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Old Broomfield, 1910Entry/Object ID
ph.200Description
Photograph, black and white. Jones Hall on right, dirt road with telephone poles. railroad tracks go through middl eof photo. On back is written "McGuire 1910."
View of Old Broomfield in 1910 looking west down 120th Ave.
Label from 2021 Exhibit:
Broomfield Looking West down 120 West Ave with Railroad Tracks at Center and Jones Hall at Right, c. 1910
Before the arrival of the Turnpike, Broomfield was an unincorporated town of roughly 200 people with an economy based on farming. A small town center and a neighborhood called Colman’s Lakeview had sprouted southwest of the train tracks (around West 120th Avenue), with the nearby grain elevators serving local farmers in transporting their harvests to Denver and beyond. Buildings in town consisted of the Depot, the Crescent Grange (an agricultural-based fraternal organization), a single Methodist church, post-office, hardware store, grocery store, automotive garage, and “Jones Hall” which housed a pool hall. Broomfield residents traveled to Louisville, Lafayette, or Boulder to find a doctor, bank, high school, or to do shopping beyond groceries and farm needs. Phones still had to be hand-cranked.
Ph.200 Courtesy of the Denver Public LibraryCollection
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120th Ave, Jones Hall, InterurbanProvenance
Notes
Purchased (in 1985?) by museum from the Denver Public library - Western History Division