Charles Dake left Polk County Nebraska in 1907 and came to Colorado, settling in the Keota area where he built a sod home. His daughter Henrietta followed in 1909, obtaining a relinquishment homestead on an adjoining parcel. She worked hard as a single woman to maintain the homestead. Henrietta married Ed Cassady, a cowboy who rode into the area looking for work, in September of 1921. Henrietta and Ed survived the Great Depression by raising chickens and selling eggs to the hospital in Greeley.

Designated under the Multiple Property Documentation Form for New Deal Resources of Colorado’s Eastern Plains at the state level of significance, the LUP Headquarters, mandated by the Resettlement Administration in 1935, is significant in the area of Politics/Government for its association with President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal legislative agenda to rescue the United States from the Great Depression. 

The Briggsdale Motor Company is listed on the State Register in the area of Commerce.

This cohesive group of agricultural buildings, including the main farm house, main barn, smaller barns, bunk house, chicken house, well, corral area, outhouse, and other minor structures, is representative of early 20th century dryland farming and ranching in rural Weld County.  

Jake and Catherine Allmer purchased Allmer Farm and Ranch on February 14, 1916. After Catherine Allmer died in childbirth, Jake married Clara Knisler on January 14, 1932. The two had nine children, one of whom was Floyd Allmer.

William Soloman Freeman bought a 320-acre homestead in 1909.  Originally, he raised feed and cattle.  He custom plowed the ranch with a steam engine. The bunkhouse was pulled on skids for the steam engine driver and family to live in. 

Just after Etta and Elmer Ball were married on March 18, 1914, Groveland, Kansas, they rounded up their team of gray horses, a saddle horse, a walking hand plow, a harrow, a four-wheeled grain bed wagon, a hundred fence posts, some furniture and the family organ, and boarded an emigrant railroad car destined for Briggsdale, Colorado.

In 1909 Swedish immigrants Edward and Hannah Bolin homesteaded 477 acres near Briggsdale in Weld County.  Here they raised four children -- Edward, Reul, Edgar, and Joyce -- who went on to collectively raise seven more.