The Timpas School - Timpas, Colorado
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Big B Bob
N 37° 49.014 W 103° 46.476
13S E 607855 N 4186207
A prairie school built in 1916 now sits in a nearly ghost town.
Waymark Code: WM7NET
Location: Colorado, United States
Date Posted: 11/13/2009
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Timpas, Colorado is sixteen miles southwest of La Junta, Colorado on U. S. Highway 350. Once a thriving town with restaurants, hotels, stores, pool and dance halls a bank and a school population of 120, it is now almost deserted. Only a few families now live in the once-bustling country town.
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The school in Timpas is in much better shape and the older gentleman who now owns it took me for a guided tour of what's inside. For many years, after most of town was abandoned, local ranchers used the building to house immigrant workers and the "new" owner has spent a lot of time fixing things and working to make half the building livable. He's done a pretty nice job while still trying to maintain some of the school artifacts as they were, or at least as he found them.