History
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Poudre Canyon, from Wagon Trail to Recreation Paradise
Annie Lindgren, North Forty News Highway 14 through Cache La Poudre Canyon hasn’t always been the paved winding road we…
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What does a healthy Poudre River do, and for whom?
Part 2 of a series on the Poudre River R. Gary Raham [email protected] With photographs by John Fielder Thomas Hornsby…
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Pleasant Valley School takes on new life
There’s a certain air of romance surrounding one-room schoolhouses. Perhaps because they are no more. Few graduates of these small…
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Lindenmeier Symposium brings world renowned archaeologists to Fort Collins
Lindenmeier: Ancient Lives, Ancient Dreams is a symposium celebrating Soapstone Prairie Natural Area’s Lindenmeier archeological site, the largest Paleoindian site…
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Soldiers endure blizzard conditions during January, 1865 march from Fort Laramie to Fort Collins
(Editor’s note: Excerpted from Ansel Watrous’s History of Larimer County, 1911) The following story of the intense suffering experienced by…
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Wishes for a prosperous future: A New York cavalry soldier's recollection of Fort Collins in 1865
(Excerpt from “History of Larimer County” by Ansel Watrous, 1911. The date of the letter is unknown, but was probably…
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Larimer County's first election featured politician with 'handsomely trimmed and decorated suit of buckskin'
The first Territorial Legislature met in Denver on Sept. 9, 1861. Larimer and Weld counties were (lumped together) in the…
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Gold dust from 1862 Overland stage robbery said to be buried near Virginia Dale
In September, 1862, an eastbound Overland coach was held up near the North Platte crossing and robbed by two men.…
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Virginia Dale dispatch
from the Fort Collins Standard April 29, 1874 Thinking a few items from this part of Larimer County would be…
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Celebrating 150 years, the Virginia Dale stage station needs your help
[media-credit name=”Kenneth Jessen” align=”alignleft” width=”300″][/media-credit]The Cherokee Trail was the first route along the foothills through Larimer County. In 1861, it…