Columbine Mine / Coal Field Country

Historical marker location:

East Baseline Road, Broomfield, Colorado

( Marker is on East Baseline Road (Colorado Route 7) 0.3 miles east of Mountain View Boulevard, on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 2002

Colorado was originally part of the Kansas and Nebraska territories, but was separated and made into its own territory in 1861. It became a state in 1876, 100 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.