We’ve come a long way in the 100 years since the Canyon Creek Schoolhouse became a laboratory to study Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Today the Rocky Mountain Laboratories inhabit an entire campus where scientists conduct basic research on Lyme disease, prion diseases, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, Ebola, and coronavirus diseases like SARS, MERS, and COVID-19. Visit more of this online history to learn about the people and their work 100 years ago at the schoolhouse Canyon Creek Schoolhouse laboratory.

The Rocky Mountain Laboratories campus is snuggled in the valley below Downy Mountain in 2017.