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town founding
4 Porch Notes tagged “town founding,” from counties across Colorado.
History and culture - Boulder County
Boulder started as a supply town for gold miners in 1859
The city of Boulder began in 1859 as a base where miners outfitted before heading into the mountains, and it took its name from Boulder Creek.
Read note ->History and culture - Boulder County
Longmont began as a planned colony organized in Chicago
Longmont began in the early 1870s as the Chicago-Colorado Colony, a planned town funded by selling memberships to settlers.
Read note ->History and culture - Pitkin County
Snowmass Village began as a ranching valley, then a ski resort
The Town of Snowmass Village grew from ranchland in the Brush Creek valley after a ski area opened in the 1960s, and it later incorporated as its own home rule town.
Read note ->History and culture - Montezuma County
Mancos got its name from a river, and built its main street beside it
The town of Mancos takes its name from the nearby Rio de los Mancos, and its historic commercial core grew southeast of the railroad siding, near the river.
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