Editing Winfield Scott Stratton (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Stratton statue by Walker.jpg|thumb|188px|right|Winfield Scott Stratton Monument by [[Nellie Walker]] ]]
Stratton left the bulk of his estate for the establishment of the [[Myron Stratton Home]], for "the aged poor and dependent children." It is named for his father Myron Stratton.<ref>Stratton, Harriet Russell. A Book of Strattons: A Collection of the Records of the Descendants of the Early Colonial Strattons in America from the Fifth Generation to the Present Day. New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock, Genealogical Publishers, 1918. Vol. II, Pp. 325 – 326.</ref>

A bronze statue of Stratton by [[Nellie Walker]] was placed on the grounds of his estate in 1909.{{efn|The sculptor of the work ended up living at the Myron Stratton Home for the last years of her life.}}

[[File:Stratton-statue2.jpg|thumb|188px|right|Statue of Stratton in downtown Colorado Springs]]
Another casting of Walker's statue of Stratton stands in downtown Colorado Springs.

Stratton was inducted into the [[National Mining Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://mininghalloffame.org/inductees?i=54&b=inductees%252Easp&t=n&p=S&s= |title=Inductee Database |website=mininghalloffame.org |access-date=February 9, 2020}}</ref>

In 1967, he was inducted into the [[Hall of Great Westerners]] of the [[National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Hall of Great Westerners |url=https://nationalcowboymuseum.org/hall-of-great-westerners/ |website=National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum |access-date=November 22, 2019}}</ref>

===Places named after Stratton===
*The town of [[Stratton, Colorado]], on the state's eastern plains.
*[[Stratton Park (Colorado)|Stratton Park]], Colorado Springs.
*Stratton Hall at [[Colorado School of Mines]], completed in 1904, was named after Stratton, who gave the school its first philanthropic gift of $25,000. He had been appointed as a CSM trustee in 1899 and was elected president of the board in 1901.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alumnifriends.mines.edu/valued_supporters/giving_societies/default.htm |title=Giving Societies |access-date=2007-02-21 |publisher=Colorado School of Mines}}</ref>
* [[Manitou Mineral Springs|Stratton Spring]]; a mineral spring drilled to a depth of 283 feet completed February 21, 1936 at the loop where the trolleys turned around at 955 Manitou Avenue in Manitou Springs, Colorado.
*Winfield Scott Stratton Post Office in Colorado Springs; named by an act of Congress in 1995; Stratton had sold the land the post office was built on to the federal government at a fraction of its value with the understanding that it would be used for the post office.
*Stratton Elementary School in Colorado Springs.
*Three connected streets in Colorado Springs, named Winfield, Scott, and Stratton streets.

===Popular culture===
The [[actor]] [[Gene Evans]] was cast as Stratton in the 1964 episode, "Sixty-seven Miles of Gold", on the [[Television syndication|syndicated]] [[anthology series]], ''[[Death Valley Days]]''. hosted by [[Stanley Andrews]].  [[James Best]] and [[Jack Albertson]] played Jimmy Burns and Pearlman, respectively. In the story line, Stratton strikes it rich just as he signs over his mining claim to a syndicate.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556735/?ref_=ttep_ep4|title=Sixty-seven Miles of Gold on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Database|access-date=September 18, 2018}}</ref>