Online NoCo History Resources

Digitized Photo Collections: If you enjoy looking through old photographs, then you’ll enjoy looking through these digital archives of Northern Colorado photographs.

• Weld County Images Collection from the High Plains Library District
• Fort Collins History Connection from the Archive at FCMoD
• Colorado State University Historic Photograph Collection
• University of Northern Colorado Digital Archives
• Estes Park Museum Photo Archives
• Denver Public Library Digital Collections (includes Northern Colorado images)

Surveys, stories, and other interesting history reads focusing on Northern Colorado: Research on older places is done with some frequency, but the documentation often ends up stuck on a shelf (even if it’s an online “shelf”) and rarely is advertised as being available to the public (though it is). As I come across such items, I’ll add them here. Because there is so much research out there that’s already been done, I’ll be sorting these roughly north to south by regions.

• Pioneer History of Soapstone Prairie, by Suzy Riding (2019).
• Soapstone Prairie Natural Area Oral History Project, by Dr. Brenda M. Martin, Terry Burton, Susan Harness, and the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery (2009).