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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".
The Union Colony of Colorado (also called the Greeley Colony and The Union Temperance Colony) was a 19th-century private enterprise formed to promote agricultural settlements in the South Platte River valley in the Colorado Territory. Organization of the colony began in October 1869 by Nathan Meeker in order to establish a religiously oriented ...
The University of Northern Colorado (UNC) is a public university in Greeley, Colorado. [8] The university was founded in 1889 as the State Normal School of Colorado and has a long history in teacher education. [9] The institution has officially changed its name three times, first to Colorado State College of Education, at Greeley on February 16 ...
Website. www.weldgov.com. Weld County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 328,981. [1] The county seat is Greeley. [2] Weld County comprises the Greeley, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Denver – Aurora, CO Combined Statistical Area.
The Meeker Memorial Museum, also known as the N. C. Meeker Home, is a historic building in Greeley, Colorado. It was built as a private residence for Nathan Meeker in 1870. [2] Meeker was a homesteader who founded the Union Colony of Colorado, later known as Greeley. The house was purchased by the city of Greeley in 1927, and later turned into ...
Greeley Tribune Building. / 40.42472°N 104.68944°W / 40.42472; -104.68944 ( Greeley Tribune Building) The Greeley Tribune Building is a historic building in Greeley, Colorado. It was built in 1929. It is home to the Greeley History Museum, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
W.N. Bowman. Architectural style. Classical Revival. NRHP reference No. 78000886 [1] Added to NRHP. January 9, 1978. The Weld County Courthouse, at 9th St. and 9th Ave. in Greeley, Colorado, is a Classical Revival -style building built in 1917. [1] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The region that is today the U.S. state of Colorado has been inhabited by Native Americans and their Paleoamerican ancestors for at least 13,500 years and possibly more than 37,000 years. [1][2] The eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains was a major migration route that was important to the spread of early peoples throughout the Americas.