About Town
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1871 plat of town and businesses at the time, Society of Friends or Quaker church, Fire and Police Departments and the town jails, history of town founding, Lincoln Trading Post and Charter Oak Ranch, mountain water 1911-13, excerpts from the Fountain Herald 1921-24, photographs of businesses, and highlights from the Commercial Club annual of 1919, 1940 with Torbit history, 1948 and prohibition, Post Office history, John Metcalf, Walt Fortman
Bulkley Files
Harkins grave, Dead Man's Canyon ghosts, maps of Fountain, Cherokee Trail, Post Office history, Spicer murder
Census Returns and Business Directories
Federal Census 1870-1900
Colorado Business Directories 1880-81, 1888, 1892, 1909-11, 1915,
1920, 1923
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map 1914
Fountain Schools and town memories
History of schools, students, teachers. Town history written by Daisy Torbit, and 1960 letters recalling history and memories of Fountain.
Fountain Valley
Notes on the Ring Ranch, 1882 water rights, 1900-40s agriculture, 1943 plane crash, 1950 fires and the 1965 tornado.
Juicy Gossip
Oldest womanin county, Fairview Cemetery and the unknown grave, Van Endert and Hastings murders, Countryside ghosts, Spicer murder, Mayor Kane and the abortionist, the Ark ghosts, Johnny Lindermood murder of 1920, the hanging of Wild Bill
People of Fountain Page:
Fountain Mayors, Civil War Veterans, founding families: Aga, Barela, Benedict, Christian, Godding, Howells, Hutchin, Imes, Irion, Kane, Kraus, Link, Loomis, Love, Monk, Morse, Niles, Orcutt, Powell, Pyles, Rice, Riddock, Rock, Sample, Thompson, Torbit, Wallace, Whalen, Wilson and Wolf
The Railroads
History of the railroads in Fountain, accidents through the years, photographs, and newspaper transcripts of the great 1888 explosion
Remember When
Stories of the Great Depression, 1935 Memorial Day flood, food rationing, Christmas, Halloween pranks, theater
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