Editing Calhan, Colorado (section)

==History==
Calhan was established in 1888 as a water station for the now-defunct [[Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad]], with the first [[steam locomotive]] arriving on November 5, 1888. The town was named by and for Michael Calahan, who had the contract to lay railroad tracks from the [[Colorado]]/[[Kansas]] border to [[Colorado Springs]]. However, when the town's first [[U.S. Post Office]] opened on November 24, 1888, the middle "a" had been dropped and the town was registered as "Calhan."<ref>{{cite book|title=The History of Calhan and Vicinity 1888–1988|date=1987|publisher=Gaddy Printing Company|isbn=0-9619442-0-X|page=10|author=Larry l. King}}</ref> The town was incorporated as a [[Colorado municipalities#Statutory town|statutory town]] in 1919. The town grew quickly, but it was not until 1906 that the [[Calhan Rock Island Railroad Depot]] was built to meet the growing needs of the area.

[[File:Calhan Colorado cemetery by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|left|The Calhan cemetery]]
[[Jesse N. Funk]] was a rancher in Calhan when the United States joined the [[First World War]] in 1917. Having enlisted in 1915, [[Private first class|Private]] Funk was sent to [[France]] to support the [[Allies of World War I|Allied]] efforts at the [[Battle of Saint-Mihiel]]. There on October 31, 1918, Funk rescued two wounded officers from [[no man's land]] while under [[machine gun]] fire, for which Funk received the [[Medal of Honor]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Medal of Honor recipients - World War I |work=Medal of Honor citations |publisher=[[United States Army Center of Military History]] |date=June 8, 2009 |url=http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/worldwari.html |accessdate=August 31, 2020 |archive-date=September 1, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100901074542/http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/worldwari.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1993, the [[Orthodox Church in America]] established the Protection of the Holy Virgin community, a female [[Eastern Christian monasticism|monastic]] community. Until they moved further west to [[Lake George, Colorado|Lake George]] in 1995, the monastics rented a home in Calhan.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oca.org/parishes/oca-we-boupvm|title=Protection of the Holy Virgin Monastery|publisher=Orthodox Church in America|work=oca.org|access-date=August 31, 2020}}</ref>