The California gold rush of lured thousands through the region and a decade later in the Pikes Peak gold rush brought more. Colorado Territory was formed in , with 17 counties established.
The land of the future town of Broomfield was situated in Boulder, Jefferson, Weld counties. Broomfield would later stretch into Adams County as well. Land in the new territory was divided into sections that were each a square mile. In , the Colorado Central Railroad all but replaced stagecoach travel. Later, other railroads were built to connect with Denver that passed through and onto Boulder and Longmont.
The Homestead Act of brought settlers west to make their fortunes. Brown claimed land in section In , when the community of farmers and ranchers centered around Section 36 grew large enough for U. Post Office deliveries, Broomfield was chosen as the name.
Presumably the name came from broomcorn, which had flourished on nearby farms through drought and even plagues of grasshoppers. The tall grain yields long fibrous stems that were manufactured into household brooms and brushes. Several towns in England were named the same, for their broomcorn fields.
Homesteaders in the area also grew traditional crops like wheat, corn, alfalfa and fruit trees and they raised beef cattle and dairy cows. A defining feature of the American West is the shortage of water, but Broomfield farmers were fortunate that Adolf J. These are added to give additional information in the life of Broomfield. Mitze, who lives south of US Highway just east of Broomfield, is the present owner of this land that has been in his family for nearly 80 years.
His grandfather purchased this property form the Union Pacific Railroad in The original Broomfield school house, built in the s was located immediately east of the old cemetery on Tenth Avenue at Main Street. When Turnpike Land Company started their development, this school house was demolished and replaced by modern cottage type schools. Our present high school property was at one time owned by the father of Mr. Bell who resides in Broomfield today.
Prior to the building of a church, services were held in old school house. The first church, built in , was a Community Church that later became the Methodist Church. Later this church was torn down and replaced by the present Methodist Church. Much of the labor in the building of this latest church was donated by the local members. Joseph Huddart purchased the company. The alnd on which the lumber yard is lcoated at one time was a part of A.
Zang's holdings. Other areas in his holdings included the Broomfield Country Club area, the Jefferson County Airport, as well as acres north ot the airport.
Railroad companies gobbled up the West through the beneficence of the U. This line ran approximately where the south frontage road of U. On the north, it connected with the Union Pacific in Cheyenne, Wyo. The arrival of the Colorado Central connected Broomfield to the world via Denver, where trains departed for all points of the country and, with connections to every major town in the United States and the territories. The Denver, Marshall and Boulder Railway completed a much more direct line through Broomfield in , replacing the route through Golden.
The Denver, Utah and Pacific Railroad first laid down rails in in the area now in the vicinity of th Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard. The company completed a line to Lyons, northwest of Boulder, by absorbing the Colorado Northern Railroad line between Erie and Canfield, a small town west of Erie. When the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad began backing the Denver, Utah and Pacific in , the railroad was converted to a standard gauge rail.
After years of mergers, acquisitions, name changes and changes in control, the Colorado and Southern was formed in By , Broomfield had 19 passenger trains per day coming through town, prompting construction of a new depot which stood at the corner of present-day th Avenue and Old Wadsworth Boulevard.
Start of the Auto Age Soon, Broomfield had a garage, then two, and a filling station. They joined the Grange Hall, a hotel and general store, flour mill, cheese factory, bank, creamery, grain elevator, restaurants, lumber yard and a barbershop. In the s, the area also boasted a sugar beet dump, a pickle factory and about a dozen residences. From to , about people lived on farmland in the area. In , construction began on the Boulder Turnpike, a toll road, and one of the first paved roads in the area.
Pikes Peak to the south, Mount Evans to the west, Longs Peak to the northwest and the vast plains on the east bound the area which has become known as Broomfield. Since Broomfield used to be divided among four counties, students living in the city were served by the separate school districts for their county.
While the city is now united within one county, the city is still separated among multiple school districts. Broomfield features two large public high schools Broomfield High School, which underwent significant renovations from to , and Legacy High , two public middle schools and eight public elementary schools. There are three private schools: Broomfield Academy, with an academic preschool, an elementary school and a middle school; Holy Family, a Catholic high school; and Nativity of Our Lord Parish, a Catholic elementary school.
Broomfield also contains a K charter school, Front Range Academy, which has two Broomfield campuses. Symbols Histories Timelines Famous People. Colorado State
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