Fort Lupton – Page 6 – Jacks Old Photos of Colorado

Snow on Denver Avenue #3, Fort Lupton, CO,, ca. 1915 – 1918.

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In this photo postcard, one is looking north on Denver Avenue toward the St. John Mercantile store at 4th and Denver (center of photo). Not sure what type of vehicle…

Photo postcard of couple on Rawleigh’s wagon, Fort Lupton, CO, ca. 1910.

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The couple in this picture postcard mailed from Lupton on Dec 21, 1910, may be Lettie and Adam Stonestreet. The writer of the card signs herself as “Lettie,” and the…

Real photo postcard of McEvers Hotel on southwest corner of 3rd and Denver Avenue, Fort Lupton, CO, ca. 1915.

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Samuel A. McEvers was born in Canada in 1865. The year 1891 found him in Colorado Springs, where he married Nellie Richards, who was originally from Michigan. Nellie bore them…

Tomato Day in Fort Lupton, CO, 1908.

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This photo postcard shows one of the activities from Fort Lupton's Tomato Day festivities in 1908. "Bee,” the author of the card, is in the picture watching the “stunts,” as…

Welcome to my blog of old Colorado photos. I’ve always loved old photos, and given my interest in history, it was probably inevitable that I would be drawn to the idea of collecting old images of the Colorado town where I grew up, i.e., Fort Lupton. Fort Lupton sits on the South Platte River, about halfway between Denver and Greeley, at the western edge of the Great Plains.

I grew up feeling more connected to the eastern half of the state than to the western half. Maybe that was because I knew the plains were just out the back door of Fort Lupton, so to speak, or simply because I was more familiar with the names of towns to the east. So, a few years ago, when I decided to expand my collecting beyond Fort Lupton, I leaned east. Since then, though, I’ve gotten the bug for expanding my collection to the entire state. You'll find that, in its current state, my blog is weighted toward images of Fort Lupton, eastern and northern Colorado, but that will shift as I steadily add images from the Colorado Rockies and western slope.

I hope you enjoy my blog as much as I enjoy building and tending to it. Please feel free to leave comments!

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