The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 in Northern Colorado
As the 1918 Influenza Pandemic swept through Northern Colorado, schools were shut down, churches stopped meeting, theaters were closed, and grocery shopping required calling in your order and picking it up at the door.
Timeline of the KKK in (mostly northern) Colorado in the 1920s
Timeline of the KKK in (mostly northern) Colorado in the 1920s by Meg Dunn | Jul 28, 2019 | Boulder, Denver, Estes Park, Fort Collins, Greeley, Laporte / Bellvue, Loveland, Weld County | 0 comments Robert Alan Goldberg’s 1981 book entitled Hooded Empire: the Ku...
The Klan in Northern Colorado, Part 7 — We Weren’t Immune
The Klan in Northern Colorado,Part 7 — We Weren’t Immune by Meg Dunn | Jul 28, 2019 | Boulder, Cultural Character, Denver, Estes Park, Fort Collins, Greeley, Laporte / Bellvue, Loveland, Weld County | 0 comments The Ku Klux Klan had an unusually expansive influence...
Then & Now: The Jacob and Elizabeth Flowers House
Jacob and Elizabeth Flowers were early pioneers to Pleasant Valley and were the founders of Bellvue, Colorado. They moved to the state in 1873 and lived first on land north of Fort Collins and then moved to the valley. They eventually settled in what we think of now...
The Flowers of Bellvue
My image of the early pioneers probably hails more from Little House on the Prairie than reality. I imagine a young couple, with two or three small children, trundling across the plains towards Colorado in a covered wagon with a few horses, a cow, some chickens, and a...
The Bellvue Grange Is All Lit Up
The Bellvue Grange can now face the sunrise with both “eyes” wide open. For as long as many people can remember, the windows on the grange have been boarded up. Vandalism was such a problem in the 1960s and 70s that the residents, in exasperation, just...