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词条 Ruxton Park
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Ruxton Park is a park in Manitou Springs, El Paso County, Colorado at {{convert|9078|ft|m}} in elevation.[1] The Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway, which departs from the depot at {{convert|6,570|ft|m}} in elevation, climbs into Englemann Canyon along Ruxton Creek. It passes by the site of the Halfway Hotel and then Ruxton Park at mile marker 3 on the 8.9 mile trip to Pikes Peak summit.[2][3]

In the late 19th century and early 20th century, it was a small town established along Ruxton Creek near Iron Springs, Colorado (now Manitou Springs). Since 1925, it has been the site of a hydroelectric plant owned by the city of Colorado Springs and a weather station. Ruxton Park was only inhabited by a caretaker for the plant from 1930 to 2008, when the plant was fully automated.

History

In 1884, Thomas Palsgrove and his family lived in a cabin that was on a trail to the summit of Pike's Peak. They provided coffee and doughnuts as refreshments for hikers.[4] He then began expansion of the cabin along Ruxton Creek that eventually was the Halfway Hotel with 22 rooms[5] and was run by John Palsgrove by 1903.{{r|Directory1903}}

Thomas and his brothers developed the site and in 1890 platted the streets for a town named Ruxton Park[5] below the timber line[7] where Ruxton and Sheep Creeks meet.[5][6] Cabins where built on several sold lots.[7]

The Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway was built in 1890, which brought tourists to the top of Pike's Peak[8][9] beginning June 30, 1891. The first third of the trip is alongside Ruxton Creek.[10] A stop was made at Ruxton Park where tourists could eat a meal at the "pleasant" Halfway Hotel.[9]

{{quote|Halfway House, "far from half way to the summit,... is a rustic mountain hotel surrounded by a grove of stately pines, and towering above it, the pinnacled rocks of Hell[s] Gate, through whose portal the train then passes."[11]}}

Ruxton Park was described as an area of aspen trees, pine trees and flowers—surrounded by Pike's Peak, Mt. Rosa, Cameron's Cone and other peaks.[8][12] Wealthy families from the western states had houses in the town where they sought the cooler mountain temperatures during the summers.[13] The town had a "fancy tourist hotel", water tower, and post office.[14]

In 1925, a water utility power plant was built for $16,866 {{Inflation|US|16,866|1925|fmt=eq}}[20] and opened in Ruxton Park by the city of Colorado Springs.[7] The stone hydroelectric plant generates electricity as Ruxton Creek flows into Manitou Springs from the mountain.{{efn|In 1957, it generated up to 1,250 kilowatts and the Manitou Hydroelectric Plant produced up to 5,000 kilowatts. The two plants supplied up to 4% of the Pikes Peak Region's electricity. The majority of the region's electricity was supplied by two steam plants in Colorado Springs. When the water levels rise, though, the plants can supply more electricity. During the Memorial Day 1935 flood, the two plants supplied electricity for two weeks to the Pikes Peak region.[15]}} A caretakers house was built in 1930 and from that time to 2008, nine Colorado Springs Utilities employees have lived there six months of the year, running the Ruxton Hydroelectric Plant and taking measurements for the National Weather Service. In 2008, the plant was fully automated.[16] The city bought some of the town lots and maintained several houses, a garage, and storage buildings in Ruxton Park. The cabins are now part of the "rusted weather-beaten ruins" that remain. Although the power plant continues to operate, there is no longer a caretaker that lives in Ruxton Park.[7] There are sometimes caretakers who oversee the reservoir who may stay in the house in Ruxton Park. It can be accessed via a hike or a {{convert|72|mi|km}} automobile trip over rough back roads.[16]{{efn|The trip (calculated at 69.6 miles on Google Maps) is made over Colorado Springs Water Department Roads, Forest Service Road 376 to Victor, through Cripple Creek and Woodland Park to Colorado Springs.[17]}}

Notes

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References

1. ^{{cite web | url= http://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=136:3:0::NO:3:P3_FID,P3_TITLE:193441,Ruxton%20Park | title=Ruxton Park | publisher=Geographic Names Information System, US Geological Survey, US Department of the Interior |date=October 13, 1978 | accessdate=January 13, 2015 }}
2. ^{{cite web | url=http://pikespeak.us.com/Activities/ride-the-cog-rail.html | title=Ride the Cog Rail to the Summit of Pikes Peak: The Trip to the Summit of Pikes Peak |publisher=Pike's Peak - America's Mountain | accessdate=January 13, 2015 }}
3. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.cograilway.com/along-the-route.asp |title=Along the Route | publisher=Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway | accessdate=January 14, 2015}}
4. ^{{cite book|author1=Bettie Marie Sharpton Daniels|author2=Virginia McConnell Simmons|title=The Springs of Manitou|year=1964|publisher=Sage books|location=Denver|page=46|oclc= 3549056}}
5. ^{{cite book|author=Morris W. Abbott|title=The Pike's Peak Cog Road|year=1972|publisher=Golden West Books|location=San Marino, California|isbn= 0870950398|page=79}}
6. ^{{cite news | title=Palsgroves plats town site of Ruxton Park (order text) | url=http://more.ppld.org:8080/SpecialCollections/Index/fulltext_order.asp?q=316244 | newspaper=The Gazette | date=July 15, 1890 | page=6 | accessdate=January 14, 2015 }}
7. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite news | url=http://www.westsidepioneer.com/Articles/120814/CobwebCorners.html |title=Cobweb Corners: The old Half Way House in Ruxton Park | author=Mel McFarland, Historian | newspaper=Westside Pioneer | location=Colorado Springs, CO | date=December 8, 2014 |accessdate=January 2015 }}
8. ^1 {{cite book|author=Salvatore Pannizzi|title=The Wide World Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly of True Narrative, Adventure, Travel, Customs, and Sport|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9gs8AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA300|volume=I - April to September 1898|year=1898|publisher=George Newness|location=London|page=300|chapter=Mountain Railways}}
9. ^1 {{cite book|author=James Fullarton Muirhead|editor=Karl Baedeker|title=The United States, with an excursion into Mexico: handbook for travellers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q-hKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA417|year=1893|publisher=Leipsic: Karl Baedeker; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons|page=417|chapter=Excursions from Colorado Springs: Pike's Peak}}
10. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.visitcos.com/pikes-peak-cog-railway |title=Pikes Peak Cog Railway | publisher=Colorado Springs Convention & Visitors Bureau | accessdate=January 14, 2015 }}
11. ^{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/stream/C1002013147/c100_2013_147#page/n2/mode/1up | title=Stop at Pike's Peak on your Way to or from the Expositions (for 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition) |author=Manitou and Cog Wheel Route Pike's Peak Railway, The Committee of One Hundred|year=1915 | publisher= | accessdate=January 14, 2015 }}
12. ^{{cite book|title=The Friend: A Religious and Literary Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_4E4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA203|volume=LXVI|year=1893|publisher=William H. Pile's Sons|location=Philadelphia|page=203|chapter=Extracts From Letters Written During a Summer Holiday Trip}}
13. ^{{cite book|author=League of American Wheelmen|title=Good Roads: Devoted to the Construction and Maintenance of Roads and Streets|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T00oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA222|volume=XXV|year=1897|publisher=Burton Publishing Company|location=Boston|page=222|chapter=A Trip Up Pike's Peak|number=4}}
14. ^1 {{cite news | url=http://newsok.com/cog-railway-fine-way-to-climb-pikes-peak/article/2118288 | title=Cog Railway Fine Way To Climb Pike's Peak | newspaper=The Oklahoman (NewsOK) |location=Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | date=August 18, 1985 | author=Jon Mark | accessdate=January 14, 2015 }}
15. ^{{cite news | title=Harry Kliewer Has run Manitou hydro plant for last 30 years | url=http://more.ppld.org:8080/specialcollections/index/ArticleOrders/425888.pdf | date=February 8, 1957 |newspaper=Colorado Springs Free Press | location=Colorado Springs, Colorado | via=Pikes Peak Library District: Pikes Peak NewsFinder |page=8 }}
16. ^1 2 {{cite news | url=http://gazette.com/the-power-of-privacy/article/42726#XQ5RxTMUCswb172k.99 |title=The Power of Privacy | author=R. Scott Rappold | newspaper=The Gazette |date=November 1, 2008 | accessdate=January 14, 2015 }}
17. ^{{ cite web | url=https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Forest+Service+Road+376,+Colorado/%2738.84166,-104.9753%27/Colorado+Springs,+CO/@38.8589283,-105.2864914,10z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m18!4m17!1m5!1m1!1s0x87135f5949950ec1:0xcba19737dbf818d4!2m2!1d-105.0216016!2d38.7342275!1m3!2m2!1d-104.9753!2d38.84166!1m5!1m1!1s0x8713412ea1e6d22b:0x418eeb92f5e86b13!2m2!1d-104.8213634!2d38.8338816!3e0 |title=Directions: Ruxton Park, Forest Service Road 376, Colorado Springs | publisher=google maps | accessdate=January 14, 2015 }}

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