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Valley milk production thrived in the mid-twentieth century

– W.A Ewing. Originally published on August 20, 2020 The caption of the featured image. Ray Stewart stands with his last milk truck near downtown Westcliffe. Stewart would collect milk from the local dairy farms every day and transport extra product to Colorado Springs driving down a dirt Hardscrabble Road. Including our little byway into “history in the making” with the closing of the Hillside Post Office, this is the seventh article in the Tribune’s occasional series on curating local history. If you find yourself or your neighbor engaged in such historical pursuits and would like to share your service and labor in those fields with our readers, please contact wayne@wetmountaintribune.com. Sometimes the capturing of local history is a matter of happenstance, a crossing of…