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Firestone, one of the fastest growing Town's in Colorado, has a rich history of farming and mining, rooted in a history of hard work to build the community that visitors now see as a place that is becoming one of the major retail and commercial centers in Southwest Weld County. Firestone's early settlers immigrated to Colorado from around the world, including Russia, Turkey, Greece, France, Bulgaria, Mexico, and Italy. Farmers and Miners, as well as families and business owners of the area settled Firestone.

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Firestone, which celebrated it's Centennial in 2008, with an incorporation date of October 8, 1908, was a great mining community up until the early 1940´s, and has a rich history of economic boom and bust, as well as the Union Pacific Railroad, that ran past the historic sugar beet dump site, or Harney Settlement. Great Western was the sugar company in the Tri-Towns that would transport the processed beets to the nearest refinery.

The Firestone Historical Society, a group of Firestone's residents working to keep the town's history alive through art and events meets monthly to discuss the centennial celebration and projects that will help to preserve, educate, and enhance Firestone's future through revitalization. A museum project is planned to assist with the process of preservation, education and attractions such as traveling exhibits. This museum and planetarium site will be located in Central Park, a 272-acre open space that will include one branch of the Weld Regional Library, which opened in February of 2008.

"With all of the new developments in Firestone, it's easy to see the new Firestone, but we don't want to lose touch with how Firestone was started," stated Van Morgan, the past Firestone Historical Society chairman. A historical artifact the group discovered is a marker erected in 1939 near the Regional Transportation Districts´ park-n-ride lot at the intersection of highway 119 and Interstate 25 East Frontage Road. The marker at this site points to Fort Junction, a "sod enclosure" that used to stand near the new American Furniture Warehouse. "Two-hundred feet east of this point stood Fort Junction," the marker reads. "There was a sod enclosure erected in 1864 by the pioneers of Boulder and St. Vrain Valley as a protection against hostile Indians." The Historical Society hopes to discover more stories about Native Americans, pioneers and miners who lived in the area.

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