page_title: Saguache, Colorado
section_title: Saguache today
hierarchical_section_title: Saguache, Colorado / Saguache today
caption_attribution_description: English: The Saguache School and Jail Buildings, located at the intersection of U.S. 285 and San Juan Avenue in Saguache, Colorado. The property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
context_page_description: The historic town of Saguache is a Statutory Town that is the county seat of Saguache County, Colorado, United States. The population was 493 at the U.S. Census 2010.
context_section_description: From its early days as a boom town, the population of Saguache has shrunk to around 500 residents. The Saguache visitor guide writes that "In its heyday, Saguache could boast of having the Colorado Hall (serving the purest wines and liquors), the Saguache Meat Market, a boarding house, a grocery, law firms, a hardware store, a hotel, a sawmill, and The Saguache Chronicle newspaper."  After several name changes, The Saguache Chronicle eventually became The Saguache Crescent. The paper is printed every week on a flatbed press built in 1915 with metal type cast on a Linotype composing machine. The Linotype may be the only one still in use in the United States. It is also still the county's "paper of record," and is operated by a third generation descendant of the family who purchased it in 1917.
  The early sheep ranching eventually gave way to cattle and alfalfa hay production. Present day Saguache has "one school, a library, a museum, four churches, two gas stations, one liquor store, two grocery stores, two restaurants, a sawmill, and an organic farm."
caption: Historic Saguache School and Jail Buildings
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