Check out this new Poudre River video for answers to: How did the flooding Poudre River give birth to Fort Collins? Who were the movers and shakers of early Fort Collins? How did N. Shields St. farms, several of which still exist today, help the local economy? Soon,...
Historic Farm
Gruesome end for Father of Fort Collins; historic farm revealed
We originally published this story in MyHoofprints.com, August 28, 2013 Also: Watch our Horses in History slide show. Joseph Messier did not have death on his mind when he halted on a piece of ground downstream from the military's Camp Collins in 1862. What he did...