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Las Animas Historic Church Photograph, Signed by Historic Pastor

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Las Animas Historic Church Photograph, Signed by Historic Pastor
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Photograph is of the First Methodist Episcopalian Church in Las Animas. Photographer is Hawes. 6 1/2" x 4 1/2". Back has a hand written note, "The First M. E. Church of Las Animas, Colorado. Showing the South & East Entrance, and taken before Bell was hung. It cost $4,500.00 an seats three hundred people. Was opened Aug. 22nd, 1897. Pastor in Charge, Reverend T.S. Leland." (Perhaps this is Leland's signature!) Leland would leave to go to Cripple Creek and would be there in 1904 during the violence of the union miner's strike. He stayed very neutral but at one time he did weigh in on the deportation system (citizen groups forcing union miners to leave the area under threat of violence). He was against this vigilante justice. A month later he was visited by some masked men who warned him to leave the Cripple Creek District. The newspaper goes on to say, "He has very properly and courageously declared that he intends to remain, and if necessary, to defend himself against mob violence."

City: Las Animas
State: Colorado,
Date: c1897

FHWAC#: 27409