This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Kersey’s Growth From Rural Roots to Thriving Town
A six year arc traces Kersey’s rise on the Julesburg branch of the Union Pacific. From a crossroads grocery to a bustling town, it gains a bank, schools, churches, and planned big land developments. Irrigation, beet and sugar hopes, and numbers like 3 500 acres near the S L W ranch propel its expansion with settlers and colonists joining from Chicago and Holland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julesburg
Union Pacific
Smith
America
Kersey
Greeley
Dame Earth
Denver
B. P Brooks
Messrs
B. P. Brooks
D. M. Decamp
Fred S. James
M. A. Decamp
Clearwater
Neb
H. M. Stockwell
LaVeta
Latham Ditch
Box Elder
Studebaker, Lamb and Witwer
Studebaker Wagon Concern
South Bend
Ind
Asa Sterling
Chicago
John S. Carper
Des Moines
Tribuary
Weld
H. P. Hill
Clark and Hill
Hill
Killin
W. F. Spaulding
Rush Medical College