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Wiggins, Colorado
Photo: Hustvedt, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Dearfield was founded in 1910 by Oliver Toussaint Jackson as a Black agricultural colony and became Colorado's largest Black homesteading settlement, with a school, churches, a dance hall and businesses. The Great Depression and Dust Bowl ended it, but a filling station and Jackson's house survive, and the site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. It is included as a landmark of African American settlement on the plains rather than as a place of ghost stories.
Visible from the highway; the Black American West Museum and Greeley History Museum host programs, so call before visiting.
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