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<blockquote data-quote="Michael T" data-source="post: 249233" data-attributes="member: 1139">There was a stage stop just west of here in the 1860’s on the Butterfield Overland Despatch, also known as the Smoky Hill Trail, which was the fastest route between Kansas City and the Denver gold fields at Cherry Creek. One of my hobbies is researching the B.O.D. and photographing some of the ruins along the route through Kansas and Colorado. The railroads follow most of the early stage routes and Aroya had it’s beginning in the late 1860’s as a labor camp for the Union Pacific Railroad. I have not found any exact dates in my research, but so far the best estimate was the little one room schoolhouse was in service until around 1950 and sometime after that the highway was moved off the railroad a couple of miles to the east and that was the end for Aroya, Colorado. I thought I would ask some of the older members of the Eastern Colorado Historical Society about what they remember at our next meeting.A B.O.D. marker in Kansas[ATTACH=full]130384[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Michael T, post: 249233, member: 1139"] There was a stage stop just west of here in the 1860’s on the Butterfield Overland Despatch, also known as the Smoky Hill Trail, which was the fastest route between Kansas City and the Denver gold fields at Cherry Creek. One of my hobbies is researching the B.O.D. and photographing some of the ruins along the route through Kansas and Colorado. The railroads follow most of the early stage routes and Aroya had it’s beginning in the late 1860’s as a labor camp for the Union Pacific Railroad. I have not found any exact dates in my research, but so far the best estimate was the little one room schoolhouse was in service until around 1950 and sometime after that the highway was moved off the railroad a couple of miles to the east and that was the end for Aroya, Colorado. I thought I would ask some of the older members of the Eastern Colorado Historical Society about what they remember at our next meeting. A B.O.D. marker in Kansas [ATTACH=full]130384[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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