Red Barn on Open Space farm ranch at McIntosh lake with view of the twin Peaks. Mt. Meeker and Longs Peek
Longmont Colorado, Boulder County
Longmont, Colorado, was founded in 1871 by a group of Chicagoans who had decided to found a new town in Colorado. It was originally called the Chicago-Colorado Colony, the men sold memberships in the town and with the proceeds purchased the land necessary for the town.
As the first planned community in Boulder County, the city streets were laid out in a grid plan in a square mile. The city began to flourish as an agricultural community after the building of the Colorado Central Railroad line arrived northward from Boulder in 1877. In the 1940s the city began to grow beyond these original limits. In the 1960s the federal government located an air-traffic control center in town and IBM built a large plant near the city.
As agriculture waned, more high technology has come to the city especially in the computer hard drive industry including companies like Seagate and Maxtor. In April 2009 GE Energy relocated their control solutions business to the area. The downtown along Main Street, once nearly dead during the 1980s, has seen a vibrant revival in the last decade. In the mid 1990s, the south edge of the city became the location of the first New Urbanist project in Colorado, called Prospect New Town, designed by renowned
(source:wikipedia)
Mt Meeker 13,911' and Longs Peak 14,255'
McIntosh Lake, Longmont Colorado
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