Golf in Fowler

Fowler is an Otero County agricultural community in the lower Arkansas River valley irrigation district, part of the sugar beet and cantaloupe farming region that the Arkansas River's irrigation infrastructure has sustained since the late nineteenth century. Cottonwood Links provides the Fowler community with nine-hole recreational golf in a small agricultural town whose community facilities reflect the practical needs of a farming population that has maintained its local institutions through economic cycles of agricultural commodity markets. The lower Arkansas Valley's irrigation culture and the history of labor organizing among the beet-field workers give Fowler a distinctive historical identity within the broader context of southeastern Colorado's agricultural heritage.