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Barbara Berry, Limon:
This wonderful Prairie Monument is in the Limon Heritage Museum Park in Limon. The monument was given to the museum in June 1995 by the Conrad S. Schafer family as a memorial to early pioneers who came to live on the Eastern Plains of Colorado. In order to escape the drought in 1950, the Schafer Ranch (begun in 1873) made one of the last cattle drives along the Union Pacific Railroad tracks from their headquarters near Hugo to pasture land at River Bend. The calves were weighed in the fall on Union Pacific’s cattle scale, which was built about 1892. The scale is the red structure seen behind the monument. This monument and the scale are a welcome historic additionalong with many early windmills — to the park.
