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Reynolds Ranch Harvest Festival


*The event has already taken place on this date: Sun, 10/08/2017
Come celebrate everything fall at the Western Museum of Mining & Industry's annual Reynolds Ranch Harvest Festival!

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Colorado Springs has been growing at an unprecedented pace for more than a century now and much of our colorful and unique history is being lost in the process. The Western Museum of Mining and Industry is located on the property now known as the Reynolds Ranch.

In the early 1890s, Sara and Joseph Reynolds moved west to Colorado from Pennsylvania and built the Little Red Farm House. Their farm became a working ranch that included a sawmill and dairy farm. Over the following century, many people important to Colorado Front Range history called the ranch home, including Lazzard Chan – namesake of the mineral Cahnite – and founder of the Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society.

The Reynolds house was originally part of the town of Husted, CO. Husted provided many of the raw materials necessary for the rapidly growing urban center of Colorado Springs, including milk, ice, lumber, and fox fur. With the slow decline of mining around the Front Range region, Husted slowly faded away into history. During the 1950s, the US Air Force purchased the land that Husted occupied and removed all of the remaining homes and buildings in preparation for the Air Force Academy.

Join us to celebrate the Reynolds Ranch legacy and the spirit of the fall, on Saturday and Sunday, October 7th and 8th, from 10am to 4pm!

 The event will feature a pumpkin patch, hayrides, food trucks and craft vendors! The popular Gold Canyon Gunfighters will be back again to wow the crowds with their Wild West show. Learn to pan for gold and gems with the Gold Prospectors of Colorado. Visitors can even witness the operating Yellow Jacket stamp mill and blacksmith shop as well as hear the roar of the museum’s working steam engines! There will be crafts, fun activities for kids, and face painting! So come to WMMI and get in the spirit of fall!

Admission is only $5 per person, ages 4 and up.

Food and refreshments will be available for purchase on site.

Thank you to Halloween Events CO. for helping to sponsor this event!


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Location:

225 North Gate Blvd.
Colorado Springs, CO, 80921
United States

Phone:

719-488-0880
Contact name: 
Danica Cox
Email address: 
The event has already taken place on this date: 
10/08/2017
Time: 
10:00 am - 4:00 pm