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Garo is an extinct town in
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in Park County,
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, United States. The Garo post office operated from January 29, 1880, until February 28, 1955.


Description

The now
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is about north of Hartsel and south of
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along Colorado Highway 9, at an elevation of . The community was named after its founder, the area
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ers Marie Guiraud, and for her late husband, Louis Adolfe Guiraud, both natives of
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.Laura King Van Dusen, "Marie Guiraud: 1860s Pioneer, Mother of Ten, Widowed at Forty-five, Amassed One of the Largest Estates in Park County Up to 1909", ''Historic Tales from Park County: Parked in the Past'' ( Charleston,
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: The History Press, 2013), , pp. 15-20.


Notable people

* Cleo Spurlock Wallace


See also

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History of Colorado The region that is today the U.S. state of Colorado has been inhabited by Native Americans and their Paleoamerican ancestors for at least 13,500 years and possibly more than 37,000 years. The eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains was a major mi ...
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References


External links


State of Colorado

History Colorado
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