Odd Fellow Hall. During the 1880s the town of Greenhorn included a saloon, drugstore, blacksmith and wagon shop, a lumber yard and a grain-grinding mill. Dr.

1957 Christmas Figures RHC Courtesy Photo

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Christmas in the Greenhorn Valley

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Wednesday, December 27, 2023

The indigenous people followed ancient trails one of which traveled just below the eastern foothills of what became known as Greenhorn Mountain into the Greenhorn Valley. Spanish explorers, trappers and traders followed.

Codding Brothers Store Courtesy Photo

Table Mountain Slovic Families-

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Monday, December 18, 2023

Part V of V William Vernon Codding The youngest son of John Sullivan and Harriett Case Codding, William was born in Kansas in 1870 and moved to Kansas as an infant. He grew up on his parents’ ranch eventually purchasing his own farm. He married Matilda Bothe on April 18, 1894 in Kansas.

Dorothy Codding. 1956, Rye Courtesy Photo

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Table Mountain Slovic Families- Part IV of V

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Part IV of V Two of John Sullivan Codding’s four sons moved to Pueblo County. Son, John Francis purchased the Andro ‘Andrew’ Soffa property on Table Mountain near Rye in the early 1900s.

Mary Inez Marcinko Jonke

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Table Mountain Slovic Families- Part III of V

Part Iii Of V

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Cheryl Johnson Huban Greenhorn Valley View The Andro ‘Andy’ D. Marcinko Family (1925) Andro was born in Slovakia in 1859 and grew up there. He married Elizabeth Alis Mura in 1885. She was three years younger. They had their first child, Andrew, the next year.

John Crump, Emma Olive Reynolds Crump, Mary Lee, Lucy, Harry, Courtesy Photo

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Table Mountain Table Top - Part II of V

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Part II of V Table Mountain Slovic Families In the early years of the 1900s, the following families moved up onto Table Mountain Mesa and into Muddy Canyon: Crump, Gresh, Marcinko and Soffa.

View from Table Mountain Courtesy Photo

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Table Mountain Table Top- Part I of V

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Table Mountain The ranchland on the top of Table Mountain (Table Top) began to be settled in the 1880s. The landmark flat-topped mesa gave the name to the post office that became Rye, and a small community located near its northwest base. Four homesteads were awarded on the top of the Mesa.

Van Edmund Douglass Courtesy Image

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Table Mountain Community

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

The Village of Table Mountain original store and post office building was sold to William I. Gray in 1916 or 1918, as part of a 365-acre ranch. William and his wife, Maggie Alice Spitler were both born in 1863, he in Michigan and she in Ohio.

First Post Office, Table Mountain Courtesy Photo

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Table Mountain Community - Part I of II

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Part I of II Just to confuse us, the small village of Table Mountain that preceded the town of Rye was not located on the mesa called Table Mountain.

Herlyck Robert Tombstone Mountain View Pueblo Courtesy Photo

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San Isabel - Herlyck Brothers Part IV of IV

Cheryl Johnson Huban

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Robert Samuel ‘Bob’ Herlyck Robert, looked different than his brothers, he was tall with dark hair. Like his older brother, he was employed for the most part in timber.

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