Forty Years Ago A Pioneers Day Look At Greeley
The speech reflects on early settlers who developed irrigation and streets in Greeley Colorado. It praises water access, shade trees, a park fence to keep cattle out, and a temperate, progressive city built by pioneers. Sarah Elizabeth Howard signs the reflection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greeley Tribune
N. C. Meeker
E. H. Abbott
Denver Pacific Railway
Colony Hall
Exchange Place
Board of Trustees
Greeley
Cache la Poudre
New York Weekly
Grandma Dunham, Weld County Pioneer, Still Living in Greeley Home
Ninety three year old Amanda Dunham, oldest Weld County resident, remains in her first Greeley house at 1265 Biahth Avenue with son E L Dunham. She recalls arrival in 1870 when town had ten men and two women, describes early fears, and notes her love of nature and yard work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amanda Dunham
Weld County
E. L. Dunham
Biahth Avena
Greeley
Pioneer spirit guides Union Colony in early troubled days
A rare 1871 annual report reveals Greeley’s rapid growth from May onward with many colonists arriving, land claims, and homes rising. Despite discontent and resignations, the colony unified under a reforming board, expanded education, and planned schools, with a booming economy, mills, and rail links shaping a temperance town in Weld County.
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Union Colony
Greeley
Fortunatus
Union
Nathan C. Meeker
J.1. Pinkerton
William E. Pabor
A. J. Wilbur
John R. Long
W. R. Guiney
Urbana
Ohio
Board of Education
W. E. Paber
Webster's High School
New York General
Board of Trustees
Executive Council
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the Pioneers
Bar
Comere
Visloms
Sarah Elizabeth Howard
Grandma” Dunham
First House
Mr. and
Mrs. Pdanham
Kate’ Panhan
Spirit OF
Nellie Ruthven
Charles W. Pinkerton
Edgar Strunk
New York City
Herbert
Ag Dickinson
Horace Gree- Dickinson
Bebe
Cameron
R. A. Cameron
Denver
Cheyenne
Ninth Infantry
Fort Russell
Island Grove Park
William J
Greeley Glee Club
E. C. Monk
William FE. Pabor
James G. Cooper
Glee Club
General E. M. Lee
The
Wyoming Tribune
Doxology
William H. Schell
William K. Pabor
FE. T. Nichols
David Boyd
James H. Johnson
William Foote
Kansas Pacific
Denver Pacific
Union Pacific
Pine Bluffs
Ralston
Golden City
Colorado Central
Boulder
Meeker
City of Greeley
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