1844: Antoine Janis claimed to have staked his original squatters claim at Colona (Laporte). 1854: Larimer County part of newly-created Nebraska Territory. 1858-60: Antoine Janis and others located a townsite to the west of the present LaPorte and named...
Our Best Receipts A Cookbook Published by the Ladies of the First Baptist Church Fort Collins, Colorado 1896 Preface If a quarrel arises ‘twixt husband and wife, And clouds of debate lower, threatening strife. Instead of debating – though perhaps you would risk it – I...
A man learns by two things. One is reading. The other is association with smarter people. – Will Rogers Cemeteries in Colorado Brinks, Rose L.1988. Bingham Hill Cemetery: Laporte & Bellvue, Colorado, Don-Art Printers, CO, 88 pages. Brinks, Rose L....
Information for this history was taken from the 1895 Silver Spruce … History of the State Agricultural College 1895 Tracing the years forward from 1862, we find an order, passed February 27, 1878, by the Board of Agriculture, then in session at Fort Collins, to...
“A” – On December 12, 1923 the huge “A” which stands on the foothills near Horsetooth Mountain was placed there by Colorado Agricultural College students. Agricultural Experiment Station – On March 2, 1887 an Agricultural Experiment Station was established...
At the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the founding of Fort Collins (August 21, 1914), Mrs. D. W. Taft spoke about the women in early Fort Collins. In her words, “As I recall, it seems to me they were women of resource and ability, equal to any emergency,...
The Tedmon House was started in 1879 and completed in the early part of 1880. It was the largest and nicest hotel north of Denver at time. The Tedmon House on Linden and Jefferson Street, was built and owned by Bolivar S. Tedmon and was the pride of Fort Collins....
A group of Fort Collins businessmen including Judge Jay Bouton and Franklin Avery began the project of building an opera house in Fort Collins in 1880. The beautiful 3-story building, which was ahead of its time, opened in 1881 to Fannie Louise Buckingham in the...
All of these blog posts are from our old website that was put together almost a decade ago. Who compiled this information has already been lost to the sands of time. But the information contained within seemed too valuable to just let pass away into the ether of the interwebs. So some formatting may not seem quite right, and information about contemporary organizations might be outdated. But we hope you’ll still find a gem or two in here. Enjoy!