Early Fort Collins
“There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. ” — Franklin P. Adams In January 1882 the Courier announced a new cigar business started by Carl Lauterbach opening in town. It was located in the Vandewark Block of...
Early Fort Collins
County Judge J. Mack Mills drove the first automobile in Larimer County home. He had not previously seen an automobile but had read literature about horseless carriages and yearned to own one. In early July, he boarded a train for Denver, shopped two hours. He then...
Early Fort Collins
1In 1903 Madame Marie Lafitte was arrested and taken to Denver on eleven different charges of selling liquor without a government license, selling moonshine whiskey and being in complicity with the illicit manufacture of whiskey. Credit for the capture...
Early Fort Collins
1Larimer County was created by an act of the first Territorial Legislature of Colorado, approved on this date in 1861.1Dr. J. W. Downey, a dental surgeon from Iowa, opened a dental office in Fort Collins in 1892.1In 1901, 3,000 visitors thronged the sugarbeet factory...
Early Fort Collins
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ” — George Eliot 1 – The Colorado Central Railroad officially opened its office in 1877. This was a big...
Early Fort Collins
1In 1879 A.B. Tomlin & Co., a new mercantile firm was begun.1The first term of the Colorado Agricultural College opened with a small enrollment in 1879. The class of 1884 met in classes that were held in Old Main. 1The Annual Report of the W.C.T.U....
Early Fort Collins
1In 1876 President Ulysses S. Grant declared Colorado the 38th State of the Union. This was the 100th year after the U.S. Declaration of Independence so Colorado became known as the “Centennial State”.1In 1901 the Weekly Courier announced...
Early Fort Collins
1By an order issued in 1864, Antoine Janis was appointed to act as a guide and interpreter for the new army post1According to county records in 1873, the Larimer County Land and Improvement Company sold to Anaximander (“Harry”) B. Tutton 3 lots for...
Early Fort Collins
1In 1844 Antoine Janis stuck his claim in the Cache La Poudre Valley and became the first white settler in northern Colorado. In a letter to Ansel Watrous on March 17, 1883 Janis said the streams were very high and the valley was black with...
Early Fort Collins
1In 1866 Antoine Janis filed his claim for his land in the Cache La Poudre Valley. The patent to this piece of land was the first recorded in Larimer County. At the time of his issue, soldiers of Camp Collins were camped on his land.1In 1899 the...
