Earl, Colorado
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Earl is an unincorporated community in Las Animas County, in the U.S. state of Colorado.{{GNIS|194589}}
History
A post office called Earl was established in 1895, and remained in operation until 1923.{{cite web|url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?state=CO |title=Post offices |publisher=Jim Forte Postal History |accessdate=25 June 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306120236/http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?state=CO |archivedate=6 March 2016 }} The community most likely bears the name of an early settler.{{cite book|last=Dawson|first=John Frank|title=Place names in Colorado: why 700 communities were so named, 150 of Spanish or Indian origin|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015051116740;view=1up;seq=25|publisher=The J. Frank Dawson Publishing Co.|location=Denver, CO|page=19}}
The Earl School, built in 1909 and apparently a rural schoolhouse, survives and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.{{NRISref|version=2013a}}
References
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{{Las Animas County, Colorado}}
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Category:Unincorporated communities in Las Animas County, Colorado
Category:Unincorporated communities in Colorado
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