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founding
7 Porch Notes tagged “founding,” from counties across Colorado.
History and culture - Arapahoe County
Littleton is the Arapahoe County seat, and it started with a flour mill
Littleton grew from Richard Little's 1860s homestead and the Rough and Ready Flour Mill, and it has served as the seat of Arapahoe County government.
Read note ->History and culture - Costilla County
San Luis is widely called Colorado's oldest town, settled in 1851
San Luis, the seat of Costilla County, dates to 1851 and is often described as the oldest continuously settled town in Colorado, founded by Hispano families moving north from New Mexico.
Read note ->History and culture - Arapahoe County
Aurora was first called Fletcher
The city of Aurora started in 1891 as the town of Fletcher, named for a developer, and voters renamed it Aurora years later in the early 1900s.
Read note ->History and culture - El Paso County
Why Colorado Springs sits where it does: General Palmer's plan
Colorado Springs was laid out in 1871 as a planned railroad town by General William Jackson Palmer, which is why the old grid and street widths feel deliberate.
Read note ->History and culture - Jefferson County
Golden grew as a supply town, not a mining camp
Golden was founded during the 1859 gold rush as a supply and transportation hub for miners heading into the mountains, and it took its name from early settler Tom Golden, not from gold itself.
Read note ->History and culture - Arapahoe County
Englewood grew out of Orchard Place and Cherrelyn
Before it was Englewood, this Arapahoe County city was a cluster of communities including Orchard Place and Cherrelyn, joined into one city in 1903.
Read note ->History and culture - Las Animas County
Felipe Baca is remembered as a founder of Trinidad
The county seat traces its start to Hispanic pioneer Felipe Baca, who is credited with settling the Purgatoire valley around 1860 and drawing other families there, and the town became the seat when Las Animas County was created in 1866.
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