Walsenburg

Walsenburg, city, seat (1874) of Huerfano county, southern Colorado, U.S., on the Cucharas River, east of the Sangre de Cristo Range and south of Pueblo, at an elevation of 6,187 feet (1,886 metres). Formed in 1873 from a small Spanish village (La Plaza de los Leones), it was named for Fred Walsen, who organized the community. Walsenburg developed as a coal-shipping point following the arrival (c. 1876) of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad....