On a blustery March day in 1873, a wagon loaded down with a hand-run printing press pulled into Fort Collins.
By that subsequent month, the primary version of the town’s first newspaper would roll off it, setting a century and a half of historical past into movement.
Within the many years that adopted its founding, the newspaper — initially referred to as the Larimer County Specific — would develop and alter very like the information trade itself. Its possession modified palms. It dropped its political affiliation and merged with its rival, the Fort Collins Courier. And it finally modified names to the Fort Collins Coloradoan.
Dive deeper into the Specific’ beginnings, evolution and, finally, its endurance on this episode of “The Manner it Was,” a historical past podcast produced by the Coloradoan.
Further! Further! Hear all about it.
Step again into 1965:Archived pictures from contained in the Coloradoan’s former Mountain Avenue newsroom
