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8 Porch Notes tagged “greeley,” from counties across Colorado.

History and culture - Weld County

Greeley began as the Union Colony, planned around irrigation

Greeley grew from the Union Colony, a planned farming settlement set between the Cache la Poudre and South Platte rivers and built around irrigation.

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History and culture - Weld County

The Weld County Courthouse was built as a Jewel of the Plains

The Weld County Courthouse in Greeley was built as a marble-and-limestone Classical Revival landmark after the old courthouse outgrew its space.

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History and culture - Weld County

Island Grove has been a Greeley gathering ground for a long time

Island Grove in Greeley was a Ute and Arapaho campground, then a Union Colony park, and is still where the county gathers for fairs and festivals.

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Outdoors and wildfire - Weld County

Missile Site Park turns a Cold War site into a Poudre Valley overlook

A former Cold War missile site between Greeley, Windsor, and Loveland is now a day-use park on bluffs over the Poudre River Valley.

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Outdoors and wildfire - Weld County

Pawnee National Grassland gives Weld County its big shortgrass horizon

Northeast of Greeley, Pawnee National Grassland gives Weld County a vast federally managed shortgrass prairie horizon.

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History and culture - Weld County

Greeley's dry founding shaped the towns around it

Greeley's Union Colony wrote a no-alcohol rule into its deeds, and that choice shaped Evans, Garden City, and the map around it.

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History and culture - Weld County

Aims Community College started as a Weld education push

Aims Community College grew from a Weld County feasibility effort, a district vote, temporary Greeley classrooms, and a permanent west-side campus.

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Outdoors and wildfire - Weld County

The Poudre River Trail can be a slow storybook ride

Volunteer-piloted trishaw rides carry riders along a quiet stretch of the Poudre River Trail, opening it to people who can't go alone.

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