

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Colorado People & Places: Preserving the Past - Dearfield, Colorado
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 15 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm (-06:00)
- **Event Description**: Colorado People &amp; Places: Dearfield, Colorado - preserving the past

Spanning from 1910 to the harrowing Dust Bowl of the 1930s, Dearfield has a wide and interesting past. Dearfield, Colorado was established on May 5, 1910, by a young entrepreneur named Oliver Toussaint Jackson, Dearfield served as an agricultural colony for Black Coloradoans about twenty-five miles southeast of Greeley. For two decades nearly 700 Black families worked to transform the rolling desert hills into a thriving farm community. The Great Depression and a major drought drove most of these farmers away, leaving only Jackson and his niece by the 1940s. Today Dearfield is a ghost town with only a handful of buildings remaining, but the Black American West Museum and other groups are working to improve preservation and historical interpretation at the site.

Presented by Weld County's very own William "Bill" Garcia, former Weld County Commissioner, local attorney and passionate advocate for the preservation of Dearfield.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/firestone/colorado-people-and-places-preserving-the-past-dearfield-colorado/200029851957736
- **Event Categories**: Business
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://highplains.libcal.com/calendar/hpld/DearfieldColorado?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=firestone-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Firestone
- **state**: CO
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Carbon Valley Regional Library
- **lat**: 40.143063509578
- **long**: -104.93506492953
- **full address**: Carbon Valley Regional Library, 7 Park Ave,Firestone, CO, United States

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: High Plains Library District (https://allevents.in/org/high-plains-library-district/11190487)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 15 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm (-06:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Carbon Valley Regional Library, 7 Park Ave,Firestone, CO, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** High Plains Library District
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Business
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Colorado People & Places: Preserving the Past - Dearfield, Colorado ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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