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.
Charles and Margaret Shepardson
Reminiscing about Lincoln Junior High on the school’s 95th anniversary brought to mind several well known teachers that may have passed on, but they are clearly not forgotten. In reflecting upon the school’s history, former students spoke of Coach Hal...
Happy 95th Birthday, Lincoln Middle School!
On Saturday, September 2, 1922, Fort Collins residents opened their newspapers to find an announcement from Albert H. Dunn, the superintendent of schools, on the front page. After several years of talking about it, the city of Fort Collins was finally going to have...
Then & Now: FCHS, Lincoln, Franklin and CSU – plus some bonus shots from Rockwood & CLP
I have a love hate relationship with trees. I didn’t use to. I used to just plain love them. But I didn’t used to put Then & Now photos together for posts on this site. And now that I do… suddenly I hate trees. They can be such turds sometimes. I...
The earliest schools of
District #5 – Fort Collins
The first classroom in Fort Collins was located in Auntie Stone’s cabin in 1866. As the number of students grew, the school was moved to the commissary on the recently abandoned military fort. This makeshift classroom made up the entirety of the school district...
There’s No Place Like Home… PHS turns 50.
It’s Homecoming Week at Poudre High School, but this year it’s a very special homecoming. It was 50 years ago that the school first got its start, the second high school in the city. That was a big deal. Fort Collins had been very progressive when, in...