{"id":801584,"date":"2019-11-20T18:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T01:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=374732"},"modified":"2019-11-20T18:00:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T01:00:07","slug":"dillon-considers-partnership-with-historical-society-to-relocate-structures-to-town-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/dillon-considers-partnership-with-historical-society-to-relocate-structures-to-town-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Dillon considers partnership with Historical Society to relocate structures to Town Park"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Local historian Christy Nelson rings the bell at Dillon\u2019s historic 1883 one-room schoolhouse Aug. 22.<\/strong>
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DILLON \u2014 A new partnership between the town of Dillon and the Summit Historical Society could be brewing as the two entities consider the possibility of bringing new museum experiences to Dillon\u2019s Town Park.<\/p>\n

Representatives from the Summit Historical Society were in attendance at Dillon\u2019s regular Town Council meeting Tuesday night to pitch the idea for new museum integrations into the Town Park, developed in cooperation with Dillon\u2019s Public Works Director Scott O\u2019Brien and other staff.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur purpose today is figuring out, how do we engage the town? How do we become more active partners with the town in both walkability and getting people moving over toward the Historical Society,\u201d said Sally Queen, acting executive director of the Historical Society. \u201cWhat makes things exciting is part of the planning process: Where do you have landscaping and outdoor signage that makes people want to move from one area to another and that makes them want to learn that history?\u201d<\/p>\n

Queen noted that the idea popped up recently when the Historical Society was offered the Ray Hill Cabin \u2014 built in the 1960s \u2014 to add to its collection of historical sites. Queen noted that while the structure isn\u2019t particularly old, it does help to provide a look at the evolution of the area\u2019s cabins when juxtaposed to other sites like the Lulu Myers Cabin built in 1885 and the Honeymoon Cabin built in the 1930s. And while the Historical Society has grant money to move the building, they don\u2019t have any land.<\/p>\n

In comes the town of Dillon. O\u2019Brien said the town has been considering concepts for the area \u2014 the northernmost part of the Town Park that leads into the museum \u2014 since 2013, hoping to create a more passive use for the area that wouldn\u2019t affect nearby homes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn terms of our planning since then, we still have our passive use plan for that northern area, but we did meet with Sally and (Bruce Queen), and they presented us with a concept of some kind of historic campus that would connect to the Town Park, and have connections and walkability to the marina and the town center,\u201d O\u2019Brien said.<\/p>\n

The idea is that the Historical Society would relocate historical structures to the Town Park, and Dillon would create a landscaped pathway through the area that guests could walk through. The concept presented Tuesday included the relocation of the Honeymoon Cabin and the Ray Hill Cabin into the park, along with the potential of other areas set aside for historic artifacts, gathering spaces, gardens and interpretive plazas. The concept also calls for informative signage to direct visitors through the area.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe continuity would include similar signs that would provide snippets that lead you to another sign,\u201d Queen said. \u201cIt would tie it all together.\u201d<\/p>\n

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For its part, the Town Council largely responded positively to the idea, and asked town staff and representatives with the Historical Society to continue pursuing the concept.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it would be great,\u201d council member Brad Bailey said. \u201cA lot of people around here celebrate their history with little pocket parks that are well done. And I think we could incorporate something like that here in Town Park. I like having it in our backyard, and we could even make it more progressive and animate it in different ways to make it fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Brien noted that the idea hadn\u2019t been included in the Town Park Master Plan, though he said it would be an easy addition. It\u2019s also unclear what the project would cost the town.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited to see everyone on board, and I\u2019m excited to see what this could turn into,\u201d Mayor Carolyn Skowyra said. \u201cI think this is so great, and I would love to see this as part of our Town Park.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Local historian Christy Nelson rings the bell at Dillon\u2019s historic 1883 one-room schoolhouse Aug. 22.Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com DILLON \u2014 A new partnership between the town of Dillon and the Summit Historical Society could be brewing as the two entities consider the possibility of bringing new museum experiences to Dillon\u2019s Town Park. Representatives from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-801584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 21:09:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}