Convicts' Bread Oven

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Historic adobe-style bread oven listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).

- Built: 1911
- Areas of significance: Social History
- Area: less than 1 acre
- Date added to NRHP: 12/31/1974
- Other designations: listed on the Colorado State Register of Historic Properties
- Notes: This bread oven was built to feed a team of 30 convicts (and their guards) who worked out of a nearby labor camp involved in road construction and maintenance in the area. It resembles a Mexican adobe-style oven and operated for just over a year from 1911 to 1912.
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Coordinates:   39°12'1"N   108°11'29"W
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