Collection
Maps & places
15 records
Locating the camp, the shop grounds, Burnham Yard and comparable Front Range sites.
- Record
Camp Weld historical marker
The Historical Marker Database (HMdb)
The catalogue record for the 1934 granite marker, including a transcription of the inscription.
- Newspaper
Rocky Mountain News description of the new camp’s 30-acre enclosure
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · Oct. 24, 1861
Early reporting describing the camp's roughly 30-acre square enclosure.
- Newspaper
Colorado Historical Society receives Sand Creek “relics”
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · March 8, 1932
Report of Camp Weld relics recovered near the marked corner.
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Denver Post report on Civil War items excavated near Eighth and Vallejo
The Denver Post via NewsBank / Denver Public Library · February 1937
Artifacts uncovered in 1937, corroborating the location established in print.
- Newspaper
“where the Denver and Rio Grande shops are now located”
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · Jan. 27, 1901
Places the old camp on the Denver & Rio Grande shop grounds.
- Newspaper
Camp Weld location account (1920)
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · July 11, 1920
One of a series of retrospective newspaper accounts locating the camp.
- Newspaper
Camp Weld location account (1923)
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · Feb. 16, 1923
Retrospective account of Camp Weld in the Denver press.
- Newspaper
Camp Weld location account (1924)
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · Aug. 6, 1924
Retrospective account of Camp Weld in the Denver press.
- Newspaper
Camp Weld location account (1929)
Colorado Historic Newspapers · July 29, 1929
A 1929 account placing the camp on the railroad shop grounds.
- Book
History of Denver — Jerome Smiley (1901)
Denver Public Library digital collections · 1901
Early published history of Denver used for context on the camp's setting.
- Newspaper
Council names the street Hale Parkway
Rocky Mountain News (Colorado Historic Newspapers) · Feb. 4, 1941
The outcome: the street becomes Hale Parkway.
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Denver Post report on demolition of the last likely Camp Weld structure
The Denver Post via NewsBank / Denver Public Library · 1962
The demolition of the surviving structure associated with the site.
- Institution
Burnham Yard Small Area Plan
Denver Community Planning and Development
The City of Denver small area plan covering the Burnham Yard parcel.
- Institution
Denver Revised Municipal Code, Chapter 30 (Landmark Preservation)
City and County of Denver
Denver's landmark preservation ordinance, the legal route to designation.
- Institution
Fort Chambers / Poor Farm Management Plan
City of Boulder
Boulder's project page for the Fort Chambers / Poor Farm site.