Mancos grain elevator makes endangered list Colorado
Preservation, Inc. announces 2013 list Colorado Preservation,
Inc. announced this week that five sites have been selected for
Colorado's 2013 Most Endangered Places list. The list included
one local site: The Kennedy/Mancos Grain Elevator. More than 30
historic sites were nominated for the 2013 list. The five
selected include: Cranmer Park/Sundial Plaza in Denver; Fort
Lyon in Las Animas in Bent County, Homesteading Sites of
Escalante Canyon in Delta County; the Hotchkiss Barn in Delta
County; and the Kennedy/Mancos Grain Elevator in Montezuma
County. The Mancos Grain Elevator was built in 1934 by Grady
Clampitt. Clampitt and a bordering farmer grew dryland wheat in
fields bordering Mesa Verde National Park on the southeast side.
Those same fields are used to grow dryland wheat today. The
elevator was put in use upon completion and remained in use for
an indeterminate number of the years following Clampitt's
retirement. With the farm no longer in use, the K