The Meeker House is located on the corner of 9^th Avenue and 13^th Street in Greeley Colorado. This is the original home the town founder Nathan C. Meeker. Meeker, who among other things, was an agricultural editor to Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune. In 1869 Meeker decided that he could start a utopian commune, the Union Colony, on the Colorado plains near the confluence of the South Platte and Cache le Poudre Rivers.  Bringing new irrigation techniques to the area, as well as a few wet years (like we are seeing now), the people of Greeley were successful and the town was incorporated in 1886. Because of Greeley’s success another commune was started further south name the Chicago-Colorado Colony which eventually because my present location, Longmont.

After eight years with the commune, Meeker became an Indian agent on the western slopes of Colorado. Here things didn’t go to well and an Indian uprising named the Meeker Massacre ensued.