Maude and Jim pull a water wagon and sprinkle the streets to reduce dust in 1918 or 1919. The driver is not identified.
100 years ago: The year’s graduating class at Durango High School was to be “the largest in the history.”
75 years ago: Bruce Sullivan, La Plata County sheriff, ran “a fast quarter mile dash across a muddy field” to head off a fugitive.
50 years ago: Interior Secretary Stuart L. Udall transmitted the report to Congress on the revised version of the Animas-LaPlata Project.
Most items in this column are taken from The Durango Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Accuracy of content may not be verified.
