Lowry Pueblo Ruins, Cortez CO
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N 37° 35.084 W 108° 55.191
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Off of Route 491 in Pleasant View, onto County Road CC, visitors can reach the Lowry Pueblo Ruins, part of the Canyons of the Ancients.
Waymark Code: WM3BYW
Location: Colorado, United States
Date Posted: 03/11/2008
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This Ancestral Puebloan village was constructed around AD 1060 and inhabited for about 165 years. As with many of these villages, Lowry Pueblo consisted of a few rooms and a kiva (similar to a "family" room or ceremonial area) but grew to 40 rooms and eight kivas and a Great Kiva between AD 1085 and 1170.
The Lowry Great Kiva is 47 feet in diameter! It is one of the largest known kivas found in this area, and certainly the largest one that we visited on our trip. Construction started around AD 1086, and was probably more than the center of the village's families, but may have acted as a community center for villages from several hundred square miles to trade, exchange news and conduct religious ceremonies.
Lowry Pueblo was named for George Lowry, a homesteader that discovered it. It was excavated in the 1930's and became a hitorical landmark in 1967. The Bureau of Land Management has done only a little to the masonry to maintain the structure, and now a portion of the village is under a roof structure to protect it further from the weather.
Access to this site is off a maintained dirt and gravel road that passes through farmland. As you drive through these green fields, think about how many centuries these lands were farmed by the ancestral puebloan people...
The coordinates listed are nearest to the multi room dwelling...the area around this ruin is private land, so there aren't alot of trail to explore.
Street address:
County Road CC
Pleasant View, CO USA
81323
County / Borough / Parish: Montezuma County, CO
Year listed: 1966
Historic (Areas of) Significance: Ancestral Puebloan Ruins
Periods of significance: 1000-1499 BC
Historic function: Domestic
Current function: Agriculture
Privately owned?: no
Season start / Season finish: From: 01/01/2008 To: 12/31/2008
Hours of operation: From: 9:00 AM To: 5:00 PM
Primary Web Site: [Web Link]
Secondary Website 1: [Web Link]
Secondary Website 2: Not listed
National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed
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