Pueblo was listed by AARP in 2013 as one of the best affordable places to live. ==History== ===El Pueblo=== James Beckwourth, George Simpson, and other trappers such as Mathew Kinkead, claimed to have helped construct the plaza that became known as El Pueblo around 1842.
According to accounts of residents who traded at the plaza (including that of George Simpson), the Fort Pueblo Massacre happened sometime between December 23 and December 25, 1854, by a war party of Utes and Jicarilla Apaches under the leadership of Tierra Blanca, a Ute chief.
The trading post was abandoned after the raid, but it became important again between 1858 and 1859 during the Colorado Gold Rush of 1859. === Pueblo's early development: railroads, steel, expansion, and orphanages === The current city of Pueblo represents the consolidation of four towns: Pueblo (incorporated 1870), South Pueblo (incorporated 1873), Central Pueblo (incorporated 1882), and Bessemer (incorporated 1886).
The trading post was abandoned after the raid, but it became important again between 1858 and 1859 during the Colorado Gold Rush of 1859. === Pueblo's early development: railroads, steel, expansion, and orphanages === The current city of Pueblo represents the consolidation of four towns: Pueblo (incorporated 1870), South Pueblo (incorporated 1873), Central Pueblo (incorporated 1882), and Bessemer (incorporated 1886).
Bowen, United States Senator from Colorado, 1883–1889, Governor of Idaho Territory, 1871, Arkansas Supreme Court Justice, 1867–1871 David Courtney Coates, Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World Frank Evans, U.S.
The trading post was abandoned after the raid, but it became important again between 1858 and 1859 during the Colorado Gold Rush of 1859. === Pueblo's early development: railroads, steel, expansion, and orphanages === The current city of Pueblo represents the consolidation of four towns: Pueblo (incorporated 1870), South Pueblo (incorporated 1873), Central Pueblo (incorporated 1882), and Bessemer (incorporated 1886).
By the early 1870s the city was being hailed as a beacon of development, with newspapers like the Chicago Tribune boasting of how the region's lawless reputation was giving way to orderly agriculture with triumphalist rhetoric.
Bowen, United States Senator from Colorado, 1883–1889, Governor of Idaho Territory, 1871, Arkansas Supreme Court Justice, 1867–1871 David Courtney Coates, Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World Frank Evans, U.S.
The trading post was abandoned after the raid, but it became important again between 1858 and 1859 during the Colorado Gold Rush of 1859. === Pueblo's early development: railroads, steel, expansion, and orphanages === The current city of Pueblo represents the consolidation of four towns: Pueblo (incorporated 1870), South Pueblo (incorporated 1873), Central Pueblo (incorporated 1882), and Bessemer (incorporated 1886).
Very small portions lie within Pueblo County School District 70. Centennial High School was founded north of downtown on Eleventh Street in 1876, the year Colorado entered the Union.
Established in 1879 as the Colorado State Insane Asylum, it was renamed as the Colorado State Hospital in 1917.
Leading critic in religious intolerance crisis at the United States Air Force Academy John Perko, Division of Correction Director who helped draft and spearhead legislation which establish the present day Colorado Department of Corrections Dana Perino, White House Press Secretary in 2007–2009, graduated from Colorado State University Pueblo in 1994 Frederick Walker Pitkin, second Governor of Colorado from 1879 to 1883 John E.
The trading post was abandoned after the raid, but it became important again between 1858 and 1859 during the Colorado Gold Rush of 1859. === Pueblo's early development: railroads, steel, expansion, and orphanages === The current city of Pueblo represents the consolidation of four towns: Pueblo (incorporated 1870), South Pueblo (incorporated 1873), Central Pueblo (incorporated 1882), and Bessemer (incorporated 1886).
Central High School was founded in Bessemer in 1882.
Bowen, United States Senator from Colorado, 1883–1889, Governor of Idaho Territory, 1871, Arkansas Supreme Court Justice, 1867–1871 David Courtney Coates, Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World Frank Evans, U.S.
Leading critic in religious intolerance crisis at the United States Air Force Academy John Perko, Division of Correction Director who helped draft and spearhead legislation which establish the present day Colorado Department of Corrections Dana Perino, White House Press Secretary in 2007–2009, graduated from Colorado State University Pueblo in 1994 Frederick Walker Pitkin, second Governor of Colorado from 1879 to 1883 John E.
The trading post was abandoned after the raid, but it became important again between 1858 and 1859 during the Colorado Gold Rush of 1859. === Pueblo's early development: railroads, steel, expansion, and orphanages === The current city of Pueblo represents the consolidation of four towns: Pueblo (incorporated 1870), South Pueblo (incorporated 1873), Central Pueblo (incorporated 1882), and Bessemer (incorporated 1886).
Pueblo, South Pueblo, and Central Pueblo legally consolidated as the City of Pueblo between March 9 and April 6, 1886.
US Route 50 runs east–west through Pueblo. ==Notable people== ===Politics=== Alva Adams, the fifth, tenth, and fourteenth Governor of Colorado, from 1887 to 1889, 1897 to 1899, and briefly in 1905 Alva Blanchard Adams, United States Senator from Colorado, 1923–1925 and 1933–1941.
US Route 50 runs east–west through Pueblo. ==Notable people== ===Politics=== Alva Adams, the fifth, tenth, and fourteenth Governor of Colorado, from 1887 to 1889, 1897 to 1899, and briefly in 1905 Alva Blanchard Adams, United States Senator from Colorado, 1923–1925 and 1933–1941.
The Bell Game has been played annually since 1892 between the Central Wildcats and the Centennial Bulldogs in what is touted as the oldest football rivalry west of the Mississippi River. In 2008, Professional Bull Riders (PBR) moved its corporate headquarters to Pueblo.
Bessemer joined Pueblo in 1894. The consolidated city became a major economic and social center of Colorado, and was home to important early Colorado families such as the Thatchers, the Ormans, and the Adams.
US Route 50 runs east–west through Pueblo. ==Notable people== ===Politics=== Alva Adams, the fifth, tenth, and fourteenth Governor of Colorado, from 1887 to 1889, 1897 to 1899, and briefly in 1905 Alva Blanchard Adams, United States Senator from Colorado, 1923–1925 and 1933–1941.
US Route 50 runs east–west through Pueblo. ==Notable people== ===Politics=== Alva Adams, the fifth, tenth, and fourteenth Governor of Colorado, from 1887 to 1889, 1897 to 1899, and briefly in 1905 Alva Blanchard Adams, United States Senator from Colorado, 1923–1925 and 1933–1941.
Representative from Colorado, 1909–1913, 1933–1939 Bat Masterson, iconic figure of American West, sheriff of South Pueblo James Bradley Orman, twelfth Governor of Colorado, in office 1901–1903 Jim Parco, former United States Air Force lieutenant colonel.
US Route 50 runs east–west through Pueblo. ==Notable people== ===Politics=== Alva Adams, the fifth, tenth, and fourteenth Governor of Colorado, from 1887 to 1889, 1897 to 1899, and briefly in 1905 Alva Blanchard Adams, United States Senator from Colorado, 1923–1925 and 1933–1941.
Central's present campus on East Orman Avenue was built in 1906 and expanded in the early 1970s.
Senator from Colorado, 1907–1913, businessman and son of Benjamin Guggenheim Asma Gull Hasan, political pundit Walter Walford Johnson, 32nd Governor of Colorado, 1950–1951 Raymond P.
Steel emerged as a key industry very early, and in 1909 the city was considered the only steel town west of the Mississippi River. Until a series of major floods culminated in the Great Flood of 1921, Pueblo was considered the 'Saddle-Making capital of the World'.
Representative from Colorado, 1909–1913, 1933–1939 Bat Masterson, iconic figure of American West, sheriff of South Pueblo James Bradley Orman, twelfth Governor of Colorado, in office 1901–1903 Jim Parco, former United States Air Force lieutenant colonel.
Established in 1879 as the Colorado State Insane Asylum, it was renamed as the Colorado State Hospital in 1917.
The Historic Arkansas River Project (HARP) is a riverwalk in the Union Avenue Historic Commercial District, and shows the history of the devastating Pueblo Flood of 1921. Pueblo has the least expensive residential real estate of all major cities in Colorado.
Steel emerged as a key industry very early, and in 1909 the city was considered the only steel town west of the Mississippi River. Until a series of major floods culminated in the Great Flood of 1921, Pueblo was considered the 'Saddle-Making capital of the World'.
27th Governor of Colorado, 1937 Hubert Work, 47th United States Postmaster General, 1922 to 1923.
US Route 50 runs east–west through Pueblo. ==Notable people== ===Politics=== Alva Adams, the fifth, tenth, and fourteenth Governor of Colorado, from 1887 to 1889, 1897 to 1899, and briefly in 1905 Alva Blanchard Adams, United States Senator from Colorado, 1923–1925 and 1933–1941.
27th Governor of Colorado, 1937 Hubert Work, 47th United States Postmaster General, 1922 to 1923.
Later the 29th United States Secretary of the Interior, 1923 to 1928 ===Military=== William J.
Later the 29th United States Secretary of the Interior, 1923 to 1928 ===Military=== William J.
Rickards, first Lieutenant Governor of Montana and second Governor of Montana Fitch Robertson, Mayor of Berkeley, California from 1943 to 1947 Ray Herbert Talbot, 26th Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, from 1932 to 1937.
US Route 50 runs east–west through Pueblo. ==Notable people== ===Politics=== Alva Adams, the fifth, tenth, and fourteenth Governor of Colorado, from 1887 to 1889, 1897 to 1899, and briefly in 1905 Alva Blanchard Adams, United States Senator from Colorado, 1923–1925 and 1933–1941.
Representative from Colorado, 1909–1913, 1933–1939 Bat Masterson, iconic figure of American West, sheriff of South Pueblo James Bradley Orman, twelfth Governor of Colorado, in office 1901–1903 Jim Parco, former United States Air Force lieutenant colonel.
Rickards, first Lieutenant Governor of Montana and second Governor of Montana Fitch Robertson, Mayor of Berkeley, California from 1943 to 1947 Ray Herbert Talbot, 26th Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, from 1932 to 1937.
27th Governor of Colorado, 1937 Hubert Work, 47th United States Postmaster General, 1922 to 1923.
The airport is also home to the Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum (named for Fred Weisbrod, late city manager), reflecting the airport's beginnings as an Army Air Corps base in 1943. Pueblo Historical Aircraft Society Fremont County Airport is a general aviation field approximately 35 miles north-west of Pueblo, near Penrose. ===Highways=== Interstate 25 and US Route 85 run in tandem on the same north–south expressway through Pueblo.
Rickards, first Lieutenant Governor of Montana and second Governor of Montana Fitch Robertson, Mayor of Berkeley, California from 1943 to 1947 Ray Herbert Talbot, 26th Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, from 1932 to 1937.
Rickards, first Lieutenant Governor of Montana and second Governor of Montana Fitch Robertson, Mayor of Berkeley, California from 1943 to 1947 Ray Herbert Talbot, 26th Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, from 1932 to 1937.
South High School and East High School were built in the late 1950s to accommodate the Baby Boomer generation.
Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, 1950-1955 Thomas M.
Senator from Colorado, 1907–1913, businessman and son of Benjamin Guggenheim Asma Gull Hasan, political pundit Walter Walford Johnson, 32nd Governor of Colorado, 1950–1951 Raymond P.
"Jerry" Murphy with his medal in 1953 commented, "What is it...
Allott, United States Senator from Colorado, 1955–1973.
Peaker, actress, star of Hello Dolly, graduated from Centennial High School in 1958 Blaine L.
Representative from Colorado, 1965–1979 Thomas T.
Pueblo itself last had intercity passenger service in 1967 with the Denver to Dallas Texas Zephyr, run by the Colorado & Southern Railway and the Fort Worth & Denver Railway (both subsidiaries of the Burlington Route). ===Aviation=== Pueblo Memorial Airport - The local airport lies to the east of the city.
Central's present campus on East Orman Avenue was built in 1906 and expanded in the early 1970s.
Its building became Roncalli middle school in the early 1970s.
Pueblo West High School is located in the northwestern suburb of Pueblo West. Pueblo Catholic High School closed in 1971.
Centennial was rebuilt on a new site to the northwest in 1973.
By 1975 all Catholic schools in Pueblo (under the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pueblo) had closed.
Representative from Colorado, 1979–1985 John Andrew Martin, U.S.
Reininger, singer and musician of proto-punk and new wave, co-founder of Tuxedomoon Kelly Reno, child actor in the 1979 film The Black Stallion and its sequel Charles Rocket, Saturday Night Live cast member, formerly a news anchor in Pueblo Dan Rowan, star of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, lived in McClelland Orphanage in Pueblo and graduated from Pueblo Central High School Damon Runyon, newspaperman and playwright; author of Guys and Dolls.
The steel-market crash of 1982 led to the decline of the company.
The wire mill was sold in the late 1990s to Davis Wire, which still produces products such as fence and nails under the CF&I brand name. The facility operated blast furnaces until 1982, when the steel market collapsed.
According to the Rocky Mountain News, in 1988 the Sacred Heart Orphanage was bought by the Pueblo Housing Authority and turned into 40 small-family housing units. ===Steel mill=== The main industry in Pueblo for most of its history was the Colorado Fuel and Iron (CF&I) Steel Mill on the south side of town.
The main blast furnace structures were torn down in 1989, but due to asbestos content, many of the adjacent stoves still remain.
The wire mill was sold in the late 1990s to Davis Wire, which still produces products such as fence and nails under the CF&I brand name. The facility operated blast furnaces until 1982, when the steel market collapsed.
In 1991, the name was changed to the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo (CMHIP).
something in the water out there in Pueblo? All you guys turn out to be heroes!" In 1993, Pueblo City Council adopted the tagline "Home of Heroes" for the city due to the fact that Pueblo can claim more recipients of the Medal per capita than any other city in the United States.
On July 1, 1993, the Congressional Record recognized Pueblo as the "Home of Heroes." A memorial to the recipients of the medal is at the Pueblo Convention Center.
Leading critic in religious intolerance crisis at the United States Air Force Academy John Perko, Division of Correction Director who helped draft and spearhead legislation which establish the present day Colorado Department of Corrections Dana Perino, White House Press Secretary in 2007–2009, graduated from Colorado State University Pueblo in 1994 Frederick Walker Pitkin, second Governor of Colorado from 1879 to 1883 John E.
This culminated with a major strike in 1997, leading to most of the workforce being replaced. In September 2004, both United Steelworkers locals 2102 and 3267 won the strike and the unfair labor practice charges.
Pueblo is considered a high desert climate, and sits on the desert lands in southern Colorado between Pueblo and the Royal Gorge. ==Demographics== As of the census of 2000, there were 102,121 people, 40,307 households, and 26,118 families residing in the city.
The stoves and foundations for some of the furnaces can be seen from Interstate 25, which runs parallel to the plant's west boundary. Several of the administration buildings, including the main office building, dispensary, and tunnel gatehouse were purchased in 2003 by the Bessemer Historical Society.
This culminated with a major strike in 1997, leading to most of the workforce being replaced. In September 2004, both United Steelworkers locals 2102 and 3267 won the strike and the unfair labor practice charges.
Therese Catholic School. Dolores Huerta Preparatory High School was founded in 2004, and relocated to its current building in 2007.
In 2006, they underwent renovation.
In 2007, shortly after Oregon Steel made amends with the union and its workers, Evraz Group, one of Russia's biggest steel producers, agreed to buy the company for $2.3 billion. Of the many production and fabrication mills that once existed on the site, only the steel production (electric furnaces, used for scrap recycling), rail, rod, bar, and seamless tube mills are still in operation.
On May 8, 2007, CSU Pueblo received approval from the Board of Governors of the Colorado State University System to bring back football as a member of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.
Therese Catholic School. Dolores Huerta Preparatory High School was founded in 2004, and relocated to its current building in 2007.
Leading critic in religious intolerance crisis at the United States Air Force Academy John Perko, Division of Correction Director who helped draft and spearhead legislation which establish the present day Colorado Department of Corrections Dana Perino, White House Press Secretary in 2007–2009, graduated from Colorado State University Pueblo in 1994 Frederick Walker Pitkin, second Governor of Colorado from 1879 to 1883 John E.
The Bell Game has been played annually since 1892 between the Central Wildcats and the Centennial Bulldogs in what is touted as the oldest football rivalry west of the Mississippi River. In 2008, Professional Bull Riders (PBR) moved its corporate headquarters to Pueblo.
The first game was played in the fall of 2008 at the ThunderBowl, a stadium at CSU Pueblo for over 12,000 spectators.
Hawkins High Security Forensic Institute opened in June 2009 and is a 200-bed, high-security facility. ===Home of Heroes=== Pueblo is the hometown of four Medal of Honor recipients (more than any other municipality in the United States) - William J.
The population was 106,595 in 2010 census, making it the 267th most populous city in the United States and the 9th largest in Colorado.
About 13.9% of families and 17.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 24.3% of those under age 18 and 9.1% of those age 65 or over. As of the 2010 census, the population of Pueblo was 106,544 (259th most populous U.S.
Garcia, 48th and current Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, since January 2011.
Pueblo was listed by AARP in 2013 as one of the best affordable places to live. ==History== ===El Pueblo=== James Beckwourth, George Simpson, and other trappers such as Mathew Kinkead, claimed to have helped construct the plaza that became known as El Pueblo around 1842.
In its Fall 2013 ranking of radio markets by population, Arbitron ranked the Pueblo market 238th in the United States.
It is the sixth most affordable place to live in the United States as measured by the 2014 Cost of Living Index.
In 2014, the football team won the NCAA Division II Football Championship. Pueblo Community College (PCC) is a two-year, public, comprehensive community college, one of thirteen community colleges within the Colorado Community College System (CCCS).
In recent times GSA has incorporated Pueblo into FCIC's toll-free telephone number. Vestas Wind Systems has constructed the largest (nearly 700,000 square feet) wind turbine tower manufacturing plant in the world at Pueblo's industrial park. Renewable Energy Systems Americas broke ground on the Comanche Solar Project seven miles south of Pueblo in 2015.
In 2016, the FBI's Uniform Crime Report listed Pueblo's major reported crimes stats as: 1,081 violent crime, murders 9, rape 171, robbery 224, aggravated assault 677, property crimes (all) 7,473, burglary 1,797, larceny 4,505, motor vehicle theft (all) 1,171, arson 49. ==Education== ===Higher education=== Pueblo is home to Colorado State University Pueblo (CSU Pueblo), a regional comprehensive university.
An Amtrak study in 2016 floated the idea of rerouting the Southwest Chief from Trinidad in the south, to Pueblo and then east, back to the existing Southwest Chief route in La Junta.
A number of scientific studies now list Pueblo as the state's primary locale for solar energy development and the premier setting for solar companies to locate, placing it ahead of regional rivals such as Boulder, Colorado and Taos, New Mexico. In February 2017, Pueblo City Council voted to commit the city to 100% renewable energy ("Ready for 100%") by the year 2035, with the city's electric franchisee, Black Hills Energy, expected to ramp up its renewable energy portfolio from 29% to 65%.
In 2017 voters passed Question 2A changing the city charter to a strong-mayor form of city government known as "Mayor-Council Government".
The median home price for homes on the market in Pueblo is $192,500 as of April 2018.
Pueblo County commissioners joined the renewable commitment in April 2018.
In 2018 an election was held for mayor for the first time in over sixty years, due to none of the sixteen candidates getting more than fifty percent of the vote, a runoff was required to decide the winner.
In January 2019 attorney Nicholas Gradisar faced former Pueblo City Council President Steve Nawrocki, Gradisar prevailed and was sworn in as mayor on the first of February for a term of five years, with all subsequent mayoral terms being four years and a maximum of two consecutive terms. The deputy mayor is selected by the mayor and must be confirmed by a vote of the city council, the deputy mayor serves a term of one year.
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