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- Dearfield, CO Ghost Town – near Greeley | Weld County - Uncover ColoradoOne of the more unique ghost towns in Colorado, Dearfield is not your typical deserted mining town. It was a mostly all-black settlement, located roughly 30 miles southeast of Greeley in Weld County. Dearfield is a Colorado Registered Historic Landmark.
- Dearfield, Colorado - WikipediaDearfield is an extinct town and a historically black majority settlement in Weld County, Colorado, United States. It is 30 miles (48 km) east of Greeley. The town was formed by Oliver Toussaint Jackson, who desired to create a colony for African American homesteaders. [2]
- Dearfield | History ColoradoIt was one of fourteen colonies, or rural towns, established in the West to provide Americans of African descent with the opportunity to own and work their own land. By 1917, sixty African-American families worked its 15,000 acres. Dearfield (1995 photograph.)
- Inside Dearfield, a Colorado ghost town that was once a bustling all ...During its prime in the late 1910s, Dearfield was a flourishing farming community with a few hundred black residents. Today, a single plaque and a few ramshackle buildings are all that are left...
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