Mead Histories

16778 CR 5 | Mead, CO 80542 | 970.535.4936 | Historic_Highlandlake@msn.com

Hand pulled hose cart
purchased in 1915 was used by Mead fire department well into the 1950s

City Blacksmith Shop
C. J. Johnson Proprietor

Main Street in the 1940s

Main Street 1930s or 1940s

Website designed and maintained by Pauli Driver Smith.

	Mead Histories The Town of Mead - a brief history More Mead Histories here Still More Mead History- Letters and Memoires The current histories of the Mead Community encompasses both letters and small family histories that individuals wrote. It is hard to separate what would be considered a letter or a history at this point, so I am including both under the heading of "Family Histories" Later if more items are donated to this are of the site I may divide them up into more categories.
	Paul Mead- Founder of Mead, Colorado
	Paul Mead was the son of Dr. Martin Luther and Myra Mahetabel Jenkins Mead. Martin was the brother of Lorin C. Mead who founded Highlandlake. In the early 1880s Lorin contacted his younger brother, extolling the virtues of Highlandlake and telling him of the urgent need for a physician in the area. In 1883. . Read More. . .

	Backward Glances - Stories of Liberty & Mead, Colorado
	Veva Turner Berg was the daughter, granddaughter, and niece of early Boulder, Larimer and Weld County pioneers. I am concentrating on the parts of her life that encompass the periods years when she lived in Weld County, and most specifically in the Mead and Liberty areas of Weld county. Read More. .

	Legends & Lore
	This is the place I plan on recording the local lore and legends of Mead. Most of the stories in this category are based on memories, family legends, local "tales" and the such. I am in no way trying to prove or disprove these stories, only save them for posterity. Read More. . .

	Law & Order
	The first Town Marshall was J. L. Ballinger hired May 13, 1908 with a salary of $26.00 a year. It was later changed in 1910 to $10.00 a month. W. H. Wilson was the first Police Magistrate appointed - June 1908. The first jail was a building 12' x 10' x 7'. It was a wooden frame with a flat top. The first lumber bill was for $105.00 and the land the jail stood on rented for $10.00 a year. In about 1940, the old jail house was moved up on 4th street and was sold in 1943 for $35.00. The second jail was torn down sometime in the 1980's. All prisoner's now go to the Weld County Jail in Greeley. One of the two old jail houses is located on Boulder Scientifics' property. I'm not sure which one it is, some say it is the original, others say it is the second one.

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