Weld
Slayton Ranch – Briggsdale Work Center
Dearfield Townsite (Filling Station)
Windsor Mill
Prominently located in the Town of Windsor and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the four-story Windsor Mill was constructed in 1899 and used as a flour and feed mill until 1990. The building is a fine architectural representation of the progression...
Pillars of P.O.W. Camp 202
Two stone pillars along the business loop of U.S. Highway 34 west of Greeley are all that remain of what was once a 320-acre World War II prisoner-of-war camp. The camp was significant to the history of many communities in northeastern Colorado because German and...
Daniels School
On the National Register of Historic Places, the school was built in 1911 and met the educational needs of the community for almost fifty years. The building is reported to be the last remaining rural brick schoolhouse in Weld County. The Daniels family immigrated to...
Dearfield Farming Colony
Booker T. Washington’s book, Up From Slavery, was published in 1901, advocating education and land ownership for African-Americans to obtain social, political, and economic parity in America. This became Oliver Jackson’s inspiration to seek a farming...
Downtown Greeley
Greeley’s Downtown Development Authority was created in 1998 and nominated Greeley as one of Colorado’s Most Endangered Places due to threats brought about as a result of economic deterioration, urban growth to the west, and a high vacancy rate of its downtown...
Centre Avenue
Agricultural communities have formed the backbone of Colorado’s Eastern Plains since the late 1880s. The towns and cities have endured droughts, harsh winters, relentless winds, population changes, and economic depressions. But the one thing that has remained...