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Mexican Revolution Refugees Built Denver’s Santa Fe District
Denver’s Santa Fe Art District has roots in blood and hope. As the Mexican Revolution raged from 1910 to 1920, it killed 1.5 million people and sent nearly 200,000 refugees north.
Many found work at Denver’s Burnham Railroad Yards, settling in nearby Hunt’s Addition where Latino and Anglo families lived side by side.
By the 1940s, the Denver Housing Authority built projects that soon filled with Mexican families. Their kids would later lead the Chicano Movement that shaped the city…