Fleeing the Greek Civil war, brothers Chris and William Dracon settled in Julesburg in 1915. Chris would purchase the original farm that same year. William, his wife Sophia, and seven children would settle on the land in the 1920s. William and Sophia’s son George purchased the land from his uncle Chris in 1962.  Since then, George and his wife Delores have managed the Dracon Grain Company which provides livestock grains and feed, in addition to grain storage and sales to the surrounding farming community. 

In 1918, Christian Seufer and his family left Manhattan, Kansas, to homestead 320 acres northeast of Holly on the Colorado-Kansas border. Seufer came to Colorado seeking land that he could farm from sun-up to sun-down without having to stop to dig up a rock or plow around a tree. The family established a dugout home on the land and planted wheat and feed milo. Christian’s son Fred took over the farm in the early 1920s after Christian returned to Kansas for health reasons.

Cottonwood Farms is a partnership of third- and fourth-generation Parachinis, who run the farm and ranching business that was begun by Antonio Giuseppe Parachini.  Antonio was 15 when he first arrived in the United States from Italy in 1895. After working as a miner and then owning and running a saloon in Silver Plume for several years, Antonio and his bride Paolina, who married in Italy in 1907, eventually traveled to the Weldon Valley in Morgan County with their daughter Mary, where they settled in 1911.

Enzelow Chick was born in 1850, near Dayton, Ohio. He married Delia McDaniels on New Year’s Day, 1870. By 1915, the family had nine children, and after several moves around the Midwest the Chick family settled in Campo, Colorado.  In 1916 the Chicks bought 622 acres where they built a two-story house. On the adjoining land, Dow, the youngest of the Chick children, found his life partner, Elsie Ferne Messer. They married in 1919, operated Elsie’s family’s farm, and had five children.

Encompassing 109.44 acres, the Victor Williams Homestead-Sprague Sand Creek Ranch lies 0.85 miles north of Tarryall Road (County Road 77) in eastern Park County, Colorado. Accessed from Tarryall Road via a dirt ranch road at milepost 25.6, the ca. 1907 buildings associated with the Victor Williams Homestead sit on the east bank of Sand Creek within a sheltered and picturesque valley. Carefully sited to maximize views of the historic and natural landscape, the E.J.

Albert Sloane White began farming 80 acres near Kersey in 1918 to raise milking cows, pigs, and chickens fed by the corn, grass, and alfalfa that he also grew. Albert’s four children, John White, Albert White, DeliaAnn Betalle, and Mary Chesnut took over the farm, which was eventually owned and operated by Mary and her son Kevin Chesnut. Today the farm is over 1,000 acres, where Kevin and his wife Julie and their family continue to raise corn, grass, and alfalfa as grown by his grandfather.

In 1904, Glade Park residents Joseph and Minna Bieser purchased the Perry place near Mesa. The couple raised seven sons on the ranch—Ernest, Fred, William, Otto, Harry, Joe and Richard. In 1923, William married Pauline Brown, daughter of John Parker Brown, one of the first homesteaders to arrive in Mesa County. The couple’s son Robert, known as Bill, was born in 1926. Except for the years he served the country during World War II, Bill spent his entire life on the ranch—66 of those years with his wife Patsy Clay.

In 1886 Marion Grant Ashcraft and his brother James Henry left their home in Kentucky to head west, eventually settling in Vilas of Bent County, Colorado. There, Marion married Sadie Bolender in 1892.  The couple left Bent County to homestead 160 acres in Elbert County in 1906.

The 1.63-acre Selak Townsite, site 5GA.4941, is a late nineteenth–early twentieth century archaeological site with one standing building located in Grand County, approximately two miles due northeast of the town of Granby.

Prominent Chicano artist Carlos Sandoval painted Sierras y Colores in 1986. The mural sits in a prominent space on the side of the former Dr. De La Pena Clinic & Mesa Drug Store at 318 Main Street in San Luis, Colorado. The mural is large, taking up the entire side of the building at around 20 x 15ft