Editing Cheraw, Colorado (section)

==History==
In 1917, Cheraw was the smallest town in the world with a regimental band.  Cheraw had a population of 80, half of whom were men serving in the Colorado National Guard Second Regiment Band under the leadership of Sergeant Luther D. Armstrong, attached to the regiment of General Cameron and the 115th Ammunition Train commanded by Colonel Danks.<ref>"Regimental Band puts Small Town on the Map," Pueblo Chieftain, November 15, 1917, p.8.</ref>

In 1920, the U.S. census of the town of Cheraw reported a population of 186 in 49 households within the town limits.  Fewer than ten of the town's adults had been born in Colorado; most were from the Midwest.  The largest demographic group, 15 percent of the population, were resident aliens who had immigrated from Mexico within the previous decade.<ref name="Cheraw, Otero County 1920">U.S. census, Cheraw, Otero County, Colorado, sheets 6A-7B, enumerated February 1920.</ref>

The men's occupations in 1920 included blacksmith, salesman, publisher, lumberyard manager, retail merchant, laborer, wagon driver, bank cashier, barber, physician, druggist, teacher, minister, carpenter, farmer and farm laborers, alfalfa mill manager and laborers, bank bookkeeper, railroad depot operator, [illegible] at pool hall, railroad laborer, and auto mechanic.  Women were employed at paying occupations as saleslady, teacher, manager of the telephone exchange, postal workers, and postmistress. The census taker was also a woman.<ref name="Cheraw, Otero County 1920"/>