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History of Greeley, Colorado

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History of Greeley, Colorado
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Two history pieces. 1) Greeley up to Date published by the Greeley Tribune, picture book dated 1906. 32 pages, All photographs. 2) First Annual Report of the Union Colony of Colorado dated 1871, published by George W. Southwick, New York. Chapters include agriculture, the organization of Union Colony, townsite, scenery, present condition, churches, schools, etc. The Union Colony of Colorado (also called the Greeley Colony and The Union Temperance Colony) was a 19th-century private enterprise formed to promote agricultural settlements in the South Platte River valley in the Colorado Territory. Organization of the colony began in October 1869 by Nathan Meeker in order to establish a religiously-oriented utopian community of "high moral standards". The colony was founded in March 1870 at the site of present-day Greeley, Colorado. Union Colony was financially backed and promoted by New York Tribune editor, Horace Greeley, a prominent advocate of the settlement of the American West. The homesteaded colony greatly advanced irrigation usage in present-day northern Colorado, demonstrating the viability of cultivation at a time when agriculture was emerging as a rival to mining as the principle basis for the territorial economy.

City: Greeley
State: Colorado,
Date: 1871-1906

FHWAC#: 26806
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