Finding home: The little-known story of a Black orphanage in southern Colorado

PUEBLO • Black history hides in a dark, dusty bunker on the tumbleweed plains of southeast Colorado where World War I-era chemical weapons were once stored. Stored here now are reminders of a much different place. The Lincoln Home “was the only known orphanage of its type in Colorado,” reads the one and only paragraph available on a History Colorado webpage. From 1906 to 1963, when options were few during segregation, the Lincoln Home took in Black youth as well as sick and lonely seniors. The brick building still stands...