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Linda Navarro

Reporter · US

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Sep 21, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 21, 2026 · Linda Navarro

    Northern El Paso County has now-extinct early towns most people have never known about (opens the original)

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    There are hundreds of little ghost towns throughout Colorado, hidden away in or near the former gold rush mining camps or settlements or near the railroads. They’re easy to spot and pass by on the way to popular ski areas. But there are others that are extinct with names that have never been on highway signs and aren’t even on maps. There’s no “there” there any longer. Several that had been thriving communities or ranches in 1800s northern El Paso County, though, have histories compiled by Palme

  2. Article · Aug 31, 2026 · Linda Navarro linda.navarro@gazette.com

    New city Colorado Springs expanded quickly during the 1800s and 1900s with annexations and surprises (opens the original)

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    It was known as Fountain Colony as Gen. William Jackson Palmer planned his city and drove that first stake at Pikes Peak and Cascade avenues in 1871. By 1872 it was formally incorporated and officially called Colorado Springs. Major expansions, integrations and annexations started almost immediately reaching out every direction from downtown. According to Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum, in 1880 expansion had pushed north to the new Colorado College campus, leading the way for the historic Nort

  3. Article · Aug 30, 2026 · Linda Navarro linda.navarro@gazette.com

    AROUND TOWN: Chic Boutique a stylish tradition during Goodwill’s Enchanted Weekend (opens the original)

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    After Brenda Smith and Judy Mackey bought the Garden of the Gods Resort and Club in 2013, it was time for a one-of-a-kind party, recalled Goodwill of Colorado CEO and President Karla Grazier. What about a whole weekend, the threesome wondered. In fact, what about 10 years of An Enchanted Weekend celebrations that have become Goodwill’s annual signature fundraiser? That was the anniversary honored Aug. 20-22 with the focus “Together We Transform Lives.” Today Goodwill supports 148,000 people annu

  4. Article · Aug 25, 2026 · Linda Navarro linda.navarro@gazette.com

    Little was really known about China Jim, whose elegant decor items decorated early North End mansions. (opens the original)

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    When people decorated their homes along Colorado Springs’ North End “Millionaires Row” of the 1880s and early 1900s, the coveted Chinese and Japanese porcelain, cloisonné, silk, ivory, screens, sculptures and Japanese chochin lamps came from one shop in the new city. The owner was known in history accounts as China Jim, possible real name Leu Bo Foo aka James Bofonda. As the historians at Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum discovered, there were some people who had arrived here whose stories seem

  5. Article · Aug 17, 2026 · Linda Navarro linda.navarro@gazette.com

    Colorado Springs’ earliest nonprofits and charities, children the first focus (opens the original)

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    Colorado Springs has always had an impressively strong history of philanthropy. Today that has grown to almost 5,000 nonprofits in the metro area, almost 1,000 in the city itself. It all began, along with the city, in the 1800s and here are some of the city’s first nonprofits and charities: 1897: Early Connections Learning Centers founded as Colorado Springs Day Nursery. It was all about the little ones, recognized in state records as Colorado’s oldest childcare organization and one of the first

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