Tuesday, 48th Day - 317 Days to Follow
Written by Margie Arbuthnot
Cold this morning - 8 degrees below at 7:30 A.M.
Some more snow last night and this A.M.
I was at Don's today.
Carol Jane has a cold.
Called Marjorie - Una and Duane both have colds.
Cold tonight 18 degrees below at 8:30.
Niwot, Colorado
Since everyone has a cold today, I will share more about the town of Niwot.
Here is the original plat of the town from 1875. Today, the town is only on the east side of the rail road tracks. But here you can see how the town was also on the west side of the tracks.
Where the rail road was split, was where a sugar beet dump was located. It was elevated and wagon loads of beets would be brought up and then the beets were dumped from the wagon into the train car below. It made for very quick loading of the rail road cars to take the beats to Longmont to be made into sugar.
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| Niwot Plat from 1875 showing the lots in the town. And how the railroad was once split. |
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