Fort Collins Before: Fort Collins Grows Up
Channel: OurTownFoCo
Date: 2016-04-28

Notes: some parts are copyrighted

In this last episode of Fort Collins Before, we learn about the growth of Fort Collins from town to city. Learn about the many technologic changes Fort Collins saw including the birth of electricity, a water system, quarries, mills, and rise of automobiles. One of the most important local products was sugar from sugar beets whose workers included hundreds of European and later, Mexican workers who called Fort Collins home. Finally, see how today’s Mountain Avenue trolley still reminds us of bygone days when street cars bustled through Old Town Fort Collins.