Greeley, CO news and local guide

Greeley began as the Union Colony of Colorado, founded in 1869 by Nathan C. Meeker, agricultural reporter for the New York Tribune, as an experimental utopian farming community "based on temperance, religion, agriculture, education and family values." It had the backing of the Tribune's editor, Horace Greeley, who had visited Colorado during the Pikes Peak Gold Rush of 1859 and popularized the phrase "Go West, young man." A committee including Meeker and the former Civil War general Robert Alexander Cameron bought 12,000 acres where the Cache la Poudre River meets the South Platte. The site, once the Island Grove Ranch, lay halfway between Cheyenne and Denver on the Denver Pacific Railroad.

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By May 500 people had moved to the colony, and its name was later changed to Greeley in honor of Horace Greeley. Just east of the city stood an Overland Trail stage station first called Cherokee City, whose post office operated from November 25, 1862, until November 25, 1863, when it was renamed Latham. The Latham station, also known as Fort Latham, was named for Milton S. Latham, one of California's early senators, and stood where the South Platte and Cache la Poudre rivers meet. Sources Wikipedia: Greeley, Colorado