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Highlandlake/Mead Area History

Highlandlake Concession Stand circa 1940sHighlandlake 1871 - Present

In late June of 1871, Lorin Cassandre Mead and his wife, Elizabeth, stepped off the stage in front of the “Old Colony Building,” and surveyed the dusty main street of the recently established Chicago-Colorado Colony. Only a few months old, the colony, soon to be known as Longmont, already boasted four or perhaps five hundred citizens, “full of faith in the enterprise so auspiciously commenced.” Read More. . .

 

 

2nd Pleasant Hill school, later the Grange 1920sLiberty also known as Liberty Hall

Liberty also known as Liberty Hall, was founded, as far as I can tell, in the 1890's in the present area of Hwy 66 between WCR (Weld County Road) 3 & WCR 7. All that remains of a once tight knit community is the brown brick, Liberty Hall Grange on the northeast corner of WCR5 and Hwy 66. Read More. . .

 

McCormicks General StoreMead - 1906 - Present

The histories of the Mead Community are gleaned from newspaper articles/columns, letters, individual remembrances and small family histories. Read More. . .

 

 

Area Histories
  People of Highlandlake & Mead Area
Myra Imogene Cope (Highlandlake Memories) Biographies of Highlandlake/Mead area pioneers
Hazel Elmquist Bullock (Mead) Old Letters, notes and other ephemera (pre 1950)

Homer L. Gammil (Mead)

Paul Mead's Railroad Song
Veva Turner Berg (Liberty) Obituaries
Nick Sekich Sr. (Mead)  

 

This page was updated on November 15, 2009

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