Colorado People & Places: Preserving the Past - Dearfield, Colorado
Schedule
Wed, 15 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm
UTC-06:00Location
Carbon Valley Regional Library | Firestone, CO
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Colorado People & Places: Dearfield, Colorado - preserving the pastSpanning from 1910 to the harrowing Dust Bowl of the 1930s, Dearfield has a wide and interesting past. Dearfield, Colorado was established on May 5, 1910, by a young entrepreneur named Oliver Toussaint Jackson, Dearfield served as an agricultural colony for Black Coloradoans about twenty-five miles southeast of Greeley. For two decades nearly 700 Black families worked to transform the rolling desert hills into a thriving farm community. The Great Depression and a major drought drove most of these farmers away, leaving only Jackson and his niece by the 1940s. Today Dearfield is a ghost town with only a handful of buildings remaining, but the Black American West Museum and other groups are working to improve preservation and historical interpretation at the site.
Presented by Weld County's very own William "Bill" Garcia, former Weld County Commissioner, local attorney and passionate advocate for the preservation of Dearfield.
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