Sunday, February 1, 2015

Happy 144th birthday, Longmont

Before there was a Longmont here, there was a Chicago-Colorado colony. And before there was a colony, there were three men who decided where to put what would become a city of 90,000. The three were a newspaper magnate, a businessman and a Chicago man with a rich aunt. From what historians can tell, the three filed the colony's certificate of organization on Feb. 1, 1871, and now, 144 years ...

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