Dearfield (Colo.)
Item
- 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
- Item sets
- Cities and towns--Miscellaneous
Linked resources
Title | Class |
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Jackson, Oliver T. | Person |