Weld County Government history

The barn was constructed in 1865 and continues to serve as an integral part of an operating agricultural complex.

During the first 16 years of Weld County's history the county seat was moved from St Vrain to Latham (three miles east of the present Greeley) to Evans, to Greeley, to Evans again, and finally in 1877, returned to Greeley.

The ranch house, a large, two-story frame dwelling over a stone cellar, was built in 1888 by Robert Hall for Lyulph Ogilvy.

The Edwardian Vernacular style two-story red brick farmhouse was built in 1892 by James Grant Milne, a Scottish emigrant.

Weld County's sugar beet industry began with the building of sugar factories in Greeley and Eaton in 1902.

Weld County's Spanish-surname population began to arrive during the mid 1920's as laborers for the sugar beet industry.

The latter was rebuilt in the 1930's by the State Historical Society.

Weld County established the second local health department in Colorado in 1938 and is the longest continuously operating local health department in the state.

Weld County Sheriff's Office: Patrol and Administration 1950 O ST. Greeley, CO 80631

The historic farms and ranches of the county fall into three categories representing the primary farming methods used on the High Plains during the late 19th and early 20th centuries--irrigated farming, dryland farming, and ranching. (Cover documentation accepted by National Register in 1991.)