Colorado
During its brief but colorful life, Mariano Medina's toll bridge and trading post overflowed with high living and tall tales from the proprietor's fur-trapping days. Built on the Big Thompson River in 1858, astride what would become the Overland Trail, Medina's river crossing was one of the first settlements in this region but hardly the last. When the pioneer trail moved three miles east in 1864, so did the settlers, converging around Andrew Douty's flour mill in a town called Old St. Louis. Yet another migration occurred in 1877, when the Colorado Central Railroad pushed through this area. Railroad owner W.A.H. Loveland routed the tracks over the property of his friend David Barnes, who founded his own town there and named it for his benefactor. And so, at last, did present-day Loveland come into being.HM Number | HM1ODI |
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Year Placed | 2001 |
Placed By | Colorado Department of Transportation, Colorado Historical Society |
Marker Condition | No reports yet |
Date Added | Friday, October 2nd, 2015 at 9:01pm PDT -07:00 |
UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 13T E 505959 N 4472932 |
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Decimal Degrees | 40.40698333, -104.92976667 |
Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 40° 24.419', W 104° 55.786' |
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 40° 24' 25.14" N, 104° 55' 47.16" W |
Driving Directions | Google Maps |
Area Code(s) | 970 |
Which side of the road? | Marker is on the right when traveling West |
Closest Postal Address | At or near US-34, Johnstown CO 80534, US |
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