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Canon City -- Colorado

 Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:

Camp San Benito

 Organization

Cañon City, Colo., 1929

 Sub-Series — Box OSBCHI-C-100-1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents

This sub-series details the summer schools of religion run by the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago at various instituions in Cañon City, Colorado, from 1929 to 1965. Sections from a June, 1929 entry of the "Cathechists' Corner," written by Sr. Scholastica Hrusovsky, OSB, describe the earliest days of the city's vacation schools from a first-hand account.

Dates: 1929

Coal Creek, Colo., 1933 - 1955

 Sub-Series — Box OSBCHI-C-100-1, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents

This sub-series is comprised of a couple papers listing the Sisters who ran summer schools of religion in Coal Creek, Colorado, along with the years they worked. The 28 students who attended the 1933 vacation school taught by Sr. Leona Schmitt, OSB, appear in two photographs. Also included is "The Gleanor," an article from an unnamed publication on the coal mines surrounding Cañon City, Colorado, which includes a description of Coal Creek prior to a 1907 fire that wrecked the town.

Dates: 1933 - 1955