Tag
industry
6 Porch Notes tagged “industry,” from counties across Colorado.
History and culture - El Paso County
Alexander Film made movie ads on North Nevada
A North Nevada Avenue plant made the short ads that played before theater features, employing hundreds in Colorado Springs from the late 1920s.
Read note ->History and culture - Weld County
Weld County's seal names its old identity in pictures
Weld County's official seal uses wheat, a sugar beet, a cow, an oil lamp, and a cog to point at agriculture, education, and industry.
Read note ->History and culture - Adams County
Commerce City's history page starts before the industrial map
Commerce City's story runs from Indigenous homelands through prairie settlement, farming, and industry to the city on Denver's north side.
Read note ->History and culture - Adams County
Commerce City was built around industry, and that still shapes it
Commerce City grew up as an industrial town near Denver, home to a refinery and heavy industry, which still shapes its land use and air-quality monitoring.
Read note ->History and culture - Fremont County
Florence is home to a federal prison complex, including the federal supermax
A federal correctional complex outside Florence, including the federal supermax, is part of why corrections runs deep in Fremont County life and work.
Read note ->History and culture - Logan County
Sugar beets and the Great Western factory shaped Logan County farming
A sugar beet factory opened in Sterling in the early 1900s and came under the Great Western Sugar Company, and the beet industry helped shape farming and growth across Logan County.
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