ancient ruins
Mesa Verde National Park
Home to over 5,000 archaeological sites including 600 spectacular cliff dwellings built by the Ancestral Puebloans between the 6th and 12th centuries.
20 km · about 25 min drive
Colorado, United States · North America
Cortez is worth a stop: 25 minutes from Towaoc, 20km from Mesa Verde National Park.
Cortez is a town located in Colorado, United States. With a population of 8,715, it is an important destination in North America.
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The Montezuma Valley National Bank and Store Building, at 2-8 Main St. in Cortez, Colorado, was built in 1909. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
It was built by the Durango firm Stroehle & Lemmon, with stonework by local stonemason Peter Baxtrom and his son A.H. (Harry) Baxtrom.
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or all of it has been known also as the Citizens State Bank, the Basin Industrial Bank, the Kermode Bakery and as Moffit Drug.
The listing included two contributing buildings.
For over four decades, from 1915 to 1957, this building housed the town's only bank.
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Cortez is located in Colorado, United States, North America. The coordinates are 37.3489 latitude, -108.5859 longitude.
Cortez has a population of approximately 8,715 people, making it a town in United States.
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ancient ruins
Home to over 5,000 archaeological sites including 600 spectacular cliff dwellings built by the Ancestral Puebloans between the 6th and 12th centuries.
20 km · about 25 min drive
ancient ruins
Ancestral Puebloan stone towers built on canyon rims and boulders around 1200 CE, remarkably intact and reached by a paved road across the Utah-Colorado line. A two-mile rim loop passes most of the ruins.
44 km · about 50 min drive
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