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Google Maps will allow you to find what's left of Centennial


https://www.google.com/maps/place/Orchard,+CO/@40.3300356,-104.1191824,314m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x876c2eeb67cfc90b:0x3299cd7ae2e3c471

The above link will allow you to see what left of the Centennial set. It is located on Grand street, I would suggest zooming in and using the "street view" option. It appears to have actually been incorporated into the town of Orchard Colorodo. The side of the street across from the spot where the saloon stood, it's no longer there, still has most of the buildings, including the Sheriff's office standing. These set locations have actual numeric addresses and although most buildings are in poor repair some seem to be used.

For fans of the show, if you remember the scene at the end of the 7th chapter, The Shepherds, in which the Sheriff walks away from Lloyd and Brumbaugh it will help you identify what is left standing today. On the left, the only structure I recognize is the livery stable. The front has been slightly altered but the main body is the same. On the right the first building is, in the show, a two story building but now is only a single story building. The faux top must have been removed but the bottom remains. You can still see the distinctive and ornate posts that support the overhang. Further down the street, on the right you'll find the Sheriff's office and the meat market Mrs. Wendell was exiting in the 8th episode, The Crime when she called her son over to her. The streets wood sidewalks have been replaced with more modern concrete ones.

I've wanted to visit the sites where Centennial was filmed since I was a kid when this first aired. Hopefully I'll get there before all the sets are gone but at least Google mas let's me have a peak.

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This is awesome! Too bad there's hardly anything left. Even the Zendt store... gone.

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I know, given the condition of the remaining buildings I wonder if any of them will be left in the near future? Zendt's Farm is gone but the shed that was to the right of it, as you face it, is still there. Google Maps still shows it there. Below I copied a YouTube clip some one made of Centennial then and Orchard now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9U4KAX6FQk

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I can't get it to work , but I will keep on trying ... too bad it's almost gone .. I got to see the set for the Bonanza series .. my son was married in the church there .. Now they tore it down for a parking lot .

"A man that wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough".



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The link doesn't seem to be working anymore, but just use google maps to go to Orchard, Colorado.

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the link no longer works. i know where Centennial is located in the series. pretty cool.


"I married a witch ... cool" - Ichabod Crane, Sleepy Hollow

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I fixed the link above and it works, for now. Once you zoom in the streets will begin to look familiar.

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just came back to the thread. this is not quite the location of the setting. Michner's Centennial was a fictional town and set between Greeley and Kersey. This town is east of Kersey. I looked at this before on my own after seeing the thread for the first time. I'm from Oregon and think there are as many great stories of my home than there are of Colorado.


"The earth isn't something we can keep taking from without ever thinking about giving back."

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Good stuff Abe Street. That youtube page about the movie set then and now was also interesting. I found the street-side map just as easy by going to showmystreet.com and doing a search on Orchard, CO. Then I just followed Grand Ave. to Front St. and wound up at the same place as your link. I then tried following the South Platte River by map until it merged with the Platte River and then the Missouri River to St. Louis. That's quite a long canoe trip.

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