Morley, Colorado

The site of the town was originally named Cima, which means "summit" or "high place", by Spanish traders who traveled through the region in the late 1700s and early 1800s.

The coal was mined and shipped north to CF&I's steel production plant in Pueblo, Colorado.

The quantity of coal yields had dropped to less than half of their peak level,[2] and labor disputes were reducing the mine's cost effectiveness.

The local school closed that year, forcing students to be bused to the city of Trinidad twenty miles north.

The demolition crew felt it was sacrilegious to tear down "holy ground," and part of the church ruins remains to this day.

[8] In 2011, a real estate development group attempted to buy the land where the town and church stood.