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Photograph of Ludlow Tent Colony Site
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Ludlow Tent Colony Site

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Ludlow Massacre was a mass killing perpetrated by anti-striker militia during the Colorado Coalfield War. Soldiers from the Colorado National Guard and private guards employed by Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I) attacked a tent colony of roughly 1,200 striking coal miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado, on April 20, 1914.”

Wikipedia article Ludlow Massacre, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Las Animas County · listed in 1985 · category: Site · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. Del Aqua Canyon Rd., Ludlow, 81147
  • When was it listed? June 1985
  • Category. site
  • National Register reference number. 85001328 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85001328 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Las Animas CountyAll 26 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.