Walsenburg Mining Museum

Walsenburg Gem

What a gem for this community. This museum was the old County Jail. Walsenburg was called the "City Built on Coal" during the late 19th and early 20th centuries with more than 100 mining camps in...

mining museum

If you are into this kind of thing, you will enjoy the visit. Right behind courthouse in downtown Walsenburg

Small Museum With Interesting Mining History

Small museum for a lot of information. The Mining Museum explained how miners in a long forgotten era worked, lived and mined. Has an interesting piece about the Ludlow massacre and showed what cond...

Excellent

Carolyn Newman gave us an excellent out though the former jail. A small area packed with information and memorabilia, even a nightingale in a cage that sings. Driving through who would have thought 12...

Very Interesting

A very interesting museum, a lot of local history. Mining was the important and main employer in early Walsenburg. People came from all over the world to settle there and work the mines.