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Top
Left:
Cotopaxi
as seen looking north-west from the hill behind the Cotopaxi church.
Top Right:
View from Cotopaxi looking west through the canyon.
Bottom Left:
Looking west from the "Mow" ranch towards areas of the large black-shaded area of map.
Bottom Center:
BLM map with approximate colony lands shaded black.
Related
Map Page
Bottom
Right: Looking south over part of the lower colony
lands.
*I've taken quite a
break from this site. There is a lot of info yet to post. . .
The Cotopaxi Colony:
A Thesis by Flora Jane Satt
With
permission from Flora Jane Satt,
her thesis "The Cotopaxi
Colony" is posted
here.
This thesis contains a good history of Cotopaxi, and I think this is the best
source of info on the Cotopaxi Colony.
Much credit is due to my
wife,
Cruz,
for entering most of the thesis into MS Word documents. My sister
Jen Lowe
has entered
Part VI - Bibliography .
Jen
has also done a tremendous about of research and is compiling the Cotopaxi
colonist's genealogy.
Check out Jen's IF-Then Blog:
If you think it didn't happen
concerning the Jews of Brest Litovsk
that did not come to Cotopaxi
the Holocaust:
From Jen Lowe,
"....when you do genealogy and see that an entire
family of 3 generations ALL died on the very same day.....
you know that it is real."
The Descendant's
Page
Ship manifest for Shames,
Prezant, Washer, Milstein families!!
Jen Lowe has documented some 800-1000 Cotopaxi Colony
descendants!
The People
- List
of the Cotopaxi Colonists
Schradsky
Family Descendants
Schneider (Snyder) Family and Descendants
Milstein -
Shuteran - Prezant Families & Descendants
Kinship Report for
Menashe Milstein
Milstein-Shames
Descendant chart
The Land Declarations
Colony Lands - Map of Colonist's
Plots
- identified by name
coming: Congregation bnai Shalom, Cotopaxi,
Colorado 1882
There was a
synagogue in Cotopaxi!
The Cemetery Page
Gravesite marker is up!
With Jerry Klinger (red shirt) at the colony gravesite, April 29, 2011
A special Thank You to Jerry and Judy Klinger
with the
Jewish American Society For Historic Preservation (JASHP)
Thanks
to Congressman Doug Lamborn for the kind words about us
recorded
in the July 13,
2011 Congressional Record.
A
panoramic view of the "upper" colony site.
Click
to enlarge!
This represents
a bit more than 180 degrees.
On
the left side, the view is towards the north,
the center part represents the easterly view,
and
on the right side, towards the south.
Emanuel Saltiel
page
Hero or villain?
Both!?!?
Just a quick look:
Wanted in Montana
and
Emanuel
Saltiel's "Sweated Labor" (Jewish Colonists)
No smooth talking is going get in the way of history on this site.
But I think the bottom line will remain thus:
Although not likely his primary intent, Saltiel helped some Jews get out of
Russia at a time that saved them from immediate Russian government
oppression and also saved them from the future Holocaust.
In this light, Saltiel's good BY FAR out weighs his
not-so-good.
Was Saltiel a crook and con man? Absolutely.
It's well documented.
But
if one Jewish life was saved by his actions, even inadvertently,
then he is elevated far above many others.
This is a proper view of Emanuel Harris Saltiel.
All the while, bearing in mind -
The Colonists that came had the mindset to come, Saltiel or no, as evidenced by Jacob Milstien's presence in America
before Saltiel met with HAIS.
1882
Saltiel OWNED Cotopaxi.
Tid Bits
Above, The
Cotopaxi Mine Built by Peter Young in 1919.
Burned down in 1956.
This was later (note vehicle) than the
time of the Cotopaxi Colony.
A
miner's lien against
Emanuel Saltiel for unpaid "work and
labor" Saltiel attests that several colonists worked here... *
Colonist Joseph Nudelman, who's son is buried at
the Cotopaxi Cemetery, later in life founded the first orthodox synagogue in the
Pacific Northwest;
Shaari
Torah, Portland Oregon.
http://shaarietorah.org/history/
Quote: "In 1905, a small group of Jewish community
members began meeting in Portland stores and homes to
hold prayer services. Eventually, the topic of
organizing a synagogue came up, and after months of
organizing and fundraising, they founded Shaarie Torah.
Under the able leadership of Joseph Nudelman, of
blessed memory, the group purchased a Presbyterian
Church on SW Third Avenue and moved it to First Avenue,
south of Hall Street. The building was refurbished and
became the first official home of Shaarie Torah."
*
Researching Canon
City Historical Center records
Microfishing Findings:
Fremont County
Leader, Sept 2, 1882:
"Married.
Chuturin-Snyder - On August
25, by
Rev D. Grupitzky, Mr. Marcus
Chuturin and Miss Fanny Snyder,
both of Cotopaxi, Colo."
Thinking:
D. Grupitzky probably was
David Korpitsky. BUT maybe not.....
developing...
Chuturin =
Shuteran etc, Snyder =
Schneider
Note the "Rev" - good to have a sense of humor.
We have found three marriage certificates of the colonists:
Marcus Chuturan & Fanny Snyder, August 25, 1882
Jacob Milchstein & Yenta Milchstein, (cousins) August 31, 1882
Moses Minkorsky & Sarah Snyder, September 28, 1882
In Flora Jane Satt's thesis, she shows another previous wedding took place:
"David Korpitsky served as rabbi and performed two weddings that
first summer. The first united Max Shuteran and Hannah Milstein and the other
was the religious ceremony which finally, even in the eyes of the most orthodox,
sanctioned the civil union of Jacob Millstein and his cousin Nettie."
*
The Gold Tom connection!
developing!
*
We Have Found: The Beehive Mine
(perhaps better said:
"that workings up beehive canyon")
This is of local history interest to those interested in buried treasure...
Photo: an old crib in an old shed in
Cotopaxi...
Julius Schwartz, March 2, 1883 letter to
HEAS:
"
Now
the facts are, that only six
of the
houses are constructed on town lots,"
(so this should be read - six of the shacks Saltiel built were within the
Cotopaxi townsite - not on the land they were supposed to farm...that was up to
8 miles away!.)
"The houses are double-boarded with tar
paper between them, are sixteen by twenty feet and are twelve feet high in the
center"
in other words....they were clapboard/tarpaper shacks....
At some point, we will have to take a look at just where these properties were.
Local
rancher, educator,
historian and
author
Nancy Oswald has
finished her fiction novel about the Jewish Colony. To read an excerpt of her
book, Nothing Here But Stones, go
to her website: click
here!
It's a great book!!!
Our Cotopaxi Colony pages
Flora
Jane Satt Thesis Homepage
The
People - List of Cotopaxi Colonists
Milstein
Family Genealogy page (Makovsky Family Tree) OLD VERSION
Map
of Cotopaxi Colony land
Colorado
Magazine, July 1941
The
Cotopaxi Cemetery page
Colony
Lands Map with ownership designation
The
Land Declarations
The
Descendant's Page Their
"What's New?" Page!
The
People - List of the Cotopaxi Colonists
Schradsky
Family Descendants
Schneider
(Snyder) Family and Descendants
Milstein
- Shuteran - Prezant Families & Descendants
Kinship
Report for Menashe Milstein
Milstein-Shames
Descendant chart
Emanuel
Saltiel's "Sweated Labor"
Additional information on the Jewish colony in
Cotopaxi Colorado:
Maps and Photos
Photo
of Cotopaxi 1880-1890
Notice there
is no E.S Hart building. A 1920's shot shows the two similar buildings left of
center as the RR depot, and Hart's store (Glenn Mullins' home now) would be
just to the right a smidge and across the tracks. Note Saltiel's house,
background left is single story. I think he built the house in 1881, and added
a second story in 1883 (?). And Vic Miller made it a one story again in the (?)
1950s. So...this might even be before the colonists were in Cotopaxi.
Cotopaxi
Topographical Map
History
of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library
Other Cotopaxi Colony articles,
documents and websites
Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation
Cotopaxi
- The failed Russian Jewish Agricultural Colony, 1882-1884
Congregation
Zera Abraham - formed in 1887 by Colonists
Cotopaxi
Torah Mystery - Denver Post
By Claire Martin 9/27/2009
Cotopaxi
Jewish Colony -Shanna Lewis/Western Skies Oct 6, 2005
The
Jewish Agricultural Colony at Cotopaxi, Colorado by Dr. Yitzchok Levine
Hard
Times: The Jewish colony at Cotopaxi, by Nancy Oswald
Why
the Jews emigrated, by Martha Quillen
Aaron
Armstrong's Cotopaxi Colony site
The
Christening of Cotopaxi
Mrs.
Elizabeth Gulliford's account of Cotopaxi
Cotopaxi
article, University of Denver curriculum guide
Names
of the Cotopaxi Colonists. Jewish Genealogical Society of Colorado
Excerpt:
Julius Schwartz's Report
Ira
M. Beck Memorial Archives
Bibliography
of North American Jewish Community Books: Colorado
The
Boston HIAS Database, 1882-1929
Jewish
Colorado.org - Jewish Colorado History
Carol
McNew's Cotopaxi Cemetery Page "The first burials were Russian
Jews..."
Photograph:
Cotopaxi Colonists in front of E.S. Hart store in Cotopaxi
From
Cotopaxi to Denver: Immigrant Jewish Farmers Become American Urban Community
Leaders
Miscellaneous
Colorado
Historical Society Roadside Marker Program
A
Brief History of Highway 50
Cotopaxi,
Ecuador The other Cotopaxi!
My Sister's BLOG:
http://jen-lowe-designs.blogspot.com
and last and least:
www.cotopaxi-colorado.com for
extra Cotopaxi history and...other
stuff...
Thanks to all the
sites linking!
Make no mistake,
this is the original authentic Cotopaxi-Colony website!
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