"Building Bridges Across Time"
Historic Highlandlake, Inc. - a nonprofit, 501 (c)3 member supported, historical society - is dedicated: to preserving the rich history of the Highlandlake and Mead, Colorado region, the preservation of local historical buildings and sites, and an active, educational outreach to the community at large.
Mapping the Pioneer Highlandlake Cemetery
On Friday, May 8, Denver University Anthropology Professor Lawrence Conyers, and several of his
students, visited our pioneer cemetery. Their mission was to map the cemetery, looking for unmarked graves. Using ground penetrating radar technology. Several newspapers and Denver TV station, 7News covered the event. Links to news stories here.
Winners of Our. . .
First Annual Historic Highlandlake History
Essay Invitational
Kristina Lu
Sydney Boaz
Erika Miller
Go read their winning essays here!
Missed entering our 1st Annual Essay Invitational? Our 2nd Annual History Essay Contest will start in the fall of 2010!
Rules of the Road (Essay Contest information and helpful suggestions)
Recent Additions: 
Our Spring/Summer 2010 Newsletter is now online!
Cradle Roll 1907 - 1915. Is you ancestor listed here? Go check it out!!
Greeley Museum Opens Exhibit of "Ghost Towns and Boom Towns."
Download a walking tour map of Highlandlake. Warning large file 4.4 mbts! (PDF
file)
Download notes on the history of
the Highland Ditch Company. (PDF
file)
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This website was updated on July 2, 2010