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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Kiowa County, Colorado. Official Website On November 29, 1864, more than a decade before Colorado became a state and long before Kiowa County was formed, a massacre of Native Americans, a group of old men, women, and children, occurred on Sand Creek that initially was greeted as a victory in the Colorado War against hostile Indians;...
Wikipedia The University of Colorado Boulder (UCB, commonly referred to as CU, Boulder, CU-Boulder, or Colorado) is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado, United States. It is the flagship university of the University of Colorado system and was founded five months before Colorado was admitted to the union in 1876. In 2010, the university consisted of nine colleges and sch...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Colorado. Official Website On August 25, 1855, the Kansas Territorial Legislature created Arapahoe County to govern the entire western portion of the territory. The county was named for the Arapaho Nation of Native Americans that lived in the region. On June 22, 1858, gold was discovered along the South Platte Riv...
Wikipedia =Colorado School of Mines, also referred to as "Mines" and "CSM", is a public teaching and research university in Golden, Colorado, devoted to engineering and applied science, with special expertise in the development and stewardship of the Earth's natural resources. CSM placed 75th in the 2015 US News & World Report "Best National Universities" ranking. Notable Alumni
This cemetery is located on 5450 Highway 78 West, Pueblo, Pueblo County, Colorado. It's also known as Valhalla Memorial Park . Find a Grave
The City of Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colorado, has nine different sections which are very much like cemeteries themselves. They have signs and fences or borders around many of them. The nine cemeteries include: Municipal, Fair View, Ohr Shalom, St. Anthony, Calvary, Masonic, Odd Fellows, Veterans, Orchard Mesa. They are listed separately for Find a Grave purposes. Find a Grave USGW Ar...
This cemetery is located on 27980 County Road 20, Rocky Ford, Otero County, Colorado. Find a Grave Billion Graves
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Greeley, Weld County, Colorado. Official Website Wikipedia The town was named after Horace Greeley, editor of the New-York Tribune, who came to Colorado in the 1859 Pike's Peak Gold Rush. It was founded as the Union Colony in 1869, an experimental utopian society, but the name was later changed in honor of Greeley. Governor Benjam...
Land one-mile-and-a-half west of the city was purchased in 1887 from Thomas Connolly for $5 per acre. Grandview Cemetery (originally written as Grand View) was located in an area having abundant water rights from Pleasant Valley and Lake Canals. A 40-acre tract was immediately laid out by landscape gardeners for cemetery purposes. The first interment was a three month old baby named Felix Scov...
This project is for those who are buried in Linn Grove Cemetery, Greeley, Weld County, Colorado. Linn Grove Cemetery was purchased on June 1, 1874.The owner was Joseph Shattuck. He named his farm Linn Grove Farm. The city kept the name. It was originally 45 acres and was bought for $500. Today the cemetery covers 65 acres. The original cemetery which was called "The Union Colony Cemetery" was...
Sunset Memorial Gardens is located on 35th Avenue and 20th Street in Greeley Colorado (across from Home Depot). Since I was told that there are over 10,000 burials in this cemetery, it helps to go to the Administration Building on the grounds where they will do a look-up of your ancestor and even take you to where they are buried. It is a lovely cemetery. Find a Grave The plant [sic] was f...
The Yuma Cemetery, located in Yuma, Yuma County, Colorado, was established in 1888. It is located just northeast of Yuma at Roads G & 39 on land deeded to the town by John Westcott and is also known as Yuma Municipal Cemetery . Find a Grave Billion Graves
This cemetery is located on 16204 Hogback Road, Montrose, Montrose County, Colorado. Find a Grave Billion Graves
This cemetery is situated on maps between the towns of Lakewood and Wheat Ridge, in Jefferson County, with the mortuary that owns it is found at 7777 W 29th Ave, Denver, CO 80033, 8128 (303) 233-4611. The mausoleum is called Tower of Memories. The Tower of Memories is a mausoleum located at Crown Hill Cemetery in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. The seven story building is 158 feet (48.16 m) tall; its e...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Garfield County, Colorado. Official Website The county is named in honor of United States President James A. Garfield. Adjacent Counties Eagle County Grand County, Utah Routt County Pitkin County Mesa County Rio Blanco County Uintah County, Utah
North American Tribes - Mountain Includes the Following States Colorado | Idaho | Montana | Utah | Wyoming Includes the Following Tribes Apache Arapaho Arikara ( The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation ) Assiniboin Atsina Bannock Blackfeet (Siksika)
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Fremont County, Colorado. Official Website Fremont County was founded in 1861, in central Colorado. It is named for John C. Frémont, a 19th-century explorer and presidential candidate. Rural Fremont County is the location of 15 prisons; most of these are operated by the state. ADX Florence, the only federal Supermax prison in the U...
Fort Carson is a United States Army post located directly south of Colorado Springs in El Paso, Pueblo, Fremont, and Huerfano counties, Colorado, United States. The developed portion of Fort Carson is located near the City of Colorado Springs in El Paso County. Fort Carson is the home of the 4th Infantry Division, the 10th Special Forces Group, the 4th Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB),...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Weld County, Colorado. Official Website The Jefferson Territory never received federal sanction, but on February 28, 1861, U.S. President James Buchanan signed an act organizing the Territory of Colorado. On November 1, 1861, the Colorado General Assembly organized 17 counties, including Weld County, for the new Colorado Territory. ...
Wikipedia =The Colorado College (also known as CC) is a private liberal arts college in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, near the foot of the Rocky Mountains. It was founded in 1874 by Thomas Nelson Haskell. The college enrolls approximately 2,000 undergraduates at its 90-acre (36 ha) campus, 70 miles (110 km) south of Denver. The college offers 42 majors and 33 minors, and has a stud...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in El Paso County, Colorado. Official Website Overview In July 1858, gold was discovered along the South Platte River in Arapahoe County, Kansas Territory. This discovery precipitated the Pike's Peak Gold Rush. Many residents of the mining region felt disconnected from the remote territorial governments of Kansas and Nebraska, so the...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Larimer County, Colorado.= Official Website =Larimer County was created in 1861, and was named after General William Larimer.Unlike that of much of Colorado, which was founded on the mining of gold and silver, the settlement of Larimer County was based almost entirely on agriculture, an industry that few thought possible in the region...
This cemetery, opened in 1958, is located on 14241 North 107th Street, Longmont, Boulder County, Colorado. Official Website Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Boulder County, Colorado. Official Website History Boulder County was one of the original 17 counties created by the Territory of Colorado on November 1, 1861. The county was named for Boulder City and Boulder Creek, so named because of the abundance of boulders in the creek which hampered early gold prospecting efforts. Boulder C...