By Fay Golson for The Chaffee County Heritage Area Advisory Board The Cleora Cemetery is the sixth property featured from the Chaffee County Historic Resources Survey that was completed this summer. The town of Cleora has a concise history that spans a two-year period from 1878 to 1880. It was born of high aspirations, none of which came to fruition, linked to the anticipated railroad line along the Arkansas River. In 1879, the Denver & Rio Grande (D&RG) and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (AT&SF) railroads had reached Cañon City. The stage route, on its way to Leadville and ...
