1997 Fort Collins Flood
Twenty years ago today a major flood hit Fort Collins. Heavy rainfall of 3 inches…
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Time Machine Tuesday: Uranium Mining
Uranium was discovered in southwestern Colorado in the late nineteenth century. It comes from carnotite…
Topics in History: Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in the Austrian Empire in what is…
The Architecture of Jacques Benedict
In the first decades of the twentieth century, Victorian architectural styles gave way to newer…
Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado's Count and Countess
Discoveries of gold in 1858 drew many to what would eventually become Colorado, and in…
Touring Colorado’s Collections: Cattlemen’s Days
Today Cattlemen’s Days, held in Gunnison, Colorado, is a celebration of Gunnison County’s rich ranching…
Time Machine Tuesday: School District Organization
In 1934, when much of Colorado was still very rural, Colorado had 2,076 school districts. …
Topics in History: Dearfield, Colorado
The town of Dearfield, located 30 miles east of Greeley, was established on May 5,…
Touring Colorado’s Collections: Students Capture Routt County History
Recently the Bud Werner Memorial Library and the Tread of Pioneers Museum, both located in…
Time Machine Tuesday: The Moffat Tunnel
Getting trains through the Rocky Mountains has always been a challenge — steep grades, rocky…
Time Machine Tuesday: Bent’s Fort
If you’re looking for a fun and educational place to take your kids this summer,…
Colorado Governors: Alexander Cameron Hunt
Colorado’s fourth territorial governor, Republican Alexander Hunt, was appointed to lead the territory on April…
Time Machine Tuesday: Memorial Day
Before 1972, when Memorial Day began being celebrated on the last Monday in May, Memorial…
Time Machine Tuesday: The Colorado Conservation Commission
“It is also vandalism wantonly to destroy or to permit the destruction of what is…
Topics in History: Lakeside Amusement Park
When the weather begins to warm and the school year comes to an end,…
Time Machine Tuesday: The Arkansas River Compact
The Arkansas River Compact is an agreement between the states of Colorado and Kansas to…
Colorado Governors: Alexander Cummings
After the resignation of John Evans, Alexander Cummings (served 1865-1867) was appointed Territorial Governor of…
Time Machine Tuesday: Public Health in Colorado, 1937
You can learn a lot about American life and culture in past decades by viewing…
Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado Rehabilitation Farms
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Farm…
Topics in History: Baseball
The Colorado Rockies, Colorado’s major league baseball team, played their first home game in front…