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Family (Hamblin children) Espie, Ethel and Oscar, Maud, Bertha and Floyd. Sanford, CO

Lewis and Lilly Sowards and family. This family settled between Manassa, CO and Sanford, CO.

Town of Sanford, CO, about 1894. This house was called the Sandford House and stands on Main Street.

Women and girls at a May Day celebration in Sanford, about 1892.

The Sanford Band, 1892.Top row: J. A. Crowther, James Jensen, Swen Peterson, Peter Peterson, Irma Whitney (in the drum).Bottom row: Orlando Funk, J. Frank Crowther, Lars Martensen, Wm. O. Crowther

The Stone Church, an LDS church in Sanford Colorado, built in 1907. This picture was taken in 1949. A newspaper clipping is attached to the bottom, with the headline "Group Lays New Chapel Corner Stone".

The Mormon settlers of Sanford Colorado built this derrick as a tool for stacking hay.

The eighth grade graduation of the first school house in Sanford Park. Florence Reynolds is on the right side of the stage, and Lela Malloy is on the left.

The San Luis Stake Academy was first built in Sanford Colorado and later moved to Manassa. The Academy Burned in later years. In 1923-1924, it became Conejos County's first major educational institution.

This photo depicts the student body and faculty meeting at the San Luis Stake Academy in about 1900. This academy was founded soon after the turn of the century by Mormon settlers to educate their members before the institution of tax-supported high…