Walking Tour - Dairy Herd/Barn
There are references to a dairy herd at the "old Fort" as early as the Indian School day. In an effort to keep the Indian School open, Durango citizens suggested that the state build a creamery and sell milk, cheese and butter to support itself.
On June 18, 1911, the herd was bolstered by the addition of twenty pedigreed Holstein dairy cows from the former Teller Indian School at Grand Junction.
Some records indicate that the new dairy barn was added on to the guardhouse in 1923. Fort Lewis had an active dairy until 1956 when the college was moved to town.
This first picture was obviously taken in a older wooden milking parlor.
Photo courtesy of Fort Lewis College Center of SouthWest Studies