The circa 1912 Old Trail School exhibits the distinguishing characteristics of a rural one-room schoolhouse. 

As a meeting place of the Long Meadow Community Club, the building served as the center of community meetings, entertainment, social events, and charity work.  The building consists of a former army barracks joined in 1949 to the retired 1908 Long Meadow School. 

Built to replace a smaller schoolhouse in the same location, the Hoyt School building provides physical evidence about the conditions of rural education in Colorado in the early 20th century.  The schoolhouse served as the educational center for this agricultural community from its construction in 1918 until consolidation forced its closure in 1946.  During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed an addition that included a stage at the head of the classroom and stairs leading to a new basement.

The district includes four large residences associated with individuals important to the history of Fort Morgan’s development. 

Charles Sheely’s Colorado Bridge and Construction Company completed this multi-span, reinforced concrete fixed rainbow arch in 1923.  

In the midst of the Great Depression, the county commissioners took advantage of a federal construction grant from the Public Works Administration (PWA) to match county funds toward the erection of a new courthouse to replace a 1907 building. 

The 1909 Lincoln School is a good local example of the Mission style as adapted to a school.  The school’s prominent feature, the curvilinear gable and parapet, is one of the most character defining elements of the style.  Other features of the style include a hipped roof and banded rustication on the central bay and lower portion of the building.  Additionally, the school is important for its educational development of several generations of Fort Morgan area children. 

Built in 1917, the building’s classically derived Federal style is most commonly associated with southern and eastern architecture. 

The power plant, a concrete post-and-beam industrial structure clad in red brick, was constructed in 1923 under the supervision of its designer, George Cox, Fort Morgan city superintendent. 

The 1908 city hall was part of the growing municipal infrastructure developed by the town’s first superintendent, George Cox.