Dearfield (Colo.)

Title: Dearfield (Colo.)
Description: Founded in 1910 by Oliver Tousaint Jackson (1862-1948) an African American man who bought the land. By 1922 this all-black community had over 700 residents but, due to the post-World War I agricultural depression and the drought in the late 1920s, the town closed and is a ghost town today.
Has beginning: 1910
Identifier: USGS GNIS ID: 180759; U.S. Census code: 19300
Parent division/institution: Weld County (Colo.)
Latitude: 40.2905364
Longitude: -104.2593953
Source: Geographic Names Information System

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Title	Class
Jackson, Oliver T.	Person