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Title	Horsetooth Reservoir; Soldier Canyon
Image ID Number	H05351
Date	circa 1977
Decade	1970s
Creator	Mr. Maloney, Greeley
Description	Color photograph of Horsetooth Reservoir, a part of the Colorado-Big Thompson project in Fort Collins, was drained in 1977 due to siphon damage from the Big Thompson flood. The reservoir is the main source of Fort Collins water supply. This photograph was taken of the Eugene Lamb Homestead and Quarry which were covered over by Horsetooth Lake. Lamb, who had come to Colorado as a prospector, worked in the Stout quarries and operated a red sandstone quarry in Soldier Canyon, where he took up a homestead. His stone was used in the old Fort Collins Public Library, now the Fort Collins Museum. There was a stone house, garage, and office and a rock wall around the homestead. This is the quarry behind the house. "The origin of the name, Soldier Canyon, may be due to the fact that a skeleton was found in a crevice with two or three U.S. Army buttons before the time of Camp Collins. It may have come from the fact that soldiers gathered wood from a nearby hill for the camp, and used the canyon as access to the foothills." Summarized from the book, "Larimer County Place Names" page 70.
Content Type	landscapes - built
Subject	Lamb, Eugene Quarries and quarrying--Colorado--Soldier Canyon Horsetooth Lake (Colo.)
Image Source	Historical Collection
Format	image/jpeg
Image Collection	Historical Collection
File Location	LC Places - Horsetooth Reservoir, Soldier Canyon, Dixon Canyon ; Larimer County Horsetooth Reservoir
Language	English
Image Origin	Print
Collection Name	HistoricPhotographs
Web Exhibit	Waterways