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Highlandlake |
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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.”
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Mead |
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The histories of the Mead Community
are gleaned from newspaper articles/columns, letters,
individual remembrances and small family histories.
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Liberty |
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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. . . .
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Personal Histories |
People of Highlandlake & mead |
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Read biographies,
letters, notes, songs and
obituaries of Highlandlake/Mead area pioneers
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