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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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