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NAME: Nunn COUNTY: Weld ROADS: 2WD GRID: 1 CLIMATE: Snow in winter but accessible all year long BEST TIME TO VISIT: Any time of the year |
COMMENTS:
Located 5 miles north of the ghost town of Pierce on highway 85. There is an active post office and a few residents but 90% of the town in abandoned. Within easy driving distance of the Pawnee National Grasslands and other ghost towns like Keota, Pierce, Purcell, Grover, Hereford and Buckingham. REMAINS: Although the residential portion of Nunn is showing signs of coming back as a bedroom comunity for Greeley and Ft, Collins the main portion of the town is abandoned with many buildings still standing. |
| This was that part of northern Colorado where the Indians and buffalo roamed. White settlers eventually came when cattlemen came into the area. In 1869 the Denver Pacific Railroad built its Cheyenne to Evans, Colorado line and it passed through this area. Originally the area directly west of town was called Maynard Flats named after Captain J.S. Maynard who had a farm near Carr. There was an early school in the area serving the families who eventually started Nunn. In the early 1900's homesteaders were moving into the area and C.C. Bransen and R.P. Russel, from Cheyenne, Wyoming, started a real estate office on the Nunn site. Originally the folks wanted to call the town Maynard but a railroad foreman named John Peterson wanted it named Nunn after Tom Nunn. Mr. Nunn homesteaded southeast of town near the railroad tracks. He saved a train by flagging it down after he discovered a bridge on fire about a mile north of Pierce. The grateful railroad built him a house and covered it with corrugated iron. He and his family lived there for a long time. Mr. Nunn died in 1931. At the present time the new post office is still operating and the postmaster is very helpful to those who come in and chat. The young lady is full of historical information. Submitted by: Jay Warburton |
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