Broomfield Colorado History

The City and County of Broomfield is an exceptionally prized home to her residents who take pride in the hometown values and atmosphere they have worked to create. Born in the latter quarter of the Nineteenth Century, Broomfield began as an agrarian community, with hard-working, community-oriented families who located here on the heels of those adventurous gold-seekers seeking their fortunes and hoping to strike gold in Colorado wilderness.

Dryland farms dotted the landscape in the late 1800s, and in 1885 when Adolph Zang bought the area in the vicinity of 120th and Olde Wadsworth, the train stop there became known as Zang’s Spur, memorializing the spur off of the main railroad line where locally grown grains would be loaded into railroad cars for delivery to the Zang Brewing Co. in Denver. Ultimately, Zang bought 4,000 acres of land in the area for his Elmwood Stock Farm where he bred Percheron horses, and tended fruit orchards. Tenant farmers worked half the land in dryland crops and half in irrigated farming, and there are reports of a large turkey operation on the southwest portion of the property. Zang’s land of yesteryear is today’s Broomfield.

At the turn of the century, Broomfield itself was a little town in the area around 120th Ave. and Wadsworth. Grain elevators, a grocery, hotel, bank and other thriving businesses drew the farmers in the area together. Their sense of community resulted in the organization of the Crescent Grange in 1898. This organization brought area residents together for diverse activities including a petition for postal service, arrangements to buy clothing at reduced prices, insurance, programs and social activities. Today, Broomfield looks forward to expanding retail operations, multiple social and cultural activities and a solid economic base in the high-tech industry locating in new and beautiful business parks.

Ever a master-planned community, Broomfield has developed beyond Zang’s 4,000 acres. In the 1950s Broomfield Colorado's Real Estate began during a growth boom when developers decided to build the state’s first dream community. The city’s forefathers consciously planned the Broomfield city’s growth. That tradition has continued, and the Broomfield of 1999 is governed by a Master Plan that projects its population at build-out to be 65,000. Beautiful, close-knit neighborhoods mark a true sense of community among the residents of Broomfield. Residents, city government, schools and businesses work together constantly to keep our city a place where people can live, work and play.

Broomfield is a real community -- the way it is supposed to be.

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