By Kenneth Jessen Moffat came close to becoming a town of great importance in the north-central part of the San Luis Valley. Historian Holly Rechel-Felmlee wrote about Moffat in 1980: “A cold wind blows through, swirling dust around old buildings. One can hear the swings on the playground squeaking and a loose door slamming open and shut. At each house a dog barks, hailing arrivals. Most of the houses (however) are closed tight.” Little has changed over time except the tragic loss of an entire block of buildings to a fire in October of 2019. Rechel-Felmlee concluded, “There is so ...
