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Apr 16, 1889 - the legislature
created Montezuma County from
La Plata County , Cortez was made the County Seat.
Montezuma County, in the southwest corner of Colorado, is where the San
Juan Mountains meet the desert canyon country. Our neighbors are, Dolores to the
north, San Juan
to the north east; La Plata to the
east; San Juan, NM .,
to the south; Apache
County, AZ ., to the South West; San Juan
County, UT ., to the West.
The elevation ranges from 6,200 feet in Cortez to approximately 7,000 feet
in Mancos and Dolores .
The Anasazi Indians, lived in the Mesa Verde for more than 1,000 years.
They farmed the mesas, created a thriving, civilization that eventually
built hundred-room cities in the cliffs and caves of Mesa Verde.
The Ute Indians have lived in the region about 400 years; however, they
are not believed to be descendants of the Anasazi, who abandoned the area
in 1300 AD. The present Ute Mountain Ute Reservation was formed in 1897 by
the Weeminuche Band of Utes. In 1895 they established a camp on the
western end of the old Southern Ute Reservation, in what is today called
Towaoc.
The Ute Mountain Utes and their cousins, the Southern Utes in Ignacio,
are the only tribes remaining in Colorado today. The Ute Mountain Utes
speak their native language as well as English, and their children attend
public school in Cortez.
For more information on researching your Native American roots, check
out the Colorado Native
Americans Page. If you have any genealogical or historical data
pertaining to Montezuma County that you would like to share with fellow
researchers, please submit it to
.
If you would be interested in adopting and maintaining a
county site in Colorado, please contact the Colorado State Coordinator
Or The Assistant State Coordinator
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June 27,
2001: The RootsWeb/GenConnect Boards (Query,
Bible Records, Biographies, Deeds, Obituaries, Pensions, and
Wills) have been replaced by Ancestry/RootsWeb with a new
message system that combines all the categories. All the
messages that were formerly on the GenConnect system are still in
place on the new system. Read and submit messages to the
Montezuma
County Message Boards. To return to this page click
on "Links & Announcements" found at the right hand end of the
row of links just under Montezuma.
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Copyright © 2000 - Present by County Coordinator:
State Coordinator:
Gail
Kilgore or
Assistant State Coordinator
Sundee Anderson
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