100 years ago: Employment agent for the Smuggler Mining Company, T.W. Sampson, arrived in Durango from Telluride to find “good miners for his company.”
75 years ago: The Animas River opened fishing access from the Main Avenue Bridge to the Colorado-New Mexico state line.
50 years ago: City firemen were called to extinguish a fire that engulfed brush and tree branches in the middle of the Animas River at 3065 East Second Avenue.
25 years ago: A juvenile, who was already banned from Durango High School property, was reported to be drinking in the DHS parking lot and driving a “beat up” blue and orange pickup truck with a confederate flag in the window.
Most items in this column are taken from The Durango Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
