Bring a can of soup to the Colorado State Fair on Friday, September 3 and help make hunger history!
August 31, 2010: Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado is working in conjunction with History Colorado, the Colorado Historical Society, to reconstruct El Pueblo Trading Fort out of soup cans to raise awareness for Care and Share’s Campaign to End Summer Hunger. The fort, standing more than 7 feet tall, was painstakingly reconstructed by volunteers from James W. Nakai & Associates. Historical sketches, photographs and blueprints were used to ensure authenticity.
Please bring a can of soup to the Colorado State Fair on Friday, September 3 to help make hunger history! We will be accepting food and cash donations at our fort in the small animal building.
El Pueblo Trading Fort was one of several erected in the 1840s in the Arkansas River Valley for trade with Indian nations that brought vital resources to people of the region. Founded in 1842 on the Arkansas River, which divided the United States from Mexico, El Pueblo was an important cultural crossroads of the Southwest. The Mormon Battalion wintered there during the Mexican-American War, in l846, however permanent occupancy ended in l854, after Mauche Utes attack the post in l854. An archaeological excavation of the old trading fort is located at El Pueblo History Museum and tours are available in the fascinating outdoor placita that evokes the original El Pueblo.
