Annie Lindgren, North Forty News Highway 14 through Cache La Poudre Canyon hasn’t always been the paved winding road we are familiar with today. It once was a wagon trail referred to as ‘Stewart Toll […]
Part 2 of a series on the Poudre River R. Gary Raham graham@northfortynews.com With photographs by John Fielder Thomas Hornsby Ferril, Colorado journalist and one-time Colorado poet laureate wrote, “Here is a land where life […]
There’s a certain air of romance surrounding one-room schoolhouses. Perhaps because they are no more. Few graduates of these small rural centers of learning are still alive, but the image of the young schoolmarm who […]
Lindenmeier: Ancient Lives, Ancient Dreams is a symposium celebrating Soapstone Prairie Natural Area’s Lindenmeier archeological site, the largest Paleoindian site in North America. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Smithsonian Institution’s visit to […]
(Editor’s note: Excerpted from Ansel Watrous’s History of Larimer County, 1911) The following story of the intense suffering experienced by Captain James W. Hanna’s troop of soldiers in a march from Fort Laramie to Fort […]
(Excerpt from “History of Larimer County” by Ansel Watrous, 1911. The date of the letter is unknown, but was probably written around 1890 to 1900.) Mr. John Coy Fort Collins Dear Sir: You will be […]
The first Territorial Legislature met in Denver on Sept. 9, 1861. Larimer and Weld counties were (lumped together) in the First Council and Representative district. H. J. Graham was elected to represent the district and […]
In September, 1862, an eastbound Overland coach was held up near the North Platte crossing and robbed by two men. The driver was killed and the robbers carried off a small iron safe, which contained […]
from the Fort Collins Standard April 29, 1874 Thinking a few items from this part of Larimer County would be of interest to your many readers, I will send you a few notes I have […]
[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 was recognized by the Colorado Territorial Legislature. The importance of this route was amplified the […]
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