Editing Snowmass Village, Colorado (section)

==History==
The Brush Creek Valley was settled ''circa'' 1910 by ranching families including: Sinclair, Melton, Stapleton, and Hoaglund.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.snowmassvillagesun.com/home.php?content=article&article=3148|title = Snowmass}}</ref> As a child, Hilder Hoaglund would ride her horse into Aspen to go to school. Her father, Charles Hoaglund, immigrated from [[Sweden]] in the 1800s. After a school was built in Brush Creek valley, she attended the Brush Creek Frontier School, now called the Little Red Schoolhouse, located on Owl Creek Road. She became a teacher at that school and then at the Red Brick School in Aspen. At the schoolhouse, she played the accordion or piano for community dances. When she married Bill Anderson, the Hoaglund Ranch became the Anderson Ranch.

[[Paul Soldner]], a ceramic artist noted for developing American [[Raku ware|Raku]], established a studio in the Anderson Ranch buildings in 1966. He founded the [[Anderson Ranch Arts Center]] and incorporated it into a non-profit in 1973.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Newby|first=Rick|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xv5ivm13_0oC|title=The Rocky Mountain Region|date=2004|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-32817-6|location=|pages=45|language=en}}</ref> The Anderson Ranch Arts Center on Owl Creek Road uses many of the original buildings from the Hoaglund Ranch, although not in their original location, farther down stream on what is now Snowmass Club Circle.

Under the leadership of [[Janss Investment Company|Bill Janss]] and [[DRC Brown]], the [[American Cement Company]] developed Snowmass Village as a ski resort starting in 1966. *<ref>[http://www.snowmassvillage.com/snowmass-a-history-beyond-and-between-the-slopes Snowmass: A History Beyond and Between the Slopes | Snowmass Village<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Hayfields were subdivided and the lots sold for houses. Brush Creek is an unappealing name for a ski area, so they named the resort Snowmass after the valley to the west of Brush Creek. [[Fritz Benidict]] acted as the architect of the Snowmass ski area.  The Campground Chairlift serving the western edge of the ski area, actually does extend into the Snowmass Valley. Five chairlifts were installed: Fanny Hill, Burlingame, and Sam's Knob, the Big Burn, and Campground.

The Snowmass ski area first opened on December 16, 1967. The new ski area hired Olympic medalist [[Stein Eriksen]] to direct the ski school. Besides experience as a skier and instructor, Stein Eriksen brought an aura of European glamor to the raw new resort.<ref>Anderson, Paul (2013). ''The Story of Snowmass''.  Snowmass Village, CO: Snowmass Village Community Fund. pg 108-109</ref>

Brush Creek Road was paved in 1968. The former hayfields still had mostly alfalfa into the 1970s. The Snowmass Golf Course was first laid out with nine holes in (need date). It was expanded and redesigned several times (need dates), the latest in 2001 by [[James Engh]]. The periodic re-landscaping of the golf course led to the relocation of ranch houses and to changes in the valley floor from flat or sloping fields to rolling hills with ponds.

The Snowmass Wildcat Fire Protection District was founded in 1971 and the firehouse built on Owl Creek Road.

Notorious serial killer [[Ted Bundy]] abducted and murdered Caryn Campbell in Snowmass Village on January 12, 1975. Her body was later found along the Owl Creek road near what is now the Facilities Maintenance Division.
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In 1977, the community incorporated as the Town of Snowmass Village.

The Snowmass Chapel was built near the firehouse on Owl Creek Road in 1988. Previous to this time, church services were held in the Opticon Movie Theater or in the open air Aspen Grove Chapel, where benches were set up under aspen trees separating two ski runs. Later the area was cleared for more condominiums off Wood Road.

Today, Snowmass Village has experienced a building boom, as new condominiums, luxury homes, mountainside mansions, and Base Village have recently been constructed. [[Westin Hotels]] and the Viceroy Hotel Group have recently built a respective hotel in Snowmass. Snowmass Village is also experiencing a rising influx of wealthy tourists and skiers.