by Meg Dunn | Nov 15, 2025 | Before Counties and Towns, Fort Collins, Frontier Faces
This is a working page. That means I’m using it as a data collection site, but publishing it so that others can see what info I’ve got so far. Ansel Watrous described the Mercer Colony in his book, History of Larimer County, Colorado (1911). In the summer...
by Meg Dunn | Oct 26, 2017 | Before Counties and Towns
Before Europeans first traipsed across the area that we now know as Northern Colorado, it was a place of open plains and wild mountains. When traveling across the land, on foot or by horse or wagon, there were few obstacles. There were no buildings, fences, train...
