Veterans Memorial

Historical marker location:

320 South 1st Street, Montrose, Colorado

( Memorial is at the intersection of Townsend Avenue (U.S. 550) and 1st Street, on the left when traveling south on Townsend Avenue.)

Marker installed: 1989

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.