Brief by Central Staff
Postal Service – January 1998 – Colorado Central Magazine
Are Computers Keeping Cleora Alive?
In our June, 1997, edition, we mentioned that the Postal Service still delivers mail to Cleora, even though Cleora’s post office closed on March 7, 1882.
Cleora, which survived as the name of a railroad siding, is a couple of miles east of Salida. It was originally a stagecoach stop named Bale’s Station for John Bale, its owner. He changed its name to Cleora, after his daughter, and its post office opened in 1876. The place faded quickly after the railroad reached Salida in 1880.