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Greeley began as the Union Colony of Colorado, which was founded in 1869 by Nathan C. Meeker, an agricultural reporter for the New York Tribune as an experimental utopian farming community "based on temperance, religion, agriculture, education and family values," with the backing of the Tribune ' s editor Horace Greeley, who popularized the phrase "Go West, young man".
Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune.Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican Party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, who won by a ...
KXGR (89.7 MHz, "GRACEfm") is a non-profit FM radio station broadcasting a Christian radio format. Licensed to Loveland, Colorado, United States, it serves Northern Colorado including Fort Collins - Greeley and the Denver - Boulder metropolitan area. Programming is simulcast on 101.7 KXCL in Rock Creek Park, Colorado, which serves Colorado ...
The Colorado Mission was opened on December 15, 1896, with John W. Taylor as president. This mission was renamed the Western States Mission on April 1, 1907, then the Colorado-New Mexico Mission on June 10, 1970, then the Colorado Mission on October 10, 1972, and the Colorado Denver Mission on June 20, 1974.
Union Colony Civic Center. Coordinates: 40.42587°N 104.69508°W. The Union Colony Civic Center (UCCC) is a performing arts venue in Greeley, Colorado that is owned and operated by the City of Greeley. [1] Built in 1988, the UCCC is home to two performance venues, Monfort Concert Hall, which seats 1,686, and Hensel Phelps Theatre, which seats ...
Go West, young man. Horace Greeley, to whom the saying is attributed. " Go West, young man " is a phrase, the origin of which is often credited to the American author and newspaper editor Horace Greeley, concerning America's expansion westward as related to the concept of Manifest destiny. No one has yet proven who first used this phrase in print.
The Events Center is a 5,000-seat indoor arena which opened in 2006. It is used not only for sporting events but also conventions, concerts, livestock and trade shows, banquets, and other special events. It contains 58,200 square feet (5,410 m 2) of space, with a ceiling height of 25 to 40 feet (12 m). It features a 20,000-square-foot (2,000 m ...
The American Council, started by members of Destiny Church, has pumped more than $20,000 into local school board elections. Christian conservative school board candidates take lead in Placer ...