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SOPRIS COLORADO
FOUNDED - 1889 DROWNED - 1972
LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL
BOGGING ZONE
Photos courtesy of
Anthony Faoro

MAIN SOPRIS
Photo courtesy of
Anthony Faoro

Photo courtesy of
Gene Vigil
JERRYVILLE

UPPER ST. THOMAS
PIEDMONT
JERRYVILLE
ST. THOMAS
Photo courtesy of
Anthony Faoro
MAIN SOPRIS
-- 1955 FLOOD of the Purgatoire River -- Not a single structure in any of Sopris'
6 (six) Communities was touched.
Trinidad, however, was inundated
......bringing on the Dam
......and Drowning Sopris
Flood Photos courtesy of
Genevieve Johanssen Faoro

View from Sopris Plaza,
Southeast to St. Thomas


View from Donachy's Hill
Northeast to Trinidad
View from Sopris Plaza Bridge
South to Donachy's Hill

Starkville Creek looking South


Flooding of the Sante Fe Depot,Trinidad
Looking East on Pine Street in Trinidad

Blasi Bridge
Piedmont
Constructed in 1970, The Dam Tower in the background is located 100 yds. east (est.) of the Blasi Bridge

View Southeast of Piedmont to the Sangre De Christo Mountains in Southwest
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