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his past month at the beautiful Westin in Westminster, CO Springfield Mayor Tyler Gibson attended the Colorado Municipal League’s CML Conference The Colorado Municipal League’s CML Conference is the premier training event for Colorado municipal officials. It is an opportunity to learn from experts and other municipalities, as well as to network with colleagues from…
In December of 2017 the Town of Springfield was awarded a $12,000 grant to remove dead trees along the streets of Springfield. Teaming Up For Trees in Southeast Colorado was a 50/50 cost-share match grant. This was and still is a 50/50 cost-share match grant. Each community had up to two years to complete the…
A new place for passers-by to rest their head
The following provides a sampling of a what was important in Nov 1898 as reported in the Nov 11, 1898 Springfield Herald. I think in the future I will tie these closer to the Month in which they occurred, but we will start with this one for now. There was very little local news. J.R.…
As a continuation of my look at Southeast Colorado Boom towns (1886-1889) I thought I would toss out an interesting town ad for Lamar. Almost all of the towns which popped up during that era had an advertisement that was placed in newspapers “back east” (usually Kansas) to encourage settlers to come west. This is…
There are many connections between Lamar, Colorado and the 1886-1887 Boom towns of Southeast Colorado. If you have not familiarized yourself with those boom towns click here to see a map. The news about migration to Southeast Colorado and those new towns was often reported in newspapers such as the following from the March 24,…
The names of those who lived in Springfield and community back in the year 1889 disclosed in a The Democrat-Herald (Springfield, Colorado) 25 Jan 1935. — clipping from the Springfield Herald, the predecessor to The Democrat-Herald. This is a reprint of a February 25, 1889 letter written from Springfield, Colorado and reprinted in the…
Greetings from an unseasonably mild but windy Casper Wyoming. I have a little bit of reflection and a couple of messages related to a local history blog, social media, and the sparks that lit a book project about one of the wildest little towns of the old west. Four years ago, I launched Bacacountyhistory.com. At…
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