Колорадо штатындағы Агилар қаласының тарихы

Town in Colorado, United States

Aguilar is a Statutory Town located in Las Animas County, Colorado, United States. Cattleman and prominent pioneer José Ramón Aguilar founded the town in 1894.

The town was named for state legislator J. Ramon Aguilar. Aguilar owned the land that the town was built on. A post office was established at Aguilar in 1890. In 1894 the town was incorporated. From September 1913 until late April 1914, much of Las Animas County was embroiled by the Colorado Coalfield War, which saw up to 12,000 pro United Mine Workers of America strikers engaged in both peaceful and violent confrontations with the Rockefeller owned Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, other mining outfits, strikebreakers, and the Colorado National Guard. On October 29, 1913, the Aguilar post office and several other town structures were destroyed in an arson attack related to the strike. The National Guard arrested several strikers over the attack and handed them over to the federal U. S. Marshal Service. Following the Ludlow Massacre on April 20, 1914, strikers launched numerous attacks of both coordinated and spontaneous natures against mining operations, strikebreakers, and the National Guard in what is known as the Ten Day War. One of the attacks was launched against Southwestern Mine Co.'s Empire Mine on April 22, where armed strikers forced non striking miners and their families into the mine and began an all night siege outside. After negotiation led by Aguilar's mayor and a church minister named McDonald, the strikers abandoned the siege before fatalities on either side were reported.

Aguilar is located at (37.403299, 104.654363), about one mile west of Interstate 25. At the 2020 United States Census, the town had a total area of , all of it land.

Aguilar Public Schools is part of the Aguilar Reorganized School District RE 6. The school district has one elementary school and one junior/senior high school. Aguilar Elementary School and Aguilar Junior/Senior High School are located in Aguilar.

Aguilar is part of Colorado's Bustang network. It is on the Trinidad Pueblo Outrider line.