Volume 6 , Issue 29

Little Red School - South Leadville (Colorado)...

"Actually, that never was a church, it was a school building and it is still in its original location. My mother was the school secretary there for a couple of years in the early 1940s. My older sister did the 1st and 2nd grades there. This school was originally painted all white and remained white for most of its years. It was only comparatively recently painted red. I was born in Leadville in 1942 in the hospital, but my dad worked for the railroad and my family lived in Malta right behind the depot and only a couple of hundred yards or so from the location of that school. I'm sending a copy of this message to my sister because she'd be interested in all of this. She now lives in northern California, and I am in central Texas. Our dad was an Okie and was even living in OKC back in the 1930s. He was a railroader though and was able to gain employment with the railroad in Colorado in the latter depression years. My sister is a native of Oklahoma, while I am a native of Colorado, a factoid that I like to point out to some Texicans. Sincerely." -- Con Sweet
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