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MAKE A MEME View Large Image This seeping rock pile, along the main highway above Durango, Colorado, has a name. It's the "Pinkerton Hot Springs," whose waters were first discovered in the early 1870s by dairy farmer James Harvey LCCN2015632356.tif 1 photograph digital ...

This seeping rock pile, along the main highway above Durango, Colorado, has a name. It's the "Pinkerton Hot Springs," whose waters were first discovered in the early 1870s by dairy farmer James Harvey LCCN2015632356.tif 1 photograph digital ...

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Keywords: This seeping rock pile, along the main highway above Durango, Colorado, has a name. It's the "Pinkerton Hot Springs," whose waters were first discovered in the early 1870s by dairy farmer James Harvey LCCN2015632356.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Purchase; Carol M Highsmith Photography Inc ; 2015; DLC/PP-2015 068 ; Forms part of Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Credit line Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Pinkerton turned the site on his land into a tourist spa including a hotel and a swimming pool filled with the soothing supposedly curative waters He even bottled the water and sold it to area health enthusiasts The hotel later burned to the ground and all that remains is the rock pile wildly colored by minerals within the oozing waters The rocks were assembled around a discharge pipe by the Colorado Department of Transportation around the year 2000 to focus the emission of water whose temperature ranges from 95 to 110 degrees Farenheit 2015 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2015632356 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/32300/32341a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 32341 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 32341 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive La Plata County Colorado Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Photographs by Carol M Highsmith